A Ghetto Arts Collective Fundraiser - Nairobi, Kenya

Music Artists:

Cory Z. and Nori - idm

www.area709.com

RGB - live idm

www.lovefilledportals.net

eYen - idm

metatron's cube

Visual Artists:

Sebastian Chedal (drawings/paintings)

www.chedal.org

'As an artist I move betweenphases of exploration and creation. My work seeks to express emotive statesthrough the human form, and world-states of intricate surrealist abstractions.When art is at its finest, artist functions as medium, the channel throughwhich automatic processes can take place. A medium through which viewer and artcan form dialogue - the artist takes a secondary role: as structure rather thanfocus or form itself.

To me 'good art' is art which ismore than the sum of its lines, its concepts, and critical analysis. 'good art'is something that remains ultimatly undefined, observable from differentperspectives, something which holds something of meaning every time it is re-observed,by different people. In a vocabulary that transcends language. A solidificationinto visual/audio form of an experience-state which would otherwise remaininexpressible. Bound by time, but inherently timeless.

Each line is alive, eyes speak andcan be peered into, every element in hierarchy and yet all independently valid.The dualistic truths of rational - and irrational, scientific - and holistic,infinite, multidimensional and yet intimately personal modes of life.

My art is a window into my uniqueworld, but also a truth that hopefully will be re-interpratable in countlessother ways by yours. Art that stands on its own, with or withoutdefinitions.'

Shaun Friesen (animation)

www.FreeZen.ca

Interested in living bio-mimeticdesigns, Shaun’s technology infused drawing practice investigates the organicand geometric.

 Fundraising Details:

All the proceeds from this event will be going towards the Ghetto Arts Collective (GAC), which is a non-profit pilot project based in Nairobi, Kenya.

”The initial idea is that we will be selling cards, photo cards and art cards in Canada. These cards focus on slum culture, traditional and modern African art, or photo cards that captures slum kids perspective of their home and lives.

What else? 60% of all money from sold art goes back to the artist in a fair-trade exchange.  The rest goes back to GAC for outreach programming in the slum.”

Location:

EMMEDIA Gallery

351 - 11th ave SW Suite# 203

Right on top of Mongolie Grill,entrance in the back parking lot.

$15 at the door

Music running from 9 until 2