Festival Arts
Currents
Eamon Mac Mahon
Exhibition at the THEMUSEUM, Kitchener
September 20, 2013 – January 5, 2014
The importance of water is difficult to exaggerate. Not only is it essential to life, it gives and takes away in a spectacular balancing act that is as fragile as it is fundamental.
A Rare Perspective
Col. Chris Hadfield
Pattison Onestop TTC Subway Screens
November 4 – 17, 2013
This installation includes 40 of Colonel Chris Hadfield’s beautiful and at times awe-inspiring images, along with his original messages tweeted from space.
Drowning World
Gideon Mendel
Pattison Onestop Shopping Centre Screens
November 4 – 17, 2013
Drowning World is a long-term global exploration of flooding and artist Gideon Mendel’s response to climate change and the obsessive consumption that drives it.
#crazyweather Video Billboard
Sharon Switzer
Pattison Onestop Urban Screens
January 2014
The Earth, as seen from space, turns as Tweets commenting on the ‘crazy’ weather in different parts of the world travel across the screen, appearing and disappearing.
Waterlife
Kevin McMahon
THEMUSEUM, Kitchener
Saturday, November 9, 2013, 2:00 PM
This documentary tells the story of the last great supply (20 per cent) of fresh water on Earth. The film is followed by a Q&A with Director Kevin McMahon.
john st. Interventions
john st.
Pattison Onestop Urban Screens
October 21 – November 25, 2013 & October 14 – December 8, 2013
As part of the Trial of David Suzuki Interventions is made up of two projects that attempt to create public conversation around climate change.
Burning Ice
Peter Gilbert
Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Saturday, November 23, 2013, 1:00 PM
Burning Ice documents Cape Farewell’s 2008 expedition to Disko Bay, in West Greenland.
