Arts news and events for July 21, 2025
- elainebac1
- Jul 21
- 2 min read
Events:
Invitation from Deirdre Potash:
Bonjour à tous - Hello All.
I’m proud to be part of this Canada-wide non-profit arts organization that supports at-risk youth through creative programming. I’ll be giving a mini art workshop—open to all, no experience needed.
Je suis fier de faire partie de cet organisme artistique sans but lucratif pancanadien qui soutient les jeunes à risque grâce à des programmes créatifs. J'animerai un mini-atelier artistique ouvert à tous, sans expérience requise.
RSVP to info@youthleadarts.com
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The Korean street food festival Pocha MTL is coming up this week. There will be plenty of delicious food, but also K-Pop, karaoke and dance. To help whet your appetite, we speak with the very busy co-founder and director of the festival, Thien Vu Dang.
POCHA MTL is a popular Korean street market attracting over 25,000 people for 4 days. Four days of celebrating South Korea, its street food and K-POP! You can enjoy delicious Korean street food, discover products in the retail space, enjoy K-POP performances or even join the multiple RANDOM PLAY DANCES in the cultural program:
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Art comes in many forms:
New northern Ontario art installation lets visitors call a local river or lake. Volunteers recorded sounds from nine waterways around South River.
Eric Powell’s Voice of Water:
Eric Powell is a sound artist from Quebec's Eastern Townships. (Submitted by Eric Powell)
Art installation in South River uses sound from growing fungi and plants. Exhibit, called the Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine, is from artist Tosca Terán.
This sound art exhibit at the New Adventures in Sound Art in South River uses sounds from fungi, plants and sprouts created as they grow. The artist who created the Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine is Tosca Terán. (Supplied by Craig Erven, NAISA Outreach Team)
Story Trees:
'Decomposing piano' in South River, Ont., invites people to experiment with sound. New “Adventures in Sound Art” installation will see piano decay over time.
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Photography:
Guy Delisle’s latest comic book tells the story of pioneering photographer and killer Eadweard Muybridge. English adventurer Eadweard Muybridge was a groundbreaking photographer who, in the 1800s, solved the question of how horses ran, all with the use of cameras he built and designed himself. He was also a killer. His fascinating story is the subject of the new comic book, Muybridge, by Canadian author Guy Delisle.
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On Quirks and Quarks: Tapping into science for a greater appreciation of artistic masterpieces. Recent studies of two of the world's most famous paintings by Dutch artists have provided surprising insights into the depths of their art:
Visitors look at the Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands. (Lex van Lieshout/ANP/AFP/Getty Images)
A new analysis of the entire sky in Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, The Starry Night, demonstrates that the artist had an intuitive grasp of turbulent flow in fluid dynamics. (MoMA collection)
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Thanks so much!