Programming
M:ST 3 is proud to present the works of the following local, national, and international artists: Rita McKeough Diane Borsato Mara Verna Maria Hupfield Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh scum de terre Kay Burns John Boehme	Devora Neumark and Léa Neumark-Gaudet Minerva Cuevas The Nihilist Spasm Band Anita Ponton Andrew J. Paterson Kirsten Forkert One Night Only Cinthia Marcelle Camille Turner
Posted: Nov. 1, 2005 M:ST Festival Ends A very large heartfelt thank you to all artists, board members, funding organizations, member organizations, participants, sponsors, staff, and volunteers, for making M:ST 3 a fantastic success. We could not have presented this wonderful lineup of amazing artists without everyone’s commitment and collaborative efforts! Stay tuned to the website for our post festival survey and tell us what you really thought of the Fest’, and don’t be shy. Please join us for our Annual General Meeting, and Best of the Fest' Slide Show on Wednesday, November 9, 2005. The meeting will be held at EMMEDIA, #203, 351 11 Avenue SW., starting at 6:00pm, with slides and refreshments to follow. Posted: October 25, 2005 Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh, invite you to visit their new website: http://www.instantplaces.ca Posted: October 24, 2005 Performance Date and Location Change: Virtual Bodies Performative Cabaret, October 28, 2005, from 6 pm to 9 pm, at the Nickle Arts Museum. The location and dates for the Virtual Bodies Performative Cabaret have moved from the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre (Banff), to the Nickle Arts Museum (Calgary), on October 28, 2005, from 6 pm to 9 pm. The Virtual Bodies workshop is aimed at exploring different strategies for situating the body in performance within technologized spaces. Part practical, and in part dealing with artistic concepts, performance artist Anita Ponton (London, UK) has been working closely with students to facilitate the development of the workshop participants individual projects to the presentation stage. Artist Lecture: Anita Ponton (UK). Wednesday, October 26 at 10 am, Room 595, at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Please join internationally acclaimed artist Anita Ponton as she talks about her work. Anita has exhibited her works abroad at the ICA in London, the Venice Biennale, the Liljevalch Kunsthalle, and most recently as part of the "City of Women," Slovenia. This lecture is brought to you by the ACAD Premier Visiting Artist Fund, and MST. An Email from Iris Taylor to all Calgary Walking Tour Participants: Hello walkers and geocache participants.  I just wanted to let you know that yesterday I went with my friend Ewa (who gave us the tour of the little blue house on our walk) to place the geocache.  It is now posted on the geocaching web site so any prospective geocacher can find it based on its coordinates.  This is the web site for the cache: A Walk through Calgary History http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c0032ec2-8ca8-4b8b-b1df-06e63e09e574 Feel free to add that to your browser's bookmarks list so you can keep tabs on who finds it and what they exchange within the cache. Thank you all again for your eager and enthusiastic partcipation with the history walk.  I enjoyed it tremendously and I hope others are intrigued by finding our bits of story and artifacts. Yours sincerely, Iris Taylor PS>  While you're busy exploring web sites feel free to check out my web site too.  I'm in the process of preparing my new walk files to give to my web designer and I hope they will be uploaded soon.  My web site is: http://itaylorresearch.com/index.html
Posted: October 18, 2005 Cheap Bus Ride: M:ST 3 Performances at the Walter Phillips Galllery, Banff Centre, Banff. October 29, 2005. M:ST 3 is pleased to offer affordable transportation to Banff for the M:ST 3 performances by Minerva Cuevas, and scum de terre. The performances are free to the public but the bus tickets to Banff are $10, and the bus will be leaving Calgary from TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary (815 - 1 Street SW) at 6:00 pm sharp! Tickets for the bus can be purchased in advance by contacting info@mstfestival.org, or callng (403) 263 5001. The Walter Philllips Galllery will be holding their Halloween Fundraiser Party following the M:ST performances. Tickets for the party are sold separately. Tickets are $26 / students and Banff Centre Participants $16, and may be purchased from the Banff Centre Box Office at (403) 762 6301, visit www.banffcentre.ca/events or www.ticketmaster.ca. The bus will return, leaving Banff at 12:00 midnight that same night, dropping off at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and TRUCK. Minerva Cuevas to speak in Art & Design Now. Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 7 pm. Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre Everyone Welcome Minvera Cuevas is a social activist from Mexico City whose work combines artistic practice with creative politics. Cuevas gained international acclaim for creating Mejor Vida Corp. (Better Life Corporation) in 1998. As the sole representative for this corporation, Cuevas provides services that often disrupt the flow of capitalism. Although all of MVC's products are free and available at  http://www.irational.org/mvc, it is not philanthropic; rather the goal of this and other projects by Cuevas is to create a human interface through social exchange. Cuevas has exhibited at a number of international venues including Lisson Gallery, The Biennale of Sydney, Palais de Tokyo, Grizedale, DAAD Gallery, and Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Reposted: October 15, 2005 Performance Location Change: Maria Hupfield, "My Gradmother's Home," dawn to dusk, October 16, at Fort Calgary. Due to environmental concerns on the part of the City of Calgary, the location for this performance has moved from Nose Hill Park to Fort Calgary. Please join the artist for this day long performance.	Performance Date and Location Change: Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh, "Slowerthanlight," 4pm to 7pm, October 17, at the Devonian Gardens reflecting pool. This performance has changed dates and locations due to the availability of solar equipment, and will be presented on October 17 in the Devonian Gardens, at the reflecting pool from 4 pm to 7pm.
Posted: October 14, 2005 M:ST AGM Attention M:ST members! Performance Artists! Freaks and Art Geeks! The Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society is holding an ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING on Wednesday November 9 at 6:00 pm at EM Media  #203, 351 11 Avenue SW. All current and prospective members are invited to attend.  Come find out what we've been up to over the past year and learn what our plans are for the future. Be part of the madness of organizing a Biennial Performative Art Festival and volunteer on the Board or a committee. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.  We look forward to seeing you there!   For more information, contact:   Renato Vitic   Festival Coordinator
Posted: October 13, 2005 Artists Meet & Greet: Devora Neumark and Léa Neumark-Gaudet, October 15, noon. TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, The Grain Exchange (Lower Level) 815 - 1st Street SW Calgary, AB. Hot off their Lethbridge performances, come and meet the artists to discuss their works, and experience in Alberta. Performance Location Change: Maria Hupfield, "My Gradmother's Home," dawn to dusk, October 16, at Fort Calgary. Due to environmental concerns on the part of the City of Calgary, the location for this performance has moved from Nose Hill Park to Fort Calgary. Please join the artist for this day long performance. Performance Date and Location Change: Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh, "Slowerthanlight," 4pm to 7pm, October 17, at the Devonian Gardens reflecting pool. This performance has changed dates and locations due to the availability of solar equipment, and will be presented on October 17 in the Devonian Gardens, at the reflecting pool from 4 pm to 7pm. BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS The artist's in this Year's M:ST 3 Festival invite you to visit their Blog sites, for updates, and a continued dialogue about the works presented during M:ST3. Kirsten Forkert, "Public Sphere as Project": http://publicsphereproject.blogspot.com One Night Only, "Moving In": http://1nightonly.blogspot.com Camille Turner, "Miss Canadiana": http://camillle turner.blogspot.com
Posted: October 10, 2005 Performance Dates and Location Change: One Night Only October 10 – 15, 11 - 5 p.m. The performance ONE NIGHT ONLY, MOVING IN, and Open Forum Discussion has relocated to The New Gallery (516D 9th Avenue S.W.) Please contact The New Gallery for details: 233-2399 Sorry for the inconvenience!   Special Event: Artist Talk Cinthia Marcelle (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) UNUS MUNDUS Cinthia Marcelle, Tuesday, October 11, 2005 Join us at Stride at 7 PM for Cinthia's talk and a small opening reception for her UNUS MUNDUS - The Concert sound installation, produced by Stride as part of Mountain Standard Time Perforative Art Festival. She will be speaking about her performative and collaborative art practices and about contemporary art in Brazil.
Posted: October 5, 2005 UNUS MUNDUS - The Concert: CALL TO MUSICIANS & NON-MUSICIANS Registration Deadline:  Thursday, October 6 @ 4 PM please call Stride Gallery at 262 8507 to participate. Concert/ Performance:  Sunday, October 09 @ 1:30 PM at the Memorial Park. Call to Musicians and Non-Musicians to take part in Cinthia Marcelle's outdoor orchestra! Participants must choose a song to play at the concert as well as an instrument. It can be any song in any genre (classical, rock and roll, pop, folk etc.) as long as you can perform it beginning to end. The concert will be held at the Memorial Park on Sunday, October 09 @ 2 PM. During the concert each song will be played one by one until they create a dissonant atmosphere produced by this simultaneous set of distinct sounds. In case of bad weather, the performance will be located in the Memorial Address: 1221 - 2nd Street  S.W., T2R 0W5 The performance will be recorded and exhibited as a sound installation at Stride Gallery’s Project Room for the duration of the festival. Presented in conjunction with Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival. A copy of the recording will be given to all performers. For more information check out www.stride.ab.ca or www.mstfestival.org or to register call 262 8507 or email stride2@telusplanet.net. PERFORMER SCHEDULE Thursday October 6th from 12:00 - 4:00 PM and 6:00 - 7:30, Friday October 7th from 12 - 4 PM Performers are invited to meet with Cinthia to record individual sections of the performance. Please read performer information in full and bring your instrument. Friday October 7th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM Performers are asked to meet with Cinthia as a group for the rehearsal of the Sunday performance. Please read performer information in full and bring your instrument. Sunday October 9th from 1:30 - 3:00 PM Performers arrive at 1:30 for set up and begin the performance at 2:00 PM. Please wear black pants with a white shirt, bring your instrument and be prepared to be outside for 1 hour. If the weather is too cold to be outside comfortably the performance will be moved inside to the lower level of Memorial Park library.
Posted: October 1, 2005 Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour Performance Dates and Location correction: October 7, 2005 Banff Town-site, October 8, 2005, Calgary offsite, and MST 3 Opening Gala Camille Turner Sponsored by MST Please note the date and location corrections for the Performances of Miss Canadiana. The dates for the performance will be October 7 in the Banff Town-site, from Noon to 4 pm; and October 8 in Calgary, from 10 am to noon, with a special appearance at our Opening Gala. Costume based Performative Art and the Politics of Representation Panel discussion location change: The Hub Room, University of Calgary Rozsa Centre (UofC-theatre-access, rc-floorplan). October 8, 2005, at 2 pm This panel is sponsored by the University of Calgary Performative Studies Steering Committee and the Program of Dance/Performance Studies Speaker Series, and MST.
M:ST 3 Opening Gala and Reception October 8, 2005, 8 pm. TRUCK Contemporary Art The Grain Exchange (Lower Level) 815 - 1st Street SW Telephone: 403.261.7702 Email: info@truck.ca Join us for the opening Gala of the M:ST 3 Performative Art Festival, and opening reception of the Exhibition, “Witnessing,” at TRUCK Contemporary Art. The Gala will commence following the 7:00 pm performance of Calgary based improve performative noise group scum de terre at EMMEDIA, and will feature a guest appearance by Miss Canadiana. Public Sphere as Project Open Forum Discussion Kirsten Forkert Oct 9 - 16, 2005 At the New Gallery 516 D 9th Avenue SW During Oct 8-16, Kirsten Forkert will be available to meet with people for ‘public conversations' in various sites around Calgary, to contact her please email publicsphereproject@yahoo.ca. In conjunction with M:ST 3 and as part of the New Gallery’s ongoing engagement with the issues surrounding the nature and administration of contemporary public space, there will be an Open Forum discussion featuring Kirsten Forkert (NY) and ONO: Blair Fornwald (London, ON) Tanis Kein (Quebec City, QC), Felipe Diaz (Regina, SK) and Anna Scott (Regina, SK), October 15, 2005, 2 – 5 pm at 1307 11 Steet SW. One Night Only: moving in Location change: at 1307 11 Street SW October 10 – 15, 11 - 5 p.m. One Night Only will be presenting work that explores the notion of making oneself “at home” in a new residence and a new community. Join the artists daily for their performances, and on October 15 for a closing reception and Open Forum discussion in conjunction with Kirsten Forkert.
Posted: September 23, 2005 As part of the Calgary International Film Festival MST proudly sponsors the Canadian Documentary, "What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band." Uptown Theater, 10:15 pm.  This 2000 documentary is a humorous account of the history of the pioneering "noise band," the Nihilist Spasm Band, which will be performing as part of this year's M:ST 3 Festival at CSIF on October 21, and at the Tongue and Groove in Lethbridge on October 22, 2005.
Posted: September 2, 2005 MST presents the performance "Portage" by Terrance Houle and Trevor Freeman as part of the Brilliant City Celebration on September 1, 2005.  This public intervention involved the portage of a 16 ft canoe through the crowded Calgary downtown during the centennial celebration.  Dressing up in stereotypically "traditional" aboriginal and Métis garb Houle and Freeman traverse the rocky terrain of the centennial celebrations, to the sometimes- surprising reactions of passers by. (Photos courtesy of Tomas Jonsson)

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