Alistair MacLeod

17 Sept – Iqaluit

From its origins in 2008 at the Printmakers’ Forum gallery in Windsor, Ontario, the Sense of Place exhibition, featuring works from across Canada, has travelled the country as part of a road show that has included animated discussions among writers and artists on the importance of place in the arts and in our lives. Join Sense of Place for its last stop at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit, Nunavut, running from June 27th to September 20th, 2015, and for a special tribute by Nino Ricci on Thursday, September 17th, 2015 to the late Alistair MacLeod, who travelled extensively with Sense of Place sharing his insights and work.

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Sense of Place: Cape Breton

The road show that never ends finally reaches the promised land: Cape Breton, ancestral home of Sense of Place stalwart and Canadian literary great Alistair MacLeod. Join the original Sense of Place trio of Iain Baxter&, Nino Ricci, and Alistair MacLeod as they jig their way through the place that writer Ray Smith dubbed the thought-control centre of Canada.

SENSE OF PLACE: A CROSS BORDER EXHIBITION

Opening Reception & Special Event
March 20, 2012 6:00 – 9:30pm
An Evening with Alistair MacLeod, Nino Ricci and Iain Baxter&

Join us for a lively exchange between MacLeod, Ricci and Baxter& at the Boardmore Theatre on the theme of place. The presentation will be followed by an opening reception and book signing in the CBU Art Gallery. Meet the special guests and see the exhibition. Works by Ricci and MacLeod and Sense of Place exhibition catalogues will be available for sale. Free event.

Special Presentation
March 21, 2012 1:00- 3:30pm

Join us for a special presentation for artists, writers, readers and students at the Boardmore Theatre. Alistair MacLeod, Nino Ricci and Iain Baxter& will enlighten audiences with readings and a discussion about creativity, art, place and identity, followed by an informal viewing of the exhibition at the CBU Art Gallery. Light refreshments will be served. Free event.

Sense of Place: Thunder Bay

The roadshow continues as Sense of Place comes to the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, organized and circulated by the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. The exhibition runs from January 13 – February 26, 2012. On Friday, January 27, come on out of the cold for readings at 7:30 PM from Nino Ricci and Alistair MacLeod.

7:30 PM – FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2012
THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY
1080 KEEWATIN STREET – CONFEDERATION COLLEGE CAMPUS

From Sense of Place: Adam Medley, Secrets of Ventriloquism – Now Revealed, 2006

Sense of Sudbury

Looking for a good time in Sudbury? Check out Alistair MacLeod, Iain Baxter& and Nino Ricci at the Art Gallery of Sudbury as part of the ongoing Sense of Place roadshow. Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 7 PM. For more information on Sense of Place, see Nino’s article in the July/August issue of Canadian Geographic.

University of Western Ontario

Alistair MacLeod and Nino Ricci read from their work at 2 PM on Sunday, January 30th, 2011 at Conron Hall, University College at the University of Western Ontario.

Sense of Place: Alistair Macleod and Nino Ricci
Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 2:00 P.M.
Conron Hall, University College
The University of Western Ontario

The McIntosh Gallery invites you to a reading by Alistair Macleod and Nino Ricci in memory of Dr. Suzanne Kaufmann.

Canadian author Alistair MacLeod was the 2001 winner of the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel No Great Mischief (1999). He has also published The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976), As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986) and Island: The Collected Stories (2000). In 2008 he became an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Nino Ricci won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction twice: in 1990 for Lives of the Saints (also a Books in Canada First Novel Award winner), and in 2008 for The Origin of Species, which also appeared on the long list for the Giller Prize. In 1997, Ricci’s novel Where She Has Gone was short-listed for the Giller Prize.

MacLeod and Ricci were guest writers for the publication Sense of Place: A Cross-Border Print Exhibition, organized by Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. The exhibition is on view at the McIntosh Gallery from January 6th to February 19th 2011.

A great friend of the McIntosh Gallery, Dr. Suzanne Kaufmann (1920-2010) graduated in medicine from the University of Cape Town, where she met and married Dr. John Kaufmann. They moved to Johannesburg in 1955 where she worked in health clinics in the black townships of Soweto and Alexandria. In 1972, the family moved to London, Ontario, where she completed a B.A. Honours degree in Visual Art and French at Western. This event is held of honour Suzanne Kaufmann, to celebrate her passion for the arts, and to acknowledge the tremendous contribution she and John have made to the McIntosh Gallery over the years.

McIntosh Members: Join us at the Gallery after the reading for a private reception to meet Alistair and Nino and to tour the Sense of Place exhibition with Patricia Coates, President of Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. (Memberships will be available at the door.)

For more information, contact James Patten (519) 661-2111 ext. 84602, jpatten2@uwo.ca.

Photo: Patricia Coates

Tombstone Interpretive Centre

Join Alistair MacLeod and Nino Ricci at the Tombstone Interpretive Centre for short readings and a public reception. 2:00 pm Sunday September 12th, 2010 in Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon.

On the Merge of Lake Laberge

Windsor Printmakers Forum’s Sense of Place exhibit continues its world tour with a stop in the Yukon Territory, land of gold rushes, calls of the wild, and the poetry of Robert Service, who in “The Cremation of Sam McGee” famously transposed a couple of Lake Laberge’s vowels for the sake of a particularly pleasing internal rhyme.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the original Sense of Place crew of Alistair MacLeod, IAIN BAXTER&, and Nino Ricci will be hooking up with renowned multidisciplinary artist Rebecca Belmore for the Artists & Storytellers Colloquium. Come join the fun, on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 6:00 PM, at the Yukon Arts Centre, 300 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. On September 11th, the colloquium moves on to the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre in Dawson City.

There are strange things done
in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

— from “The Cremation of Sam McGee”

SENSE OF PLACE: A CROSS BORDER EXHIBITION

7:30 PM – FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2012 THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY 1080 KEEWATIN STREET – CONFEDERATION COLLEGE CAMPUS

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7:30 PM – FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2012
THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY
1080 KEEWATIN STREET – CONFEDERATION COLLEGE CAMPUS