A gamut of emotions could be evoked through the First Friday gallery openings on June 1.
Art focusing on everything from teenage loneliness to the optimistic splendour of garden foliage, will be presented Friday at various galleries throughout Red Deer.
Bryce Evans, a photographer and filmmaker with Red Deer roots, will be showing clips of his short film One at the Kiwanis Gallery at the Red Deer Public Library.
The film examines the difficult emotions that often accompany young persons finding themselves in their high school and post-secondary years. “Breaking out of the lonely mindset” is a universal struggle that everyone must go through, says Evans, who also created a “chapter” of 10 photographs that the film accompanies.
Clips from One will be shown at 6:30, 7 and 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The opening reception goes from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The film showings will run in conjunction with the ongoing Hang-Ups and Insights art display by Lindsay Thurber and Hunting Hills High School students.
It continues to June 24 at the Red Deer Arts Council-operated gallery.
The colourful exhibit, In the Garden: A Collection of Works from the Red Deer Art Club, will be shown at The Hub on Ross Street.
The opening reception is from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The display is on until June 30.
Music lovers can stay and buy a $15 ticket ($30 for families) for a bluegrass/roots/country concert by the toe-tapping harmonizing groups Prairie’s Edge, winner of the Shady Grove Bluegrass Idol Competition, and Finnessee.
The bands will play from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Hub, at 4936 Ross St.
Functional objects are given a new artistic life in the Made Objects/Choreographed Movements exhibit on until June 16 at the Harris-Warke Gallery.
Medicine Hat artist Juliana Rempel reinterprets articles that have become “the archetype of our lives” as something other than the functional objects they were originally meant to be. The opening reception is on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the gallery at the back of Sunworks on Ross St.
Some new works by some new artists will be shown at a group exhibit at Art From the Streets, at 4935 51st St. The opening reception is from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday.
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