University of Toronto Spends March Celebrating The Arts

The University of Toronto is holding its first arts festival. It started last week but we didn’t get a chance to write about it before now. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read about it now.

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PREIX INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART @ 401 Richmond
Bettina Hoffman Video Installation
Opening Reception, March 13, 7-10,PM
Runs until April 13, 2008
In association with the Images Festival

Video installation from Montreal artist transports viewers into spaces where they experience moments of eerie intimacy.

Plasticine Poetry Reading at The Central
Tuesday, March 18 8PM

Featuring: David Harry Bateman, Yehuda Fisher, Molly Peacock and Elana Wolf

David Baxter, Nancy Dutra and Greg Hobbs at Mitzi's Sister
Saturday, March 15 at 9PM

A triple bill with Baxter, Dutra and Hobbs. Baxter will get underway at 9.30 PM. Accompanying musicians throughout the evening include: Brian Kobayakawa, Darcy Yates and Christine Bougie. Catch some of Toronto’s best musicians in an intimate setting!

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The full title of the painting which inspired our magazine title is Homo sapiens, Lepidium sativum and Calliphora vomitoria - a wise man, some cress, and a bluebottle. It is the work of British artist Stuart Pearson Wright.

"At the end of the first sitting, the Prince inspected the work and exclaimed 'godzooks' or 'godzounds', the artist was too alarmed to remember which."