Fest 3 Unites Contemporary Arts Festivals Three multidisciplinary presentations warm up the downtown core in mid-December CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area), IMPACT (International Multicultural Platform for Alternative Contemporary Theatre) & Open Ears Festival of Music & Sound present an evening of multidisciplinarity Thursday, December 16, 2010, starting at 7pm at Kitchener City Hall. The evening will cost $25, with a reduced price of $15 for students and seniors and will present engaging work representative of the three festivals’ broad curatorial scopes. Tickets are available in advance through PayPal on the festival’s websites or at the door.   Fest3 will feature animations from visual artist Luke Painter, the workshop premiere of local theatre company The MT Space’s Body 13 / ChangeRoom, and music and sound art by Gordon Monahan.   Luke Painter’s animations will be projected on to the cube at City Hall. These animations depict sites in Montreal and Toronto that have come under heavy condo development and gentrification in the last decade. Painter combines the histories of these neighbourhoods and reintegrates some of the historical architecture that once inhabited these spaces back into the sites. Luke Painter is an artist and educator living and working in Toronto. Recent exhibitions of his work include Ancestral Vision at 47 Space in Toronto (2010), Revival-esque at Angell Gallery in Toronto (2009) and New Work at Bonneau-Samames Art Contemporain in Marseille, France (2009). Luke is Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at Ontario College of Art and Design and is represented in Toronto by Angell Gallery and Bonneau-Samames Art Contemporain in France.   The MT Space’s most recent theatrical creation explores the politics of the sexualized body. The piece, currently titled Body 13 / ChangeRoom, tells the intertwined stories of characters that are driven by their desires and often derailed by tragic consequences. The workshop cast is also exploring issues of intergenerational conflict as international cultures with vastly different ‘cultured bodies’ collide and create friction. As the piece explores the body and sexuality – there will at times be partial and full nudity. Viewer discretion is advised.   Gordon Monahan's works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer-controlled sound environments span various genres from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he juxtaposes the quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements of media technology, environment, architecture, popular culture, and live performance. He is the director of Electric Eclectics, an annual festival of experimental music and sound art held near Meaford, Ontario every summer. At this event, Gordon Monahan performs on his recently created Sauerkraut Synthesizer, using fruits, vegetables, and a jar of sauerkraut as voltage controllers for a software synthesizer.   CAFKA (The Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area) presents innovative art within civic spaces. CAFKA invites the public to encounter and engage with artists of today and the art they create. CAFKA runs September 16 — October 2, 2011. CAFKA would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Christie Digital, the City of Kitchener, the Musagetes Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, and the Trillium Foundation.   IMPACT (The International Multicultural Alternative Contemporary Theatre Festival) (September 22nd — October 1st, 2011) presents the best physical theatre from around the world, the latest in Canadian intercultural theatre, and a wealth of opportunities to engage in meaningful activity and discussion. After its successful and ‘audacious’ inaugural year in 2009, IMPACT returns in September 2011 and will bring together the local and the international, the emerging and the established, the traditional and the contemporary! Theatre is here. Don't miss it! The MT Space would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Kitchener, the Musagetes Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, and KW Community Foundation, and the City of Waterloo.   The Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound (April 27-May 1, 2011) is a biennial festival that features an eclectic range of music and sound art. Featuring a mix of local, national and international artists, concerts have featured ensembles from traditional ensembles such as string quartet, orchestra, and choir to turntable art, musique actuelle, electroacoustic events, multi-media and dance. Concerts are presented indoors and out, in traditional concert halls and churches as well as in numerous alternative spaces. The ‘innerEars’ festival-within-a-festival presents a variety of sound installations in collaboration with local galleries, the City of Kitchener and the Kitchener BIA. Open Ears would like to acknowledge the support of City of Kitchener, Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage and Musagetes Foundation. Ticket available through: www.mtspace.ca, www.openears.ca CAFKA | CONTEMPORARY ART FORUM KITCHENER & AREA 141 Whitney Place, Studio 7 Kitchener, ON N2G 2X8 CANADA (T)519.744.5123  www.cafka.org

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