Friday

MARK by Mike Hoolboom Friday, December 3 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St (Arts Court basement) Presented by Available Light Screening Collective & Inside Out LGBT Film and Video Festival MARK is a deeply personal and visceral homage to Mark Karbusicky, editor and friend of acclaimed experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom, who committed suicide in April 2007. Hoolboom, in an attempt to find answers, compiles the residual fragments of Mark from home movies, childhood photographs, and interviews with friends, family, and his life-partner of ten years, trans performance artist Mirah-Soleil Ross.  

THE INFIDELS
International Group Exhibit curated by Guy Berube
December 3 - 28, 2010
Vernissage Dec 3 / 7 - 10pm
Tunes by DJ JAS NASTY In Collaboration with Abnormals Galleries
in Berlin, Germany & Poznan, Poland.
RUMOUR HAS IT
That there might be a fantastic art show with over 40 local artists happening in Hintonburg. Dec. 3rd at 8 pm, 1111A Wellington St. Cyclelogik's 3rd annual Christmas show is pulling out all the stops for this one - well, that's the word on that the street anyhow. Please stop by and see if the rumours of live animals and high stakes Mah Jong games are true.
Possibly featuring work by the following artists:
Jenny Holzer
Erin Robertson
Maria Lezon
Jenn Farr
Marc Adornato
Daniel Martelock
Joanna Swim
Jeff Moffett
Mary Spicer
Stefan Thompson
Andrea Emery
Barbara Kruger
Jeff Koons
Andrea Stokes
Tami Gallili Ellis
Natasha Beaudin
Pam Lawler
Don Kwan
Jennifer Amento
Tara Barnes
Tim Hunt
Kathrin Von Dehn
Geneivieve Saulnier
Sheilah Mackinnon
Ainsley Walton
Anna Griffiths
Damien Hurst and MORE!!!!!!!
Also possibly featuring the musical stylings of the Super Awesome Club.

Saturday

Ottawa School of Art Exhibition/Open House Invitation
The instructors and students of O.S.A. Children and Teen Program cordially invite you to
Exhibition/Open House
Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 11:30am-12:00pm. and 3:00pm-4:00p.m at our ByWard Market Campus – 35 George Street. Visit the studios of the children and teens Saturday program.  See the work produced this fall, join in the celebration of our art.
Gallery 101 and title sponsor Knowledge Circle present
101 FRAMES: THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
WRATH
4-240 Bank Street, Ottawa (entrance on Lisgar Street)
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Doors open at 7pm – 1am
Featuring: DJs The O’Malley’s and Jas Nasty
Poster Contest Winner Simon Wukasch
Tickets:  $10 or $15 at the door
or at After Stonewall- 370 Bank Street, Collected Works – 1242 Wellington St. W., Mags & Fags – 254 Elgin

December Canadian Art Sale: Red Flag Works
Our first formal art show will feature five Canadian artists:
Jennifer Amenta, Keith Burnett, Allen Egan, Dave Rheaume, and Ross Rheaume.
Each artist will show a selection of recent original works, some will offer small prints and giftware based on original artwork in the show.
Reception with artists: Dec 4th 7-10pm
Show runs Dec 4-19 | 7 Hamilton Ave N

La Petite Mort Gallery presents...
The Fearless Project presenting INSTANT
Collection of 120 Polaroids of Men @ Orgasm
Saturday December 4, 2010 / 7 - 10pm
Curated by Justin Violini & Dan Ziemkiewicz
In collaboration with La Petite Mort Gallery
Video installation by SUPERM, New York
(Slava Mogutin, Brian Kenny, Gio Black Peter)
Video Installation by Drasko Bogdanovic, Toronto
306 Cumberland Street

Saturday & Sunday

December 4, 5, 2010, Sat. & Sun., 1:00 to 3:00.
Thomas Hogan, local Ojibwa Woodland style artist, is having an Exhibit and Sale at Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts at Cumberland and St Patrick Street, in the Ottawa market.

Sunday

Baz’ART
Shenkman Arts Centre First Annual Holiday Celebration & Sale!
Sunday, December 5 from 1 to 5 pm
Avoid the chaotic commercial mall hubbub in favour of shopping for one-of-a-kind items for everyone on your gift-giving list. This event will be a festive one, complemented by live entertainment and plenty of activities for everyone from puppet making to holiday choirs. Artists exhibiting in the sale portion of the event are selected by jury; ensuring quality work will be on offer. The sale, which will run from 1 to 5 pm, will feature the works of local artists in a variety of mediums ranging from paintings to pottery, bookbinding to jewellery. All the details are posted on our new website:  www.ShenkmanArts.ca

*As part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, the Ottawa RebELLEs are hosting a fundraising body- painting event Sunday, 5 December 2010, 7:00-9:00pm at Venus Envy (320 Lisgar St.) $3 at the door or pay what you can.*
This is a body painting event to celebrate and reclaim our bodies from sexual violence. Our vision is to contrast and resist the violence- physical and otherwise- perpetuated against womyn’s bodies and bodies that reject gender binaries. Our vision is also to celebrate our bodies through paint and photography in a body-positive and sex-positive space.
You can also have your body photographed by professional photographers for $5.
Painting supplies for body painting and poster painting will be provided.
Music and spoken word performed by Michelle Blackburn.
Party panties are mandatory – but all other clothes are optional
The funds collected from the event for the door and photos will be donated to the Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Centre.

Anytime!  

Great BIG smalls VI
December 1 ~  31, 2010
...CONTINUING AN OTTAWA CHRISTMAS TRADITION Cube Gallery is pleased to announce that our wildly popular Great BIG Smalls Show is back for a sixth year of offering unique gifts of original art from across Canada. Small pieces - perfect for Christmas gift-giving - are already arriving from Shelbourne Nova Scotia to Powell River B.C., New York to Barry's Bay ,Montreal, Toronto and of course the Ottawa-Gatineau region. This annual juried show boasts nearly 60 artists and more than 300 works of art.
Plan to arrive on the first day for what has become one of Cube's most anticipated annual events and to fully appreciate the astonishing scope of artistic talent on display.
Original art for the discerning kids and adults on your Christmas list - the
gift that appreciates and will be appreciated for a lifetime.   Cube Gallery
1285 Wellington St. W. 
Get ready for a hot mid-winter's night! If music be the food of love....ROCK ON! The Ottawa Theatre School presents a rollicking, contemporary take on William Shakespeare's
"Twelfth Night, or What You Will." Director Andy Massingham has assembled a team of stellar performers to create a hip, physically dynamic staging of the Bard's timeless work. Veteran performers Pierre Brault, Greg Kramer, and Alix Sideris are joined by Brad Long and the graduating class of the Ottawa Theatre School in a hilarious chain-reaction, fuelled by mistaken identity, music, cross-dressing, gender-bending and comic duels.   The Ottawa Theatre School is Ottawa’s only Conservatory Acting Training Program. Offering an intensive and rigorous 3-year program, the OTS encourages students to develop a unique artistic voice while honing specific acting skills. The school’s graduating students were featured in last year’s hit musical “Blood Brothers” at the Gladstone Theatre. Twelfth Night or What You Will When: Dec 1-18 (Tuesday-Saturday)
Time: 8 p.m.
Tickets: $20.00 Where: The Natalie Stern Studio Theatre, 294 Picton Ave. in Westboro Directed by: Andy Massingham Featuring: Pierre Brault, Greg Kramer, Brad Long, Alix Sideris, Diego Arvelo, Kyla Gray, Kaitlin Miller, Jodi Morden, Greg Shand and Henry Austin ShikongoFor more information call (613) 567-6788 or visit http://www.ottawatheatreschool.com  

JUDITH LINTHORST
November 24, 2010 – January 12, 2011
Primecorp Display Windows | Corner of Bank & Somerset
Free Admission ARTIST STATEMENT MEASURE-SPIN-CUT In my work I use my experience as a filmmaker to explore the dynamic possibilities of time and transition inherent in what appears to be a static moment. Projecting and blocking things out are selective operations used in filmmaking. Projections of the protagonist and the viewer are simultaneously represented by the screen. In mass media the face has become the ultimate focus through which the play of showing and concealing has been played out. Larger then life close-ups give us the ‘comfort’ of knowing what is going on in the face of the subject,  and the chance to project our own inner feelings and desires onto the perfect projection screen. WHEN: NOVEMBER 24, 2010 - JANUARY 12, 2011 OSA Exhibition Schedule:
http://www.artottawa.ca/osa-eao/index.php/osa-galleries/gallery-information/exhibition-schedule.html

Metamorphish 2010 - a year of evolution - Dec 2/10 to Jan 11/11 vernissage Dec 5, 1-3pm - Trinity Gallery, Shenkman Arts Centre, Orleans Tin Fish first appeared in Ottawa in 2006 in a shop window in the Glebe, and now are about to make a big splash in Orleans. Shiny armoured fish sculpture built from recycled metal. Tin cans transformed into flying fish. Scrap copper roofing used to create leaping black bass. A crazy quilt of copper skin for an ancient Ichthyosaur on steel wheels. Catfood can lids glittering golden and silver scaled striped bass. A year of work and the "metamorphish" of that work. The slow creative evolution from one piece to the next captured over the period of one year. Come out and enjoy Trinity Gallery's transformation into an undersea aquarium. Alanna Baird has worked in metal since 1991. This is the first major showing of her work in Ottawa www.tinfish.ca