Canada Day in Surrey!

Writing by Jessica on Thursday, 17 of July , 2008 at 3:43 pm

Canada Day

This is one of my favourite images from Canada Day. These beautiful Persian girls came into the tent and quite naturally made stunning images.

To view more Canada Day images, check out the new posts on our flickr pool.

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Category: Exhibition

GLOCAL at Canada Day in Ottawa!

Writing by Jeremy on Wednesday, 16 of July , 2008 at 2:29 pm


Hello there GLOCAL blog readers!

Our info-booth presentation at Ottawa’s Canada Day celebration was a success!

The entire GLOCAL collective was chosen as an “artist” alongside the ceramicist Murray Sanders and the painter Deborah Putman to represent Surrey as the ambassadors on behalf of Surrey’s designation as a Cultural Capital of Canada for 2008.

We were all very grateful that the weather held up for this event as the evening before was pouring with rain and this horrendous weather reduced the grassy lawn of Major’s Hill Park to vast puddles of mud.

There was also some initial panic over the installation of GLOCAL’s main presentation monitor but this issue was also quickly resolved when the day arrived (scroll down for the juicy details).

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Category: Exhibition, Toolkits, Uncategorized

About The Glocal Project

Glocal (global + local) is an immense, collaborative and multifaceted digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of images in the 21st century. Working out of the Surrey Art Gallery’s TechLab, the artists behind Glocal pose questions about the nature of photography at this point in our history: What is a photograph? What is a camera? What is a photographer?


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How to Contribute

1. Download our software, hardware, and conceptual toolkits by clicking on the links below or by visiting our toolkits page.


2. Create your own images.


3. Share your work! Upload your images to Flickr - and tag them with 'glocalproject'. Your images will automatically be included in the project!