Well, here it is, hope it works out for you all. My apologies for all the ummms.

Submissions must include:

* a curriculum vitae
* an artist’s statement
* 10-15 digital images with an accompanying list identifying each work
* and/or VHS or DVD documentation (maximum 5 minutes)
* a project description including any special technical and/or
spatial requirements

Send your submission to:
Trap\door Artist Run Centre
Annual Submission
c/o 811 5 Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB T1J 0V2

Deadline: May 5, 2010 (applications must be received, not postmarked,
by this date).

If you have any questions please contact us. info@trapdoorarc.com

Corey Lee, one of the filmmakers, will be on hand to introduce the festival, with a Q & A period to follow.

WHEN: Friday, March 19, 3pm

WHERE: W731, Centre for the Arts, University of Lethbridge

WHO: anyone and everyone

ADMISSION: free!

For more information, see www.prairietales.org or email info@trapdoorarc.com or artsociety@uleth.ca

LISTEN TO A PITCH FOR THE SHOW HERE!

Tarot Cards…Aura Paintings…Shrunken Heads…Goethean Colour Divination…Surrealist Fortune-Telling…Strange and Unusual Sights and Sounds…

…you’ll find it all at the Trap\door’s Psychic Fair and Artist Sideshow fund-raiser on Saturday, February 13, from 5pm – 9pm, at the Bowman Arts Centre!

Some are serious, some tongue-in-cheek and some plain cheeky! Come down, have a drink, and soak in the atmosphere!

Tickets are $10, and go on sale now! Save the date and attend the most intriguing and unusual event of the Season!

All proceeds go to support the programing of Trap\door

for ticket purchase information, email info@trapdoorarc.com

Special thanks to those who donated items or services:

Aaron Hagan, Beany Dootjes, Chai Dunca, Christina Cuthbertson, Corinne Thiessen-Hepher, Dagmar Dahle, David Farstad, Don Gill, Jane Edmundson, Josie Mills, Leila Armstrong, Loralee Edwards, Mary-Anne McTrowe, Mike Maguire, Naomi Sato, Rick Gillis, Todd Tremeer, Glen MacKinnon and Leanne Elias, Alexis Bialobzysky, and Darcy Logan.

Extra Special thanks go to Daniel Warner, who set up and ran the website for the auction.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, and have a happy holiday!

The annual Trap\door Christmas Wishbook Silent Auction is now online. Bid on a selection of goodies, both ephemeral and tangible, from all and sundry.

All the bidding takes place online, ending at 4pm December 12, and the winners will be announced that evening at our Christmas party!

Will you be the winner of the Arctic Grey Sock Monkey? The Chocolate Dipped Chili Peppers? The 22-year Tarot project?

Go to www.trapdoorarc.com/auction and start bidding.

One goal of Trap\door artist run centre is to help visual artists develop their practice by providing opportunities for creative research and exploration. We see the promotion of emerging artists as a vital role for our organization and an important contribution to the cultural richness of our community.

With this goal in mind, Trap\door is offering the fifth annual Gushul Studio Residency & Collaboration Project. This project will combine the skills, knowledge, histories and varied approaches of two emerging visual artists. At least one artist will be picked from within Alberta and both artists will be chosen based on the strength and merit of their ongoing production as well as their collaborative abilities. Artists can apply individually and be paired with another artist or apply as a team. The two will do a residency together at the University of Lethbridge’s Gushul Studio.

The Gushul is located in the scenic Crowsnest Pass in the town of Blairmore, Alberta. Trap\door chose the Gushul as the location for this residency because it is designed to accommodate two working artists and has been successfully utilized for 2 decades by professional artists and writers from across Canada, the United States, and Europe. It is an exceptional space which meets the requirements of the project and has the added extra incentive of allowing artists in residence to interact with, and contribute to, the vitality of the Crowsnest Pass community. Trap\door has booked the Gushul Studio for the month of August, 2010.

Trap\door will arrange and advertise an open house during which members of the community can visit the artists in residence. In addition, we will publish a full-colour brochure featuring written and visual documentation of the project.

Trap\door believes strongly in providing adequate funding for participants. Thus we will provide rental of the Gushul studio and writer’s cottage as well as a living stipend and a $500 artist’s fee for each artist.

To apply, please submit the following:
cv Artist Statement
Statement of Intent
15 images (slides or digital images, and or VHS or DVD documentation)
Image list ( artist’s name, title, date, medium, size)

Please mail applications to:
Trap\door
c/o 811 5 Avenue South,
Lethbridge, AB, T1J 0V2

Application Deadline: December 15th, 2009 (Applications must be received, not postmarked by this date.)

For more information on the Gushul Studio facilities, please visit the University of Lethbridge Gushul Studio Program