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Granada Venne
Granada Venne (July 26, 1944 - December 26, 2010), born Sharon Louella Venne and also known as Granada Gazelle, was an artist who collaborated with General Idea throughout the 1970s. Venne also worked as a wardrobe assistant in the costume department for various film and TV productions, including David Cronenberg's ''The Brood'', ''Fraggle Rock'' and ''Blue's Clues''. Life & Career Venne became associated with General Idea when she was neighbours with AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal at their first house/"headquarters" on 78 Gerrard Street West in Toronto. Later, Venne moved in with the members of General Idea at their loft on 87 Yonge St. In the early 1970s, the membership of the General Idea collective was amorphous and included such individuals as Venne, the trans-singer Pascal (Stuart Murray), Noah Dakota (Noah James), O Burst (Paul Oberst) etc. One of Venne's earliest appearances in a General Idea project was starring in the group's unfinished 16mm film ''God ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Front Society
Western Front (Western Front Society) is an artist-run centre located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1973 by eight artists (Martin Bartlett, Mo van Nostrand, Kate Craig, Henry Greenhow, Glenn Lewis, Eric Metcalfe, Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov ) who wanted to create a space for the exploration and creation of new art forms. After they purchased the former Knights of Pythias lodge hall located in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, it quickly became a centre for poets, dancers, musicians and visual artists interested in exploration and interdisciplinary practices. Many of the Western Front's early works reflect this interdisciplinary ethos with early influences of Duchampian and Fluxus-based investigations into mail art, telecommunications art, live electronic music, video and performance art. Western Front also supported a number of political and activist projects. In one of their most famous performance pieces, founding member Vincent Trasov adopted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech. * Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humongous (1982 Film)
''Humongous'' is a 1982 Canadian slasher film directed by Paul Lynch, and starring Janet Julian, John Wildman, and David Wallace. The story centers on a group of young adults who become stranded on a deserted island, where they are stalked and murdered by a monstrous assailant. Plot During Labor Day weekend in 1946, young Ida Parsons is chased into the woods and raped by a houseguest. Her dogs break out of their pen and attack and kill Ida's rapist. In 1982, brothers Eric and Nick borrow their father's yacht to take their girlfriends, Sandy and Donna, and their sister, Carla, on a weekend outing to St. Martin Island. That night, Eric and Nick discover and rescue a shipwrecked fisherman named Bert. Bert was wrecked offshore Dog Island, the home of lumber baroness Ida Parsons, who has used her family fortune to hole herself up on the island for the past thirty-five years, only making two annual voyages to the mainland for supplies, and never speaking to anyone. Recovering from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Bull
Hank Bull (born 1949) is a Canadian artist and illusionist who was an early member of the Western Front Society and a founding director of the Pacific Association of Artist-run Centres. Life and work Hank Bull was born in Calgary, Alberta. His father was an Anglican minister and his mother a weaver. He was raised in Ontario and Nova Scotia with three brothers. By the age of 14, he began pursuing art. He spent most of 1968 in Europe, visiting art museums, experiencing the student movement, and exploring the music scene. Upon returning to Toronto he enrolled in the New School of Art, studying under Nobuo Kubota and Robert Markle. He played in bands and held jobs such as working for the railroad, picking tobacco, and tending bar. In 1973, Bull moved to Vancouver, where he joined the Western Front Society. There, he met Kate Craig, Eric Metcalfe, Glenn Lewis, Martin Bartlett, and Patrick Ready, who later became his collaborators. He and Craig became partners in life and art and we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Craig
Kate Craig (September 15, 1947 – July 23, 2002) was a Canadian video and performance artist, costume designer, and photographer. She was a founding member of the artist-run centre the Western Front, in 1973, and the artists-in-residence program in 1977. She supported the video and performance works of many artists while producing her own body of work. She is known for her performances such as "Lady Brute," and for her video works. Biography Catherine Shand Craig was born on September 15, 1947, in Victoria, British Columbia. She was the third child of Sidney Osborne Craig (née Scott) and Charles Edward Craig. Her parents divorced in 1956. In 1960, her mother married Douglas Shadbolt, an architect and brother of the painter Jack Shadbolt. The family moved to Montreal and then to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Craig attended Dalhousie University starting in 1961. Craig quit her studies at Dalhousie in 1966 and began attending the University of Victoria the year after. Craig met the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Eagle
Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc has reached 18° below the observer's horizon. This morning twilight period will last until sunrise (when the Sun's upper limb breaks the horizon), when direct sunlight outshines the diffused light. Etymology "Dawn" derives from the Old English verb , "to become day". Types of dawn Dawn begins with the first sight of lightness in the morning, and continues until the Sun breaks the horizon. The morning twilight is divided in three phases, which are determined by the angular distance of the centre of the Sun ( degrees below the horizon) in the morning. These are astronomical, nautical and civil twilight. Astronomical dawn Astronomical dawn begins when the center of the Sun is 18 degrees below the horizon in the morning. Astronomical twilight follows instantly until the center ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Lewis
Glennon Ricketts Jr. (born March 13, 1975), professionally known as Glenn Lewis, is a Canadian neo soul singer–songwriter. Lewis earned a Grammy Award nomination in 2004 and has also won a Juno Award out of a total of six nominations. Early life Lewis was born in Kitchener, Ontario and raised in Toronto by a Trinidadian mother and Jamaican father, Glennon "Glen" Ricketts Sr. Both of his parents were musicians; his father was the lead singer of Crack of Dawn in the 1970s, was a protege of the late Donny Hathaway, and had a solo career under the stage name "Glen Ricks". From the age of eight to fourteen, Lewis lived in Trinidad before moving back to Toronto. Originally planning to pursue a career in animation as a teenager, Lewis instead decided to focus on music. After moving back to the city, he attended high school at Eastern High School of Commerce Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute, where he won a talent contest by covering Stevie Wonder's " I Just Called to Say I L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mail Art
Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the mail, postal service. It developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School and the Fluxus movements of the 1960s. It has since developed into a global, ongoing movement. Characteristics Media commonly used in mail art include postcards, paper, a collage of found or recycled images and objects, rubber stamps, artist-created stamps (called artistamps), and paint, but can also include music, sound art, poetry, or anything that can be put in an envelope and sent via post. Mail art is considered art once it is dispatched. Mail artists regularly call for thematic or topical mail art for use in (often unjuried) exhibition. Mail artists appreciate interconnection with other artists. The art form promotes an egalitarian way of creating that frequently circumvents official art distribution and approval systems such as the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberts Creek, British Columbia
Roberts Creek (Sechelt language, shíshálh Language: xwesam) is a community on the southern Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Sunshine Coast, in British Columbia, Canada, and within Electoral Area D of the Sunshine Coast Regional District. Roberts Creek sits on the border of the ''shíshálh swiya'' (land, birthplace, "Territory" of the Sechelt Indian Band, shíshálh Nation) and the territory of the Squamish Nation, roughly halfway between the Gibsons, Town of Gibsons and the Sechelt, District of Sechelt, the region's two main population centres. History For thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas, European settlement, Roberts Creek was utilized seasonally by both the ''shíshálh Nation, shíshálh'' and Squamish people, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh peoples. Several salmon-bearing creeks drain into the Strait of Georgia, Salish Sea here, providing an excellent source of food. Roberts Creek is named for William Roberts, the first European settler in the area. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Trasov
Vincent (Latin: ''Vincentius'') is a masculine given name originating from the Roman name ''Vincentius'', which itself comes from the Latin verb ''vincere'', meaning "to conquer." People with the given name Artists *Vincent Apap (1909–2003), Maltese sculptor *Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter *Vincent Munier (born 1976), French wildlife photographer Saints *Vincent of Saragossa (died 304), deacon and martyr, patron saint of Lisbon and Valencia *Vincent, Orontius, and Victor (died 305), martyrs who evangelized in the Pyrenees *Vincent of Digne (died 379), French bishop of Digne *Vincent of Lérins (died 445), Church father, Gallic author of early Christian writings *Vincent Madelgarius (died 677), Benedictine monk who established two monasteries in France *Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), Valencian Dominican missionary and logician *Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), Catholic priest who served the poor *Vicente Liem de la Paz (Vincent Liem the Nguyen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FILE Megazine
''FILE Megazine'' (published 1972–1989) was a quarterly, then irregularly published art and culture magazine, written, edited and published primarily by members of General Idea (there were guest contributors throughout its run, and later on, sometimes guest editors). History and profile The magazine was founded with a grant from the Canadian federal government (General Idea applied as Art-Official Inc.). This grant allowed for the creation and publication of the first three issues. After that, the magazine was funded by support from its subscribers, advertisers and the Canada Council for the Arts. The visual design and identity of ''FILE Megazine'' was a deliberate appropriation of the defunct ''Life'' magazine. ''FILE'' initial logo was the white block letters on red rectangle of the "LIFE" logo, with the letters re-arranged. This corresponded with the group's desire that the magazine be a "parasite within the world of magazine distribution". The familiarity of the format woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
