Carabram's Canada pavilion a success as always

Visual Arts Brampton member Ryan C. Thompson was sure drawing a crowd, pardon the pun, Saturday night at the Carabram's Canada pavilion. In this picture he's demonstrating his marker technique for the crowd, with the end result going to some lucky children attending the event.

VAB has its 25th anniversary floral art show displayed at the three-day event, the second stop on its tour. The works are now installed at Artway Invitational Gallery in Shoppers World.

Many thanks to the artists who came to volunteer and those who came to draw, including Stephanie Czolij, Paul Draper, Lucy Feng, Keith Moreau, Bill Riopka, Francesca Riopka, Victoria Riopka, Ryan C. Thompson, and Jacqueline Veltri.

Many thanks as well to the hosts and organizers of the Canada pavilion, CAW Local 1285. It's always a pleasure working with Leon Rideout and the rest of the folks in this organization, they should be commended for the work that they put into everything, every year, to schedule all the performances, activities, vendors, and displays.

More pictures of this event are available at the bottom of our Floral Art Show photo album.

VAB floral art show back at Carabram's Canada Pavilion

See what was scheduled last year
at Carabram's Canada pavilion.

We've just confirmed with one of the two organizers of Carabram's Canada pavilion that we're scheduled to return this summer, with our touring floral art show. The event happens the evening of July 8, all day July 9, and the morning/afternoon of July 10, 2011.

As always, many thanks to The Canadian Autoworkers Union, Local 1285 for hosting the annual event. Without their leadership a few years back, and continued support to this event, the Canada pavilion would surely still be a "wish it was still around".

View the 2009 Carabram event online.

The floral art show will also visit City Hall Brampton in June, Artway Invitational Gallery in mid-July to mid-August, and the Four Corners branch of the Brampton Library in September. More locations to be announced.

VAB's Carabram photos on Facebook

Check out Visual Arts Brampton's Facebook profile: recently added is a photos folder called Carabram 2009, where we're stockpiling photos of our art display and the the Canada pavilion in general. You don't have to have an account on Facebook to see the pictures, if you do however, considering becoming a "fan" of VAB.

Works on display at Carabram are by Betty Jean Evans, Marguerite Finlayson, Emily Kowalik, Keith Moreau, Jacqueline Riopka, Alex Rodway, with Bridget Aube Doughty.

Events on our schedule: Carabram; Street Festival

Visual Arts Brampton will be presenting artwork featuring Canada, coast-to-coast next weekend (July 10, 11, and 12), at Carabram's Canada Pavilion. Named one of the top 50 festivals in Ontario, Carabram has become a summer tradition since starting in 1982. The festival is now 3000 volunteers strong and features 14 pavilions.

The Canadian Autoworkers Union, Local 1285 revived the Canada pavilion in 2007, and continues to host the event.

Canadian food, beer, spirits, activities for all ages, live Canadian bands, and Aboriginal displays and entertainment. Meals will be catered by Liaison Culinary School, and Beavertail pastry will be featured.More info at http://tr.im/carabram

The Annual Communities in Bloom Street Festival is

being held on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 from 6:00 – 9:30 pm in Garden Square at the Rose Theatre. Grown since it was started in 2007, it will again include a live portrait painting session by Visual Arts Brampton artists, as well as booths from various area artists and artisans, selling their creative creations. Live music and entertainment is scheduled.

Mail Art Call: What is Canada?

Theme: What is Canada? Canadian landscapes, people, animals, stereotypes of the country, whatever you can think of, somehow relating to Canada. Any medium or technique is allowed. This call is open to everyone, regardless of age or country of residence, not just Canadians.

Where: Art will be on display at the Canada pavilion of Carabram: Brampton's Multicultural Festival, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada (a suburb of Toronto) on July 10, 11, 12. It will later move on to WAG: World Art Gallery, VAB's permanent postcard-sized art display space in Shoppers World, a mall in Brampton.

Size: 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 in (postcard sized-only, please)

Deadline: July 7, 2009

Documentation: We'll post scans of all entries on twitter.com/wagpost


Send your creations to:
1 Bartley Bull Parkway
Suite 10
Brampton ON
L6W 1R8
Canada

Contact: visualartsbrampton@gmail.com

Carabram a success

As like last year, Carabram's Canada pavilion was again a success. The exhibit included artwork by Debra Ali, Marguerite Finlayson, Paul Highgate, Emily Kowalik, Conrad Mieschke, Keith Moreau, and Peter Scott.

In all, 40,000 people were expected to visit Carabram's 14 pavilions, many of them visiting Canada at the CAW hall on Regan Road. The Brampton Guardian's public photo database has pictures from many of the pavilions, including Canada. Among guests were a member of Canada's women Olympic hockey team and Duke Redbird of Citytv.

Carabram's Canada pavilion to include VAB

Check out Visual Arts Brampton artwork at this year's Carabram Canada pavilion, part of Brampton's multicultural festival. Art on display will be by Debra Ali, Marguerite Finlayson, Conrad Mieschke, Keith Moreau, Mary Noble, and Peter Scott, as well as the late Bridget Doughty.

Canada Pavilion is at the CAW Local 1285 Union Hall, 23 Regan Road.

Passports can be purchased for only $8.00 per adult from the information booths at Shoppers World Brampton, Bramalea City Centre, Canadian Tire, Royal Bank, and some bus terminals throughout Brampton as well as from pavilion volunteers. Children 12 and under are free when accompanied by an adult.

VAB's display will be open:
Friday: 6 to 9:30 pm
Saturday: 1 to 9:30 pm
Sunday: 1 to 6:30 pm

Last year's display is profiled on the blog, as well.

Canadian art @ Carabram

For the first time in over a decade Carabram had a Canadian Pavilion! Among the highlights of the space was an art display by local creative talents. Among those on display were Visual Arts Brampton members Conrad Mieschke, Keith Moreau, and Mary Noble. Leah-Anne Goyeau, who was a VAB member last year, also presented her art, as did Colin McClean, who was with the group during the years we had Animation Exploration (Animex).

Many thanks go out to Leah-Anne for her efforts in organizing the art room, which was enjoyed by hundreds and hundreds throughout the weekend. One couple even spent 15-20 minutes studying the pieces on display.

Millie the Art Bug also showed up to hang with everyone, courtesy of Visual Arts Brampton and the Brampton Arts Council. Here she's posing with two singers from Marion Abbott's Performing Arts School.