First Friday After Party
- Date
- Friday, Aug 4, 2017 at 10pm
- Performers
- DJ AOKS
- Location
- Tallest Poppy
- Address
- 685 Westminster Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Door Cost
- $5.00
About
After you've hit all the gallery openings, come to The Tallest Poppy where DJ AOKS will be spinning all night! We suggest you come ready to dance. Or feel free to sit on our patio with artwork by Gibril Bangura, Paul Robles and Divya Mehra. Follow your heart.
Artist In Residene Joi Aracand will also be showing the work she created during her residency. The artist has been re-working the English alphabet via plastic lettering into Cree for a new diner sign. Arcand is in town completing Plug In ICA's Summer Institute with Walter Scott and Niki Little.
Gender Neutral Washroom. Wheelchair Accessible. Drink Specials.
Joi T. Arcand is a photo-based artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in central Saskatchewan - Treaty 6 Territory and is currently based in Ottawa, Ontario. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 2005, and has exhibited across Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2006, along with Felicia Gay, she co-founded the The Red Shift Gallery, a contemporary Indigenous art gallery in Saskatoon. In 2012, she combined her love of art, design and publishing to create kimiwan ‘zine, a magazine for Indigenous artists and writers