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Ice Follies Grand Opening
Mark Saturday, February 23rd at Noon on your Calendars!
The Ice Follies 2008 Grand Opening features:
- - Bombardier Snow Bus tours of the follies
- - Snowshoe rental courtesy of Lefebvre's Outdoor Sports
Ice Follies Artists' Banquet
For all of those interested in warming up after a great day out on the lake, the WKP Kennedy Gallery will be hosting an artists' banquet February 23rd at 7pm.
Tickets are $20/plate and the banquet will also feature screenings of behind-the-scenes Ice Follies footage, and Q&A with the Ice Follies Artists.
To purchase tickets, contact the gallery: (705) 474 1944 ext. 231 .
Some background information:
The W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery is hosting the third biennial site-specific exhibition of new works by national and international artists. Yes, that's correct, we are again putting up seven site-specific artworks that consider or thematically reflect the idea of the ice fishing hut. The show will feature seven structures made by artists and positioned on the ice just east of the government wharf near downtown North Bay.
"We have been a bit worried about the state of the ice with all the warm weather," says exhibition curator, Dermot Wilson. Several of the artists works will comment on the changing environment, but the Gallery is hopeful that the ice will be its usual four to five feet thick on the exhibition site.
Back in 2004, the Gallery started off with the idea that the perfect place for a show about ice-fishing huts was in North Bay. Our city is right beside the vast white plain that is Lake Nipissing in the wintertime. We asked artists to create works that would use existing ice huts or decorate ice huts or incorporate ice huts as pedestals or mini-galleries or would "expand the notion of what an ice hut can be". The artists responded in wonderful ways.
Ice Follies Photostream