Artist/Percussionist Barry Prophet Artist Residency at Lawrence House this Summer

27 Jul, 2009



     The Lawrence House Centre for the Arts has invited Barry Prophet, a composer, percussionist, instrument maker, sculptor, poet and playwright, to exhibit the integrated & media arts installation Dwellings & Incursions: Natural Selection & Community and be Artist in Residence for two weeks during the exhibition from Aug. 7- Aug. 22, 2009.
     Barry Prophet has been teaching traditional and experimental percussion for over twenty years and is the director of the Music Gallery Institute, the educational wing of the Music Gallery, Toronto. He has exhibited and performed at the Ontario Science Centre, Science North, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Art Gallery of Windsor, Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Royal Ontario Museum.
    The LHCA considers Mr. Prophets' artist residency and installation to be important as a relevant social experience for the community and will promote the mission of advocating the sustainability of youth culture in our creative city. This contributes significantly towards a public understanding of how community involvement with the arts compliments and enriches civic pride, culminating in a broader understanding on how the arts can be capitalized as an economic driver for our changing community. It is through events of this calibre that is an affirmation of the urban renewal in the downtown area that continues to see new businesses investing in the Arts and Culture District of Sarnia.


Workshops with Barry Prophet

    Participants in these workshops will learn how to arrange and apply effects to sounds files in Audacity, a mult-track, open source, audio software. The goal is to take every day sounds and make soundscapes that reawaken our ears to the sonic world we live in.
   Learners work independently on Mac G4 compuerts. Familarity with a computer is required, music knowledge is not necessary.
   Workshop space is limited to 6 persons per session. If you have headphones, please bring them.

Week One: August 10th-14th
Kids (10-16 yr olds): 10am-12pm, Mon-Friday
Adults (17+) 7pm-9pm, Mon-Thurs

Week Two: August 17th-21st
Kids (10-16 yr olds): 10am-12pm, Mon-Friday
Adults (17+) 7pm-9pm, Mon-Thurs

Cost: $100.00 per week for kids and $80.00 for adults


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Lawrence House float wins prize in Canada Day Parade

06 Jul, 2009

 

      An enthusiastic group of Lawrence House volunteers spent long days designing and constructing a parade float for the Canada Day parade which featured a very large thunderbird. Nearly four meters wide and three meters tall, the thunderbird was designed by local artist Moses Lunham whose 2008 show at the Lawrence House  was very successful.

     The float won the 'Best Non-commercial Entry' award in the parade and was accompanied on the street by stiltwalkers, flag wavers and many people in costumes. These costumes and the thunderbird will be featured later this summer in "Crudementary: Tales from Black Creek to Bluewater", a processional play to be held in Canatara Park. A production of the Lawrence House and Toronto's Shadowland Theatre, tickets are currently available at the LHCA.


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