Monday, October 26, 2009

Step right up. Step right up ladies and gentlemen...

Step right up to the ticket box office and get your passport to a sexy circus of fun.

Our guests will be transported into another world. You’ve never seen Cube art gallery look like this! A contortionist, fire fans, popcorn, graffiti artists and hoola-hoopers will help create the perfect environment to discover and bid on the unique art objects on offer from Canadian artists and celebs.

The event design was created by Ian Capstick at MediaStyle and is influenced by well-known street fashion styles from the over the forty-five years Planned Parenthood has been working with Ottawa’s youth. MediaStyle has mashed up punk, mod and gothic stylings with circus elements to create the only night only: Magic Boxes Circus.

Of course, when PPO and Ian set out to plan this event we had to make sure the artist designed boxes are the stars of the show - the gallery’s name (Cube) fits well and a circus theme was decided on after brainstorming the most exciting things to arrive in boxes: we were enamored with the thought of an arriving circus train.
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Performers

Contortionist Sara Banks: Art Model, Performance Artist, and Vegan Chef. My art spans many diverse categories of social commentary, alternative lifestyles, surrealism, body abstraction, and queer identities. I can be hired for any modeling or performance based art including nudes and fetish. I have experience modeling for video, life drawing, live performances, and photography.  I'm a delightful mix of delicately refined and rough around the edges. I live fast and furious. If you're not going to be able to keep up, don't even bother trying. I've lost a lot of friends that way, but I've never felt the need of looking back. Plus I've never been happier.


Hooper Brigitte Ethier: My name is Brigitte Ethier and I’m a Hooper in the Ottawa/Gatineau region. I have been in love with Hoopdance since my first encounter with this art in 2006 and have passionately trained and honed my technique and presentation over the last few years, waking up early in the mornings to hoop before going to my day job, during lunch hour and on weekends. With a strong background in figure skating and training under world renowned coaches and choreographers, I bring grace and fluidity to my movements and intricate hoop manipulation, as well as deliver an energetic and engaging performance. I am an avid hoop performer and instructor teaching regular hoop classes in the Ottawa area. You can also see me bring my car full of different size hoops to special events ready to entertain with performances and workshops for all ages. I am in my second year of professional hoop performances and excited to present either solo or all new duet/trio performances featuring regular hoops, spectacular LED glow hoops or fire hoop and fire fans. I'm also a hoop maker which are available for purchase - I handcraft & decorate them with love and care:-) Hoop classes in Ottawa are held at the Dovercourt Recreation Center in Westoboro where I focus on Hoop Fitness (so you always get a GREAT workout) but incoporate teaching and experimenting with new moves and combos. To book performances and workshops, or to enquire about the hoop classes - please contact me at hooperellahoops@gmail.com. Happy hooping :-)
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Contributing Artists

A highlight of the evening will be a spectacular live and silent auctions of unique art-pieces by Canadian artists and celebrities.  Planned Parenthood Ottawa would like to thank the following artists for their generous contributions.

Please check back often for photos of the boxes!
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    Venue

    Guests for the evening will be treated to the warmth and beauty of Cube Gallery, a contemporary art gallery housed in a wonderful historic building.

    Centrally located at 7 Hamilton Ave North in Hintonburg, Cube is curated by local artist Don Monet and has hosted to a wide variety of shows ranging from painting to sculpture to theatre.


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    About the Host and Patrons

     Host

    Kimothy Walker is an award winning reporter, and the anchor and producer of the CTV Ottawa Weekend News.  A military kid, Ms Walker grew up in Victoria B.C., Kingston, Toronto and Winnipeg, before her parents settled in Ottawa in 1982. She lives not far from there where she shares in raising the light of her life, Kyra. Kimothy has been an active member of the Ottawa community, volunteering at her daughter's school, for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and a number of other local charitable organizations.  In 2006, she co-founded the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Network.  She was one of the Ottawa Business Network's 2008 Forty Under 40.


     Event Patrons


    Maureen McTeer has just returned from a year in Washington, D.C. where she was a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at American University. In that capacity, she lectured in law, science and public policy, and offered a seminar course on Advanced Issues in International Health Policy.  She is passionately committed to women’s equality and health, and is often called on to speak about women and development, democracy and institution-building; women’s health, the education of girls; and local and international empowerment of women in the developing world. Maureen currently chairs the Advisory Board of the Shirley E. Greenberg Women's Health Centre in Ottawa.


    Catherine Clark is the host of CPAC's Beyond Politics, which invites politicians to speak casually about their personal lives.  She began her broadcasting career in 2001, hosting the television news magazine Unzipped for ichannel. In 2004, she joined RogersTelevision as host of a daily talk show in Ottawa.  Prior to her broadcasting career, she was credited by former Prime Minster Joe Clark as one of his smartest and most trusted political advisors.  She has been a prominent advocate for engaging youth in the political process.
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    Saturday, October 17, 2009

    Purchase Tickets

    There is a limited number of tickets, so be sure you beat the rush! Don't miss this one-of-a-kind evening!

    Tickets are $75.

    Purchase by phone or email:
    Jeanette Doucet at director@ppottawa.ca or 613-226-3234.


    Purchase Online:
    www.magicboxes.eventbrite.com
    Accepts credit and paypal



    Or purchase your tickets at these locations:
     
    In the West End:
    Collected Works
    1242 Wellington Street West
    613-722-1265
    accepts debit, credit cards and cash




    In Centretown:
    Venus Envy

    320 Lisgar Street
    613-789-4646
    cash only!



    In Ottawa South:
    Mother Tongue Books
    1067 rue Bank Street 
    613-730-2346
    accepts debit, credit and cash
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