An exhausting, ambitious roster of events over the past month comes to an end for the 2020 Culture Days Nipissing Fete de la Culture Saturday beginning at 4 p.m.
The line-up for the closing show on the Nipissing Culture Days Youtube channel includes six studio shows recorded by Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective and RFP Media.
“The original and unique songs and stories are also meant to get us all back to a more peaceful place within our lives,” states an email from the NRCC. “Let's go ‘Back to a Beginning’ before pandemics and paranoia. Back to a more natural and simple existence.”
Spearheaded by the NRCC chairwoman Reinalie Jorolan, the organizing committee pulled out all the stops to celebrate art in all its forms starting in mid-September.
They presented six international cooking sessions online, three healing drum circles, an outdoor art installation, a pop-up picnic and opened two art exhibitions.
The mandate was to leave people in the region knowing that “culture is with us 24/7 and 365 days a year,” states the NRCC.
Performances Saturday include:
Jocelyn Green: a leader in the North Bay Pride community, Jocelyn is hilarious, proud and passionate about performing her monologues and comedy routines.
Logan Staats: an emerging Mohawk artist with a very expansive heart and a beautiful soulful voice. The songs are powerful, topical and speak to a new generation of Canadians who are, together, reclaiming the culture of this land.
Hyperboreal: Coming out of the contemporary arts, this multi-instrumentalist duo is sculpting noise and sound art into meditative mantras that aim to bring peace and harmony back to every listener.
Justine Gogoua: Singer, dancer and open-hearted Diva, the entrancing Ms. Gogoua hails from Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa. Her songs are a fusion of different languages, rhthyms and traditions that transmit such deep feelings that they will be a balm to every listener.
Medussah: Last but never least, this dynamic and delightful duo from Ecuador, combine operatic vocals with pop-synth tunes that incorporate hypnotic latin rhythms. Their contribution to the festival is a new sound, that will soon be released on a new EP.
Bernardo DaVila: DaVila is from Sao Paulo! He is a very caring and sweet artist who just loves to make beats. Especially in order to ward off the cold. He dances straight through from December to May.
The art exhibitions are still on display. A Day in the Life of Benjamin Chee Chee continues at 176 Lakeshore Drive's NOVAH Gallery. And at Gallery 222 McIntyre Street, see the Abandoned, New Works by Temagami-area artist Gerry Gooderham, which opened Tuesday.
Learn more about the NRCC at their website HERE and follow the collective on Facebook HERE.
