Walking through school halls at night usually gives me a strange feeling. You get the sense that something is off... the hustle bustle of the 9-5 day settles and the halls seem hallowed. Luckily this wasn't the case this weekend at Brock University where, from 6pm to midnight the halls were taken over by art students!


It's almost always an adventure when you give a budget to a group of artists and then set them loose in 3 building after-hours. The displays ranged from the weird, to the deep, to the interesting but confusing... all in all it was a pretty good time though.


We were particularly impressed by Pearl Paul's exhibit entitled "Phylomania" which was interactive and fun. The idea there was that she'd created an autumn forest of tissue-paper leaves on which we were to write an obsession and let the wind take it.


The visual was lovely and her display of hand-crafted tissue leaves was just amazing (Yeh, that picture to the left is actually tissue...Awesome! ) We had some fun here and moved on to the rest of the oddities.


We got to check out some really interesting displays and contraptions with a great mix of interactive displays and visual art. A few musical performances also rounded out the media of the night.




The rest of the exhibits are covered in this next video:

What better way to reflect on life's moments of awesome than to be on the edge of your seat in shock and awe? Sometimes it's in our lack of understanding that we have moments of contemplation and realization that help us truly understand the awesome structure of our own world...  but then again, for whatever it's worth, some of us just love a magic show!

I'm very proud to present yet another amazing talent from the inexplicably random region called Niagara! Shaun Ferguson is a local performing artist that dazzles fans both on stage and right at your table. No smoke and mirrors behind this guy, it's legit. 

St.Catharines's mayor, Brian McMullan, was on site today at the ceremonial "ground breaking" (more of a Fence-knocking-over) for the new Performing Arts Center to be built next year on St.Paul street.

As mentioned in the previous entry to the blog, the new performing arts center will be built on the corner of Carlisle and St.Paul streets. The new complex will be yet another addition to St.Paul, while attempts to jazz up downtown are being executed from all corners.

First the city began demo of buildings to extend the bus-depot, then they converted the streets to two-way to increase accessibility and flow through the downtown core; This new project is on a long list of rehabilitation efforts that we will see implements in the near future. It's about time we start treating St.Catharines as a city on the rise. For too long conservatives have kept the city in a perpetual cycle of ghost-town efforts.


Buildings being marked as historic, when in fact they are just simply old. This trend seems to be in reverse as we see, now, more and more efforts to prove that St.Catharines is not just a town with history, but a town with a future!