Masala Mixer 2012

I have donated a recent paintng to the Masala Mixer's silent art auction, which is a fundraiser in honour of the Victoria General Hospital's Buhler Cancer Centre. The Masala Mixer is a yearly event sponsored by the East India Company restaurants. They have raised over $60,000 to date and donate 100% of their proceeds to charities across Manitoba, past charities have been the Alzheimer's society of Manitoba and currently the Victoria General Foundation.

If you are interested in owning this (see below) painting and helping a worthy charity, please go to the Masala Mixer's main page and look into purchasing tickets for this coming friday (March 2nd, 2012). At the close of this post I will include the where and when.
   

The Girl from an Old Photograph,  oil on canvas ,20x24 inches.

Event Details:

Masala Mixer VI - Soiree Through the Spice Route
349 York Ave
8:30 PM March 2nd 2012
$30 per ticket
100% proceeds to Victoria General foundation

I Fell Silent

Dear fellow art and film enthusiasts,
   
     Today I put some of my money where my mouth is and pledged to support the film I Fell Silent on Kickstarter. Carson Lund is a film critic and filmmaker who writes a wonderful blog (arethehillsgoingtomarchoff) of film critisim I read and enjoy weekly, who along with his life long friend and co-directer Michael Basta are planning to make said film this coming spring.

       All I ask of any reader is to look at their pitch on Kickstarter and think if you would like to see this project realized. What follows is some information from the directors on the film and examples of other work. The Kickstarter page is set up and scheduled with a funding deadline of February 24th 2012. If the funding goal is not reached by then, the film will not be produced. I would like to thank you for your time and consideration.

"I Fell Silent, is a dreamy horror/coming-of-age film in the stylistic vein of Claire Denis, Pedro Costa, Carlos Saura, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Ingmar Bergman. The film will focus on the quotidian life of a young boy who dwells in a large mansion with his mother and grandmother, a home that has been passed down through family history. Part of the idea is to take some of the conventions of the horror genre and approach them from a strange angle, to render the "horror" - which is relatively mundane and universal to childhood - somewhat peripheral to the expression of a child gradually grasping at the broader world around him."

   A few of Carson Lund's and Michael Basta's collaborations can be found online, please feel encouraged to check them out:

Wind Through the Cradle

Remedy in Phrases 

Bardo