The Popular Culture Niagara Group presents
Popular Culture and the Local
An interdisciplinary conference, exploring questions of popular culture and local identity
Port Dalhousie Stories --
Mike and Doc at Lakeside Park" (1987), by. John B. Boyle
Cover illustration for
The Port Dalhouse Stories by Dennis Tourban (Coach House Press)
Watercolour 30.5 cm x 20.3 cm. Copyright © 1987 John B. Boyle. Used with
permission.
About the Conference:
The Popular Culture and the Local conference
will be held Brock University’s
Pond Inlet,
St.
Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
May 12 -13, 2006.
Presenters representing a wide range of perspectives and
approaches to many aspects and forms of Popular Culture
will address how they relate to questions
of local identity.
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For Registration questions or
assistance, please contact:
Brock University Centre for the Arts
500 Glenridge Ave, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1.
Phone: 905 688 5550 ext 3257
Toll free: 1-866-617-3257
Fax: 905-688-4277
Brock University's beautiful Pond Inlet,
where Popular Culture and the Local will be held.
Keynote Speaker: John Boyle
Domestic Bliss
A choice confronting the young artist is whether to draw upon and celebrate his or her personal experience of life in the home region or to subsume the specificity of that experience in the "international milieu" of the great art centres of the world in developing an artistic persona in the pursuit of a career. John Boyle has chosen the former course.
Keynote John Boyle will speak about his
experience in the artist-run-gallery movement from his earliest days as a
practising painter in London, Ontario, where events surrounding the censoring
of one of his works in a public gallery exhibition led a group of artists and
sympathetic people to start the 20/20 co-operative gallery in 1965, which
eventually evolved into the Forest City Gallery, which still exists today. He
will discuss his participation in the founding of the Niagara Artists'
Co-operative (now the Niagara Artists Centre) as its founding president,
elaborating on its philosophy of the fostering and encouragement of artists
living and working in Niagara and drawing on their life experience in the
world, in the world of Art and primarily in their community of Niagara. NAC
projects from the 1970's to the present designed to bypass the commercial
gallery system and reach a wider public will be revisited. Boyle will draw
heavily on his personal experience in NAC, the FCG, as a full time professional
artist since 1968, as a member of the improv noise ensemble the Nihilist Spasm
Band, founded in 1965 and a good example of an indigenous pop culture
phenomenon, and as founding Spokesperson of Canadian Artists' Representation,
The lecture will end with a brief demonstration noise improvisation by Boyle accompanied by kazooist/percussionist Aya Onishi.
SPECIAL CONCERT:
"Popular Music of Niagara"
Click here for concert details!
Accommodations Info:
Alan Earp Residence,
Brock University
On campus, single rooms available at $46 per night. Bed, linen and towels
included.
Bed & Breakfast rate also available.
To check availability and for further details, contact Brock University Conference Services - Phone:
905 688 5550 ext 3369
Four Points Sheraton
Located at 3530 Schmon Parkway St. Catharines, a short walk about 500 yards across
the road to Brock University.
Various types of rooms, rates and packages available.
For further details, visit http://www.fourpointsuites.com/ or phone 1-800-358 -7764.
Heritage House Bed and
Breakfast
Located at 29 Edmund St, near downtown St. Catharines, Heritage House is an
enchanting restored 1860's farm house on a 1/3 acre property. Rates are $
85-125 CAD, depending on day of week or season. For further details, visit http://www.heritagehousebandb.com/
or phone 1-877-337-3313.
There are a number of other great accommodation options
available nearby.
For more, visit the Accommodations
section of http://www.st.catharines.com/tourism/
Driving Directions:
From Toronto Airport
From Highway 401 West, take 403 South to the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) in the direction
of Niagara Falls. Follow the Queen Elizabeth Way around the lake, then
Southeast to St. Catharines. At Exit 49, turn onto Highway 406 and continue
until you reach St. Davids Road. Take the St. Davids Road West Exit and follow
until you reach Glenridge Avenue.
From Hamilton Airport
Turn left on Airport Road. Turn left on Highway 6 (Upper James Street) and
continue to the Lincoln Alexander Parkway (the ‘LINC’). Turn east
on the Lincoln Alexander Parkway which will turn into Mud Street. Turn left on Highway
20 (Upper Centennial Parkway). Take Highway 20 to the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW)
east to Niagara Falls. At Exist 49, turn onto Highway 406 (towards Welland/Port
Colborne) and continue until you reach St. Davids Road. Take the St. Davids
Road West Exit and follow until you reach Glenridge Avenue.
From Buffalo (Peace
Bridge)
Cross the Peace Bridge and then take the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) towards
Toronto. At Exit 32B, turn onto Thorold Stone Road West and continue through
the Thorold Tunnel where the road becomes Highway 58. Take the St. Davids Road
West exit and follow until you reach Glenridge Avenue.
For more information, contact the Popular Culture Niagara Research Team at:
Presented by:
The Popular Culture Niagara Group
May 12-13, 2006
Brock University, St. Catharines ON, Canada
Last updated: May 3, 2006.