CAFKA.18 biennial Guide by Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area

INTRODUCTION CAFKA would like to acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The Region of Waterloo is situated on Block 2 of the Haldimand Tract, land promised to Six Nations, which includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.

Welcome to CAFKA.18 CAFKA is not just an organization that brings contemporary art to the public spaces of Waterloo Region. CAFKA is a network of volunteers, donors, and sponsors who care about their community. CAFKA’s goal is to engage and inspire EVERYONE who lives in, works in, or visits the Region and we have been hard at work for the past 23 months developing the CAFKA.18 biennial exhibition. We are so very proud to bring CAFKA.18 to the public spaces of Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge. CAFKA is joined by our 2018 festival partners: Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, and Summer Lights Festival. We are also pleased to again be working with our curatorial partners: Cambridge Sculpture Garden, Critical Media Lab, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Open Sesame, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, and the University of Waterloo Fine Arts Department. Together, we are presenting 20 installations and exhibitions, as well as many talks, tours, workshops, and activities. The theme for the 2018 biennial is RECOGNIZE EVERYONE. The title comes from an association game created by CAFKA.18 artist Lucy Pullen. Look for the CAFKA.18 cups at local independent coffee shops and let them remind you to RECOGNIZE EVERYONE around you. And if you are posting photos to social media, please use the hashtag #CAFKA18 so we can follow you. CAFKA is truly a grassroots, artist driven organization, and has been a pillar of the Regional cultural community for seventeen years. The people at CAFKA are some of the hardest working, dedicated, and creative individuals I have ever met. I am honored to work alongside them. On behalf of the CAFKA organization I am happy to welcome everyone to CAFKA.18. Yours truly, Michelle Purchase President, CAFKA Board of Directors

INSTALLATIONS & EXHIBITIONS 1. TIPPING POINT Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron (Montreal) Kitchener City Hall Rotunda, 200 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Sponsored by NEO Architecture. Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron’s Tipping Point reproduces the structure of the Kitchener City Hall Rotunda roof in two linear topographies resembling drawings in space.

2. ENSEMBLE | At The Reception: Kiersten Holden-Ada, Michael McCormack, and Zak Miller-Ada (Halifax) 16 Goudies Lane, Kitchener. Performance on Saturday, June 9, 7pm – 11pm. Produced by CAFKA. ENSEMBLE is a son et lumière event that uses broadcast media technology to project the sounds of a traditional pit orchestra within the setting of a drive-in movie theatre. This project brings together two streams of work stemming from McCormack’s practice exploring communicative and archival media and Holden-Ada & Miller-Ada’s work utilizing interactive audio installation.

3. GUIDED BY STREAMS | Susan Blight (Toronto) 500 King Street West, Kitchener Produced by CAFKA Sponsored by Region of Waterloo Guided by Streams is an installation comprised of five rectangular attention flags installed on flagpoles. Each flag is custom digitally printed and dual-sided with an image and text. Viewed together, the series activates a nonlinear narrative of the history of the land and thanks Indigenous peoples for their stewardship. The title alludes to one of the ways that Indigenous peoples organized communities in the region. The installation of the flagpoles replicates the movement of streams and helps shape the site as one that invites viewers.

4. NEGOTIATING +/- | Marcia Huyer (Toronto) Conestoga Mall, 550 King Street North, Waterloo. Produced by CAFKA. Sponsored by Conestoga Mall. Marcia Huyer’s Negotiating +/- consists of 160 opaque white plastic bags, which inflate and deflate at various times. Each bag is inflated by its own fan. A microcontroller is responsible for the inflation and deflation of each component using data sets that animate the bags in a variety of patterns and sequences.

5. HEAD MAN | Eunjung Hwang (New York) Kitchener City Hall, 200 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Eunjung Hwang’s art explores images that are rooted in dreams and the subconscious. Her characters inhabit a fantastic reality following a structure of interwoven dream logic. Different narratives are connected to each other through this dream logic. The narratives loop through a series of imaginary cycles of infancy, dream, death, and the beyond. For CAFKA.18, Eunjung Hwang brings one of her subconscious drawings to life as an inflatable sculpture.

6. COMMON | Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan (Berlin) Mobile pop-up event. Produced by CAFKA. Marie Claire Leblanc Flanagan is developing a pop-up play experience for communities called Common. To play Common, you must be invited in person, on a shared device. The game begins with you, a single player whose lifeforce is fading. You are being disorganized and diluted into the nothingness. The only way you can fight against this force is by inviting new players to connect with you. So, you reach out to a friend, and invite them to join the game and build a connection with you. The more connections you have, the more strength you have. Go to cafka.org/cafka18/common for times and locations.

7. [i carry your heart with me (i carry it in] | Dawn Matheson (Guelph) City Hall Cube, 200 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. As part of her interdisciplinary collaboration with Deaf and hard of hearing youth, Dawn Matheson created an interpretation of the ee cummings poem [i carry your heart with me (i carry it in], performed by 9-year-old Guelph resident Nora Stasiukiewicz. The video will be projected evenings on the Kitchener City Hall Cube and will run as a trailer at Waterloo’s Princess and Kitchener’s Apollo movie theatres during CAFKA.18.

8. ARENA | Benoît Maubrey (Berlin) Kitchener City Hall, 200 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Sponsored by Celebrate Ontario, The Schwartz Family, and the City of Kitchener. Music programming sponsored by Vidyard. ARENA is a mobile interactive sound sculpture by Berlin-based artist Benoît Maubrey. ARENA

is conceived in the shape of a small amphitheatre, constructed with 320 recycled loudspeakers. The sculpture can function both as a mobile “Speakers Corner” — a “hotspot” for local participation and self-expression — and as a stage for small events and concerts.

9. RECOGNIZE EVERYONE | Lucy Pullen (New York) Thalmic Labs, 27 Gaukel Street, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Sponsored by Thalmic Labs. For CAFKA.18, Lucy Pullen has produced a polychromatic star burst mural that covers the elevator shaft and fire escape that wraps around 27 Gaukel Street in Kitchener. The effect is like a walk-in mural, that envelopes the visitor on all sides. RECOGNIZE EVERYONE is also the theme of CAFKA.18 and a game created by Lucy Pullen. She has printed coffee cups that are available in local coffee shops with instructions as to how to play the game: Recognize someone you know in the appearance or the behaviour of a stranger. Look for RECOGNIZE EVERYONE cups at local coffee shops.

10. POST SCRIPT | Rebecca Belmore, Susan Blight, Luke Parnell, Melissa General Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St N, Kitchener. Produced by Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. For more information: kwag.ca. Post Script features work by Rebecca Belmore, Susan Blight, Luke Parnell, and Melissa General. Continuing conversations from KWAG’s Fall 2017 exhibition Carry Forward, Post Script features artworks that access site and land through sound, language, and materials. Post Script unfolds during the month of June: From June 1 - 3, a single work occupies the Main Gallery: Belmore’s Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother. Each Monday, beginning June 4, another work joins the gallery, allowing a conversation to build incrementally within the space. Parnell’s work joins the exhibition on June 5, General’s on June 12, and Blight’s on June 19.

11. STONE, CLAY, FIRE | Don Russell (Cambridge) rare Charitable Research Reserve, 1679 Blair Rd, Cambridge. Produced by CAFKA. Sponsored by Region of Waterloo Arts Fund with the support of rare Charitable Research Reserve. Don Russell’s installation comprises two concentric rings of stones, with clay filling the space between the rings. A fire will burn in the clay ring continuously from the summer solstice (June 21) until the full moon (June 28). When the project is over the stones will be removed from the site leaving the embedded clay circle behind to serve as a permanent artifact.

12. COMMUNITY THOUGHTS | St. Marie ϕ Walker (Kitchener) Midtown KW Neighborhood. Produced by CAFKA. Sponsored by City of Kitchener, & the Ontario Arts Council

16. DIGITAL RITUALS | Critical Media Lab (Kitchener) Critical Media Lab, 44 Gaukel Street, Kitchener. Produced by Critical Media Lab. For more information: criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/crimelab.

Community Thoughts is a series of signs installed in Midtown KW. The thought bubble signs contain reflective statements about the community, created by the community. See CAFKA.org/cafka18/community-thoughts for details.

As part of its ongoing investigation of digital rituals, the CML invites participants to partake in a memorial service for dead cell phones and defunct digital files. Join us for a ritual laying to rest of your old handheld devices, complete with a machine-generated eulogy, a 3-D printing ceremony, and an e-waste gravesite dedication.

13. CHURCH Anna van Milligen (Guelph) Berlin Tower Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Sponsored by VIVE Development Anna van Milligen’s chapel-like treatment of the Berlin Tower Gallery continues her investigation into the fetishization of feminine glamour.

14. LÈCHE VITRINE: A(D)VERSION | St Marie ϕ Walker (Kitchener) Open Sesame, 220 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA & Open Sesame. Sponsored by Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. A(d)version, St Marie & Walker’s Lèche Vitrine: Open Sesame Project Window installation, examines how advertising subversively exploits our “natural” aesthetic preferences and our instinct to take in all information available to us in a given moment. The work mimics the mechanics of advertising while questioning the relationships that sustain branding and capitalism.

15. GARDEN SHELTER | Laura Marotta (Hamilton) Cambridge Sculpture Garden, 53 Grand Ave S, Cambridge. Produced by Cambridge Sculpture Garden. This project has been supported by the City of Hamilton, City Enrichment Fund ARTS PROGRAM - Creation and Presentation, Duench Contracting, and the Cambridge Sculpture Garden. For more information: cambridgesculpturegarden.ca Inspired by Moshe Safdie’s modular architectural projects, Laura Marotta has constructed a geometric sculpture made from plywood and epoxy paint. The work suggests functionality, with its components scaled to correspond with steps or bench heights, and invites viewers to explore the horizontal planes as seating areas and engage with openings for viewing the garden setting.

17. AMADINDA AND TUBULUM | Richard Burrows and Scott Lindsay (Guelph) THEMUSEUM, 10 King Street West, Kitchener. (THEMUSEUM hours) Produced by Open Ears. For more information: openears.ca Amadinda and Tubulum make up an interactive installation: Amadinda has wooden bars made from a 110-year-old piano and resonators created from scrap PVC. Pitched to a C-scale, the instrument is played when visitors strike notes with the mallets provided. Tubulum is a 2 ½ octave instrument built from scrap PVC, struck with foam paddles.

18. PARABLE II: PERSONA V2 | Colin Labadie (Waterloo) THEMUSEUM, 10 King Street West, Kitchener. (THEMUSEUM hours) Produced by Open Ears. For more information: openears.ca Parable II is a generative construction that takes shape, grows, and transforms throughout the course of the festival, and invites multiple interactions.

19. LONG PHRASES AND DRONES | Nico Muhly (New York) Zion Church, 32 Weber St W, Kitchener. (Open to the public 12 - 4pm Saturday and Sunday, 4pm - 8pm Friday). Produced by Open Ears. For more information go to openears.ca Long Phrases and Drones is made up of two works. The first, Long Phrases on the Wilton Diptych, is a 60-minute work composed for an exhibition of the 14th-century Wilton Diptych in London’s National Gallery in 2015. The second, Drones in Large Cycles, is a 12-minute work comprising one of many drone experiments made by the artist over the years. Both have been spatialized by Paul Corley in 5.1 surround sound to create an immersive sonic environment. The two pieces play on an infinite loop, and listeners are invited to come and go as they please.

20. OPEN WIDE TO PRONOUNCE ITS NAME AS WELL AS TO INGEST IT Ashley Culver (Toronto) Open Sesame, 220 King Street West, Kitchener. Open Tues. - Sat.: 11 AM–6 PM. Produced by Open Sesame. For more information: opensesameshop.com Ashley Culver’s photographs and sculptures refer to a Francis Ponge poem and one’s interaction with an orange as material, as well as through recognition and language.

21. CAFKA.18 | Robert Dayton (Toronto) Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King Street West, Kitchener. Robert Dayton is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose branding artwork and hand-lettered text illustrate the CAFKA.18 exhibition guide. Robert Dayton’s writings and drawings (along with other art) have appeared in numerous publications, books, exhibits, etc. His current book The Empty Bed is a pen-and-ink humour book about heartbreak. Robert Dayton is a graduate of the University of Waterloo MFA program.

EVENTS SCHEDULE

7pm - 8pm Music Box Composition Workshop | Jason Doell The Walper Hotel, Boardroom, 20 Queen St. S, Kitchener. Send an email to ad@openears.ca to sign up for the workshop. Produced by Open Ears. Learn the art of punch card composition with famed music box composer Jason Doell. Participants will receive a music box, puncher and punch cards. Limited to 15 spots so sign up early!

9:30pm - 11:30pm Guest Curator Series: Ben Grossman | Ben Grossman Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St., Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Features ensembles: Ballantyne/Harms Duo; Sound of the Mountain; Nakamura/Taxt Duo.

MAY 30 | Wednesday 7pm Klang! | Peter Hatch Ticket information: Free. Produced by Open Ears. Various Churches in KW. All the churches in Waterloo region ring their bells simultaneously.

7pm - 8pm #Hatchtag: Celebrating 20 Years of Peter Hatch & Open Ears | Peter Hatch Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Maureen Forrester Hall, WLU, 75 University Ave W, Waterloo. Opening ceremonies featuring performances of Peter Hatch’s works.

MAY 31 | Thursday 5pm - 6pm Pre Concert Chat: Interview with Ben Grossman, Toshimaru Nakamura & guests TWH Social, 1 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. 6pm - 7pm Broken | Portal Dance Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Portal Dance’s latest creation, Broken is an intimate, raw, multimedia dance work featuring dance greats Katie Ewald, Robert Kingsbury, Lynette Segal, Kelly Steadman and Julia Garlisi, and Guelph music royalty Nathan Lawr (brain child of the Minotaurs), as well as Ed Video program director, Scott McGovern. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up.

7pm - 9pm Night at THEMUSEUM featuring Hard Wired, Octet of Penderecki SQ and TorQ THEMUSEUM, 10 King St. W, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. World premiere by Nicole Lizèe.

JUNE 1 | Friday 6pm - 7 pm How Is Your Pony? | Studio Dan Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St., Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. The music of Frank Zappa and his echoes.

7pm - 8pm Artist Talk with Ashley Culver Open Sesame, 220 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by Open Sesame. Culver’s photographs and sculptures refer to Francis Ponge’s poetry and one’s interaction with an orange as material, as well as through recognition and language.

8pm - 9pm Open Sesame Reception with Ashley Culver and St. Marie & Walker Open Sesame, 220 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by Open Sesame. 8pm - 9pm Fragments Noirs | Stereoscope KWCMS, 57 Young St, Waterloo Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Stereoscope is an emerging sax duo from Toronto.

10pm - 2am Blue Dot | Ian Newton Zion Church, 32 Weber St. W, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Experimental DJ experience.

JUNE 2 | Saturday, 9am - 1pm CAFKA Family Days: Printmaking Maps The Kitchener Market, 2nd Floor, 300 King St E, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Block print your own map of the exhibition with printmaker Michelle Purchase. Then go on a scavenger hunt finding the art treasures around town. $5/PWYC. Suitable for all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.

11am - Noon Emerging Composer Piece: Katerina Gimon Victoria Park, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. World premiere of winner from competition.

1pm - 2pm No Hay Banda Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St., Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Hailing from Montreal, this avant-garde ensemble showcases two extended-length works for quartet comprised of violin, saxophone, piano/synths, and percussion, with both featuring heavy amplification and various forms of integrated electronics. Anthony Tan’s slow and reflective work combines dense held instrumental tones with field recordings from various spaces and environments. Mauricio Pauly works with expressive amplification and electronics as an integrated element of performance, intertwining live-mixing and processing with the sound and physicality of instrumental performance.

2pm - 4pm Walking Tour of CAFKA with CAFKA Executive Director Gordon Hatt Carl Zehr Square Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Join us for an inaugural walking tour of CAFKA.18 in Downtown Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Admission Free.

3pm - 4pm Tony Conrad Documentary: Completely in the Present Princess Cinema, 6 Princess St. W, Waterloo. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up.

Sometimes referred to as the Bill Murray of the Avant Garde, Conrad’s films and musical compositions have been the stuff of legend. Conrad was an early member of the Velvet Underground; he toured with Sonic Youth in the ’90s; collaborated with contemporary artists such as Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley; and has spent decades re-wiring generations of young minds as a professor and media personality in Buffalo, New York. His vast conceptual multimedia repertoire has challenged the very foundations of art, film and music and questioned entire belief systems.

5pm - 6pm “. . . amid the cannon’s roar” | Jason Doell The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St., Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Works by music box composer Jason Doell, and featuring KW’s Nü Ears Ensemble.

7pm - 9pm CAFKA Opening Reception Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. 7pm - 8pm Composer talk: Nico Muhly Zion Church, 32 Weber St W, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Nico Muhly, hailed as “the planet’s hottest composer” is equally comfortable in sacred choral music, orchestra, chamber and opera. Muhly will hit the stage with acclaimed violist Nadia Sirota in an evening of indie classical music.

8pm - 9pm Nico Muhly and Nadia Sirota Zion Church, 32 Weber St W, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. New music gurus from NYC.

8pm ARENA | Seagram Synth Ensemble Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Waterloo-based Moog synthesizer trio will perform at the CAFKA.18 opening reception. Admission: Free.

9pm - 2am CAFKA Artist Party Critical Media Lab, 44 Gaukel Street, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Tickets: $20/PWYC. For more info see CAFKA.org/events

JUNE 3 | Sunday 11 AM - 12 Noon, Emerging Composer Contest

Victoria Park, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. World premiere of emerging composer contest.

1pm - 2pm Awaken | Barbara Croall The Walper Hotel, Oak Room, 20 Queen St. S, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Chamber and solo music of Ojibwe composer Barbara Croall, featuring Nü Ears Ensemble.

3pm - 4pm Indie-Classical Choir | Mark Vuorinen Zion Church, 32 Weber St W, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Choir music of Nico Muhly, Caleb Burhans, Caroline Shaw and others.

6pm - 7pm Illimaq | Ben Reimer Zion Church, 32 Weber St W, Kitchener. Produced by Open Ears. Ticket information: openears.ca/artist-line-up. Ben Reimer performs Ilimac for drumset and digital delay.

JUNE 4 | Monday Noon - 1 PM This Could Be The Place | Abedar Kamgari: Untitled Arts Quad, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo. Produced by UWAG/UWFA. For information www.cafka.org/cafka18/state-emergency

JUNE 5 | Tuesday Noon - 1pm This Could Be The Place | Lisa Myers: Playing Spoons Arts Quad, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo. Produced by UWAG/UWFA. For information www.cafka.org/cafka18/state-emergency

JUNE 6 | Wednesday Noon - 1pm ARENA | Polly Beats Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Andrea Mauro performs as Polly Beats with ARENA. Admission: Free.

Noon - 1pm This Could Be The Place | Golboo Amani: Public Reading Arts Quad, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo. Produced by UWAG/UWFA. For information www.cafka.org/cafka18/state-emergency

JUNE 7 | Thursday Noon - 1pm This Could Be The Place | Johanna Householder: Holocene Days Arts Quad, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo. Produced by UWAG/UWFA. For information www.cafka.org/cafka18/state-emergency

6pm - 10pm CAFKA Pub Crawl with Steve Lavigne Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Pre-register online or register at Kitchener City Hall at the start of the Crawl. Cost includes 3 drink tickets and snacks. Receive a guided tour of CAFKA installations through Downtown Kitchener. While you’re out, enjoy drinks and discussions, and share your creative side at art stations set up at participating bars. Tickets: $25.

JUNE 8 | Friday This Could Be The Place | Lala Raščić: The Damned Damn Arts Quad, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo. Produced by UWAG/UWFA. For information www.cafka.org/cafka18/state-emergency

7pm - 8pm Artist Talk with Dawn Matheson Open Sesame, 220 King Street West, Kitchener. Produced by Open Sesame. Dawn Matheson will be speaking about her collaboration with deaf and hard of hearing youth, and the making of her video [i carry your heart with me (i carry it in], performed by 9-year-old Guelph resident, Nora Stasiukiewicz. The video will be projected on the top of the Kitchener City Hall as well as running as a trailer at the Princess and at the Apollo movie theatres during CAFKA.18.

7pm - 10pm ARENA | Spoken Word with Janice Jo Lee Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Janice Jo Lee curates an evening of spoken word. Admission: Free.

June 9 | Saturday 9am - 5pm Symposium: State of Emergency UWAG, 263 Phillip St, Waterloo. Produced by UWAG/UWFA. Admission Free. 9am - 1pm CAFKA Family Days | Self Portrait Agamographs The Kitchener Market, 2nd Floor, 300 King St E, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Make your own personalized Agamograph with Mindful Makers! We’ll help you take a self portrait, and turn it into a colouring book picture to create a 2-sided piece of art. Your images will be visible when viewed from opposite angles. $5/PWYC. Suitable for all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.

7pm - 11pm Ensemble | At The Reception: Kiersten Holden-Ada, Michael McCormack, and Zak Miller-Ada Goudies Lane, 16 Goudies Lane, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. At The Reception the collective title of the collaboration of Kiersten Holden-Ada, Michael McCormack, and Zak Miller-Ada. ENSEMBLE is a son et lumière event that uses broadcast media technology to project the sounds of a traditional pit orchestra within the setting of a drive-in movie theatre.

8pm - 1am Summer Lights King St. from Francis to College, Downtown Kitchener, Summer Lights is a one night festival of art, tech, games, music, theatre, and dance. Produced by Summer Lights Festival. For more information: www.summerlightsfestival.com.

JUNE 10 | Sunday 10am - 12pm CAFKA Coffee Crawl with ASL interpretation Cafe Pyrus, 16 Charles St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Meet at Cafe Pyrus and take a guided tour to the Downtown Kitchener CAFKA.18 locations. $5/PWYC.

1pm - 3pm Guided tour of CAFKA in Mandarin Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. CAFKA.18 双年展的中文普通话游览将由钟宬带来，她将为您讲解介绍本次展览的总体概况和部分作品，帮助您更好地欣赏参展的艺术品

JUNE 13 | Wednesday Noon - 1pm ARENA | Polly Beats Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Andrea Mauro performs as Polly Beats with ARENA. Admission: Free.

JUNE 14 | Thursday 6pm - 10pm CAFKA Pub Crawl with Allie Brenner Produced by CAFKA. Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Pre-register online or register at Kitchener City Hall at the start of the Crawl. Cost includes 3 drink tickets and snacks. Receive a guided tour of CAFKA installations through Downtown Kitchener. While you’re out, enjoy drinks and discussions, and share your creative side at art stations set up at participating bars. Tickets: $25.

JUNE 15 | Friday 7pm - 10pm ARENA | Open Mic Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Plug into and perform through a 320 speaker PA. Admission: Free.

JUNE 16 | Saturday 9am - 1pm CAFKA Family Days | Thought Buttons The Kitchener Market, 2nd Floor, 300 King St E, Kitchener Produced by CAFKA. Put a button on it. Join the artists Denise St Marie and Timothy Walker at the Kitchener Market for a drop-in workshop where you can leave with your own unique button. $5/PWYC. Suitable for all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.

2pm - 4pm ARENA | Open Mic Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Plug into and perform through a 320 speaker PA. Admission: Free.

3:30pm - 5pm CAFKA Alley Cat Rally Victoria Park Gazebo, Roos Island, Kitchener Produced by CAFKA. Sponsored by Jack Burger and Black Arrow Cycles.

8am Stone Clay Fire | Making A Circle rare Charitable Research Reserve 1679 Blair Rd, Cambridge

Not just a cycle tour, the CAFKA Alley Cat is an urban scavenger hunt using bikes or any human-powered transportation. The fastest and funnest way to see CAFKA.18. Compete by yourself or with a team. Register at the Gazebo between 3 and 3:30 PM to receive a map and instructions. Follow the map to multiple locations, gather clues, answer questions and complete a variety of tasks while discovering CAFKA.18 and downtown Kitchener. Helmets and costumes strongly encouraged. Tickets: $20 includes a burger, fries, and beer at Jack Burger plus prizes for the winning teams ($15 for minors).

Don Russell lights the circle which will burn for seven days.

JUNE 17 | Sunday 10am - Noon CAFKA Coffee Crawl with Aaron Francis Matter of Taste, 115 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. $5/PWYC.

Meet at Matter of Taste and take a guided tour to the Downtown Kitchener CAFKA.18 locations.

1pm - 3pm Une visite guidée de CAFKA.18 avec Émily Traichel Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Rejoignez-nous pour une visite guidée de CAFKA.18 en français. $5/PWYC.

1pm - 3pm Community Thoughts Tour, Library of Things 91 Moore Ave, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Denise St Marie and Timothy Walker of St Marie ϕ Walker will give a tour of their Midtown KW neighbourhood inspired project Community Thoughts.

JUNE 20 | Wednesday Noon - 1pm ARENA | Polly Beats Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Andrea Mauro performs as Polly Beats with ARENA. Admission: Free.

JUNE 21 | Thursday 2pm - 4pm Cambridge Sculpture Garden Reception | Laura Marotta’s Garden Shelter Cambridge Sculpture Garden, 53 Grand Ave S, Cambridge. Produced by Cambridge Sculpture Garden.

JUNE 22 | Friday 7pm - 10pm Post Script Curator’s Talk and Reception with Lisa Myers Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St N, Kitchener. Produced by KWAG. Lisa Myers is an independent curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Myers is based in Toronto and Port Severn, Ontario and is a member of Beausoleil First Nation. She is currently an Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

JUNE 23 | Saturday 9am - 12pm CAFKA Family Days | Optical Illusion Art The Kitchener Market, 2nd Floor, 300 King St E, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Create your own piece of optical illusion art with Artshine. Is it a fish or is it a bird? Some things are not what they seem. $5/PWYC. Suitable for all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.

2pm - 4pm CAFKA Walking Tour with Aaron Francis & Paulina Cisnernos Produced by CAFKA. Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener Take a guided tour to the Downtown Kitchener CAFKA.16 locations. $5/PWYC.

7pm - 9pm ARENA | Ramsay Almighty Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. KW Hip Hop artist Ramsay Almighty fuses his early education in piano and guitar with a ‘90s era hip hop. Admission: Free

JUNE 24 | Sunday 11am - 2pm CAFKA Cycle to rare Charitable Conservation Reserve with Alex Szaflarska and Sean Campbell from Hold The Line

Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Ride to rare Charitable Reserve in Cambridge to see Don Russell’s Stone Clay Fire.

1pm - 3pm Visita guiada de CAFKA en español, Paulina Cisnernos Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA. Admission $5/PWYC

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MAY 30 MAY 31 -#Hatchtag: Celebrating 20 Years of Peter Hatch and Open Ears -Klang!

JUNE 28 | Thursday 7pm - 9pm Big Ideas: Susan Blight Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St N, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA/Musagetes/KWAG.

Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, photography, film, and social practice. She is co-founder of the Ogimaa Miikana Project, an artist/activist collective working to reclaim and rename the roads, streets, and landmarks of Toronto with Anishinaabemowin. Her work is featured in CAFKA.18 as a public installation and as part of the exhibition Post Script at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.

8pm - 11pm ARENA | Full Moon Boogie Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St W, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA and Boogie House KW Jessica and Kirstie decided to throw a dance party for all their friends on a cold night in March, 2017. Having danced to the bouncy, bright vibes of DJ DaddyDisko a few times before and they knew he’d be the best fit for their tribe. After that epic House Party, DaddyDisko (aka Travis Kell) expressed a strong interest in creating more of this magic! So they rolled with the inclusive, supportive, celebratory, for-all-humans energy they felt in the dance, and have been sharing the music and the dance around KW since then. Admission: Free.

Have your say in the wind. This hands-on workshop provides all the materials to make your own flag—attach it to your bike, stick it in your garden, or just wave it in your very own personal parade. SAIL (Student Art Innovation Lab) is an outreach arts-based initiative brought to you by fine arts students from the University of Waterloo. $5/PWYC. Suitable for all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.

SAT 1

-How Is Your Pony? -Artist Talk with Ashley Culver -Music Box Composition Workshop -Open Sesame Reception with Ashley Culver and St. Marie & Walker -Fragments Noirs -Blue Dot

-This Could Be The Place: Lisa Myers

-This Could Be The Place: Golboo Amani - Arena

-This Could Be The Place:Johanna Householder -CAFKA Pub Crawl with Steve Lavigne

-This Could Be The Place: Lala Raščić - Artist Talk with Dawn Matheson - Arena

12 - Arena

24 -CAFKA Cycle to rare -Visita guiada de CAFKA

-CAFKA Pub Crawl with Allie Brenner

20 - Arena

-CAFKA Coffee Crawl with Aaron Francis -Une visite guidée de CAFKA.18 avec Émily Traichel -Community Thoughts Tour, Library of Things

Pre Concert Chat Broken Night at THEMUSEUM Music Box Composition Workshop Hard Wired Guest Curator Series: Ben Grossman

FRI

-This Could Be -Emerging Composer Contest The Place: Abedar -Awaken Kamgari -Indie-Classical Choir -Illimaq

-CAFKA Coffee Crawl with ASL interpretation -Guided tour of CAFKA in Mandarin

JUNE 30 | Saturday 9am - 1pm CAFKA Family Days: Flag-Making Workshop with SAIL The Kitchener Market, 2nd Floor, 300 King St E, Kitchener. Produced by CAFKA.

THURS

21 -Cambridge Sculpture Garden Reception -Stone Clay Fire: Making A Circle

28 -Big Ideas: Susan Blight - Arena

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-CAFKA Family Days -Emerging Composer -No Hay Banda -Walking Tour of CAFKA -Tony Conrad Documentary -“....amid the cannon’s roar” -CAFKA Opening Reception -Composer talk: Nico Muhly -Nico Muhly & Nadia Sirota - Arena -CAFKA Artist Party

9 -Symposium: State of Emergency -CAFKA Family Days: Self Portrait Agamographs -Ensemble by At The Reception -Summer Lights

16 - CAFKA Family Days: Thought Buttons - Arena - CAFKA Alley Cat Rally

-Post Script Curator’s Talk and Reception with Lisa Myers

-CAFKA Family Days: Optical Illusion Art -CAFKA Walking Tour with Aaron Francis & Paulina Cisnernos - Arena

30 -CAFKA Family Days: Flag-Making Workshop with SAIL

THANK YOU! CAKFA is grateful for the support of our members and our sponsors. Thank you to the kind and caring citizens who give what they can to support contemporary art in our public spaces. You are a crucial part of the CAFKA community! CAFKA is proud to have such an inspiring and generous group of sponsors. Your vital support makes it possible for us to bring world-class artists and installations to our neighbourhoods and city streets. Thank you for your remarkable investment in contemporary art. CAFKA would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for its very generous support of CAFKA.18 through the Concept to Realization component of the Explore and Create program. We thank the ongoing and vital support and encouragement of the City of Kitchener and the Musagetes Fund of the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation for sticking with CAFKA all these years. CAFKA was very fortunate to receive funding this year from Celebrate Ontario to support the development of Berlin artist Benoît Maubrey’s sound sculpture ARENA. We are very encouraged by the support and encouragement we received for CAFKA.18 from the Region of Waterloo and the City of Waterloo. Thank you to the Working Centre for helping us to hire Mars Orlowska and Alan Zeberek, without whom so many things would have gone undone. And thank you to Isaac Ayala, Cameron Heights Collegiate co-op student, for your enthusiasm and dedication. What really makes CAFKA amazing though is the support we have received from individuals and businesses in the community. We are very grateful to Stephen Lake and Thalmic Labs for their support of Lucy Pullen’s RECOGNIZE EVERYONE, and to Conestoga Mall for their support of Marcia Huyer’s Negotiating +/-. We are grateful to the Schwartz Family for its support of CAFKA again this year. Thank you to Laird Robertson at NEO Architecture and to Graham Whiting at Whiting Design for supporting Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron’s Tipping Point and to Stephen Litt and Heather Campbell and VIVE for their support of Anna van Milligen’s Church. Thank you to Ron Doyle and Communitech for allowing us to build ARENA at Lot 42. Thank you to Westmount Signs and Civilian Screen Printing for helping to make CAFKA.18 visible in the community and thank you to Jon Buysse at Sherwood Systems for advising and assisting CAFKA on all it’s A/V needs. Thank you once again to Rex Lingwood, and to all the volunteers and billeters who make so much possible. Thank you to CAFKA Board President Michelle Purchase and all of the board members who have put in so many hours over the last two years to make this exhibition happen.

And to all of the artists in CAFKA.18: Thank you for bringing your best. Gordon Hatt Executive Director

OUR SPONSORS

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17. Amadinda and Tubulum 18. Parable II 19. Long Phrases and Drones 20. Open Wide To Pronounce it’s Name 21. Robert Dayton

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CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area is a non-profit, artist-run organization that presents a free biennial exhibition of contemporary art in the public spaces of the City of Kitchener and across the Region of Waterloo. Between exhibitions and throughout the year CAFKA promotes art education through its public tours and workshops, videos, public lectures and other ancillary programs and events. Gordon Hatt Michelle Purchase Bryn Ossington Hanneke Smolders Jennifer Love Victoria Kent Thomas Nagy Jessie Lacayo Glodeane Brown Cherie Fawcett Lauren Weinberg Aaron Francis Tara Cooper

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Mars Orlowska Alan Zeberek Isaac Ayala

Volunteer Co-ordinator Installer Co-op student

Robert Dayton Andrea Deering

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CAFKA - Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area 141 Whitney Place, Studio 7 Kitchener, ON N2G 2X8 CANADA

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