An evening of electro pop, art & fire!
Thursday, Feb 25, 2010 - 9:00 pm
Etc/GMT-7
Join Tessa Amy for an evening of electro pop music surrounded by art from Laurel Terlesky with fire spinning outside by Courtney Driver as part of the Wild at Art, Spirit of Squamish Festival. #204 - 37760 2nd Avenue, Downtown Squamish Behind Community Futures (Laurel Terlesky's studio)
9:00 pm, Thursday, February 25th
Wine by donation
Tessa Amy
This once strong acoustic performer has taken a determined and worthy leap from the guitar and voice driven world, into the land of Synth riffs and Sugar Pop, Electo beats. A land in which this writer and now Producer seems to have been born. Still holding true to her strong vocal talent, Amy's songs are quirky, catchy, imaginative and varied. Live she is quirky and catchy as her music.
Laurel Terlesky
Laurel Terlesky found her home in Squamish, British Columbia in 2006 after travels through the United States, tapping into the touch-and-go atmosphere of pop culture from New York to San Francisco as well as footing through a handful of Canadian cities from Montreal to Vancouver. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with a major in Painting from the University of Victoria in 1999 and has been actively creating and contributing to the artistic community she surrounds herself in. The body of
work Laurel has amassed throughout the last decade is evidence of her dedication, not only to art, but also to life and living every day as an artist.
Laurel creates canvases that are largely abstract in style built around an awareness of the human form and kinetic movement. Themes that have developed a language in her work are electricity & power, sustainable energy practices, spirituality, and the human body as it relates to the environment. Her paintings challenge our awareness of space by illustrating optical, illusionary space or by flattening space with solid colour placement. She has exhibited her work in Whistler, Squamish, Victoria, Vancouver, Montreal and San Francisco.
Laurel was recently awarded a stipend to spend a month at an international artist residency in Barcelona, Spain where she worked on future projects.
Firespinning with Courtney Driver & friends
Courtney Driver is a performer with a life-ling passion for freestyle dance. After being immursed in several dance cultures including hip hop, jazz, kundalini, Eurhthmey and belly dancing. She has connected the most with spinning poi, hoops and the fire arts.
Courtney feels its important to share the benifits of dance with others. She is a dynamic and fun insructor who helps her students connect to the rythym of life through dance.
Courtney is a certified hoop teacher and poi teacher in the Sea to Sky coridor. Residing in Squamish she has performed at several festivals in Canada and the United States as well as local community events.
Part of the Spirit of Squamish, Wild at Art Festival
www.wildatart.ca
