<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 4, 2018 </b></span><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:normal"><b>Lake Country</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">January 13th to February 25th</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Opening Reception: Saturday January 13th 2-4pm</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Existential Cafe/Artist Talk: Sunday January 28th 2-3:30pm </b></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;">The Lake Country is very excited to start off 2018 with an installation by artists Melany Nugent and Trent Noble.</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;">This installation will ponder the idea of community and activate the gallery as a gathering space by enhancing a sense of warmth, comfort and home with a virtual campfire.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Trent Noble and Melany Nugent Noble are Kelowna-based artists that work across an array of mediums, including animation, text, and public space. As a classically and 3D trained animator, Trent has worked on a diverse range of installations, video and interactive projects across Canada and internationally, including Stan Douglas’ Circa 1948 interactive app for iOS, and the play Helen Lawrence with the National Film Board of Canada. Also the Rockheim Museum in Trondheim, Norway. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In her artistic practice, Melany Noble makes use of tactics of play that are negotiated through text and public space that aim to collate, destabilize and amplify repetition and patterns in order to create slippage and displacement of rhetoric, language and everyday routine. She has a Masters of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, in Vancouver B.C. and in 2016, was the recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the BC Arts Council.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Upcoming Events:</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>third beach Opening Reception: </b>Saturday January 13th from 2-4pm</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Existential Cafe:</b> Sunday January 28th 2-3:30pm</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Who Are We? Submission dates:</b> Who Are We? A Visual Narrative of Our Community is open to everyone of all ages. Individual and collaborative works are welcome, any size, any medium. Drop off days: February 22, 23 and 24 at the LC Art Gallery</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Who Are We? A Visual Narrative of Our Community:</b> March 1st to April 1st</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;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</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">email: <a href="mailto:wandalock@shaw.ca"><span style="line-height:normal">wandalock@shaw.ca</span></a></span></p><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">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">www.lakecountryartgallery.ca</a></span></b></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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