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WinterFest is a citywide, winter-inspired festival that takes place between February 1 and 18 in Hamilton, Ontario. More than 75 events take place during the festival, ranging from free skates, to the Frost Bites site-specific theatre festival, to neighbourhood park parties. New in 2019, we’re introducing ‘The Canteen’, a moveable pop-up festival that will feature food, entertainment and public art.
Cobalt Connects, a Hamilton-based non-profit arts organization, is now co-producing Winterfest with the City of Hamilton.
By the Square Foot was a research project led by Cobalt Connects focused on understanding the relationship between space and artsits income in Hamilton, Ontario. The study was funded by the Hamilton Community Foundation, with session hosting suport from the Players' Guild of Hamilton.
The Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection (DLISC) invites professional artists to submit Expressions of Interest to create a permanent public artwork to be installed in the Reflecting Pool located in the Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG). The artwork will act as a signature feature to Hendrie Park, including the newly rejuvenated Rose Garden.
The budget for this project is $70,000 inclusive (CAD), including all tax, artist fees, fabrication, transportation, and installation of the artwork.
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Expressing Vibrancy is a culture-driven research project aimed at understanding neighbourhoods.
Learn more about the project and its findings at www.expressingvibrancy.ca
Video by: Christoph Benfy, Low Key Studios
Music by: Yer Yard
This past winter, CoBALT's Mulitmedia intern Ying Shan helped us bring the Creative Directory to life through a series of member interviews. Meet some of the folks behind the listings in this video.
Blues rock band Pete Van Dyk and the Second Hand Band enlisted director James Maunder to create a video piece as rockin' as they are as part of the 2013 Band Together project.
Improvisational jazz-hip hop band Haolin Munk worked with the production team of BE&ME Productions to capture the essence of seeing them live and in their element.
Band The Rest partnered with director Lee Skinner to produce this highly conceptual narrative for the song Who Knows.
Musician Katie Bulley paired with director Ryan Furlong to create this beautiful video for the song Anchor Me Down.
In our final episode until September, CBTM caught up on some of the new developments in Hamilton's arts scene, talking to Factory Media's Laura Walker, Hamilton Audio Visual Node's Chris Ferguson, who's also taking on the some organizational duties for August's Steel City Jazz Fest, and we paid a visit to the new offices of digital media and app development company HiFyre!
Jeremy caught with two of the Band Together music video directors, Lee Skinner and James Maunder, to chat about filmmaking and music, while Jenny headed out to Porcelain Records, a dynamic recording studio that was the backdrop of one of the videos.
Culture by the Minute focuses in on the City of Hamilton Arts Awards with Arts & Events Coordinator Jen Anisef, media sponsor Jane Allison from the Hamilton Spectator, and an off-site visit to the studio of Christopher Reid Flock (2012 Fine craft Award Recipeint).
Public Art brings together residents, business and creativity
Spiral Stela is the newest work being commissioned by the City of Burlington Public Art program. Created by Canadian artist Peter Powning the work brings together objects from local residents to create "cultural mulch" which are cast in bronze and wrapped around the obelisk form of the sculpture. Funded in part through a generous donation by resident and business owner Dan Lawrie the work will stand at the corner of Locust and Elgin Street in Burlington in front of the Burlington Performing Arts Centre. The sculpture is scheduled to be installed in the summer of 2013.
Video generously created by Bob Fleck - www.bobfleckcreative.com
The City of Burlington Public Art Program is managed by Cobalt Connects.
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