After a three year hiatus, the Art from the Unknown show last night was like a tiny Persian miniature compared to the huge sprawling canvas of other years. Paintings were mostly from I-Human a youth oriented arts program and the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts for special needs artists, rather than the huge cattle call for just any non-gallery supported artist the way it was done in the past. It was held at a smaller venue, the Catalyst Theater, a very small and intimate live stage instead of the Arts Barn, a huge, drafty barely renovated bus garage. There were a very limited number of paintings and artists. Also like a Persian miniature, a perfectly done, short program including a speech by Raj Pannu telling us how hard it was to get his Constituency Association to accept funding such a radical project, and a couple of hip hop ballads.
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