THURSDAY >JANUARY 17 > 2008
2 TO 10 P.M.
GREAT HALLMISSISSAUGA CIVIC CENTRE
300 CITY CENTRE DRIVE

>PERFORMANCES+TELECOMMUNICATIONSOngoing> Roving reporter Darla Kitty (aka Halifax sound artist Eleanor King) keeps
everyone abreast of happenings throughout the day, including radio on theice rink and Internet streams from around the world.
>	I Want to be a Radio Announcer: A chance to experiment with the medium of radio.
> Mississauga Sound Map: A sonic journey through the city of Mississauga.
> Art Gallery of Mississauga: What’s a birthday without a birthday card?
Create your own postcard and mail it on-site then celebrate by making yourown commemorative button.
> View a screening of Robert Filliou’s work.
>	Gallery on Call, 905-615-3200 ext. 4707: Learn about the history of Art’s Birthday
by calling into the gallery. Gallery On Call is a voice-messaging system functioning
as an audio guide and extended programming to the Art Gallery of Mississauga’sexhibitions. Five minutes in length, the recordings provide information bybringing in new voices from the community to author interpretive resources.
2 – 2:30 p.m. Tetsuo Kogawa, live from Japan via Radio Kinesonus, battles withHalifax audio artist Stephen Kelly on-site in a radio transmission race.
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Sound artists Eleanor King and Stephen Kelly put the soundsof the Civic Centre, inside and out, under sonic microscope.
3:30 p.m. Youth Troopers for Global Awareness > The body makes pictures andsound. This theatre troupe introduces the art of tableau accompanied by therhythm of spoken word.
3:40 p.m. Mississauga Sound Map Unveiling > Mississauga residents and visitors
were invited to contribute sound recordings of places in Mississauga that weremeaningful or intriguing to them. To contribute more recordings to this map,
contact: naisa@naisa.ca

3:55 P.M. David Virelles, the first recipient of the Humber College Oscar Peterson
Award, pays tribute to Mississauga’s legendary jazz pianist.
4:10 p.m. Mississauga Children’s Choir composes their own Happy Birthday songon the spot, conducted by vocalist Christine Duncan.
4:20 p.m. Birthday Cake > Sound artist Rob Cruikshank provides the icing withportable NAISAtrons (sound art objects).
4:30 p.m. Back2Basics > Energetic krumping dance is wired for sound.
5 p.m. Soundwalk > Tour the Mississauga Civic Centre with your eyes closed.
In a soundwalk, the listening “audience” moves through a place and theenvironment “performs.” In a soundwalk, time is taken to hear the environment.
Every soundwalk is a unique listening experience.
5 - 7 p.m. New Adventures in Sound Art scans the globe for Art’s Birthday radio art
including Internet streams from Kunstradio, Vienna.
7- 10 p.m. Mississauga comedian Matt. Miller hosts an evening of music by local
djs, and turntablist Mike Hansen, who will spin to the theme of Forever Young withcameo appearances by Back2Basics dance group and flutist Jamie Thompson.
CKLN Radio is broadcasting these activities on radio 88.1 FM from 2 to 5 p.m.
and streamed to the Internet, 2 to 10 p.m. at http://www.ckln.fm
To visit other Art’s Birthday activities from around the globe, log onto
http://www.artsbirthday.net>FREE RIDEFREE bus transportation is available to this eventfrom downtown Toronto:> Leaving Gladstone Hotel at 2 p.m. with a 4:45 p.m. return,and leaving Gladstone Hotel at 7 p.m. with a 10 p.m. return.
BY RESERVATION ONLYRSVP 905-615-3200 ext 4065 or DB.Boyko@mississauga.ca>

>>Artists
back2basics is pure Mississauga energy, from break dancing to krumping.
Darren Copeland is the artistic directorof New Adventures in Sound Art. He is
also a sound artist who has received
international attention, including
solo releases DVD-A Perdu et retrouvé
and the CD release Rendu Visible on
empreintes DIGITALes (http://www.
electrocd.com). Recent highlights
include his radiophonic adaptation for
ZKM of Berger Sellin’s book, ich will kein
inmich mehr sein and his long distancecellphone collaboration with Annette
Finnsdottir in Copenhagen for AGM.
Rob Cruikshank is the creator of theNAISAtron, an instrument and soundsculpture which he designed as ateaching device to introduce conceptsof sound art and electronics.
A musical chameleon with a near
five-octave range, Christine Duncan
has a repertoire that spans improvisation, opera, rhythm and blues, pop andfolkloric music. She has collaboratedwith Bob Murphy, Hugh Fraser,
Miles Black, Jean Martin, Veda Hille,Paul Plimley, Kenny Wheeler, DaveYoung, P.J. Perry, Ray Charles, Linton
Garner, Paul Horn, Jeff Healey, JohnOswald, Paul Dutton, Nobuo Kabotaand many others.

Mike Hansen is a Mississauga-based
artist, performer and radio personality
and has been involved in the Canadian
improvised music scene for over adecade. As a turntablist born out of theschool of Marclay, Tetrault and Jeck,
Hansen disembowels the turntable.
Mike Hansen’s turntablism has resulted
in recordings and performances withCanadian and international players
such as Tomasz Krakowiak, MichaelSnow, John Oswald, John Butcher,
Kaffe Matthews and Gert-Jan Prins.
Stephen Kelly works with soundsculpture and site-specific audio
installation and do-it-yourself electronics. Interested in intersections
between audio art and music hecreates kinetic, viewer responsive
audio exhibitions and has built
several unique musical instruments.
Stephen has recorded, produced,
and released over 14 musical albums
on his independent label Dead Bum.
Eleanor King works with site-specificinstallation incorporating elementsof audio, video, photography andsculpture. Eleanor often uses radio
as a medium for audio performance,
she hosts a regular radio program on
CKDU 97.5 FM in Halifax. Her work
incorporates humorous elements tocritique social behaviors, investigating
consumer and tourist culture.

Tetsuo Kogawa introduced micro free
radio to Japan, and is widely known
for his blend of criticism, performanceand activism. He has written over 30
books on media culture, film, the cityand urban space, and micro politics.
He has been teaching at Tokyo-Keizai
University and demonstrating radio-art
experiments in various countries.
Matt. Miller currently resides inMississauga and is a graduate of
Humber College School of Comedy.
He has performed at Yuk Yuks, Second
City, and the Alt.Lounge at the Rivoli.
He was recently nominated for Tim
Sims Fresh Meet Showcase – top 20
comedians in Ontario.
Celebrating over 25 years of choral
excellence, the Mississauga Children’s
Choir (MCC) is a treble voiced choir ofover 125 children from 6 to 17 yearsof age. Under the leadership ofMusic Director Thomas Bell, the choir
has grown to include three gradedensembles – Training, Intermediate,and Concert. The MCC is dedicatedto providing young singers withexceptional musical experiences
through excellence in performance,music education, recording, touring andservice to the community. The MCC has
toured across Canada and in Europe.
With a love of teaching and chambermusic, Toronto-based flutist Jamie
Thompson has performed as bothsoloist and chamber musician in
Canada and the United States, andcontinues to be active as a freelancemusician, teacher, adjudicator andclinician affiliated with the Mississauga
campus of the Royal Conservatory ofMusic. His current passion includes

exploring resonant spaces in architecture and landscape. His Urban Flute
Project provokes listeners to takenotice of hidden and forgotten places
and sonic curios of the cityscape,including sounds of Mississauga.
Born and raised in Santiago de Cuba,
Cuba to a musical family, David Virelles
started to play music at the early age of7. In 2001, Virelles was invited to visit
Canada by saxophonist/flutist Jane
Bunnett. He attended the Universityof Toronto and later graduated from
Humber College, where David studied
with some of Canada’s most prominent
musicians. Virelles has since performed
and recorded with the likes of Jane
Bunnett, Dewey Redman, Howard
Johnson, Stanley Cowell, Horacio“el Negro” Hernandez, George Garzone,
the Penderecki String Quartet, Steve
Coleman and Mark Turner, among others.
Youth Troopers for Global Awareness(YTGA) is a group of very passionate
high school students, determined tobring about awareness of global andlocal social issues through writing,visual art and theatre. Tired of feelinghelpless about the injustices occurringin the world, they began writing about
issues that they are passionate about,in the summer of 2006. Their ultimate
goal is to spread awareness which theyfeel is the initial action that creates thereaction. Only through awareness ofwhat the problem is, can the solutions
come to light. For further information
go to http://www.ytga.com

>>backgroundArt’s Birthday was proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou to celebrate
the presence of art in our lives. It has since been celebrated on January 17 as
an annual exchange-art event by a collection of artists and artist organizations
around the world.
This marks the first year of Art’s Birthday celebrations in Mississauga that
explores performance, installations and exchange-art. Explorations withtelecommunications have long been part of this event in which artists fromaround the world unite over radio waves, via the Internet, and through mail art.
As Mississauga forges its new identity for the 21st century, communications
are key to its development, and the activities for Art’s Birthday are a perfectforum for exploring creative ways to interface with local and global communities.
Presented by the Mississauga Office of Arts and Culture and New Adventures inSound Art in partnership with the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canadian Associationfor Sound Ecology and in conjunction with Kunstradio - Vienna, Western Front –Vancouver, and Radio Kinesonus – Japan. Many thanks to CKLN Toronto for theirsponsorship and broadcast of Art’s Birthday.
The Mississauga Office of Arts and Culture positions itself on the cusp of arts,culture, technology, architecture and urban design. It will play an integral andstrategic role in the growth plan of the City for the 21st century. For further
information go to http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/discover/artsandculture
New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that produces
performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacousticand experimental sound art. For more information go to http://www.naisa.ca

>Event management
City of Mississauga> Zainub Verjee, director, Office of Arts and Culture> Jennifer Kaye, manager, Arts & Culture Initiatives> DB Boyko, supervisor, Arts & Culture> Sandra Desrochers,
public affairs specialist, Communications> Richard Stone, A.V. systems technician, IT> Jim Morley, supervisor, IT Networking Service> Steve Draper, manager, Information Technology> Alex Lo-Basso, designer, Creative Services
New Adventures in Sound Art> Nadene Thériault-Copeland, managing director> Darren Copeland, artistic director> Hector Centeno, soundmap programmer
Art Gallery of Mississauga> Susanne Carte-Blanchenot, outreach co-ordinator> Su-Ying Lee, curatorial/administrative assistant
CKLN Radio> Mike Phillips, station manager, CKLNSpecial thanks to Don Sinclair, professor & co-ordinator,Fine Arts Cultural Studies Program, York University.

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