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Open Projects: Lisa Lipton's Window Ballet 2: Electric Boogaloo Public performance 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. May 18 and 19 at the Gatekeeper’s Lodge, Point Pleasant Park. Free!

The next call for Open Projects will take place in spring 2012.

The Open Projects program supports artists’ projects that reimagine, remake and reinvigorate its civic spaces.

For the 2011-2012 fiscal year there are two calls for the Open Project program. Projects are peer-assessed by a committee of artists from diverse disciplines. Support through Open Projects is available at three different brackets:

  • $500-$2000
  • $2000-$5000
  • $5000-$8000

$49,400 has been awarded in the 2011-2012 fiscal year through Open Projects. Current Open Projects include:

  • May 18 and 19, 2012, Lisa Lipton will remount Window Ballet, a collaborative, performance-based project which premiered during Nocturne 2010. This ground breaking project crosses boundaries between the fields of music, theatre and visual arts. In Window Ballet 2: Electric Boogaloo Lipton has chosen to take on the tiny castle at the edge of the Point Pleasant Park, also know as the Gatekeeper’s Lodge. Here, she has developed a brand new electrified narrative and inviting various musicians and visual artists to explore fresh material for the second rendition of the project. Let’s just say it’s bright, it’s blingy and very 90s.

  • Performed by SINS Dance (including Jacinthe Armstrong, Susanne Chui, and Sara Coffin), SHIRTS + SKIRTS: a tournament of many skills, combines dance, improvisation, contact dance and park games. For more informaction visit http://sinsdance.com/

  • Mathew Reichertz will create large-scale paintings of Point Pleasant Park based on his own experiences with his dog, Georgia. He writes "Much of my time spent exploring the Park was directed by the interests, desires and senses of a dog. Georgia and I found every running stream and standing pool of water, every flat stretch of ground for playing fetch, every heavily travelled canine route sure to have lots of interesting smells. It is my plan to follow Georgia's nose as I seek out sites to paint in the Park." This project is scheduled for summer 2012. For more information visit http://reichertz.ca/

  • Melissa Laverdure's Special D is a series of postcards commemorating the ever changing commerce of realestate in HRM. Special D urges the community to remember what once was.

  • The World Portable Gallery Convention 2012 is an international convention on portable galleries and alternating spaces hopsted by Eyelevel Gallery in Halifax, NS, during the month of September 2012. The month-long project will celebrate the variety of spaces curators around the globe have extended public interaction with the gallery space. For more information visit http://www.eyelevelgallery.ca/

The Open Projects program advances four out of the six outcome areas identified in HRM’s Corporate Plan 2010-2011, including Safe and Welcoming Communities, Well Planned and Engaged Communities, Economic Prosperity, and Diverse Recreation, Leisure, and Cultural Choices. Referring to The Cultural Operating Strategy (2008) the intention of the Open Projects programs is to advance its strategic outcomes including a sustainable cultural industry, a culture based regional economy, and culturally rich, engaged, active citizenry.

Please note, calls for 2011-2012 Open Projects have closed. The next call for Open Projects will take place in spring 2012.


For further more information contact:

Siobhan Wiggans
Arts Programmer, Community Arts Programmer 
Recreation and Culture
Community and Recreation Services
(902) 490-5739
wiggans@halifax.ca


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