“Edelweiss” Closing Event: Lantern Gifting and Celebration with Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky
1-6 pm. Artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky welcome you to join them in celebrating the closing of their exhibition Edelweiss.
As part of this closing event, the artists will undertake a performance in which they gift the watercolour, mulberry paper, wire, and beeswax lanterns that they created for the installation, dispersing these personal memories from Trevor’s family home into the world.
The artists have been making and adding new lanterns to Edelweiss as the exhibition has progressed.
Please join us for this special occasion, to experience the work in its complete state, and to have a chance to take part in the gifting performance.
Please note: Registering for this event does not guarantee you a lantern, however it does offer you the opportunity to be gifted one.
How it works: Once you arrive and check in with us, you will receive one ticket for the lantern queue until all lantern tickets are gone – first come, first served. When you arrive at Esker, you will be asked to queue in order of arrival and, if there are lantern tickets still available, your group will be given one.
During the event, the lantern tickets given will be called in numerical order – someone from your group must be present at the event with the lantern ticket in hand when your ticket number is called, otherwise the next number will be called, and your ticket will become invalid. When your ticket number is called you can enter the black shed that houses the lanterns in the Central Gallery, meet the artists and select one of the available lanterns.
Please note that each family / household / registered group is eligible to receive a single ticket for the queue, and each ticket offers the possibility of receiving one lantern only for that group. This is to offer the chance to as many folks as possible to enjoy and take care of these works.
There will also be refreshments, and a DIY lantern-making activity as part of the celebration. The completed work will be viewable for the first hour of the event.