Today I received an email from Image Journal, and in that email was a link to a new poem from Scott Cairns called Lenten Complaint.
This poem reminded my how I've been stirred by the words of Scott Cairns in the past. How when Cairns reminds me that, "He shaped of every sepulcher / a womb", I resonate. How his relationship with Greek Orthodoxy, the Greek language and the Christian faith stirs a potent poetic cocktail. How his phrase 'every womb a sepulchre' How I haven't done so well with Lent this year. How I have my own complaints. How we share a broken hope.
I realized, reading that poem, that you may not know the work of Scott Cairns, and how that would be a shame.
His latest book of collected poems is called Slow Pilgrim. Whatever you are fasting from for Lent, I hope it isn't poetry.
Read Lenten Complaint, from Issue 68 of Image Journal, here.
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I first learned about White from Beauty is Embarrassing, the documentary that taught me Wayne White was like the underground bizarro-world Jim Henson, and pretty much endeared me to him forever.
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Cynthia Hamar is an Edmonton area singer-songwriter who released her third album, The Son and I, just this weekend
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I've never altered a book before.
Sure, I've highlighted and underlined and jammed a thousand sticky notes into the pages to mine the goodness from a book for posterity. But I have never transformed a book into a work of art.
Tonight, Penny Torres is going to teach me how to alter a book.
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Thursday evening, February 18, I'm preparing for guests. I've just returned from the Latin market next door with a bag of spicy tortilla chips and refreshing salsa verde. Now I'm looking for bowls and plates and the teapot in the backroom of Bleeding Heart Art Space.
The early arrivals are helping. We set out chairs and plug in the kettle. We place tea and sugar next to insulated cups. Penny arrives and plugs in a crock pot full of Mexican deliciousness.
It's time for another ArtLuck.
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With just 2 hours of your time, here's how you can bring beauty into the world.
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This morning, We see project lead Lori Calkins spoke with Edmonton AM's Mark Connolly about We see. And she spoke very well.
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Ni wapataenan.
We see.
We see missing and murdered indigenous women in this country.
We see a field of bare trees hung with red dresses. We see colourful prayer flags covering those trees throughout February and into March.
We see change. We see healing and we see hope. We will continue to see. And we will act for reconciliation.
http://www.bleedingheartart.space/we-see
Opens February 7 at 2 PM. Closes March 5 at 3 PM.
92st and 118th ave
All are welcome.
This project has been inspired by the REDress project originated by Jaime Black in Winnipeg. Find out more about her original project at http://www.theredressproject.org
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Saturday afternoon I am listening to Lana Whiskeyjack's artist talk.
Her show, the name of which I cannot pronounce, has just opened at the Bleeding Heart Art Space. She is telling us about these beautiful women she has painted and photographed. She is telling us stories of strength and resilience; power and grace. Then she speaks of language.
In residential schools, her ancestors were told not to speak their mother tongue. They were punished if they spoke it. I've heard of this particular indignity many times lately. How children had their language stolen from them. How children would return to their parents unable to communicate.
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BH: Penny, you are leading a workshop on Altered Books at Bleeding Heart on February 3. For someone who doesn’t know what an Altered Book is (like me, for instance), can you describe an Altered Book?
PT: An Altered book is kind of a cross between sculpture and and multi-media art. It's environmentally friendly because you use old discarded books and transform them into interest artistic statements. There are countless methods involved and they can be as easy or complicated as you like.
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