by Ciaran Curtis

New Scratch is based on a musical group who existed in the 1960′s and 1970′s from Britain called the Scratch Orchestra. They were mainly concerned with making modern, highly experimental music, open to the public. For instance they once performed a piece where they hung upside down from a tree playing Clarinets in one of London’s public parks (and before you ask no my idea doesn’t involve hanging upside down, or climbing anything).

Essentially New Scratch involves three or four musicians improvising (and by this I mean play anything they want) in a sort of conversation to each other, across a public space.

Artists:
Mark Adams
John Ciaran Conor Curtis
Sandi Hartling
Karyn Inder
Meghan McMaster
Jillian Cavelle Parsons
Daniel Payne
Mark Prier
Philip Norman Robbins
Shawna Warmington

Poster by Jillian Parsons

Stockpile Artists Collective is kicking off Season 4 with your favourite Canadian tunes in Gerri Lynn Mackey’s “Made In Canada”.

Gerri Lynn is taking to the streets this Canada day dressed in a ridiculously patriotic outfit designed specifically to compliment her tuba. Mackey is particularly excited about this years performance of “Made in Canada” as it the third annual– making this event an official tradition. She has added a few news tunes to her musical repertoire and can not wait to surprise revelers with her unique brand of entertainment.

She’ll be jumping in on the Corner Brook Canada Day events, starting with the Flag Raising and heading on to the Community Walk, Pancake Breakfast, finally ending up at Margaret Bowater Park.

Riddle Fence, Issue #7, featuring Gerri Lynn Mackey at Stockpile’s second annual indoor/outdoor exhibition/performance titled ‘Harvest’ last August.

More details will be posted once we receive our copy of the magazine.

To open the exhibition we invite you to come down to our Silent Auction, from 6:00-10:00 p.m. on Friday September 24th at JL Gallery, 86 West Street, Suite #3, Corner Brook, NL. There will be tasty refreshments and intriguing performance art works throughout the evening– performances will kick off with a reprise of Conor Curtis’ ‘New Scratch’ beginning at 6:30,  followed by ‘The Printmaker’ with Gerri Lynn Mackey, and ‘Gypsy King’  with Shawna Warmington, at 8:00 and 9:00 respectively.This event is also being promoted by Culture Days, a nationwide endeavour promoting the efforts of or cultural producers.

CornerBrooker.com, Stockpile Artists Collective, and Larger Than A Cat Productions are proud to present Corner Brook’s first photowalk on Saturday, September 25th, 2010 at 10:30 am. We will meet at the Majestic Lawn Gazebo and the walk down West Street and then around the Corner Brook Stream Trail and then back to the Majestic Lawn.  For more information see, Let’s go on a Photowalk!

CornerBrooker.com was at ‘Harvest’ and recently posted images of the event. HARVEST time for Stockpile

We have a Flickr Group. Stockpile Artists Collective has just started its own Flickr Group where people can post their own images of our events.  Please post your Stockpile related images and we will feature some of them on StockpileGroup.ca.

EDIT: We’re on right now! You haven’t missed it yet!

Stockpile Artists Collective presents “Harvest: 2nd Annual indoor/outdoor exhibition/performance”, at Full Tilt Creative Centre, McIvers, Newfoundland on Sunday August 29th, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

Featuring the work of the Stockpile Artists Collective membership, this appropriately named indoor/outdoor exhibition/performance will encompass the fields, beaches, barns and gallery areas of Full Tilt Creative Centre. An eclectic variety of work will be on display– from video to earth-based installations, paintings to collaborative performances– and we invite the public to come out and experience it all. Being that it is a traipsing about in fields sort of event, appropriate outdoor footwear is recommended, as well as bringing a reusable beverage container to avail of our water/information station. Reception to follow at 5:00 p.m. in the main gallery area.

Time: 1 pm to 5pm.

EDIT: Tom from CornerBrooker.com dropped by on Sunday and here’s what he wrote about NWCC and Stockpile!