TWO TREES - A CELEBRATION OF ART, ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITY
http://www.univercity.ca/twotrees.html

image: Greg Ehlers SFU LIDC

Pendulum Gallery - 885 West Georgia Street - June 6-18 and June 22-July 9 The CORNERSTONE at UniverCity (Simon Fraser University) Vancouver BC Canada.

Haida Manga in conjunction with Robert Studer of THIS IS IT design is exhibiting a living sculpture.

POST CONSUMER is made of cedar, maple, hand blown glass, water and termites. The piece explores concepts, perspectives and dualisms surrounding ideas of cultural preservation, consumptive societies, exclusive security and assumptions of threat.

To: Canadian Designers and Manufacturers

DON’T HATE YOURSELF IN THE MORNING

At Midnight on June 15
BARK’s 2005 Call for Entries will Close.

Count yourself in, and you may be selected for our spectacular international tour.  

BARK is building an all-Canadian, mobile, mind-altering, eye-popping, low-impact cabin for the 21st Century. It will be made of all the Best of Canada, inside and out. If you think that includes you, you need to let us know. 

We are booked for the Tokyo Designers Block October 30 to November 3 and for a cross Canada tour in 2006. After that, we have our eyes set on the major design shows and special events around the world.

This offer won’t be repeated in your lifetime or ours. It’s now or….(we don’t use that word)

Respond to info@barkbark.ca. Tell us who you are and what you do and show us what you’d like to put in our sensational all-terrain cabin. 

Help us show the world what Canada is made of. So far.

Rockingraven Studios will be exhibiting and presenting on Haida manwha to a group of Korean publishers at the Korean Foundation Cultural Center in August. This event is hosted by the Korean Ministry of Culture. Associated interviews with a newspaper, illustration magazine and Arirang TV are scheduled.

“Outlining a unique art. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas blends traditional Haida design with the Japanese comic style called Manga. People in Japan are taking notice. They’ve bought thousands of his latest comic “Hachidori”, or “The Hummingbird”. Michael has just returned from Expo 2005 in Nagoya. He talks to Shelagh Rogers about bringing Haida Manga to to Asia. ”

interview was 19 minutes

link: http://www.cbc.ca/insite/SOUNDS_LIKE_CANADA/2005/5/30.html