Summer 2023 Programs at Dunlop Art Gallery

studies for gardens (a mixture between concept and discipline), Erika DeFreitas, collage on graph paper, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist

Summer 2023 Programs at Dunlop Art Gallery in partnership with Regina Folk Festival

Art in the Park – with Erika DeFreitas
Saturday, August 12th, 1 PM – 5 PM
Victoria Park
Pre-registration not required.
FREE
Presented in partnership with the Regina Folk Festival

Join artist Erika DeFreitas to create a relaxing garden collage. “A seedling under the right conditions” invites the community to think about gardens as spaces for growth, rebirth, and contemplation.

Erika DeFreitas’ multidisciplinary practice includes performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, drawing and writing. Placing emphasis on gesture, process, the body, documentation and paranormal phenomena, DeFreitas mines concepts of loss, post-memory, legacy and objecthood. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.

Maya Kuroki of TEKE::TEKE

Artist Talk – In Conversation with TEKE::TEKE
Saturday, August 12, 3 PM – 4 PM CST
Regina Public Library, Central Library’s Community Commons
Online – Dunlop YouTube Live
Pre-registration not required.
FREE – Seating is limited
Presented in partnership with the Regina Folk Festival

Get to know TEKE::TEKE, the Montreal-based Japanese psych-rock group. Lead vocalist and visual artist Maya Kuroki, along with bandmates Serge Nakauchi Pelletier & Hidetaka Yoneyama, Mishka Stein, Ian Lettre, Yuki Isami, and Etienne Lebel will discuss their process of making music that combines traditional Japanese instruments, raging guitars, and modern rhythms.

Images (left to right): Krystle Pederson; Berk Jodoin; Cheryl L’Hirondelle.

Why the Caged Bird Sings: Immersive Engagements
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library (Central Library)
July 15 – September 6, 2023

Performance: Why the Caged Bird Sings
August 13, 2 PM – 3 PM CST
Regina Public Library, Central Library’s Community Commons
Online – Dunlop YouTube Live
Pre-registration not required.
FREE – Seating is limited
Presented in partnership with the Regina Folk Festival

Join Saskatchewan Indigenous musicians, Berk Jodoin, Krystle Pederson and Cheryl L’Hirondelle, as they perform their own songs and specially arranged versions of songs from Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Why the Caged Bird Sings: Immersive Engagements is a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle, exhibited at Dunlop Art Gallery until September 6, 2023, in partnership with Common Weal Community Arts. These works emerged from L’Hirondelle’s decades-long commitment to engaging in collaborative songwriting processes with incarcerated populations in Saskatchewan.

Since 2008, Cheryl has worked with Judy McNaughton and Common Weal Community Arts to deliver songwriting workshops. This inclusive creative process was designed to enable participants, who are at risk of having their voices, histories, and identities erased, to create their own songs and to engage in conscious reconsideration of their own self-worth.

“Having come from a large musical Metis family in Alberta, I start workshops talking to participants about how much music has been a lifesaver in my own life,” says Cheryl. “These workshops have become a way of sharing this survival tool with the many women, men, and youth I’ve had the honour to work with.”

Street Karaoke Sing-a-long
August 26, 8 PM – 11 PM CST
Regina Public Library, Central Library
Nuit Blanche Regina

A street karaoke event, 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm, led by award-winning Sask Music Indigenous singer/songwriter Berk Jodoin and singer/actor Krystle Pederson along with VJ Carrie Gates, in conjunction with Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s interdisciplinary project Why the Caged Bird Sings: Immersive Engagements exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery in partnership with Common Weal Community Arts.

About Dunlop Art Gallery at Regina Public Library

Gallery Hours (CST)
Mon to Thurs, 9:30 am – 9 pm
Fri, 9:30 am – 6 pm
Sat, 9:30 am – 5 pm
Sun, 12 – 5 pm

Central Library location
2311 – 12th Avenue
Regina SK S4P 3Z5

Sherwood Village location
6121 Rochdale Boulevard
Regina SK S4X 2R1

Admission is FREE to all exhibitions.
Galleries are wheelchair accessible.

306-777-6040
dunlop@reginalibrary.ca
reginalibrary.ca/dunlopartgallery

We acknowledge the support of the SK Arts, and funding partners SaskCulture and Saskatchewan Lotteries, whose contributions help the arts thrive in this province.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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