Paul P.
Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment

5 June – 28 August 2022

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

The work of Toronto-based artist Paul P. employs the visual aesthetics of the late nineteenth century to consider and commemorate queer social histories, particularly the period of gay liberation that occurred just before the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The artist is known for portraits appropriated from source material found in the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.

Less well known are his numerous delicate watercolours of gardens, flowers and statuary, as well as seascapes and shorelines, drawn from life over the past 15 years. Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment brings together a number of these works — most of them never before exhibited — in a haunting reflection on the aesthetics of longing.

P.’s work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Whitney Museum, among others. P. lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Beyond Art Box

Now Available! Order Yours Today

$90.00 CAD

Oakville Galleries is thrilled to announce an exciting new initiative in support of our arts education programs! Introducing Beyond Art Box, a curated box of art supplies and activities for family fun to be enjoyed throughout the summer.

Our mission with Beyond Art Box is to fundraise for Oakville Galleries' Programs, which provide quality arts education classes to local families. Oakville Galleries will also be donating a portion of the proceeds from each box to Art House. We are thrilled to partner with Art House to reach as many Halton Families as possible and give back to our community.

Each Beyond Art Box includes:

• A $55 Family Membership to Oakville Galleries which includes a 15% discount on all children's programming throughout the year and many other benefits.

• Travel Watercolour Kit with Paper Pad

• Fundamentals of Landscape Watercolour Painting Activity, an Artist-led Tutorial.

• Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh, This Is How I Know book by Brittany Luby. A lyrical, bilingual story-poem about an Anishinaabe child and her grandmother exploring the natural wonders of each season.

• Art in Nature Planter Workshop which includes: a pot, three small gardening tools, flower seeds and a tutorial by one of Oakville Galleries' art instructors on designing and potting your own flowers throughout the summer.

• Coupons for use at businesses in the Downtown Oakville BIA.

More info and to order, visit https://oakville-galleries-shop.square.site/product/beyondartbox/57

Tanya Lukin Linklater
My mind is with the weather

5 June – 28 August 2022

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

Tanya Lukin Linklater works across a range of media, including choreographed dance performances, video, sculptural installation and text. Her research-based practice considers the troubled colonial histories of Turtle Island (North America) and the structural violences Indigenous communities continue to withstand.

In My mind is with the weather, new and recent works consider how these violencesare registered and processed in the body and highlight moments of resistance. These moments come from working collaboratively with others as an anti-colonial strategy, addressing the complexities of sharing Indigenous knowledge in institutional setting— such as the museum — and a focus on the critical importance of certain practices of everyday life, such as music, dance, language, and domestic rituals.

Lukin Linklater has lived and worked in Nbisiing Anishinabek territory in northern Ontario for more than a decade.

My mind is with the weather is presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art,a free city-wide art event taking place across the city and GTA from 26 March – 5 June, 2022. This exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. An exhibition catalogue with new writing is due to be published in the Spring of 2023. 

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June is Senior's Month in Ontario. Lawyer Ryan MacNeil of Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham LLP in Kingston will discuss the unique legal issues and needs of older adults, including capacity concerns, the importance of powers of attorney, and remedies for financial abuse of seniors.

Learn about the rights and responsibilities of older adults and those who care for them under Ontario law.

Presented by the Elder Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association. 

Friday, June 24 at 2:30 pm

Register for this free Zoom webinar at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LDk0A7C3T8iiVxyJfUhJGA

Heritage and Cemetery Memorial Service at Salem United Church beginning with the Heritage Service Sunday, June 12th at 10am in the church and following with the Cemetery Memorial Service at approximately 11 am outside in the Cemetery, weather permitting.

A lunch provided by the Salem United Church Women and a time for fellowship will follow.  This is an opportunity to celebrate Salem United Church history and honour the memory of all those who are buried in the Cemetery.  All are welcome to attend.