w.a.v.e.s Festival 2014 Celebrates Windsor’s Artists, Visions, Energies
and Sculptures
Ground-breaking
new festival creates waves in art and emerging technology.
Windsor’s
Artists, Visions, Energies and Sculptures (w.a.v.e.s.) is a brand new two-day
festival connecting communities through waves of art, culture and technology in
the Windsor Sculpture Park during Culture Days, September 26-27, 2014.
Hosted by the
City of Windsor’s Cultural Affairs Department in partnership with the Arts
Council of Windsor & Region, WEtech Alliance, Hackforge Windsor, Harvesting
the FAM, The Art Gallery of Windsor and Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island, the
festival will showcase local and visiting artists who will present their
innovative wave-length creations from 4 p.m.to 11 p.m. each day.
Projects were
selected through an open call to local, emerging and national acts inviting
individuals and organizations to be inspired by the theme of “waves” in sound,
light, movement or otherwise. The application asked for “the unexpected” and
over 20 projects have been selected to animate the park throughout the day and
illuminate the night, including solar and kinetic-powered installations.
A special
extension of Harvesting the FAM will provide stage entertainment to festival
goers throughout the day. Harvesting The FAM is Windsor’s largest
independent inter-arts festival, designed for the promotion and development of
film, fashion, artistic and musical talents. Each night at 10 p.m., special
performances will capture the audience in mesmerizing audiovisual performances
from Kero & Annie Hall on Friday and The Noise Border Ensemble on Saturday.
Community
workshops hosted by Hackforge Windsor will provide participants with the tools
and training to build their own bike light display for a chance to light up the
trail of the Battagello RiverWalk. Walk the path to hear the beats from the
Motor City Junk-Kit, a drum-kit made from recycled car parts. Interact with
Walkerville Art Studio’s Invisible Poets as they free-style spoken word, and
create Words on Water with the Windsor Youth Centre as they bring a
larger-than-life set of poetry tiles to play with. Bring your smart phones to
explore the cockpit of the Windsor Lancaster FM212 Bomber with Ellis Digital,
or explore the world around you with smart phone microscopes and the University
of Windsor’s Let’s Talk Science. Bring an appetite for the Windsor Eats
Truckin’ Food Rally in Assumption Park. After the sunsets, prepare to see
the sculpture park light up like never before. For information on the day’s
events, photo scavenger hunt and contests, visit the City of Windsor’s w.a.v.e.s.
festival page.
All Windsor
Sculpture Park festival programming and events are free to the public.
This event is
rain or shine. Festival goers are encouraged to illuminate their umbrellas and
their outfits!
To learn more,
visit www.citywindsor.ca or join our
event page at www.facebook.com/CityOfWindsor.
by Deborah Jones
Publisher
Biz X Magazine
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