Cover Contest winners: Robert Canali and Sarah Fuller
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Saturday 27 March 2010
The Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon
Doors: 7:00pm Show: 7:30pm
The benefit concert will feature 6 local bands and artists, covering some of their favorite musical acts, as well as performing their own original music. All proceeds will help support BlackFlash in the face of the funding cuts to small magazines in Canada by the federal government.
Featured Musicians:
Jen Lane covering The Rolling Stones
Shuyler Jansen & Foam Lake covering John Cale
Tyson McShane covering Will Oldham
The Perogies covering The Clash
Ride ‘Til Dawn covering The Replacements
Smokekiller covering Ryan Adams
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Doug Dubois’ and Richard Hines’ families are very different, but the intimacy that they both photograph is very similar. And while neither is the first to photograph their family, both bodies of work are unique in that they capture intimate moments from a specific time, place, and group of people that only they would have been privileged to experience. Read more
Our annual Halloween fundraiser is back. This year we partnered with PAVED Arts and put on the party above their gallery in the event space. Thank yous go out to all of the volunteers who helped make the night a success including Steph Canning, Karla Griffin, Jordan Schwab, Jeremy Warren, Karen Polowick, Amber Christensen, Maja Montgomery, Dave Hutton, Danielle Raymonde, Cindy Baker and Megan Morman. An extra special thanks go to The Spadina Free House for their donation of pizzas and Midtown Plaza for the donation of prizes.
A massive Bird vs. Andre as Inigo Montoya in dance off in front of a green screen.
Zombie photo Ian Campbell
Winner of the overall costume contest Doc as a monster eating his head. photo by Ian Campbell
Patrick as Anton Chigurh and Jordan as Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget photo Maja Montgomery
Winner of the Best Costume in the Wild Card category Amber is a Mouse Trapped. photo by Maja Montgomery
Brenda as Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) from Cabaret. photo by Maja Montgomery
Brenna and John as an Ice Princess and a Tiger. photo by Maja Montgomery
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Saskatoon’s best Halloween costume party will be resurrected on 20th Street!
Saturday October 31st , 2009
Screening 7:30pm
Dance Party 8:30pm
424 20th Street West Saskatoon
Featuring:
- PAVED Members Screening
- Video Dance Party
- DJ MidLife Crisis
- MC Camel Toe
- VJ Ian C
- DJ Wham!bo
- Scream Off Contest
- Costume Prizes for best non human, most disgusting and best off all
For more information or to purchase advance tickets please contact:
Laura Margita executive@pavedarts.ca 652 5542 PAVED Arts 424 20th Street West Saskatoon open: 12–6pm Mon-Fri
John Shelling editor@blackflash.ca 374 5115 Rm 727 Bessborough Hotel 601 Spadina Cres. E Saskatoon open: 10am-2pm Mon-Fri
By Chen Tamir
Photography is caught between an invocation and a denial of death.1 On the one hand, it petrifies a scene, a moment. When sitters “hold still, smile, and say ‘cheese’,” they are fully aware of how they look at that moment, or at least how the camera sees them, will be carried into the future and seen by others. It is like a little moment of death, or of loss — what Roland Barthes calls “mortification.”2 The moment the photographer releases the shutter is the moment to be remembered (or imagined) by whoever sees the photograph in the future. Even if it is seen the day after the photograph was taken, there is a melancholy to it as an object of the past, of time enduring.
John Shelling, Managing Editor
Articles:
- Touch Made Visible: Matt Ducklo’s Touch Tour Pictures article by Karen Kurczynski
- What Are We Now? On Stadium by Lynne Marsh and Vox Pop by Antonia Hirsch article by Jeremy Todd
Artist Pages:
- Love Letters To Architects: Paul de Guzman’s Parasite Paradise
Artist Project:
- Synthesis by Alex Fischer
Emerging:
- Julie Oh by Karla Griffin
- JG Hampton by Dagmara Genda
Review:
- Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before by Micheal Fried. Reviewed by Rachel Wolfe
Series:
- Statistical Landscape (In the Eye of the Worker) by Emmanuelle Léonard
