Art's Birthday

Art’s Birthday 2006 was a smashing success thanks to our volunteers, sponsors, and enthusiastic guests!

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With the generous donations of the following Art’s Birthday sponsors, Video Pool raised funds to support the public screening and exhibition of media art.
Thank you!
Ace Art Inc.
Antiques and Funk
Aqua Books
Bikram Yoga
Cake Clothing
College St. Boniface
Comic Book Factory
Connect Four
Desart
The Fyxx
Good Food Club
Hooper’s Bazaar
Into the Music
Janzen Photography
The King’s Head Pub
Mac Helper
Mondragon
Manitoba Theatre Centre
Plug In ICA
Prairie Theatre Exchange
Red River Bookstore
Scissors, Paper, Stone Salon
SISU Vitamins
The Line-up
Winnipeg Folk Festival
Underground Cafe
Warehouse Artworks
Yoga North

Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art.  But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born.  According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives.  In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world.  Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications art.