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Visual Arts by Anne Severson Arlene Stamp’s multimedia installation Mary is Here opens at the Glenbow on March 24 at 7 p.m. Monkey bread will be served. A live canary will be present. A gallery talk by the artist will start at 7:30 p.m. (See this week’s review.) This exhibition is the third in the ongoing Connections to Collections series curated by Glenbow’s art curator Kirstin Evenden. It is an unusual program in Canada where the artists are invited to explore Glenbow’s rich collections and create work based on their exploration. This collaborative exhibition "examines history through the eyes of contemporary artists," says Evenden. Earlier exhibitions in this series have included works by Bob Boyer and Sophia Isajiw. Barbara Bickel has returned to her native Calgary for a collaborative mixed-media/painting exhibition and performance with writer and singer Pauline Le Bel. Battle Cries: In Search of the Warrior Woman "searches through the ashes of female warrior heritage... (to) create new images of female strength." The opening is at The Centre Gallery on March 26 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available for performance dates on March 31 and April 1. Call 237-0383 for more information. Performance artist David Bateman of Calgary will present two new monologues, Hush – Shari Lewis meets Critical Race Theory at the Pound; and The Bather, or How I Learned to Swim in Cambodia – Paula Vogel Meets Spalding Grey on the Titanic. There will also be a video presentation of an earlier 1993 monologue, I Wanted to be Bi-sexual But My Father Wouldn’t Let Me. Undergoing current recovery in his Creative Writing PhD program at U of C, Bateman’s preoccupation with the comic nature of trauma has been described as "a roller coaster of cathartic display, at once tragic and hilarious." Taking place at Truck beginning at 8 p.m. on March 24 and 25, this is the first presentation in Round 5, five weeks of art and fundraising mayhem. Support your local artist-run centre in this transitional time of government funding cutbacks to the arts. For more information on this series, call 261-7702 or e-mail truck@netway.ab.ca.

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