PHANTASMAGORIA 2010
the legend revived

. PHANTASMAGORIA - WHAT'S THAT ?

According to several dictionaries, Phantasmagoria is a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection or assemblage. It is also a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined. Finally, in 18th and 19th Century they used name Phantasmagoria for weird pre-cinema ghost shows, based on optical illusion. (Read more at Wikipedia .)

Our vision of the festival is based on all of these definitions. Phantasmagoria is just an amazing and surprising art event, involving various art disciplines and various approaches, happening in little hamlet in Ontario..

. HISTORY OF PHANTASMAGORIA

Phantasmagoria used to be run by artist Andrzej Maciejewski, one of our members, from 2001 to 2004 in small village Moscow, Ontario (just few kilometers from Yarker, the present location). Even being a small-scale, private event, it gathered hundreds of people. Already after first edition it became sort of legend, attracting artists and art-lovers from various places in Canada and from overseas. There were concerts (bands like: Loofka, Afrodisiac, Drummers from Senegal), art slide-shows, films, story-telling and other attractions and once even a wedding.
Due to the changes in his personal life Andrzej moved out from Moscow and that's how old Phantasmagoria ended. Now we are reviving it in new, wider formula and new location.
Here you can find a description of two interesting installations that took part during old Phantasmagoria.

. PROGRAM 2010

PHANTASMAGORIA PROGRAM 2010.

Because of unexpected lack of funding (we really didn't think that ALL of our grant applications would be rejected), we had to re-design to program of this year's event. But it's still gonna be lots of fun.

from noon to 8 pm: Daytime Art Installations
Prefabs - by Cyrus Smith (Winnipeg)
This is a Doll's Life – by Lily Bee
Plenty – by Nobody Important
plus walk-in Camera Obscura until 7 pm

1 pm to 4 pm: Video Art
Temporarius, videos by Yuval Yairi (Israel)
Random Stiches, film by Andrzej Maciejewski (Yarker,ON)
Videos by James Greatrex (Moscow, ON)
Untitled, short videos by Stefan Reiebel (Germany)

3:30 pm to 10 pm: Live Music

Barry Lovegrove (Tamworth)
Well known and loved in our area, musician, photographer, water-colour painter and Scoop journalist in one person. He plays blues and folks standards.

Tim Sheffield (Napanee)
The owner of the Music Market Cafe in Napanee and one of the best musicians in our area. He plays his own original songs, that some may call folk, some indie rock.

Ingrid Gatin (Winnipeg)
Multidisciplinary artists and musician. She describes her music as roots music/indie/soul. You'll find her Myspace profile here.

Culture Reject (Toronto)
An excellent band, playing indie rock. Visit their Myspace profile to see for yourself how good they are

+ Ten Minutes of Poetry around 8 pm

4 pm – happening Being Everywhere by Stefan Riebel (Germany)

5 pm to 7 pm: opening reception – exhibition Weather Report by Andrzej Maciejewski

Weather Report is photographic project by Yarker-based artist Andrzej Maciejewski. It features 36 colour images of the same place (on Long Swamp Road in Moscow, Ontario) in various weather conditions, taken over a period of exactly one year. The pictures were taken with Camera Obscura, built by the artist.
Photographs are available for purchase during the exhibition. From August 25th to October 1st you may also buy a raffle ticket to win a picture chosen by you. The proceeds will cover the cost of this exhibition and will help to organize the future shows.
Creation of this project and production of the exhibition were sponsored by Ontario Arts Council .

from 10 pm: Nighttime Art Installations:

Itches – by James Greatrex (Moscow, ON)
Long Swamp Road Collection – by Andrzej Maciejewski
Sleepless – by Bonnie Lane(Australia)

Admission to the event is free of charge, however we do collect free will donations. Your donations will be distributed among the participating artists, because we were not able to secure any other fees for them.

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. PHANTASMAGORIA 2010 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Out in the Sticks Cultural Association invites artists from all fields: music, theatre, dance, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, installations, street-art and others to participate in Phantasmagoria 2010 in Yarker, Ontario.
The festival will last three days, from September 10th to 12th, 2010. We will hold several art exhibitions, open-air concerts and performances, film and video projections and artwork slide-shows. We are open for proposals. Our programming is flexible and even the most out-of-the-box ideas may be accepted.
At this stage we are not sure how big (or small) our budget will be. As such we are not able to guarantee payment for your participation. Please indicate your financial expectations in your application. We are looking for sponsors and free donations from the public, which should enable us to cover all technical costs. Since that might not be enough to cover high artists' fees, voluntary participation will be highly appreciated.

Please send description of your art/proposed activity/project to submissions@outinthesticks.ca.

. VOLUNTEER FOR PHANTASMAGORIA

We need many volunteers and everybody is welcome. If you have computer skills, artistic skills, PR skills, fund-raising experience or just few hours of spare time and plenty of good will, please contact us at: anna@outinthesticks.ca.

. PHANTASMAGORIA 2010 - BECOME OUR SPONSOR

There are various ways to choose from if you would like to support Phantasmagoria.

You may buy an advertisement, which will be displayed during the festival. All sizes of banners may be accepted and apart from that your ad clip may be screened during the Film Night or some of the installations, we also sell small and whole page ads in the event catalogue. Prices are negotiated individually, so if you are interested, please write to anna@outinthesticks.ca or call: 613 877 4532.

You may donate both money and various items, which may be useful for the festival. We are accepting cash and checque donations (made to Out in the Sticks Cultural Association Inc.,). You may send a checque to following address: Out in the Sticks Cultural Association, P.O. Box 174, Yarker, ON, K0K 3N0. Soon we will enable an option of donations through credit card. We have special offer for restaurant owners who would like to provide meals for participating artists in exchange for advertisement during the event.

You may sponsor a chosen artist. If you can see in our program someone especially close to your heart and you would like to sponsor his exhibition/performance, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will facilitate for you the option of sposoring your chosen artist directly.