“Dance Me” Visual Arts Display

by Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn at Citadel Theatre 

“Dance Me” … a multi-media arts collaboration is currently being created by Edmonton artist Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn. Cohen’s words are often inseparable from his music. This series of 15 paintings - inspired by words, music, song and dance will be unveiled next July in the Rice Theatre as part of the 2008 International Leonard Cohen Festival. A special event will feature several of Larisa’s paintings being brought to life by the staff, students and alumi of the dance department of Victoria School.
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click: Leonard Cohen Night; September 22, 2007

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LCN2007 Press Release

There is a nice article in Wednesday’s issue of Vue Weekly on the 2007 Leonard Cohen Festival:

http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=7154/ ->

There is an article in the Grant MacEwan student paper Intercamp. The Intercamp article is a clickable pdf link and is found on page 6 with a nice picture of Darren Frank

http://www.macewan.ca/web/services/ims/client/upload/Intercamp,%20Sept.%2020.pdf

There is a great article in the Edmonton Journal on today, Saturday, page C07.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/culture/story.html?id=bb13f035-9fd9-4017-9335-ed46e0598e5a
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/culture/index.html

http://homepage.mac.com/evocative1/LCN2007/PhotoAlbum234.html

The Media Launch took place at City Hall on September 12th and included most of the permormers from this year’s event. We are in the process of adding captions to the image website. The young male performer there with the three person band is Ido Vanderlaan.

Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn is an accomplished Canadian artist, who is well known to many Edmontonians. Larisa was born in Edmonton and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art & Design from the University of Alberta.

Larisa’s works are bold and colourful. Her preferred medium is water colour. Larisa particularly enjoys painting still-life and floral images, and loves to research and incorporate informative details into each of her compositions. Her artistic style is unique. Over the last 20 years Larisa has created a method whereby she incorporates a sculptural ripped paper technique which accentuates the realistic, 3-dimensional quality of her work.

Larisa’s artistic accomplishments have reached far into the community. She is known both for her illustrations of children’s books and school texts, as well as her fine art paintings.

http://www.artbylarisa.com/

You may read an article by Gilbert A. Bouchard about Edmonton Events in latest Edmonton Journal (Published: Saturday, September 08).

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Douglas Barbour, poet, critic, and reviewer,

is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta, where he has taught creative writing, poetry, Canadian literature, twentieth century poetry and poetics, and science fiction and fantasy. Books of poetry include Visible Visions: The Selected Poems of Douglas Barbour (NeWest Press 1984), which won Alberta’s Stephan Stephannson Award for poetry, and Story for a Saskatchewan Night (rdc press 1989).

More recently, Fragmenting Body etc. (NeWest Press 2000), Breath Takes (Wolsak & Wynn 2002), A Flame on the Spanish Stairs (greenboathouse books 2003), and Continuations, with Sheila E. Murphy (University of Alberta Press 2006). Critical works include Daphne Marlatt and Her Works, John Newlove and His Works, bpNichol and His Works (ECW Press 1992) , and Michael Ondaatje (Twayne Publishers 1993). Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry appeared from NeWest Press in 2001. Transformations of Contemporary Canadian Poetry in English appeared from Adam Marszalek in Poland in 2005.

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