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www.insidehalton.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, June 29, 2 0 1 7 | 4 6 O C F in v it e s M u s lim y o u t h s t o s u b m it v id e o a r t by Marta Marychuk Oakville Beaver Staff The Oakville Community Foundation (OCF) is inviting Muslim youth in Oakville, between the ages of 15 to 30, to submit a video art project that will be part of a Canada-wide travelling exhibition project entitled Combating Hate, Advancing Inclusion. The project is a national initiative of the Michaelle Jean Foundation, along with the Vancouver Foundation and the Silk Road Institute, aimed at challenging prejudice and fostering greater inclusion of Muslim youth within Canadian society. The Michaelle Jean Foundation is a national charitable organization that uses its unique arts for collective impact model to enable underserved youth to use creativity to change their lives and their communities. Jean became the first black person to serve as governor general, in 2005. The deadline for proposals is July 5. Proposals can be for videos containing other art forms including dance, animation, spoken word and visual art. Final artwork will be required at a later date. Ten submissions will be selected by a jury to be part of the groundbreaking Combating Hate, Advancing Inclusion exhibition on Muslim youth. Each of the 10 winning submissions will receive a $1,000 award, along with unprecedented visibility at various museums, art galleries and other venues across community fo u n d a tio n oakville Canada. The OCF says this project is in response to recent increases in intolerance and hate speeches, especially online. "The timing of this initiative is perfectly aligned with our own interests in understanding and building a community of inclusivity and belonging," says OCF CEO Wendy Rinella, in a media release. "We are currently partnered with the Town of Oakville and YMCA of Oakville, on a sense of belonging survey, an opportunity to truly understand how we connect within our community," Rinella adds. To apply, visit the submission guidelines at wwwtheocf,org/news/ publications. Proposals should be submitted via this link - bit.ly/chai-call. P ro p p e d ta k e s a c lo s e lo o k a t w h a t's in fr o n t o f u s by Marta Marychuk Oakville Beaver Staff Oakville Galleries is opening its summer exhibition Propped, a group show that brings together artworks by 18 Canadian artists to explore the use of props in contemporary artistic practice. 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Exhibiting artists include: Abbas Akhavan, Maya Ben David, Vincent Chevalier, Mark Clintberg and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Chris Curreri, Geoffrey Farmer, Oliver Husain, Aaron Jones, Eleanor King, Bev Koski, Duane Linklater, Divya Mehra, Hazel Meyer, Bridget Moser, Public Studio and Walter Scott. Propped is guest-curated by Gabrielle Moser. Propped explores the varied functions and meanings of the prop in contemporary artistic practice, examining how objects help us to make and shape history. Playing on the traditional definition of props in plays and movies -- where props are objects that are essential to the plot, to be handled or activated by an actor at some point -- the exhibition brings together a range of everyday things whose meanings shift when they enter new situations and combinations. Through strategies of staged photography, re-enactment, stand-up comedy and assemblage, the artists in the exhibition position props as highly-charged objects that frame our relationship to politics and the landscape. For many of the artists, props illuminate the rich and complicated histories of Canada by helping to trace the larger forces that have allowed materials be circulated and exchanged. Props can also take on a life of their own, acting on human subjects rather than being activated by them. Several works use props to question how identities are constructed and performed, in ways that are comedic, heartfelt and sometimes implicitly violent. Through these diverse practices, props Visitors at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square for the opening of P ropped. | Mike Dposa photo emerge as tools for proposing alternative histories and new futures for objects, revealing the unexpected power everyday things can wield. Propped is made possible in part through the support of volunteers in the OakvilleMilton-Halton Hills - St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program. Oakville Galleries is a not-for-profit contemporary art museum, reaching communities in Oakville and wider audiences regionally, nationally and internationally. Admission is free of charge. Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens is located at 1306 Lakeshore Rd. E., and is open Tuesday and Wednesday noon to 6 p.m.; Thursday noon to 8 p.m.; Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and, Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square is located at 120 Navy St., in downtown Oakville, and is open Tuesday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and, Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Oakville Galleries, visit www.oakvillegalleries.com or call 905-844-4402.