Monday Special Blend
Monday September 25th, 2023 with Nathanael Newton and Maria Hawkins
Winners of the 2023 Scotiabank New Generation Photography (NGPA) award featured in an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa South Committee for Refugee Support and concert with the Big Soul Project
Nathanael plays a set of interviews recorded on the 20th of September 2023 at the National Gallery of Canada featuring 2023 NGPA winners Wynne Neilly, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, and Hannah Doucet.
Bruce Cockburn - Speechless |
| Teaser Trailer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q6NG0q1nZQ
September 20, 2023—Until January 7, 2024, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents works by the three winners of the 2023 Scotiabank New Generation Photography (NGPA): Hannah Doucet, Wynne Neilly, and Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez in an exhibition organized by the NGC in partnership with Scotiabank and the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Through videographic and photographic works, the three artists explore the many challenges in contemporary representations of the body, identity, culture, and history. The works on display were produced between 2019 and 2023. The public is invited to discover the exhibition in the company of the three artists during a special edition of the Gallery’s free Thursday evenings, this Thursday 21 September from 6 to 7 p.m. EDT in the exhibition space C218. To take part and visit the Gallery for free between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. EDT, simply book your ticket online. The presentation of the exhibition and Meet the artists are supported by the Scotiabank Photography Program at the NGC. "The National Gallery of Canada is delighted to celebrate the vision of talented artists at the beginning of their careers. And we are grateful to our colleagues across Canada who have nominated artists whose work deserves to be known. Our partnership with Scotiabank and the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival plays an important role in giving impetus to younger generations of artists from communities from coast to coast," said Jean-François Bélisle, NGC Director and CEO. “With great visual sophistication, care and curiosity, the 2023 Scotiabank NGPA winners demonstrate the continued power and significance of lens-based images to both probe shared concerns and anxieties and offer new insights into negotiating an image-saturated culture,” said Andrea Kunard, Senior Curator, NGC Photographs Collection, NGPA Jury Chair, and curator of the exhibition. Winnipeg-born Toronto artist Hannah Doucet explores how society deals with childhood illness by invoking fantasy and wish fulfilment. Through images, videos and an installation, she revisits her wish trip to Disney World at the age of 10 after two years of treatment for lymphoblastic lymphoma. In her brightly coloured, saturated work, featuring friendly mascots and motifs borrowed from children’s animation, Doucet draws critical attention to the corporate messaging conveyed to children about illness and its focus on living life “happily ever after”. The intimate portraits presented by Toronto-based queer artist Wynne Neilly pay homage to his queer and trans subjects and highlight the strength of the 'chosen family'. Each of the large-format portraits is presented alongside a photograph of a natural or urban landscape that, like his portraits, underscores Neilly’s meditative approach to image-making. Vancouver artist Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez is interested in the shifting meaning of the photographic image as it passes through different times and contexts. The works exhibited here originate from a box of photographs by an unknown photographer taken between 1987 and 1993, which he bought in a Mexican bookstore. Rodriguez combines these photographs with images from his personal archive. The installation includes a video work featuring two of the artist’s colleagues who examine the photographs looking for clues that would allow them to define the unknown person depicted. Launched in 2017, the Scotiabank PNGP was created in partnership with Scotiabank and rewards outstanding work by Canadian artists aged 35 and under working in the photographic arts. |
| Low Rider War - Why can't we be friends |
| Pre-recorded interview with Wynne Neilly, Artist (from Toronto)
https://www.wynneneilly.com/ |
| Pre-recorded interview with Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Artist (from Vancouver)
https://gonzaloreyes.info/ |
| Pre-recorded interview with Andrea Kunard, Senior Curator, Photographs, NGC; Chair of the NGPA jury; and Curator of the exhibition
https://www.gallery.ca/for-professionals/media/press-releases/andrea-kunard-appointed-national-gallery-of-canada-senior |
| Pre-recorded interview with Hannah Doucet, Artist (originally from Winnipeg, now based in Toronto)
https://www.hannahdoucet.com/ |
| Beven and Kevin, co-chairs of the Ottawa South Committee for Refugee Support and concert with the Big Soul Project
'A World in Common' Join the Big Soul Project Community Choir for an evening of uplifting music in support of the Ottawa South Committee for Refugee Support. On Saturday, September 30th, 2023, Trinity Anglican Church will be filled with the joyous music of Big Soul Project Community Choir and Deep Groove Band. This uplifting choir and its house band will put on a show with an irresistible beat to entertain young, old, and everyone in between. The occasion is a fundraiser for the Ottawa South Committee for Refugee Support, a community-based group with a mission to sponsor families in unsafe situations and help them integrate into Canadian society. Come out for this family-friendly happening at Trinity Anglican Church, 1230 Bank Street (at Cameron Avenue) at 7:30 pm on Saturday, September 30th! (Doors open at 6:45 PM) Wheelchair Accessible. Tickets: bit.ly/a-world-in-common https://www.facebook.com/OttawaSouthRefugeeSponsorship/ https://www.bigsoulproject.com/ |
| Robert Johnstone via phone. He plays St-Clair in the play ‘Glorious’ at the Ron Maslin Theatre Kanata, www.kanatatheatre.ca |
| Everybody's got a story Amanda Marshall - |
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Good morning Maria, Nate and Graham. Great to know that Monday Special Blend is once again a team effort. Make sure Marie stays buckled in at all times! She tends to spontaneously elevate.
8:22 AM, September 25th, 2023