GerryFest – 1st Annual Festival dedicated to the life and work of Gerry Atwell

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August 14th-16th, 2020 at the St. Norbert Arts Centre

Music – Art – Theatre – Friendship

Friday, August 14th 3pm-8pm CBC Presents Live!

Tune in to CBC Up to Speed – Live at GerryFest 3pm-6pm

GerryFest Mainstage CBC Live 7pm-8pm

Featuring Indian City – Super Duty Tough Work – and many other artistic friends of Gerry Atwell

Saturday and Sunday 11am to 4pm – Free and open to all to tour the gallery featuring an exhibition of the Life and Work of Gerry Atwell.

Sunday 11am-4pm Special Market and Showcase of Black Owned Business of Manitoba

All weekend! Free “Express Yourself” art-making station to make your own statement about Gerry’s most important topic: cultural equity. Hang your poster, banner, postcard on our fences which will be up for a month after Gerry Fest.

Recent events around the globe have helped to refocus everyone’s attention on cultural equity. Many of us are asking ourselves “What would Gerry say”? Gerry Atwell’s work as a multi-disciplinary artist was dedicated to expressing the Black Canadian experience and the empowerment of others in need. GerryFest is dedicated to the journey of Gerry’s life and how we as a community of caring friends and family can continue that work to finally end racism.

GerryFest is a fundraiser for the Gerry Atwell Memorial Mentorship Endowment Fund – dedicated to encouraging young people of diverse backgrounds, who may not have opportunities and access to pursue their artistic dreams. Just as Gerry did throughout his lifetime. This fund is being held in trust at the Winnipeg Foundation through the St. Norbert Arts Centre.

The Gerry Atwell Memorial Mentorship Fund

Inspired by Gerry’s lifelong commitment to mentoring young artists, the Atwell Family has established the Gerry Atwell Memorial Mentorship Fund. The Fund will provide support for senior artists of all disciplines to work with talented youth from communities of need. Click to Learn More

Studio/Office Space To Rent

St. Norbert Arts Centre has a main floor gallery to rent for special events but it also has 2nd and 3rd floor studio/office space to rent for those that are looking for location that is in a spacious country lot surrounded on three sides by the historic La Salle River (La Rivière Sale) near St. Norbert. Though the facility is just minutes from the city of Winnipeg, the site exudes the same sense of calm and seclusion as when the Trappist monks lived here. You will have a daily opportunity to enjoy mature deciduous forest extending throughout the grounds, the riverbanks, a fruit orchard, several vegetable and flower gardens along with the extraordinary remains of the tyndall stone chapel and monastery, “The Ruins.”

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