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
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
The launch of our Spring/Summer 2009 issue, Nostalgia, was held June 11th 2009 at Flint in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Thank yous go out to Flint owner Mark Gabruch and manager Ellen Balsevich for allowing us to host our launch in their space.
Spring/Summer contributing artist Joi Arcand and friends.
Brenna, Leah, and Dan.
Winter contributor David Lariviere and Managing Editor John Shelling.
For the 8th straight year BlackFlash Magazine has received the honour of being name the best magazine in Saskatchewan by the Western Magazine Awards.
Still Image Winner
Clare Samuel, Untitled, from the series It is Still, 2008, 72.6 x 72.6 cm, c-print
Clare Samuel is a Northern Irish artist living in Canada. She has a Photography BFA with Honours from Ryerson University, and is now completing in her final year of graduate studies at Concordia in Montreal. She has exhibited in solo and group shows across Canada and Europe, and participated in international residency programs in Canada and Ireland. Her work tends to deal with themes of borders and edges, between emotions, people and places, and they relate to desire for connection and belonging. claresamuel.com
Moving Image Winner
Karen Schulz, Once Removed, video, 30sec.
Karen Schulz was born in the rural community of Grandview, Manitoba and presently lives and makes art in Winnipeg. Photo – based printmaking, video and 3 dimensional drawings comprise a growing body of work. In 2006 she participated in a valuable year-long mentoring program with MAWA(Mentoring Artists for Womens’ Art) and subsequently received a Winnipeg Arts Council Grant to create a series of Graffiti -inspired images.
Honourable Mention Still Image Category
Jasmine Bakalarz, Ballerinas
Jasmine Bakalarz was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently lives between Canada and Argentina. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University, with a major in photography and a minor in psychology. Her work varies from social documentary to portraiture and often deals with social issues such as gender identity, sexuality and socio-political conflicts. In her artistic practice she has travelled to various continents to explore these themes, including South America, the Middle East and Native Reserves in Northern Ontario. Currently her work largely focuses on portraits that depict children’s psychological state pertaining to their gender identity. In addition, she is continuously working on a large body of work exploring North American competitions. www.jasminebakalarz.com
Julie Oh, Paper Route
Julie Oh is an emerging artist from Saskatoon who deals with notions of identity through photographic narrative. She was born in South Korea and immigrated to Canada in 1994. Her most recent work Immigrant addresses her cross-cultural identity as a first generation immigrant. Julie holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan and her next project will delve into the complexity behind inter-racial friendships.
Honourable Mention Moving Image Category
Edith Dakovic, 36°N@14'19°E, from the Mer-made Products series, video, 30 seconds
Edith Dakovi is a Canadian artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Born near Cologne Germany, Dakovic grew up in Toronto, Canada where she graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design before going on to do postgraduate studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in collections in Canada, U.S.A.,Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Germany, Britain and Japan.
Here’s your chance to get published in BlackFlash’s May 2010 issue. Visit www.blackflash.ca/2 and register to contribute…
What is BlackFlash 2.0?
BlackFlash 2.0 is a collaborative online authorship project initiated by BlackFlash Magazine, a nationally circulated contemporary photography and new media publication. The goal of 2.0 is to produce an online arts database that will be our source for images, writing and information for the May 2010 issue. Read more
The launch of our Winter 2009 issue, Micro/Macro, was held February 28th 2009 at UNREAL CITY in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. DJ Mid-Life Crisis performed. Thank yous go out to Theo Kivol, Emily Kivol, John Decoteau and Emma Williams from Unreal City for allowing us to use their beautiful new space and our amazing volunteers: Aaron Godard, Maja Montgomery, Bruce Montcombreaux, Dagmara Genda, Brenna Millard, Leah Taylor, Megan Bocking, Danielle Raymond, Ian Campbell and Maxine Proctor.
All photos taken by Maja Montgomery
Aaron pouring wine
Dj Mid-Life Crisis performs
Unreal City
Cindy and Peter smile for the camera
Brian takes a swing. David observes. Patrick in the background.
Leah, Richard and half of Andre chillin'
Brenna and John: unplanned matching outfits.
