Art in the Open featured in South Asian Observer

Brampton Farmer's Market and Art in the Open were featured in the June 28th issue of the South Asian Observer. The Brampton Arts Council is thrilled with its exposure. Come visit us every Saturday from 7am until 1pm at Garden Square in glorious Downtown Brampton.

- An Pham

You are invited to the...

 

Brampton Arts Council

Annual General Meeting

March 26, 2013

Registration – 7:00pm

Meeting – 7:30pm

City Hall Council Chambers, 4^th Floor

2 Wellington Street West, Brampton

Free parking in garage under City Hall.

After the meeting, members and guests have an opportunity to mingle and network during the reception.

Please RSVP and/or direct any inquiries to diana@artsbrampton.ca or the office at (905) 874-2919. 

Looking forward to seeing you.

Sincerely,

Marnie Richards, CHRP

Executive Director

Brampton Arts Council

After Business Event 2013

The Brampton Arts Council is pleased to once again host and sponsor the Brampton Board of Trade – “AFTER BUSINESS EVENT” on Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

 This is your opportunity to network with the business community and share ideas with your peers.  Applications will be accepted on a first come, first served basis from all BAC Individual members and member groups in good standing.  Space is limited.  You will find more details in the attached application package.  Complete applications are due on or before 12 noon, February 21^st, 2013.

 

A free booth space opportunity not to be missed!  Apply today!

 

Application:

http://www.artsbrampton.ca/pdf/BAC%20AFTER%20BUSINESS%202013%20Booth%20Application%20Form.pdf

Want to Advertise at Brampton's Favourite Luncheon?

The Brampton Arts Council is holding its 25th Mayor's Luncheon on Sept. 18, 2012 at the Rose Theatre. We are procuring advertisements that will appear in the Mayor's Luncheon program. If you are interested, please take a look at the rate sheet (http://www.artsbrampton.ca/pdf/mladform2012.pdf) and reply ASAP.

Booking commitment is due by Sept 3, 2012. Artwork is due Sept 10, 2012. Please email images to amena@artsbrampton.ca

Thank you, BAB

Brampton Arts
Council wants to thank
and illustrate Beaux-Arts
Brampton’s appreciation
earlier this month with
their letter to the
Brampton Guardian in
the January 18, 2012
edition.

Social Network Anxiety? Try HACE Workshop Facebook Fearlessness!

Facebook Fearlessness!
_{Building your on-line presence.}

Ever wondered how you could share your art and ideas with over 800 million people? One word, two syllables - Facebook. In today's world, one of the fastest and easiest ways to promote yourself and your work is to utilize the far reaching scope of the Internet and social media sites. But not everyone is as tech savvy as they would like to be and this fear of entering the realm of social media has caused many to miss opportunities to network and build connections with their audience. This session will review how you can use one of these sites, Facebook, to build your on-line presence, to connect with your audience, and to take advantage of online word-of-mouth. Learn the pro's and con's of using Facebook, general social media etiquette, and ways to promote your work to the widest audience.

Brampton Library's Jenny Omstead presents November 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm at the Brampton Golf Club for BAC's HACE Business of the Arts Workshop. See more workshops at http://www.artsbrampton.ca/workshops.asp

In the News...

BAC has been featured recently in two of Brampton’s popular media pieces.

In Snap Brampton’s June 2011 issue, our AGM was featured.

The Brampton Guardian recently ran a story on our Bravo! Awards events featuring the winner of the David Bloom Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Juvenile, Julia Pulo (as seen below) for her role in Brampton Music Theatre's Annie.

Photo Credit: Ken Hay (bottom) & Kelly Lewars (top)

Brampton's Best Kept Secret?

Brampton has a lot of “best kept secrets” and I'm not sure if it works out as well as it should. A woman asked me at the Street Festival last week if there were any local galleries to take her niece to. She asked me if! A little pain went through my heart because she was going to head down to the Royal Ontario Museum or the Art Gallery of Ontario.

There are at least three galleries I could list off the top of my head running around in Brampton. Immediately the Peel Heritage Complex sprang to mind. Only because that's one of the first cultural spaces I remember visiting in my life. The Complex is a gallery, museum and archives with history framing and supporting it all since the public building is a former jail house. If you're not into history, the arts or archaeology, visit the Complex simply because of its architecture. I don't think I've seen buildings with this thick, heavy stone and how that stone is used in the building creates new spaces out of the old.

I was lucky enough yesterday to be led on a tour by one Diane Allengame, the current curator of the triple threat complex, to learn about changes and tidbits of Complex information. The most surprising face to me was that Complex is currently showing .03 % of their gallery collection and 1% of their museum collection. For those not in the know most museums usually present 10 % of their collections at a time allowing for material they can cycle and freshen displays with. Thankfully, the Complex is pursuing a much-needed expansion for more display and storage space. It will be closing its door sometime in the future in order to phase into this. Hopefully, I'll remember to remind everyone to pop in before they well, can't for a bit.

Another thing the expansion is looking to do is make the side of the complex that faces Gage Park a little more inviting, inclusive. Who can't enjoy that? No one. :)

The thing I liked about the tour was midpoint when I got to hear bursts of kids acting in the Museum from the Complex's summer program. There are young artists running amuck around this city of ours. I just gotta find 'em.

Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, Ontario L6W 1Y1
Phone: 905-791-4055 Fax: 905-451-4931

Other galleries you can enjoy around town are:

Visual Arts Brampton
1 Bartley Bull Parkway, Suite 10
Brampton ON L6W 3T7
Phone: (905) 453-9142
E-mail: visualartsbrampton@gmail.com

and

Beaux Arts Brampton (which is just down the street from the Heritage Complex in Downtown Brampton)
70-74 Main Street North
Brampton, ON L6V 1N7
Tel: (905) 454-5677
Toll Free: 1-866-339-7779
Email: beauxart1@bellnet.ca

Last but not least there are a couple of Visual Arts groups you can check with that I haven't listed here but are on our website at: http://www.artsbrampton.ca/directory.htm

All of the galleries connect to the youth in different ways, whether through tours, lessons or courses. Check 'em out.

Have you ever been to the Peel Heritage Complex or any of our little galleries around town? What did you love? Do you want to go? Make plans!

Picture used with permission of Diane Allengame.

Currently listening to Hawsley Workman - Silent Night; Blue October - She's My Ride Home; Balkan Beat Box – Balcasio; Ella Fitzgerald's – A Night in Tunisa