Kemi Fall Gala: Silent Auction Part 5 - Dance and Theatre tickets

Night out in Cabbage Town
Value $130 min bid $35
Toronto Dance Theatre - Pair of tickets to Christopher House's Petros Tactics at the Winchester Street Theatre in November 2011
“House is a grand master at being an agent provocateur…A piece that mesmerizes the eye while engaging the brain… [with] very strong dancers, an absorbing theme, sly humour and supple choreography.”
The School of Toronto Dance Theatre - Pair of tickets to the school's December production including works by: Julia Sasso, Serge Bennathan, Heidi Strauss, Marc Boivin, Roger Sinha
For over 40 years, The School of Toronto Dance Theatre has been passionately committed to the training and education of young dancers in the art of contemporary dance. We dedicate ourselves to investing in the artistic potential of youth for the development of the art form. 
Cranberries Bar and Grill - Gift certificate.

DanceWorks and Kaeja d'Dance
Value $80 min bid $20
DanceWorks mainstage - Two Tickets to DanceWorks 2011/12 Mainstage Series Events
" The 2011-12 DanceWorks Mainstage Series features world premieres by four of Toronto's compelling contemporary dance companies and welcomes works on tour from Ottawa and Montreal. These programs consider central concepts of our human condition: mortality, spirituality, the urgent need for love and understanding; and a desire to unlock the true nature of artistic expression. Please join us at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre for each and every one of the Mainstage Series programs. The strength, clarity and authenticity of these artistic voices are sure to delight, challenge and inspire you!

Also on offer are eight CoWorks Series events, highlighting established and emerging dance artists in six different locations: downtown, mid-town and uptown.
In its 35th season, DanceWorks delivers the thrill and intimacy of live dance performance.
Kaeja d'Dance - Asylum DVD
Established in 1991, Kaeja d'Dance is a Toronto-based company that is renowned for creating exceptional contemporary dance work, award-winning dance films and empowering educational outreach programs.
Dancemakers
Value $60 min bid $15
Dancemakers - Two tickets to Dancemakers Winter Season 2011 Choreographed by Benoit Lachambre December 6th - December 18th, 2011
Driven by the vision of Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer Michael Trent, Dancemakers draws on the diverse talents and individual strengths of its artists to create contemporary dance works that provoke and entertain.

Harbourfront
Value $56 min bid $15
Habourfront World Stage - Two tickets to the performance of Break It Down-Enter the Shadow November 24, 2011 at 7pm.
After a stunning 2010-11 Dora award-winning season, World Stage explodes this February with performances that promise to enchant, challenge and electrify your senses. Featuring companies from the U.S., France, England and Canada – and led by the world’s sharpest creative minds – the 2012 season arrives like a thunderclap.
Kaeja d'Dance
Value $50 min bid $10
Kaeja d'Dance - "7 Films" DVD includes Old Country, Zummel. Sarah, 1939, Witnesses, Departure and Resistance.
Tarragon Theatre

Value $90 min bid $20

Tarragon Theatre - Two passes, each valid for one ticket to a performance at the Tarragon Theatre during the 2011/12 season.

Tarragon Theatre’s mission is to create, develop and produce new plays and to provide the conditions for new work to thrive. To that end, the theatre engages the best theatre artists and craftspeople to interpret new work; presents each new work with high quality production values; provides an administrative structure to support new work; develops marketing strategies to promote new work; and continually generates an audience for new work.

Theatre Pass Muraille
Value $80 min bid $20
Theatre Pass Muraille - Two tickets to any show in the 2001/12 season.
Theatre Passe Muraille is devoted to encouraging, enhancing and increasing meaningful interactions between its communities – artists, staff, audience, neighbourhoods and supporters. Theatre Passe Muraille has a special interest in supporting and presenting independent artists and companies, emerging artists, collaborative and multidisciplinary work, ethno specific and ethno diverse work, and marginal voices. Theatre Passe Muraille develops, disseminates, produces, showcases and promotes locally, nationally and internationally, work that represents and forwards these values.

Kemi Fall Gala: Slilent Auction Part 4 - Artisans

Solid Cedar Bench crafted by Alan Page

Estimated Value $200 Minimum bid $75

Aldo Leopold (1887 – 1948) was an American author, professor at the University of Wisconson, and environmentalist. He designed the "Leopold Bench" for use at his farm. This solid cedar bench is based on the original Leopold design using 2x6 and 2x8 solid cedar. Bench is 49-1/2" wide, 30" high and 27" deep (at base).


Jewellery by Jodi McLean 

Estimated value $25 min bid $10

Pottery by Marie Moliner 

Estimated value $50 min bid $20

Meet MO- the  porcelain Meditation Oval . Thrown on a wheel, painted with black slip, and carved by hand. Used   as a paperweight--it  holds its weight! Held in your hands, it offers of  tactile and visual inspiration. Donated by Marie Moliner, a culture-crat who has found her peace pounding clay for over 35 years. 

Rehearsal Images: Dancers Joanie Audet, Emma Kerson, and Ana Groppler

Kemi Fall Gala: Silent Auction Part 3 – Music

Here is the perfect opportunity to update your music library with Canadian artists. This auction item Features musicians who are mostly from the Toronto area, but we did slip in one from Vancouver!
Over 10 disks from 8 artists value $200 min bid $30

Christa Couture - Vancouver
"Sprites, girl-liking-girls, and those who wear DiFranco and Tori Amos T-shirts - this is the audience of Vancouver's Christa Couture, a candour-bent singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist who enjoys summers, but with one eye on the fall." - Brad Wheeler, Globe & Mail

Janine Stoll (the DoneFors) - Toronto 
“The DoneFors [are] one of Canada’s craftiest indie bands. An instant addiction once you hear… “
- By Robert Everett-Green, The Globe and Mail

Mr Something Something - Toronto 
“…uproariously energetic and politically engaging… Subtle, poetic and funk filled.”- Short and Sweet NYC, New York

Elizabeth Shepherd - Toronto 
“A more adventurous jazz odyssey than anyone might’ve expected… Very impressive.” -NOW

The Strip - Toronto 
"I'm smitten by the dangling banjo, sexy sax and lovely vocal harmonies. Great tunes." Amanda Putz - CBC Radio One

Roman Tome - Toronto 
Roman Tomé has been playing various styles of percussion and drums for nearly half his life. While playing and singing in different bands, his own songs have been patiently simmering. A thick rhythmical feel on guitar with insightfully strong vocals makes for an enjoyable listen.

Brian MacMillan and Eden - Toronto
' The ever-charming Brian MacMillan has a musical presence that is gentle and soulful. Aaaaah. 100% guaranteed…..' Knox Acoustic Cafe 

Kemi Fall Gala: Silent Auction Part 2 – Wall Art

I am touched by the generosity of several Toronto and Montreal based artists, and a few art collectors who have donated selections from their personal collection to this years auction.

3 Original works from Tanzania

Estimated Value $ difficult to say!  min bids $10 - $25/peice

Davian den Otter (one of Kemi’s board members and an active member Of off the mat and into the world has donated three pieces of art from her travels in Tanzania. I may be doing some rather high bidding on these myself. (is that allowed?)

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Catherine Mellinger

Estimated Value $75 min bid $20

We have been lucky enough to have one of Catherine’s larger works in our house for the past few years (it has now been moved to a permanent home) Catherine has donated a fantastic framed mixed media piece to our auction. You can take a look at Catherine’s  ongoing art sale on Face book here.

Catherine Mellinger is an artist, arts facilitator, expressive arts therapist (ISIS-Canada), and creativity coach (Creativity Coaching Association) based in Toronto, Canada. The current focus of her work is the use of image-based narratives founded in fables that tell the story of searching for life, and the experiences of loss and trauma. She is co-founder of the Arts for Social and Environmental Justice (ASEJ) Workgroup; a body of artists, facilitators, educators and activists who join together to create communities of social action using the arts by creating community events that seek to answer distinct questions relating to social and environmental justice as it relates to our collective experience as citizens. She is also an artist with Living Through the Arts (founded by the Royal Conservatory), and co-facilitator of the bi-monthly community art exhibit Octopus Project Toronto with photographer Melanie Gordon.

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Darrin Davis

Estimated Value $375 min bid $50

For months last year John (my partner and musical collaborator) worked with a fantastic group of musicians called the Strip.  Darrin Davis fronts the band with a great voice, a banjo and a saxophone. He’s also a fabulous painter and has donated one of his distinct acrylic paintings to the auction.

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Abstract acrylic by Michelle Smith

Estimated Value $75 min bid $20

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The English Muffin

Estimated Value $40  min bid $15

Bess at the English Muffin has donated one of her world map prints I am rather in love with Bess’s whimsical style.

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Chantale Pharand 

Estimated Value $200 min bid $35

Chantale has donated a painting form her collection.

I grew up in a very small town in Quebec and I moved to Toronto in May 2003. Most of my work is inspired by my Irish-Aboriginal background. I paint because I enjoy it and because I have a supportive family and a great group of friends who keep me motivated. I am a fan of the arts and collect it whenever possible.

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Paula Ggurich Shewchuck

Estimated Value $100 min bid $30

Paula of Arneau Blax has donated one of her framed photographs. Arneau Blax is a new contemporary photography space for mid-career artists.

Paula spent 17 years in Western Australia, where she was Founding Director of The Photography Gallery in Perth and also an occasional performance artist, arts publicist, theatre director, radio arts news reporter, and bar-maid, when necessary. She finally received her Bachelor of Communications – Photomedia in 2001 and for the past few years has been making different bodies of work, which explore the themes of gender, identity and memory.

Rehearsal Images: Dancer Joanie Audet

Kemi Fall Gala: Silent Auction Part 1 - Textiles

We have done our best this year to limit our silent auction items to local artists and artisans. Please join us on September 27th at the Winchester street theatre to bid on these items and support Kemi’s 2011/12 season.

Textiles

I have always had a love for textiles, from the time I was very young I can remember playing in my mom’s collection of fabrics, ribbons, buttons and threads. As the daughter of a dance teacher I had access to a room full of costumes to tease my imagination with. So it is not so odd that I would take an interest in my mom’s sewing and eventually find myself up till the wee hours of the morning piecing together an idea for a costume, or ripping apart an old costume and dunking it in a pot of dye.

For this fundraiser I have a collection of pieces made from the various textiles that I adore (I have not even mentioned the larger steamer trunk of wool I have acquired).

Green Chunky Sweater

Estimated value $125 min bid $50

Hand knit with wool from the Maritimes this chunky green sweater is bound will be a great addition to someone’s fall/winter collection.

Red Wool Neck Warmer

Estimated value $50 min bid $25

Hand knit with wool form the Maritimes I was inspired to make this neck warmer by a friend of mine’s chunky neck warmer. Loop it around your neck twice to stay extra cozy or once to add to your style.

Duvet Cover

Estimated Value $100 min bid $40

100% cotton queen size duvet cover made from a piece of fabric collected on my most recent trip to Burkina Faso. I have made several duvet covers over the years from these brilliant patterns and love the way they transform bedroom with their one of a kind flair.

Quilt

Estimated Value $250 min bid $100

Lap quilt hand made by Carol Robertson (my mom) from pieces of fabric collected on various trips to West Africa. %100 cotton with organic bamboo backing, hand cut and pieced. Truly one of a kind!