Nomadic Dwellings

This is being hosted by our neighbors at the aka gallery.

Folie/Culture presents: Nomadic Dwellings

Performances throughout Saskatoon:
October 20th to 23rd, 2009

Opening with artists in attendance:
October 23rd at 7pm

Quebec-based activist art group Folie/Culture, presents the architectural project Nomadic Dwellings in Saskatoon beginning October 20th, 2009. Began in 2007, the project calls on architects and artists to conceive nomadic dwellings for itinerants. The shelters had to be designed for one person, with materials that were easily found in Canada, inexpensive, and recyclable if possible. They also had to be reusable and easy to set up by one person alone.
Between October 20th and October 23rd, the artists involved will set up and display the works in several highly visible locations throughout the city. In the current climate of myopic boosterism for Saskatoon’s bourgeoning economy, this exhibition serves as a reminder of the social reality of itinerancy. As vacancy rates fall and rents increase, the most vulnerable among us fall through the cracks and are faced with the prospect of living without shelter.

While the project is not intended as a solution to the problem of homelessness, it does aim to increase awareness of the issue. Placing the architectural act in the everyday suggests a discomfiting social encounter that architects do not often rub up against. The paradoxical meeting of architecture and itinerancy reveals the degree of interconnectedness between these seemingly disparate sites within the social body.

Since 1984, Folie/Culture has facilitated contemporary art projects with a specific focus on awareness building in mental health. They encourage the work of artists who intervene in the field of social perceptions, engaging a public who may not otherwise encounter contemporary art.

H1N1 Virus and the Salvation Army Community Centre

We thought that we would let you know that the Salvation Army Community Centre does have a plan to deal with H1N1 if it hits Saskatchewan hard.  We have a plan to minimize it’s affects on our residents and the general public.  If we do have an outbreak of it at the Centre, we have plans to help those who are infected as well as keeping our other residents safe.

For more information on H1N1 in Saskatchewan, check out Fight Flu.ca or the Government of Saskatchewan’s Influenza website.

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