Yes, I'm back . As you may already know, I'm spending the summer in the editor's office. But today I'm making a brief visit back to my own desk as my colleague Christina Myers takes the editor's desk for an issue.
So here I am attempting to make up for lost time by bringing you a few highlights from the ever-busy arts scene - which, incidentally, doesn't seem to be slowing down at all this summer.
First off, big kudos to a Burnaby singer who just won the Voice of the Night competition at the Italian Cultural Centre.
Luca Fogale, a Burnaby North Secondary grad now studying at UBC, captured the $1,000 prize after singing in front of a panel of music-industry judges.
Luca's band, Paradise Runway, also just got back from Calgary after playing the Stampede.
The band also just won the UBC Battle of the Bands.
You can catch Luca at the Railway Club on July 29.
GALLERY TALK
Art lovers, be sure to pay a call to the Burnaby Art Gallery this weekend.
The gallery is holding the last of its summer lecture series tours on Sunday, July 24 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Ian Thom, curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery, will be the special guest for a talk and tour of the ongoing exhibition The Solitudes of Place: Recent Drawings by Ann Kipling.
"The exhibit examines how the individual artist and her primary subject, the landscape, may be recognized within larger political and artistic frameworks," explains a press release from the gallery.
The Burnaby Art Gallery is at 6344 Deer Lake Ave. It's open Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4: 30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Check out www.burnab yartgallery.ca or call 604297-4422 for more information.
HELP OUT THE ARTS
OMG, what a good idea!
A Burnaby filmmaker has turned to the Internet to help fund her next short film.
Roslyn Muir is using the popular funding site Indiegogo to help cover costs for her next short film, titled OMG.
OMG is a 10-minute comedy about a teenager, a grandma and a cellphone.
It will shoot in Burnaby in September and will star well-known Vancouver actor Gabrielle Rose.
(Roslyn, in a press release, notes that the subject hit a nerve with her and the film's director, Siobhan Devine, who both have 14-year-old daughters "and disagreements over excessive cellphone use.")
Roslyn, a screenwriter and producer with two feature films in development, is also the film programmer of the annual Vancouver Women in Film Festival and is completing her master's of fine arts in creative writing at UBC.
"My first digital short film was funded by a couple of yard sales," she says. "The proceeds paid for cast and crew food and tape stock."
Indiegogo supports all types of artists and opens the door for everyone to help fund arts groups and projects.
On OMG's funding page, you can buy in at $10 - or go all the way up to $750 and become an executive producer.
"You can get a real producer credit on our film and not have to do any of the work," Roslyn jokes in a press release.
The press release notes that every donation helps move them closer to shooting the film.
"Making a movie requires many unavoidable expenditures, including production insurance, locations and permits, camera, lights and sound equipment rental, post-production sound and editing, and of course on-set food, which can be the only pay the mostly volunteer cast and crew receive," it explains.
Check out www.indi egogo.com/OMG-The Movie for more details, or follow the filmmakers on Facebook, www.facebook. com/omgthemovie.
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