The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Okanagan Artists Alternative Association) invites our members to our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday, November 7th at 7pm. 

The AGM is a great time to be introduced to the association’s Board of Directors and staff, gain an idea of the association’s present financial state, and learn about current and upcoming projects and events at the Alternator. As an Alternator member, you have a vote on all matters of business at the AGM including the election of the Board of Directors. Everyone is welcome, but in order to vote you must be a member in good standing (memberships active or paid before the meeting). 

The AGM will last approximately an hour and will take place remotely over ZOOM. To participate, please register on Eventbrite. Each registered participant will be provided with a ZOOM link on the day of the event. All members of the Alternator are encouraged to participate. There is no charge.

If you are interested in joining the Board of Directors, please contact Lorna McParland, Artistic & Administrative Director (lorna@alternatorcentre.com), prior to the AGM to discuss details of the role

You can purchase or renew your Alternator Membership online, or visit us in the gallery!

We look forward to seeing you there!

IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY, AND YOU'RE INVITED! 

On Friday, July 12 from 6 pm - 8 pm, join us as we celebrate the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art’s 35th Birthday! 

This event honours the many years the Alternator has been a staple in the Okanagan art scene, as well as celebrates the fantastic work presented by our members in this year’s Annual Postcard Project.

Join us for delicious catering and refreshing beverages, a selection of door prizes, a 50/50 draw, and a candy bar to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Entry to this event is by a minimum $5 donation - we encourage you to give what you can to help support future Alternator events and programming. Every ticket purchased includes 3 chances to win one of our fantastic door prizes and 1 drink ticket. Enjoy some snacks, buy a postcard, and celebrate with your favourite community-built, artist-run centre!

RSVP at the link below - don’t hesitate, our guest list will fill up fast!

The duo of tenor saxophonist David Murray and drummer Kahil El’Zabar will be will be performing for the first time in Kelowna on June 19th in the Pyramid at the Summerhill Winery in Kelowna. This concert is the forty-second installment of the Skin And Bones Music Series - an Okanagan Arts Award nominated concert series dedicated to the presentation of experimental music in the Okanagan.

“To witness these time proven masters in person is to be exalted and rejuvenated! They are the miracle of a profound sound, within a priceless opportunity not to be missed!” - Manny Theiner, Arcane City

Considered to be the most influential tenor saxophonist of his generation, Grammy Award winner Dr. David Murray has recorded on more than 300 acclaimed projects and has worked with Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Jack DeJohnette, Chico Hamilton, Elvin Jones, Archie Shepp, Randy Weston, and many other jazz luminaries. He is co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, and leads the famed David Murray Quartet, the David Murray Octet, and the David Murray Big Band. Murray holds a PHD in the Arts from Claremont College, is a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar.

World renowned drummer Sir Kahil El’Zabar has worked with many musical titans including Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Pharoah Sanders, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Archie Shepp, Eddie Harris, Paul Simon, Neneh Cherry, Lester Bowie, Billy Bang, and Gene Ammons. In addition to being knighted by the Council of France for his global contributions to the arts, El’Zabar is also the former chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), founded and leads the legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and Ritual Trio, and has recorded on over 100 acclaimed projects.

David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar will perform in the Pyramid at Summerhill Winery. Doors open at 7:30 pm and the concert will begin at 8:00 pm. Admission is $35 or $30 for students and Alternator members. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at Eventbrite.

This concert is made possible through the partnership between the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Inner Fish Theatre Society, as well as the generous support of the Summerhill Pyramid Winery. The Inner Fish Theatre Society produces Kelowna’s annual Living Things International Arts Festival, and remains frequent collaborators with both the Alternator and Skin And Bones.

The Annual Postcard Project is back and this year we celebrate 35 years of the Alternator!

Our Member artists are already hard at work designing their set of postcards for this year's sale. To encourage creative flow, we are hosting two postcard-making events leading up to the exhibition.

The first Members-only event will be on June 6th, and will be a casual evening of community building and postcard making. Join us at Kettle River Brewing from 6 - 8pm to work on your postcards and enjoy delicious food and drink. Basic art supplies will be provided, but guests are encouraged to bring their own art materials. Space is limited so please register for this event!

Can't make it? No worries. We will be hosting a second Postcard Creation Party on June 20th in-gallery.

Interested in signing up to for this year's Postcard Project? Learn more here. To participate, you must have an active Alternator Membership. If you are unsure about your current membership status, please reach out to us at info@alternatorcentre.com.

Special thanks to the folks at Kettle River Brewing for hosting this event!

For the 41st instalment of the Skin and Bones Music Series, we bring you composer and instrumentalist Rebecca Bruton as well as local songsmith Rachel Mercer!

Rebecca Bruton is an experimental composer, improviser, vocalist, violinist, and guitarist hailing from Calgary, Alberta. She creates work that moves in the narrow space between sorrow and celebration, revealing experiences of sensory and psychological alteredness. Rebecca works across several mediums, including chamber music composition, song making and experimental poetry, film scores, and free improvisation. For this concert Rebecca will perform a solo guitar and voice version of acclaimed Toronto composer Martin Arnold’s chamber work Tam Lin, a 40 minute beautifully introspective reinvention of the legendary Scottish ballad of the same name.

Rachel Mercer is a multifaceted visual, performative, and musical artist, wielding her ukulele with mastery as both a vocalist and songwriter. She has been making music for over a decade, crafting innovative and original compositions with vocal looping, and performing in local Goth country/punk dirge band The Civil Dead. Based in Kelowna, Rachel recently performed at the 2024 New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington, where her seamless blend of original music and stand-up comedy made for a one-woman tour de force.

Rebecca Bruton and Rachel Mercer perform at Kelowna Unitarians as part of the Skin And Bones Music Series on May 28th. Doors open at 7:30 pm and the concert will begin at 8:00 pm. Admission at the door is $15 or $10 for students and Alternator members. Advance tickets can be purchased online at Eventbrite.

This concert is made possible through the partnership between the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art and the Inner Fish Theatre Society.

Acclaimed saxophonist and composer Darren Williams and local electronic favourites The Cavernous will be performing in Kelowna on April 12th at Kelowna Unitarians.  This concert is the fortieth installment of the Skin and Bones Music Series - an Okanagan Arts Award nominated concert series dedicated to the presentation of experimental music in the Okanagan.  This event marks the release of Darren Williams’ solo album Musical Idiot, a collection of original compositions for unaccompanied tenor saxophone, issued on The Infidels Jazz label.

Williams plays a series of compositions for solo tenor that have all of the spiritual gravity of an Albert Ayler or a David S. Ware while spinning and extrapolating his thought into endless circular breathing routines that give the nod to Evan Parker or Joe McPhee but that somehow sound like no one else.  …  (David Keenan of Volcanic Tongue, The Wire)

Darren Williams has toured across Canada, having performed with many internationally celebrated musicians including Juno award winning guitarist Gordon Grdina (Canada), Chris Corsano (USA), Mats Gustafsson (Sweden), and Han Bennink (Netherlands.)  For over two decades Williams has enjoyed a semi-regular collaboration with guitarist/banjoist Eugene Chadbourne (USA), being featured on Chadbourne’s 2011 album Stop Snoring.  Williams is involved many other projects, notably as one third of the Branchroot Ensemble which released their debut album Far From the Tree in 2023.  

Also appearing on the bill is The Cavernous, a live electronic duo consisting of Robert McLaren and Jesse Barrette.  Based in Kelowna and known for dark, psychedelic sounds, The Cavernous make extensive use of synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers to render a sonic terrain that is lyrical, eerie, and nostalgic.  Influences include Tangerine Dream, Mogwai, and John Carpenter. 

Darren Williams and The Cavernous perform at Kelowna Unitarians as part of the Skin And Bones Music Series on April 12th.  Doors open at 7:30 pm and the concert will begin at 8:00 pm.  Kelowna Unitarians is located at 1310 Bertram Street, in Kelowna.  Admission at the door is $15 or $10 for students and Alternator members.  Advance tickets can be purchased online at Eventbrite.  This concert is made possible through the partnership between the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art and the Inner Fish Theatre Society, producers of Kelowna’s annual Living Things International Arts Festival, and frequent collaborators with both the Alternator and Skin And Bones.

Register to attend here!

On December 10th, 2023 from 4 pm to 6 pm, join us for a free introductory Indigo Dye Workshop facilitated by Alternator artist-in-residence Michaela Bridgemohan.

In this workshop, Michaela will share the agricultural process and culturally informed practices utilized in Indigo dyeing. Participants are given their cotton bandanas and will work intimately with an organic Indigo vat while learning various shibori techniques.

This workshop is appropriate for all skill levels and all ages, no art experience is required. Coffee and tea will be provided.

Please RSVP using Eventbrite to secure your spot as space is limited. You can register here.

*note, be prepared to get messy, dress appropriately!

This workshop will take place in Studio 111 of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, located at the Rotary Centre for the Arts (421 Cawston Ave - Unit 103 Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6Z1)

Learn more about Michaelas artistic practice by visiting her Instagram (@michmohan).

On November 30th, 2023 from 4 pm to 6 pm, join us for a free introductory Indigo Dye Workshop facilitated by Alternator artist-in-residence Michaela Bridgemohan.

In this workshop, Michaela will share the agricultural process and culturally informed practices utilized in Indigo dyeing. Participants are given their cotton bandanas and will work intimately with an organic Indigo vat while learning various shibori techniques.

This workshop is appropriate for all skill levels and all ages, no art experience is required. Coffee and tea will be provided.

Please RSVP using Eventbrite to secure your spot as space is limited. You can register here.

*note, be prepared to get messy, dress appropriately!

This workshop will take place in Studio 111 of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, located at the Rotary Centre for the Arts (421 Cawston Ave - Unit 103 Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6Z1)

Learn more about Michaelas artistic practice by visiting her Instagram (@michmohan).

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art invites our members to our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 7 pm.

The AGM is a great time to be introduced to the association’s Board of Directors and staff, gain an idea of the association’s present financial state, and learn about current and upcoming projects and events at the Alternator. As a member of the Alternator, you have a vote on all matters of business at the AGM including the election of the Board of Directors. Everyone is welcome, but in order to vote you must be a member in good standing (memberships must be paid before the meeting).

The AGM will last approximately 45 minutes and will take place remotely over ZOOM. To participate, advance registration is required on Eventbrite. Each registered participant will be provided with a ZOOM link on the day of the event. All members of the Alternator are encouraged to participate. There is no charge. If you are interested in joining the Board of Directors, please contact Lorna McParland, Artistic & Administrative Director (lorna@alternatorcentre.com), prior to the AGM to discuss details of the role

To purchase or renew your alternator membership, please visit us at the gallery or see https://www.alternatorcentre.com/getinvolved

We look forward to seeing you there!

World-renowned avant-garde percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and his Nakatani Gong Orchestra will be performing in Kelowna on October 21st at the Centre culturel francophone de l’Okanagan/Okanagan Francophone Cultural Centre. This concert is the thirty-ninth installment of the Skin and Bones Experimental Music Series - an Okanagan Arts Award nominated concert series dedicated to the presentation of experimental music in the Okanagan.

The Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO) is a contemporary sound art project under the direction of Tatsuya Nakatani. Since the 1990s Nakatani has been redefining the tonal capabilities of the drum set and percussion through extended instrumental techniques, incorporating the use of custom-made bows, similar to the techniques associated with violin or cello. He created the NGO, the only bowed gong orchestra in the world, as an extension of his solo explorations. The NGO is comprised of musicians/performers sourced from the local populace - in this case the Okanagan community - and trained by Tatsuya in the technique of bowing some 16 to 18 large gongs. The result is a shimmering resonance that is both ethereal and meditative, enrobing the listener in pure sound.

This concert is made possible through the collaboration between the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art and the Inner Fish Theatre Society, producers of Kelowna’s annual Living Things International Arts Festival, and frequent collaborators with both the Alternator and Skin and Bones.  The evening will begin with the public unveiling of the 2024 Living Things Festival lineup. The eighth edition of Living Things will be January 20th - 28th).

Doors open at 7:30pm, with music starting at 8pm. Tickets are $20 ($15 for Alternator Members and students). For more information about this event, click here.

On the day that Lytton, BC, burned to the ground, Meghan Fandrich ran from the flames. She saw the village turn into a black pillar of smoke, and went home after a month-long evacuation to its ashes. Her house, on the edge of the fire, was saved; her community and her small business were not. Life as she knew it was gone, and somehow, in spite of the trauma and the ongoing onslaught of natural disasters, she had to keep going. Living. Surviving.

Burning Sage shares Fandrich’s deeply personal story of the fire, the ensuing trauma, and the path out of it. But it is also a human story, a universal story, of loneliness, fragility and beauty. The poems follow the arc of shock, fear, and anger, and the impossibility of single parenting in a burned-up town. They tell of a connection, a love, and the way that feeling understood can help us understand ourselves. The poems in Burning Sage share a vivid portrait of grief and heartbreak and, ultimately, of healing.

We invite you to gather together at the Alternator on September 20, from 7 - 8pm as author Meghan Fandrich reads excerpts from Burning Sage. Afterwards Fandrich will lead an engaged discussion with participants. In the wake of our recent experience with the devastating force of wildfires, this book of poems is sure to resonate with many.

Learn more about Meghan Fandrich here. Copies of Burning Sage are available online or at the reading.

Please join us Friday, September 8th from 6 - 8pm as we kick off our fall programming with three new exhibitions!

Opening in our Main Gallery is cat cat cat by Christine D’Onofrio. In the Project Gallery is The Pandrogyny Project by Wilson S. Wilson. And in our Members’ Gallery is Entwined, a temporary mural by Hana Hamaguchi.

This opening is free and open to the public. Light refreshments and snacks will provided. Let us know you can make it by registering on Eventbrite!

Creative Block? Lost Muse? Closeted creative? Anxieties of where the world is heading or just generally lost? This free event is for you!

Artist-in-residence, Michaela Bridgemohan, will be hosting a Mediocre Tarot Reading for Anxious + Secure Artists workshop. Readings are intended to be lighthearted, hopeful, somewhat constructive, and indefinite. Interested creatives are welcome to drop in at the Alternator Studio 111 on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023, between 11 am - 4 pm.

Tarot readings will be on a first come, first serve basis. For more information, or if you would like to reserve a time please email Michaela. 

After a three year hiatus, the Skin and Bones Music Series has returned!

For those who may not be familiar, the Skin And Bones Music Series is an Okanagan Arts Award nominated concert series dedicated to the presentation of experimental music in the Okanagan, and is produced through the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. Since 2015 the series has created space for emerging, innovative, and unique musical performances across the Okanagan.

Ushering in this resurgence of experimental music is How To Survive A High Rise Hotel Fire and Wizard Meat, preforming at DunnEnzies Pizza Co. on August 2nd!

Started by bassist Nikko Whitworth and oboist Haley Bird, How To Survive A High Rise Hotel Fire's collective of musicians, meld elements of noise and free jazz to create a community around co-regulation, meaning-making and nonsense-making through sound.

Wizard Meat describes themselves as the unholy trio of Adam Preston on electric bass, PJ Hermann on drums, and Darren Williams on baritone saxophone. “Our music is our meat, our instruments our abattoir.” Joining them for this performance will be guitarist Brian Looney of High Horse and Behemoth Sleeps fame.

Doors open at 8pm, with music starting at 9pm. Tickets are $10 at the door - $5 for Alternator Members and students. For more information about this event, click here.

IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY, AND YOU'RE INVITED! 

On Friday, July 28 from 6 pm - 9 pm, join us as we celebrate the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art’s  34th Birthday! 

This event honours the many years the Alternator has been a staple in the Okanagan art scene, as well as celebrates the fantastic work presented by our members in this year’s Postcard Project & Studio Sale. 

Join us for delicious catering from Broken Anchor and refreshing beverages courtesy of Kettle River Brewing. A selection of door prizes will be up for grabs, and a candy bar will be present to satisfy your sweet tooth.

This year’s gallery installation also features a bit of healthy staff rivalry with competing components in pink and orange. Help us decide the winning colour team by casting your vote… (and earn imaginary bonus points for dressing in one of our celebratory colours). Come down and connect with our local creative community!

Entry to this event is by donation. Every ticket purchased includes 3 chances to win one of our fantastic door prizes. Enjoy some snacks, buy a postcard, and celebrate with your favourite millennial artist-run centre - we encourage you to give what you can to help support future Alternator events and programming!

In collaboration with the Kelowna Métis Association, the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art invites you to join us for an evening of beading and crafting.

On June 28th, from 6-8 pm, we will be hosting a Beading Circle in our main gallery space. Participants can enjoy working on beading projects while surrounded by the work of Cree and Métis artist Michelle Sound.

This event is free to attend and open to anyone. Participants are encouraged to bring their own beading project. However, supplies will be available for first-time beaders to create a beaded pin. Folks of all skill levels are welcome - if you've never beaded before and will require some help getting started, our Kelowna Métis Youth representative & others with experience will be happy to share their tips and techniques with you.

Please let us know if you can attend by registering below.

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to invite you to join Shirley Wiebe on Thursday, June 8th from 5 to 6 pm for an online artist talk.

Taking place via Zoom, this artist talk will explore Wiebe's artistic practice and the inspirations that led up to her current exhibition Follow a Path to the River.

This event is free to attend, register on Eventbrite.

Shirley Wiebe is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver BC. Born and raised in a rural Saskatchewan farming community, Shirley's work is informed by a strong childhood bond with the prairie landscape. Her installation and sculptural work explores relationships between physical geography and the built environment, with a particular interest in site-specific and project-based work.

Wiebe has participated in a number of international art residencies as an opportunity to initiate projects and new bodies of work with materials she discovers there. She has created site-specific installations in national public art galleries and sculpture parks throughout the Pacific Northwest.

In collaboration with the Kelowna Métis Association, the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art invites you to join us for an evening of beading and crafting.

On May 31st, from 6-8 pm, we will be hosting a Beading Circle in our main gallery space. Participants can enjoy working on beading projects while surrounded by the work of Cree and Métis artist Michelle Sound.

This event is free to attend and open to anyone. Participants are encouraged to bring their own beading project. However, supplies will be available for first-time beaders to create a beaded pin. Folks of all skill levels are welcome - if you've never beaded before and will require some help getting started, our Kelowna Métis Youth representative & others with experience will be happy to share their tips and techniques with you.

Please let us know if you can attend by registering below.

A second Beading Circle will be taking place on June 28th, 6-8pm. We hope to see you there!

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to invite you to join Gao Yujie and guests on Friday, May 5th from 6:30 pm to 8 pm for an artist talk and discussion on the artist's recent exhibition Flowing to Unsettle in the Alternator's Project Gallery.

This in-person event will contain three parts. Gao will begin this event with a short presentation on her work including her recent 6-week-long performance at the Alternator. In part 2, Gao will be joined by Dr. Megan Smith and Xiaoxuan/Sherry Huang in discussing the performance and themes related to the exhibition such as perceptions of time. To close the event Gao and guests will open up the discussion to the audience for a Q&A.

This event is free with registration. Light snacks will be available for guests. Register at Eventbrite here.

Gao Yujie is an interdisciplinary media artist and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her generative participatory performance work studies the materiality of duration and explores the elasticity of space and time in rule-based interactive environments. Her exhibition, Flowing to Unsettle is on view in the Project Gallery of the Alternator until May 6th, 2023.

You can learn more about Gao and her exhibition here.

Xiaoxuan / Sherry Huang (she/they) is a writer, scholar, & educator working in experimental criticism, literary audio, & other forms of hybrid poetics. Her writing lingers in the doorway like a long goodbye, aiming to be what it claims to need: “A book [that] is always-already a sign of love. A sign for love.” Her first full-length publication, Love Speech (2019, Metatron Press,) is a book of poetry & auto-theory. She holds an MFA from University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus,) & is a 1.5 generation Canadian-上海人.

You can learn more about Huang's work here.

Xiao Xuan / Sherry Huang 是一位以音乐、摄影和印刷为创作媒介的诗人。她通常喜欢用模拟的、短暂的、实验性的方法来制作有形的艺术品。她最近的长 篇出版物《爱的演讲》（梅塔特隆出版社2019年）是创新地结合了诗歌和书信体写作，同时她也正在发行的限量版包括磁带、侧边和杂志，并进一步尝试将诗歌与表演艺术的多元融合。

Dr. Megan Smith is a UBC 2022 Killam Laureate, Associate Professor in Creative Technologies in FCCS. Her practice-based research probes systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with virtual and augmented reality, geo-location, live-feed installation, and performance as methods for storytelling.

You can learn more about Smith's work here.

The Alternator is pleased to invite you to a Triple Opening Reception on Friday, March 24th from 6-8pm. Join us in celebrating new works by Gabrielle Desrosiers in the Main Gallery, Gao Yujie in the Project Gallery, and in the Members’ Gallery is work by UBCO students.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

The Alternator is pleased to welcome our members to a Triple Opening Reception on Friday, January 27th from 6-8pm. Join us in celebrating new works by Austin Clay Willis in the Main Gallery, Rylan Broadbent in the Project Gallery, and Mike Lennon in the Members’ Gallery.

This event is free with registration. Registration gets you one (1) free drink ticket, snacks will also be provided. Register for this event here.

In conjunction with his exhibition CHEAP! currently on view at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Alternator board member Patrick Lundeen will conduct a free workshop in two parts.

The first part will take the form of a tour of the exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery and the second part will take place in the RCA in studio 111. The workshop will focus on the artworks in the show with an emphasis on how they work mechanically to move and produce sound. After the gallery tour the workshop will move over to studio 111 where the topic will be discussed further with examples of Patrick’s previous works and a hands-on exploration of potential tools to activate your sculptures in the future.

Light refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public, reserve your spot on Eventbrite.

Patrick Lundeen is an artist born in Lethbridge, AB (traditional Blackfoot Confederacy territory). He currently lives and works in Kelowna (unceded Okanagan Sylix territory) teaching drawing, painting and sculpture at UBC Okanagan. His artistic interests span traditional visual art making mediums and extends to include sound art, music, food, performance and public art. His approach to visual art employs humour, sensory experience and a rough and visceral aesthetic to elicit a complex response from viewers. In addition to visual art, Patrick is also a dubiously talented recording, and rarely preforming, musician.

Join us at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on Friday, October 28th, from 6-8pm for a triple opening reception for M.E. Sparks' and a Rag in the Other, Whitney Brennan's a sound falls but leaves no bruise, and Marguerite MacIntosh's Closet Meditations.

This event is free and open to the public; registration is required. Light catering and drinks will be provided. Registration gets you one (1) free drink ticket. You can register for this event here.

We hope to see you there!

M.E. Sparks is an artist and educator currently living in Winnipeg, MB, Treaty 1 Territory. Her studio practice is rooted in mixed emotions: an unrelenting infatuation with painting and a critical distrust of its dominant history. As an inheritor and perpetuator of this history, she considers this internal conflict a generative place to begin.

and a Rag in the Other presents a series of draped canvas paintings by M.E. Sparks. This work explores the tension between pictorial representation and the material conditions of painting. Through layers, curling edges, and a revealing of the painting’s underside, the work in this exhibition confronts the presumed fixedness and solidity of the flat picture plane. Sparks explores the material possibilities of draped canvas as a way to call into question painting’s limiting dichotomies (front vs. back, abstraction vs. figuration, image vs. object) while introducing a softness and provisionality to the painted image.

Whitney Brennan is a sound artist and curator living on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She holds a Master of Arts in Art History: Critical & Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia. Whitney is the Co-Director of Arts Assembly, a not-for-profit, community-centric arts organization that emphasizes artistic collaboration.

a sound falls but leaves no bruise explores sound, poetry, textiles, and the mediums’ relationships to anxiety and misophonia*. This exhibition invites audiences to ask questions about relationships between our senses of hearing and touch, and between sound and textiles.

Marguerite MacIntosh is an artist and retired architect in addition to being a wife, mother, and grandmother. Her works in acrylic, pencil and mixed media contemplate her own experiences of time and place and point to an awareness of the present moment and the liminal spaces in which we find ourselves. She lives with her husband and their dog Beau in Summerland, British Columbia.

Closet Meditations emerged as a project following Marguerite MacIntosh’s participation in the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art’s online exhibition The Assembly: Sustainability earlier this year and her reading of The Journal of John Woolman: an eighteenth-century Quaker whose writings challenged issues of his day that continue to plague contemporary life, often speaking of how the lure of luxury manifested in possessions, clothing, and travel can so easily override sound judgment. In this installation, MacIntosh examines the contents of her own closet and its preponderance of black clothing. She considers how she uses the clothes she buys and wears to inform her identity in myriad ways, usually distracted and detached from the implications of this consumption in terms of environmental destruction and worker exploitation.

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art invites our members to our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:00 pm. 

The AGM is a great time to be introduced to the association’s Board of Directors and staff, gain an idea of the association’s present financial state, and learn about current and upcoming projects and events at the Alternator. As a member of the Alternator, you have a vote on all matters of business at the AGM including the election of the Board of Directors. Everyone is welcome, but in order to vote you must be a member in good standing (memberships must be paid before the meeting). 

The AGM will last approximately 45 minutes and will take place remotely over ZOOM. To participate, advance registration is required on Eventbrite. Each registered participant will be provided with a ZOOM link on the day of the event. All members of the Alternator are encouraged to participate. There is no charge. If you are interested in joining the Board of Directors, please contact Lorna McParland, Artistic & Administrative Director (lorna@alternatorcentre.com), prior to the AGM to discuss details of the role

To purchase or renew your alternator membership, please visit us in gallery or see https://www.alternatorcentre.com/getinvolved

We look forward to seeing you there!