Thursday, September 27
Ignite North Bay
Location Capitol Centre
Doors Open: 6:30 pm
7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Join us for an evening of inspiration, education and community as local speakers share their passion, insights and wisdom.
5 minutes can change your attitude, your perspective and maybe your destiny!We are thrilled to announce that our designated community charity for Ignite 4 will be our North Bay Special Olympics Athletes! Over 100 local Athletes will be able to benefit from our support. 100% of the proceeds will be going directly to them. A great way to mark the 50th anniversary of Special Olympics!
Ignite North Bay is a volunteer run event. Brave speakers have 5 minutes and 20 auto advancing slides to inform, enlighten or inspire us about their deepest passion. One mic, a few slides and an overly honest discussion about our community, culture and world. Why Ignite North Bay? We believe that there is untapped greatness in our community.
Ignite North Bay is meant to give that greatness a venue and a voice that will inspire others to embrace their dreams and transform their community and the world.
Purchase your TICKETS HERE $10 each
Codesign
Location CoWorking176
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
CoDesign is an industry-led social event with educational and networking opportunities, organized by design and technology leaders, for both students and seasoned professionals. This collaborative creative space allows experts, innovators and go-getters to boost their skills while increasing the Northeast region’s competitive talent pool. CoDesign features both presentations (with guest speakers) and networking opportunities (through social events), while advocating on behalf of the regional creative sector.
To Register click HERE then hit the '+' button!
Friday, September 28
Artist Talk - Heather Passmore
Location White Water Gallery
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Join us with Artist Heather Passmore to discuss her work and exhibition Roman Charity currently hung at White Water Gallery.
This exhibition explores an under-examined motive for discomfort with breastfeeding: that it is a powerful display of human interdependence. I also intend the project to raise questions about the politics of milk, women’s breasts and the use of public space.
Roman Charity consists of a series of wall-hung works comprised of mixed media portraits and large non-representational paintings. The portraits are executed on wood panels and on fabric. Both series will be created with handmade milk paint – using outdated breast milk which would otherwise be thrown away. The large non-representational paintings are comprised of colourful, overlapping drops. The medium-sized portraits utilize silkscreen printing to depict mothers who have covered their faces instead of their breasts while breastfeeding. They are based on photographs that circulated on social media in protest to admonishment that mothers should cover up while nursing in public. I have obtained permission to use these images. The exhibition also includes a triptych of self-portraits nursing my daughter (for her last nurse), printed on fabric.
We would like to thank Nipissing University Fine Art Department for sponsoring this artist talk.
Working Together
Location WKP Kennedy Gallery
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Working Together - Building on the social constructs of respect, compatibility and friendship, four arts organizations have partnered together to promote and support organizational stability through transparency and codependency. These groups (Zakide, ON THE EDGE Fringe Festival, Proscenium Club, and Aboriginal Curatorial Collective) share office space in North Bay, Ontario, but through cohabitation much more than space is shared. Each group works to further the well-being, development and support of the other organizations. They work together on projects, programming, development, and administration, supporting each other as needed to ensure that there is a communal and supportive safety-net in place for their arts actions. Over the past year, these partnerships have resulted in a higher level of organizational success for each group, with increased provincial and federal support from government funders and increased organizational capacity through the unintentional professional development that takes place through collaboration. With increasing emphasis on the formation of “Cultural Hubs” and the ever-present uncertainty of guaranteed arts funding, where will organizational collaborations of this type lead in the future and how can the public benefit further from these actions?
FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE
Tara Windatt
Métis artist, writer, and arts administrator from Northern Ontario with a Liberal Arts degree with concentrations in fine art and history from Nipissing University. With more than a decade of experience in the not-for-profit arts scene, Tara has worked with a number of arts organizations including the White Water Gallery, the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, Jumblies Theatre, Zakide, the Future in Safe Hands Collective, the ON THE EDGE fringe festival, and Aanmitaagzi as an artist and administrator. Specializing in non-profit bookkeeping and financial management, grant writing, database management, website development and communications, she is also a consultant with Win Win Consulting, an arts-specific consulting firm she co-founded and operates with her partner, Clayton. When not immersed in the arts world (and even when she is) Tara enjoys geeking out with her husband and children, and spending time with their cat Shadow.
Clayton Windatt
Director of Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
Métis non–binary multi-artist living and working in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. Clayton holds a BA in Fine Art from Nipissing University and received Graphic Design certification from Canadore College. With an extensive history working in Artist-Run Culture and Community Arts, Clayton now works as Executive Director of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC-CCA). In their role with ACC-CCA and through their own activism, Clayton works with arts organizations on national and global issues and social justice. Clayton maintains contracts with several colleges and universities and as a critical writer and columnist for various newspapers and magazines. Clayton is an active film director with works featured in festivals such as ImagineNative and the Toronto International Film Festival. Clayton works in/with community, design, communications, curation, performance, theatre, technology, consulting, and is a very active writer, filmmaker and visual-media artist. https://www.acc-cca.com
Joshua Bainbridge
Actor, Writer, Director
Actor, writer and director living in North Bay, Ontario and graduate of Canadore College. Since founding his theatre production company, J2 Productions, in 2009, Joshua has adapted and produced several productions in addition to writing and directing many original plays. Joshua also works actively as an actor in regional film and television productions and engages the arts as a visual and multi-artist working with groups such as Aanmitaagzi, Future in Safe Hands Collective, Zakide and Ice Follies. His media arts practice currently focuses on exploring dystopian futures and delving into macabre and often dark truths about places and issues people do not want to acknowledge. Joshua maintains contracts with Canadore College’s School of Media, Design and Dramatic Arts, works actively with the ON THE EDGE Fringe Festival, and is currently the Artistic Director of the professional theatre production company Proscenium Club.https://fringenorth.com
Kelsey Ruhl
Actor, Writer, Director
Active film, television and theatre actor and a graduate of Canadore College’s Theatre program. She enthusiastically pursues acting, writing and directing, and maintains an active visual and performing arts career, most recently through the Future in Safe Hands performance at Honest Ed’s closing reception in Toronto, the “Duality” project, River & Sky, and the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. Kelsey is a co-founder and the Artistic Director of the ON THE EDGE Fringe Festival, which recently celebrated its 5th anniversary.
Date Night at the Museum
Location North Bay Museum
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Make it a Date Night Market at the museum! Join us in the Civic Square in front of the museum for some incredible local vendors, FREE admission to the museum, live music, great food and more!
Hosted by Dirty Girls Farm and the North Bay Museum
The Queen Majesty Antiques
Location The Queen Majesty & The Grande Event Center
Doors Open: 5:00 pm
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Queen Majesty is doing something special for the Super Hop - you will not want to miss this as Queen Majesty activates Main Street! More info coming soon. FREE EVENT
ALSO
The Queen Majesty is proud to announce The Great Northern Antiques to Oddities Show Fall Edition ! Once Again held at the beautiful The Grande Event Centre ( 192 Main Street East ) in the heart of DownTown North Bay. Door open at 5pm Friday Night - Saturday 10am - 6pm
$5.00 at the door gets you in for both days - Kids under 12 free
SUPER Hop
Location Downtown North Bay
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hello all you beautiful people. Mark your calendars & cancel your plans cause the first SUPER HOP is happening September 28th. Please see the map for official hop spots and amazing additions to make this Hop SUPER: live performances, community activations, interactive activities; of course all the galleries will be open and celebrating their exhibitions AND many of our lovely Downtown North Bay neighbours will be open too!
Both 100 & 200 block of Main Street will be closed from 5:30pm - 9:30pm. Bring your family, your friends, your date, your enemies too?! Art + Community brings everyone together!
We want to give 9 Lives Design a huge shout out for once again sponsoring their design work and to Downtown North Bay for their ongoing support.
Downtown Gallery Hop
Launch Point
Location WKP Kennedy Gallery
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Launch Point - A Group Exhibition of Nipissing Alumni
Nipissing Fine Arts Alumni have returned to North Bay to showcase an exhibition of work at the WKP Kennedy Gallery.
Join us during the SUPER Hop for an open Aritst discussion on the art world beyond Nipissing. Each artist share a common thread of Nipissing University Fine Art as a 'lanching point' to their current artistic and professional practices. Some have pursued further schooling through Masters and PhDs, while some of found work in Arts Admin, Teaching, Trades.
Open and FREE for everyone.
Christine Charette
Artist Educator, Practicing Artist
Christine Charette is a multi-disciplinary and synesthetic French-Métis artist who works intuitively and metaphorically. Originally from North Bay, Charette has lived in Vancouver, London, Toronto and Montréal. Since 1991, Christine’s professional practice includes explorations in painting, textiles, printmaking, drawing, recycled object sculpture, installation, photography, video, poetry, and sound. She has had exhibitions in London Ontario, North Bay, South River, Powassan, and in Montréal Québec. In her work, Charette explores themes such as mothering, home, isolation, the object, and the environment. Christine has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts and English, and is a practicing Arts educator in a variety of settings. Charette interweaves her skills when teaching, bringing layers of artistic knowledge and culture into a well rounded learning process. “As humans, we are makers. When we don’t create or express our creativity, we are missing out on the full human experience.”
Imogen Clendinning
MFA Candidate at School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor
Imogen is a found footage video and installation artist, currently based out of Windsor, ON. She is working towards an MFA from the School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor. She also holds a BFA (H) from Nipissing University (2016 North Bay, ON). Within the year she has exhibited in MOONACID (Windsor, ON) and Once Removed (Windsor, ON) curated by Adrienne Crossman. In 2018, Clendinning participated in Windsor’s Noiseborder Festival where she contributed to Luminous Flux I, and also screened an improvisational video splice entitled Virtual Mentality with artist and composer David Bergeron. Clendinning has worked with several community spaces and artist-run centres in Ontario including Artcite Inc. (Windsor, ON), Windsor Hackforge, White Water Gallery (North Bay, ON), and the Near North Mobile Media Lab (North Bay, ON). Clendinning is currently a research associate with IN/TERMINUS Research Group. https://imogenclendinning.tumblr.com
Ashely Snook
Practicing Artist
Ashley Snook is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and is currently a PhD student in the Art and Visual Culture program at Western University in London, Ontario. In her practice, Ashley examines interconnectivity between human and nonhuman animals, and vegetal/botanical life. Currently, her research and studio work investigate fundamental linkages between species, aiming to fuse conceptual separations through sculpture, installation and drawing.
Jaymie Lathem
Executive Director Creative Industries North Bay Inc.
Poetry Slam Season 3 Vol.2
Location 157 Main St W (Gullivers Book Store)
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Come on downtown for an evening of open mic and slamming that you do not want to miss! What's a North Bay Slam? It's simple! Verbal sharing of art- poetry, comedy, literature, rapping, ranting, ETC!
There will be snacks and an opportunity to socialize with all of the wonderful faces during the halfway break between the open mic and the slam. At the end of the evening, we will announce our usual honoraries, Poet of The Month and SLAM CHAMPION!!
You can sign up for either option early by contacting Coral Joy, and there will also be sheets to sign up on the night of the event.
This is a free event, but donations are greatly appreciated and a little goes a long way in the young arts community.Like our page Black Water Art Collective and check out our Instagram # at #blackwaterartscollective - Support BWAC!
Drink & Draw
Location The Raven & Republic
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Calling all artists, those with drawing abilities (or not!) and the folks who acquire the confidence to become an artiste after a beer (or two) - Join us at your official post gallery hop hot spot at the Raven and Republic, upstairs at Art Republic. We’re gathering together for our first Drink & Draw social!
Get your sketchbooks and pencils ready, (we’ll have some available too), grab your friends, and get into our communal drawing space where sketching and beers is highly recommended. To assist, we’re offering gallery hoppers 5$ glasses of house wine, tall boys of beer, bar rail, and draught.
The lovely Holly Cunningham will be taking over the decks as our DJ upstairs as we create works of art into the night. Downstairs, the party doesn’t stop. Bryce Joseph opens our evening at 8pm with some acoustic jams, followed by the Neesh! Don’t forget your dancing shoes!
Check out our FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE
What Do We Want? Portrait Project
Location Capitol Centre / WKP Kennedy Gallery
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
It is a rallying cry for many activists. Through the years, the question has been asked, shouted, chanted... The answers are often different, but the theme is consistent: Justice, peace, equality.
With this portrait project local photographer Shawn Moreton will be asking the participants the question, and they will be sharing their answers with the world.
Come and take part in this participatory portrait project during the SUPER Hop, and together let’s answer the question - What Do We Want?!
Shawn Moreton
Photographer
Born and raised in the Montréal area, Shawn is now based in North Bay, Ontario, where he works full time as a professional photographer.
Primarily a portrait photographer, he is first and foremost a visual storyteller, and the camera is his medium.
He currently has several ongoing personal projects based around ideas of community, and social & environmental justice
You can find him online here: www.shawnmoreton.com Instagram: @shawnmoretonphotographySUPER Hop After Party
Location The Raven & Republic
9:30 pm – 11:30 pm
The Raven & Republic is the offcial after party of the Gallery Hop and it's only getting better with the SUPER Hop. Join us upstairs with a special DJ we all love (secretly AND publicly!)
More details coming - but you know where to be - and that's the important part.
Art Republic
Art meets Local Gastro Pub
Art Republic is perch atop the Raven & Republic where artists mash brains, mount art events, and toast our creative community. Join us at our monthly artist meet-ups, check out our quarterly visual arts exhibitions, and imbibe in this creative hub!Our logo was created by our dear friend Cameron Armstrong.Saturday, September 29
Welcome Breakfast
Location WKP Kennedy Gallery
Doors Open: 9:00 am
9:30 am – 10:30 am
Welcome to the Creative Summit!
We can't start without a great meal!
Come and enjoy the classical guitar melodies of Daelin Henschel while enjoying some breakfast treats and drink while checking out the schedule of events - pick up your Creative Summit SWAG BAG - come shake some new hands, meet up with friends, drink some coffee or tea and get ready for a day full of creative inspiration.
Daelin Henschel
Musician
Creation Weaving Workshop
Location 157 Main St. W (Gulliver Book Store)
9:30 am – 12:00 pm
--New Location--
Many Indigenous tribes have Creation stories that include Grandmother Spider as the Creator who spun the Web of Physical Life. In this Web, life is interconnected with each creature be it the two-legged, four legged, flyers, swimmers, and crawlers, stone people or standing (trees) and all other forms of life. The Spider is a master weaver and an inspiration for us to create. We all have creative energy flowing through us like Grandmother Spider and must be allowed to let it flow.
Please join local artist Christine Charette, in a community weaving activity as part of our freedom to express and channel our Spider creativity! It will also be a time to honour our connection and weave our thoughts together, to think about the natural world around us, and how we all need to be mindful of Creation. Work alongside others and participate in creating a weaving together, or create your own smaller pieces with recycled fibres and natural materials.
FREE - No Registration Requried - Drop in anytime - No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome.
Christine Charette
Artist Educator, Practicing Artist
A multi-disciplinary and synesthetic French-Métis artist who works intuitively and metaphorically. Originally from North Bay, Charette has lived in Vancouver, London, Toronto and Montréal. Since 1991, Christine’s professional practice includes explorations in painting, textiles, printmaking, drawing, recycled object sculpture, installation, photography, video, poetry, and sound. She has had exhibitions in London Ontario, North Bay, South River, Powassan, and in Montréal Québec. In her work, Charette explores themes such as mothering, home, isolation, the object, and the environment. Christine has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts and English, and is a practicing Arts educator in a variety of settings. Charette interweaves her skills when teaching, bringing layers of artistic knowledge and culture into a well rounded learning process. “As humans, we are makers. When we don’t create or express our creativity, we are missing out on the full human experience.”
CARFAC & Craft Ontario
Location WKP Kennedy Gallery
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join this panel discussion lead by Sally Lee, Executive Director of CARFAC Ontario and Janna Hiemstra, Executive Director of Craft Ontario.
CARFAC and Craft Ontario will discuss the services that their respective organizations deliver, and the benefits of becoming a member. Find out more about the opportunities and support that are available to you as professional artist.
Writing a Short Story
Location North Bay Museum
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Join local writer Janet Calcaterra in this hands-on writing workshop to get you started on writing a short story.
Participants should come with a no more than two sentence description of a short story they plan to write, which names two characters. Participants will write and workshop the story’s first paragraph, as well as some dialogue between the base characters, and write and workshop an ending to the story.
REGISTER for workshop by emailing Janet [email protected]
Workshop is FREE and open to everyone in any point in their writing career.
Janet Calcaterra
Local published writer
Janet Calcaterra holds an MFA Creative Writing: Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, and has taught creative writing at Canadore College and Nipissing University. Her publications include fiction and non-fiction in Canadian and American literary journals and anthologies, and travel and gardening pieces in newspapers and magazines.
Marketing Workshop
Location North Bay Chamber of Commerce
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Are you an artist trying to promote your work?
Are you organizing a festival or other event?
Do you have a limited budget and wonder how you can spread the word?
We will provide you with strategies that will allow you to get your message to a broad audience within a very limited budget.
Join us to learn effective social media strategies that make sense and make a difference.
To Register contact [email protected]
Branding & Expanding w Theatre Ontario
Location White Water Gallery
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Branding and Expanding; How to get an audience and keep ‘em coming back!
Join Theatre Ontario’s Professional Theatre & Education Manager, Rachel Kennedy, for an interactive discussion about building your brand, reaching the right audiences, and creating loyal followers for your art. This workshop is ideal for Theatre artists, but is open to creators and performers of all disciplines.
FREE and everyone welcome!
Rachel Kennedy
Programming Theatre Ontario
Outside of Theatre Ontario, Rachel Kennedy is a theatre director, creator, stage manager and producer (aka. your typical Indie Theatre artist). Behind the desk at Theatre Ontario, she manages the company’s professional theatre (Ontario Summer Theatres, Career Counselling, Next Generation Showcase) and training programs (PTTP, YTTP, Summer Intensive, Workshops). Her passion for arts administration comes from a deep belief in mutually beneficial relationships and approaching the arts sector from a holistic standpoint – we are all connected, so let’s support each other in the common mission of improving accessibility and professional development for artists across Ontario!
Song Writing and Looping Workshop
Location 157 Main St. W (Gullivers Book Store)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join singer / songwriter Nicholas Cangiano for in a songwriting and music looping workshop.
More info coming soon.
Nicholas Cangiano
Singer / Songwriter
Based out of North Bay, Ontario, alternative solo musician Nicholas Cangiano is known to bring a unique and immersive experience with each of his performances. Stringing layers of guitar, drums, bass, keys, and vocals together to create original takes on covers as well as original compositions. His music and live performances are best compared to artists such as Radiohead, The Black Keys, Chet Faker, Glass Animals, Tash Sultana, and more.
Cultural Resource Lab
Location WKP Kennedy Gallery
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Join us at The Cultural Resource Lab to meet with a variety of Arts Service Organizations officers. Ask them questions, register one on one time, obtain contact information and important organizational information and deadlines. Confirmed Ontario Arts Council, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, Artist-Run Centres Collectives Ontario, Business Centre Nipissing Parry Sound, Craft Ontario, CARFAC Ontario.
Register One on Ones with each individual service organization - see details below
CARFAC ontario - Sally Lee. Register at [email protected]
Craft Ontario - Janna Hiemstra. Register at [email protected]
Ontario Arts Council - Sophie Edwards & Christina Akrong. Register at [email protected]
Aboriginal Curatorial Collective - Clayton Windatt. Register at [email protected]
Artist-Run Centres Collectives Ontario - Alex Campbell. Register at [email protected]
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - Linda Dubois. Register at [email protected]
NRCC - Dermot Wilson. [email protected]
The Business Centre Nipissing Parry Sound- Michelle Hong. Register at [email protected]
Theatre Ontario - Rachel Kennedy. Register at [email protected]
176 CoWorking Space - Richard Fortin. Register at [email protected]
Campfire Session
Location 157 Main St. W (Gullivers Book Store)
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
When summer is winding down and winter is upon us, you don't need to pine over bonfire sing-alongs when you can bring the summer jam vibes inside. As part of the Creative Summit, please join us for North Bay's first CAMPFIRE SESSION!!
Inspired by a monthly event hosted at the Cornerstone in Guelph, the Campfire Session is a musical gathering of acoustic instruments around a table of tea candles and lights as our campfire. Take turns playing or leading the group in songs they can follow along to. It's an open campfire jam INDOORS.
Come to play, sing, or just to listen. Whether you play ukulele, guitar, fiddle, sax, mandolin, double bass, dobro, spoons, shaker, harmonica or your voice...anything is welcome!
Rain or shine, sleet or snow, summer music sessions can live on!
Acoustic only - no PA or amps
Hosted by Vanessa Tignanelli
Arts & Social Justice
Location White Water Gallery
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
All are welcome to join Art Fix in an open discussion touching on the connections of art and social justice, art and community building, art and wellness. Find out more about Art Fix, how they started and where they are headed followed by a Question & Answer period while enjoying some art making yourself in their Open Studio.
Conversation Facilitators:
Andie Kinney
Geoff Mayne
Amanda Weckwerth
Lindsay Sullivan
Please join us for this open discussion - everyone welcome - no registration required.
Visit Art Fix on their website
Art Fix
Arts Education & Reconciliation
Location North Bay Museum
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
This discussion/performance-based panel will discuss topics around Arts Education and its link to Reconciliation. Topics that will be dicussed include but not limited to:
Petroglyphs to pastels: Indigenous people were Canada's first artists; and have evolved with time;
The Woodlands stereotype: Indigenous artists are not all clones of Norval Morrisseau; they paint like Kent Monkman and Christine Charette, dance like Sid Bobb and Penny Couchie, sculpt like Duane Linklater, write like Tomson Highway, act like Jennifer Podemski, sing like Buffy Sainte-Marie;
Arts and Reconciliation: TRC Call to Action #83; Indigenous artistic pursuits can teach Canadians more about their country's true history, about treaty rights, environmental issues;
Arts in the Classroom: Near North District School Board is a role model for using Indigenous arts as effective teaching tools in their 70 schools; nobody tells stories better than Indigenous peoples
FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE
Maurice Switzer
Appointee to the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Maurice Switzer, Bnesi, is a citizen of the Mississaugas of Alderville First Nation. He was the first Indigenous student at Trent University, the first Indigenous publisher of a Canadian daily newspaper, and served as communications director for the Assembly of First Nations and Union of Ontario Indians.
Over 15,000 copies of his 2011 graphic novel "We are all Treaty People" are in distribution, and he wrote the text for "Grandpa, what is a treaty, anyway", a junior grades book being launched this fall by the Near North District School Board. He has served as a board member of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Kennedy and White Water galleries in North Bay, Aanmitaagzi arts company in Nipissing First Nation, and Creative Industries.
Maurice curruently is an appointee to the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Christine Charette
Artist Educator, Practicing Artist
A multi-disciplinary and synesthetic French-Métis artist who works intuitively and metaphorically. Originally from North Bay, Charette has lived in Vancouver, London, Toronto and Montréal. Since 1991, Christine’s professional practice includes explorations in painting, textiles, printmaking, drawing, recycled object sculpture, installation, photography, video, poetry, and sound. She has had exhibitions in London Ontario, North Bay, South River, Powassan, and in Montréal Québec. In her work, Charette explores themes such as mothering, home, isolation, the object, and the environment. Christine has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts and English, and is a practicing Arts educator in a variety of settings. Charette interweaves her skills when teaching, bringing layers of artistic knowledge and culture into a well rounded learning process. “As humans, we are makers. When we don’t create or express our creativity, we are missing out on the full human experience.”
Penny Couchie
Co-Artistic Director - Dance / Theatre Aanmitaagzi
(Anishinaabe) arts leader, dancer, actor, community engaged artist and an award-winning choreographer of Anishinaabe ancestry from Nipissing First Nation, Ontario. Penny is co-founder and co-artistic director of Aanmitaagzi, an Indigenous multi-arts company based in her home community. Penny holds an Honors BA from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. In 2016, Penny received the KM Hunter award in Dance.
Over the past twenty years Penny has guest taught at schools throughout Canada and the US, including the Centre for Indigenous Theatre. Her most recent choreography includes Aanmitaagzi’s latest production, Serpent People, Citadel Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Material Witness, a co-production by Aanmitaagzi and Spiderwoman Theater, LaMama, New York, NY, When Will You Rage?for Planet IndigenUs, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto , Dances of Resistance, Aanmitaagzi’s multi-year community-engaged dance theatre project and Like An Old Talefor Jumblies Theatre, Toronto.
Sid Bobb
Co-Artistic Director-Aanmitaagzi
(Sto:lo) an Indigenous arts leader and award winning multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in and out of Nipissing First Nation. Combining his cultural knowledge and experience as a theatre artist, Sid has been committed to helping bring indigenous stories and culture to the forefront. He has performed both internationally and throughout Canada for over twenty years. Sid spent 9 seasons as co-host of CBC television's nationally broadcast, Kid's Canada. For ten years Sid has been a Community Arts instructor for Canada’s premiere professional Indigenous training program, Centre for Indigenous Theatre. For the past eleven years, as a co-founding member and current Co-Artistic Director of Aanmitaagzi, Sid Bobb has assisted in building Aanmitaagzi into a vibrant arts organization which balances a strong regional focus with a national and international reach. Aanmitaagzi produces dance theatre productions, large-scale installations, community-engaged arts projects, training programs and festivals.
Amanda Mathias-Mizzi,
Indigenous Education Lead Near North School Board
Local Indigenous Artist & Educator, works alongside community to support Equity & Indigenous Education. Both professionally and personally, she is involved in numerous initiatives and groups working to enhance and promote Equity, Truth & Reconciliation, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Social Action, and the Arts. Amanda is a life long resident of North Bay, a Parent and Teacher currently working as a Program Coordinator & Indigenous Education Lead.
TRIVIA NIGHT Arts & Culture Style
Location Raven & Republic
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Super Fun Time Trivia is dropping some hot, weeping arts knowledge into your brain areas. Cole won't be there, but the guy you like the most will be, so whatever. Learn, Laugh, Interpretive Dance all at your local gastro pub The Raven & Republic. https://www.ravenandrepublic.ca
Guest Host
Pretty Great Human
Sunday, September 30
Mock Jury lead by the Ontario Arts Council
Location North Bay Museum
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Gain insight into the Jury process with Christina Akrong and Sophie Edwards from the Ontario Arts Council as they lead you through the entire jury process first hand. You will receive grants beforehand to read, rank according to the three criteria leads: Artistic Merit, Impact and Viability. Then you will convene as a group on Sunday morning to discuss your results together as group.
Registration required as grant packages will be sent out before-hand. Pre-reading is required.
Register with Sophie Edwards [email protected] or 1-888-974-8788
Christina Akrong
OAC Officer Northern Arts Grant & Arts Education
Sophie Edwards
Northeastern OAC rep.