Five years? You godda be kiddin'

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Like most people, I'm finding it hard to believe that Guerilla is having a fifth anniversary event on Thursday, September 3 at the Ottawa Art Gallery.

Can it really be five years ago that me and founding art director Allen Ford started this humble little experimental project in our proverbial basements?

But whatever my level of denial, the event we have planned is primed to blow away all other GuerillaLIVE events in our history.

We're publishing our biggest and best-ever print edition to coincide with the online lauch of Guerilla #21. We're taking over most of the gallery space at the OAG (god bless the OAG) and featuring the huge canvasses of the huge Trevor Laalo. We're bringing in the Ghetto Blast Sound System, The Latest Artists and Dr. Lee's Percussion and Electronics for superb sights and sounds. We're welcoming the Windows Screening Collective for a five-projector extravaganza.

All this, plus two more Guerilla art exhibitions: a retrospective of the historic visual works that have graced Guerilla's pages AND a sweet silent auction of work donated by some of the key Guerilla contributors over the years. Tickets are $10 and available in advance at the OAG kiosk at 2 Daly Avenue.

Phew. I'm finding it hard to believe that we're actually doing all this on one night! Please come out on September 3 and pinch me and turn me into a believer.

Tony

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