Three to See Edmonton Events: Alberta Art Gallery 100, Flashback ...
Published Jun 14, 2024 • Last updated 6 hours ago • 2 minute read
AGA100: The Art Gallery of Alberta begins its mighty centennial celebrations with a launch party featuring five new exhibitions, including August Klintberg’s Love Empire, an interactive reworking of the artist’s 2005 Biennial piece where you can publicly declare your love.
Dance duo Compact Disco and poet laureate Shima Robinson will take the stage, and one of Andy Warhol’s Gretzky artworks will be appropriately in attendance. Also, there’s still time to upload your own artwork to be part of AGA’s Free for All Anniversary Wall — deadline Sunday! Head to youraga.ca for details and a submission link to become part of the gallery’s giant collage, to be unveiled Aug. 18.
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Detail of Andy Warhol’s 1984 ink on paper Wayne Gretzky 99, 1984 from Art Gallery of Alberta Collection — gift of Dr. Robert Tate — which will be up at the gallery Friday. Photo by Supplied Photo /AGADetails: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Friday at AGA (2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq.), no charge, register at youraga.ca
Flashback (2024): Director Peter Hays’ look back at one of Edmonton’s great clubs, this film dives into Edmonton’s defiant disco dance culture of sweat and sex and drugs and fashion, all in a space owner John Reid vowed would be a safe space for “gay people and their friends.”
A Q and A follows first two screenings, some proceeds going to HIV Edmonton from Tuesday’s showing.
Director Peter Hays, left, on set of the new documentary being made about Edmonton’s famed Flashback night club due for release in 2024. Photo by Supplied Photo /Tieran GreenDetails: 6:45 p.m. Friday/Saturday/Tuesday at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $14.
Parkland Music Project: Led by Edmonton expat singer-songwriter Rob Malowany, Parkland smooches indie country basics into the whirlwind of free-range jazz as the ever-shifting ensemble plays with tempo, tone and intensity.
In turn, Malowany twists his bare-bones lyrics and heartfelt guitar playing into an impressively cohesive act of on-the-spot songwriting, which is of course how lots of bands come up with music — we just get to see it live. Rubim de Toledo is on bass; Chris Andrew, piano; Bob Tildesley plays trumpet; guitar by Peter Belec; with Daniel Stadnicki on drums.
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Details: 8 p.m. Friday at Yardbird Suite (11 Tommy Banks Way), $34 (or $10 virtual) at yardbirdsuite.com
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