Happy Day After Art's Birthday!

Hello and Happy [day after] Art’s Bday!!

We enjoyed a wonderful night of celebrations in honour of Art’s Birthday, and we hope that you did, too!! Ryan Stec’s remix of video works by Stacey Abramson, Clint Enns, Simon Hughes, and Dominique Rey offered a tantalizing audiovisual experience, and his eye candy tricks and treats also factored deliciously well into the sets of our other performers. We’re still breathless over Venetian Snares’ paying of IDM puppet master to our dancing bodies and breakcore minstrel to our minds, and we’re still floating over Mama Cutsworth’s soulful delivery of vinyl delights that transported us through time and space! Thank you to these incredible talents for helping us set the pace for a fantastic night!

We are also grateful to John Kendle, Tracey Koga, and Morley Walker for their expertise and good humor participating in our real and surreal cake competition. Because, well, what’s a birthday party without cake? And, further to that very important thought, thank you to Pastry Castle for contributing a beautiful, creamy, chocolatey-goodness, icing smothered treat that was shared among many!

Thanks are also due to Shawna Dempsey for her role as an MC, the many video makers who contributed work to our reel, and the many volunteers who worked tech, decorated, worked the door and sold raffle tickets. Special thanks are also due to Jaymez and Big Mama for their “tasty” contribution to the evening. Also, thank you very much to Ragpickers Anti-Fashion Emporium for setting up a fabulous costume rental depot... awesome!

We are also extremely grateful to the many local merchants and galleries who contributed sensational items to our raffle! We will soon be posting a special thank you mentioning all of them. Thank you!!

Thanks also to the staff at Club Desire for giving us a place to party and for helping the night run so smoothly.

We also want to thank Charles, Michael and Thor for capturing the night in still and moving image... those pics and vids will be coming soon! We can’t wait to share them. Oh, and that reminds us... if YOU have pics, please send them to us!! We’ll post them, with credit, of course!

So, until then... we hope you enjoy another wonderful year of art!

[Art's Birthday 2008]