EXVEE Toronto Island Music & Art Festival May 30, To Features Hot Toronto Bands

May 15th, 2015 TORONTO – Artscape’s Toronto Island community cultural hub Artscape Gibraltar Point will host EXVEE, a multi-disciplinary music and art festival on Saturday, May 30th, 2015 from 4:00 pm to 1:00 am on Toronto Island, 443 Lakeshore Ave (between the Gibraltar Pont Lighthouse and the Gibraltar Point beach). Developed in collaboration with music and event producers Wavelength, 88 Days of Fortune and Healing Power Records, the event will take place on the beachfront lawn and throughout the Artscape Gibraltar Point building. The space will be animated with performance, art installations, projections, an art exhibition and all the usual island fire and crystal juggling antics. Food and beverages will be available through, Food Dudes, Island Café, 10tation and Steamwhistle. $20 tickets can be purchased online at Ticket Fly, and in-person at Rotate This (801 Queen St. W.) and Soundscapes (572 College St.). The title of the event, EXVEE, honours Artscape Gibraltar Point 15th anniversary, which is being celebrated in 2015.

EXVEE music line-up will include:
· Digits

· bizZarh

· MAYLOO (Maylee Todd)

· L.atasha A.lcindor (AKA L.A.)

· Etiquette

· New Fries

· Still Boys

· Farang

· New Chance

· Man Made Hill

· The Gas Station Recording Studio

· DJ Sunsun (hip hop and dance hall)

· DS Two-Headed Crab (mystical bop)

EXVEE Installation & performance line-up will include:

· Jesi The Elder, who will create Psychic Portraits as her comic book character Vanilla White, who is also a part time Detective Doggy Painter. This time Jesi will be going extra-dimensional as she prepares to draw psychic portraits within psychic portraits within her painted installation as Vanilla White: Detective Doggy Painter

· Johannes Zits, who will be performing a meditation on a variety of relationships including time and space. Using an approach that is poetic and self-reflexive, his point of departure is a particular sunset on Hanlan’s Beach and informed by experiences on the Islands with time spent at Artscape Gibraltar Point. This piece explores the ways his body engages with physical environments and how this interaction reverberates into the psycho-social spaces inhabited.

· Shadowland Theatre In honour of Artscape Gibraltar Point’s 15 year anniversary, Shadowland will be parading with flags and fire around the building, blessing the four directions of space.

In addition, there will be a Fire Dancer and Crystal Ball Juggler animating the space at various times throughout the event. Zeesy Powers, a performance, image and text based artist, will be ensuring attendees’ entrance to the festival is other worldly by installing a piece symbolic to Artscape Gibraltar Point’s 15 year anniversary at the front gate of the festival. Zeesy will also be creating dreamy watercolour portraits of attendees on the beach. Melissa Fisher will be in charge of further other worldliness by artfully set designing the performance stage with a variety of illusionary materials. Visual effects duo Vanessa Rieger & Brandon Dalmer will also be illuminating the stage with heavy light projections called ‘Videomancy’. Susan Coolen will be installing her neon wood pieces in the sky lights of the main gallery hallway and Shoshonah MacKay will be taking over the women’s washroom with her audio visual piece, ‘old people aren’t sleeping they’re dreaming’.

EXVEE Exhibition line-up will include:

· An EXVEE Exhibition featuring over 50 artists from OCAD U, Feminist Art Conference, The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency, long term tenants of Artscape Gibraltar Point, residency artists, alumni of the Artscape Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program, Artscape Gibraltar Point staff and the Toronto Island Community. Artscape Gibraltar Point acclaimed guest artists, such as Shary Boyle, Stephen Andrews, Bill Burns, Ramon Serrano, April Hickox, Nick Pye, Tobaron Waxman and Margaux Williamson will be contributing pieces for sale in the show.

· Silent Auction with items from Artscape Gibraltar Point partners, The Power Plant, Harbourfront Centre, CARFAC and Gone Sailing Adventures

EXVEE Food & Beverage will include:

· Food Dudes will prepare a Grilled Cheese Food Station

· 10tations will prepare a Mini Taco Station

· Island Café will prepare a Fries Station