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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Midsummer Night of Curiosities: </b></span><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal">Masquerade Festival </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thursday August 24th @ 7pm till late at the Lake Country Art Gallery. An evening of celebrating youth art with masquerade and superheroes. Bring your picnic blankets…we provide teas, entertainment, sundaes and art.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><b>The Existential Cafe:</b></span><span style="font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><b> </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Artist Talk with Scott August, </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Saturday August 26th @ 2pm. Scott will discuss the work of </span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:normal">Peter </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Soehn. Born in Saskatchewan in 1933, Peter Soehn not only created characters of rural life, he himself was exactly that. Soehn worked as a television prop builder and on-camera painting Instructor in Alberta and in Kelowna British Columbia at C.H.B.C. T.V. during the 1960’s and 1970’s. In the 1980’s his family created ambitious folk-art sculptures and theme-parks for the amusement of others, from the demolished Kelowna Zoo to the re-developed Old MacDonald’s Farm, very little remains of his work in the Okanagan. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><b>Furbish: Remnants of Post-Amusement:</b></span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:normal"><b> </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Scott August, July 16th to August 27th.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">In </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i>Furbish: Remnant Themes of Post-Amusement</i>, artist Scott August explores what little remains of Peter’s unrecognized legacy, from unearthing a buried 1970’s Billboard, to posthumously documenting the artist’s mind-boggling studio. All that remains of Peter’s efforts are fading family photographs, unfinished sculptures, and dust covered memories. Based on Soehn past works, August reworks, reinterprets and assembles new work in the gallery.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><b>Submission Deadline:</b></span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:normal"><b> </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Are We There Yet? Canadian Roadside Attractions open to all members of the Lake Country Art Gallery. Drop-off dates August 24, 25 and 26 during gallery hours. See gallery website for submission details, <a href="http://lakecountryartgallery.ca"><span style="line-height:normal;color:rgb(4,51,255)"><b>lakecountryartgallery.ca</b></span></a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><b>Are We There Yet? Canadian Roadside Attractions </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Members’ Exhibition: August 30 to September 30th.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Check out the latest edition of Galleries West Magazine for Lorna Tureski’s piece ‘Another Roadside Attraction’ </b><a href="http://www.gallerieswest.ca/artists/previews/another-roadside-attraction/"><span style="line-height:normal;color:rgb(4,51,255)"><b>http://www.gallerieswest.ca/artists/previews/another-roadside-attraction/</b></span></a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Media Contact</b>: Wanda Lock - curator tel: 250 864 5597 or 250 766 4873 email: <a href="mailto:wandalock@shaw.ca"><span style="line-height:normal">wandalock@shaw.ca</span></a></span></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">____________________________<br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><p><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Lake Country Art Gallery:</span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue, serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></span></u></b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">10356A Bottom Wood Lake Rd<br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">Lake Country, British Columbia<br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">V4V 1T9</span></p><p><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;color:windowtext"><span style="font-size:11pt">Gallery Hours:</span><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></span></u></b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">Wed,</span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun 10am-4pm<br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">(closed Mon-Tue)</span></p><p><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;color:windowtext">Contact:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:2pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;color:windowtext"> <br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">(250) 766 -1299<br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif"><a href="mailto:lakecountryartgallery@shaw.ca" target="_blank">lakecountryartgallery@shaw.ca</a><br></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.lakecountryartgallery.ca" target="_blank">www.lakecountryartgallery.ca</a></span></b></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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