Ontario Culture Days 2022
Performance in the St. Vincent Hospital Atrium will feature jazz musician Empress Nyiringango, pianist Dr. Carol Wiebe, cellist Fanny Marks and blind storyteller Kim Kilpatrick
Culture Days 2022: Grand Rounds at Saint-Vincent Hospital
Culture Days is a nationwide initiative to celebrate arts and culture. Ontario Culture Days is taking place this year from September 23 until October 16, 2022.
Due to rising cases of Covid, in person events will only be available to patients and staff, but virtual options are available to all.
At Radical Connections and Bruyère, we believe participation in the arts should be a standard aspect of healing and wellness. During Grand Rounds at Bruyère’s Saint-Vincent Hospital, visitors will get a chance to sample the art and artists offered to the patients, residents and families at Bruyère hospitals and long-term-care homes.
What are Grand Rounds? A doctor's daily rounds are a central aspect of inpatient medical care. Grand Rounds are educational sessions, open to all members of medical departments. This September, we are working with Bruyère to present Culture Days Grand Rounds, events and learning opportunities for healthcare staff, patients, and families as well as artists and arts workers in our community!
Come to a concert in the Atrium of Saint-Vincent Hospital, visit an in-hospital exhibition, and learn more about our programs in an online panel discussion and a curator’s talk. All Grand Rounds programming will be available online, with in-person availability dependent on SVH general visitation and public health guidelines at the end of September.
All in-person audience members will need to fill out a short screening form and will need to wear a mask or the appropriate personal protective equipment provided at the entrance. Participants also need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (two doses) to enter the hospital.
Grand Rounds in Conversation: Tuesday, September 27th, 12pm (Lunch and Learn)
Over the summer, Bruyère's two long-term care homes, Élisabeth Bruyère Residence and Saint-Louis Residence, have been venues for a stellar array of musicians, storytellers, poets, and actors through a program called Unmasked Connections (funded by the Ontario Arts Council and Elder Care Ottawa). Accessing an online artist directory, residents and family members are given the opportunity to choose an artist they are interested in, and treated to personal, one-on-one, interactive virtual concerts with the artist of their choice.
At Ground Rounds in Conversation, learn more about the impetus, development, and impact of Unmasked Connections in an online panel discussion. Meet Therapeutic Recreation Coordinator (Bruyère), Kim Durst-Mackenzie, a selected participating artist, a selected resident who has enjoyed the program, and Rebecca Macdonald, a research student who has been involved in the project since the beginning. Hear inspiring stories of the connections between residents and artists.
The panel discussion will also feature psychiatrist Diane Meschino from Sanokondu, a multi-national community of practice invested in healthcare leadership education.
https://www.sanokondu.com/home
Registration link will be posted on the Culture Days site.
Performance at Saint-Vincent Hospital Atrium : Friday, September 23rd, 2pm
Performance in the Atrium features performances by Unmasked Connections’ artists: storyteller Kim Kilpatrick, cellist Fanny Marks, jazz vocalist Empress Nyiringango, as well as pianist Dr. Carol Wiebe, Radical Connection’s Executive Director. Stay for a Q&A session with the performers after the show, to hear more about Unmasked Connections. (Funded by Ontario Arts Council and Elder Care Ottawa).
Due to rising Covid cases, this event will be in person for staff and patients of SVH only. A link to the live stream option will be posted on the Culture Days site.
Double Art Exhibit: ShapeVision’s "Hidden Shapes of Nature" and Oscar Para's "People Who Love People" (Opening, Thursday Sept 29, 2pm) & Exhibit Showcase (Ongoing, Sept 23-Oct 16th)
Shape Vision, Forest, 2018, Inkjet Print
We invite you to celebrate the opening of two new art exhibits in the Saint-Vincent Hospital's Elevator Galleries: ShapeVision’s "Hidden Shapes of Nature" Oscar Para's "People who Love People".
An in-person vernissage will be held for staff and patinets on September 29th at 2pm, and will feature a tour of the art as well as presentations by both artists.
To view the online galleries and see the artists talks follow the links to the events pages.
Our goal is to make the events and learning opportunities accessible to everyone and offer different ways for people to participate. The exhibitions will be available to visit in person for staff and patients as well as through two online participation options for all. The first format is a slideshow presentation and the second, virtual 3D galleries of the collections, created with a program called Kunstamatrix. Assistive technology, including joysticks and eye-tracking systems, will allow patients with physical impairments to visit a realistic virtual gallery!
Links to the virtual gallery options will be made available here
"Hidden Shapes of Nature" explores the beauty of the natural world in the form of large-scale, complex images that are formed using a new digital imaging software called ShapeVision.
ShapeVision uses advanced mathematics to create highly scalable vector graphics that, when printed at a large scale, depict an initial image and then, when examined more closely, hold a fascinating semblance to jigsaw puzzles or detailed maps. In this body of work, human creative decisions combine with this digital tool to create complex, colourful nature-driven imagery.
About the ShapeVision team:
ShapeVision is driven by a creative partnership between software artist Martin Brooks and art coach John Spence, with much of the source imagery by Ross Photography.
“People Who Love People” is by Oscar Parra, a Colombian photographer, and an Arts Network Ottawa Mentee, who worked with cj fleury, the Bruyère Artist in Residence, and Bruyère employees to create 12 portraits of healthcare workers during the pandemic. As the artist describes it, “this series of works is a window that invites us to look at the dedication to service as an inborn desire of the spirit. Whatever our situation is in front of this crystal, it is my wish, that we find our reflection in it, that we feel the inevitable certainty that, in unity, we are loving and loveable.”
The exhibits will also be open to patients, and staff September 23rd through October16th.
Eva Petersen Ndiaye selections images for an exhibition at St. Vincent Hospital
Curation as Collaboration, Online Talk: October 6th, 12 noon, Lunch and Learn
What happens when hospital patients and staff are involved in artistic decisions in their own environment? Join interdisciplinary artist/curator Maren Kathleen Elliott and social work student/artist Eva Petersen Ndiaye as they discuss their current co-curation project (made possible through the Bruyère Academic Medical Organization) at Saint-Vincent Hospital.
Stay tuned for registration link will be posted on the Culture Days site at:
Respecting the health conditions of Saint-Vincent Hospital’s citizenry and the current Covid-19 context, our hub recognizes two kinds of art appreciators: the general public and the patients at the hospital.
Access to videos of the artist talks and online galleries will be available on Culture Days’ Event page.