BEAMS presents…
Art’s Birthday
Art’s Birthday
Date: Friday, January 17, 2025
Time: 8:00 pm MST
Where: Collins Studio Gallery (11741 – 94 Street)
and https://www.twitch.tv/beamsdotca
Time: 8:00 pm MST
Where: Collins Studio Gallery (11741 – 94 Street)
and https://www.twitch.tv/beamsdotca
One
of the world’s most unusual celebrations of art is slated to take
centre stage in the Alberta capital. Art’s Birthday Edmonton 2025,
facilitated by the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society, holds court
Friday, Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. at Collins Studio Gallery (11741-94 Street).
The
show will feature a wide range of Edmonton sound artists and
experimental musician, many of whom have garnered international
reputations for their work. Scheduled to play the event are Don Hill,
Brothers of Sisters, James Parrott, Stephen Sereda, Kaunsel and II F
Argon.
BEAMS
has hosted this annual event in Edmonton since 2010, as part of a
global tribute to art, an idea conceived by French surrealist Robert
Filliou in 1963. He believed that a million years ago, art did not exist
until a sponge was dropped into a pail of water, and picked his own
birthday, Jan. 17, to celebrate the occasion. Charmed by the absurdity
of the notion, artists, predominantly in Europe, have been celebrating
Art’s Birthday ever since. A comprehensive background of the event and
international listings are available on artsbirthday.net.
Admission
to Art’s Birthday Edmonton 2025 is $10 for BEAMS members and $20 for
non-members, although a BEAMS membership is included in the latter
price.
The
Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) is a non-profit society
dedicated to the promotion and production of sound art, experimental
music and new media. Its membership consists of professional musicians,
composers and performance artists from diverse backgrounds driven to
create a voice for sound orientated art in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
This event is sponsored by the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS). BEAMS thanks them for their support!
Media Contact:
Shawn Pinchbeck
President, BEAMS
info@beams.ca