Come on down to the Cameron House...

Updated Feb5_09:


The Neil Young'Uns are a tribute band and they play the music of, who else?... Neil Young. They're doing their first gig opening for singer Helen Carlson at the Cameron House in Toronto on Tuesday February 3rd, at 9 pm.


The group is:


Lead vocals, harmonica: Larry Cariou


Guitar, vocals: Steve Whitehouse


Bass, vocals: Denis Gonzalez


Keyboards and vocals: Trudy Binder


Drums: Our own John van Bruggen



Here's a link to a Myspace vid of the band:


Out On The Weekend

Photo essay: Tara Bursey Sculptures

In September, we were fortunate to see a solo show of sculpture by the talented Toronto artist Tara Bursey. I (Arna) met Tara when I was a (part time) sculpture student at The Toronto School Of Art, and she impressed me as a person with intense commitment to her art. The work she does always makes me stop, look...and think.

The pieces in this show were constructed of domestic materials given an alternate, and some would say larger, life of their own by Tara's clever re-interpretation. In the work titled Kimonos (2005), the artist meticulously sewed paper wrappers from tea bags to make several full-sized kimonos. Tara used the tea bags, and the tea itself, as part of the piece.

For her piece Formation (2005), Tara hung a line of boxer shorts as though freshly washed. Each of the shorts carried the name of a different US fighter pilot, honoured as a hero for flying in the bombing raids on Japan during WWII. Tara wrote the young pilots' names by hand, in a crisscoss pattern. If you didn't know the back story, you might assume that these patterns were purely decorative.

The photos in this essay are inspired by Tara Bursey's show. John chose to take shots as details of the works, and allowed the play of light and shadow on the sculptures to create patterns that compliment the repetition so important to the works themselves.

You can see the photo essay here.