ABOUT THE EVENT
Relive a warm, clear mid-summer's evening at the Visual Voice Art Gallery. Relax in a lawn chair and gaze at Bettina Forget's paintings of night skies bejewelled with star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. Stargazing in mid-winter has never been so comfortable!
If Bettina Forget's paintings inspire you to take up stargazing, you can pick up some informational material about amateur astronomy furnished by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's Montreal Centre.

EVENT DATES
March 1, 6:00pm - March 2, 2:00am

ABOUT THE MONTREAL ALL-NIGHTER
For its 5th edition, the Montreal All-Nighter offers over 100 activities to an ever-growing flock of night-owls. It’s a night that promises a memorable climax to the 9th edition of the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival.

For more information about the All-Nighter, click here.

For the Press Release of this event (pdf), click here.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bettina Forget is a visual artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec. Born in Germany, she has studied art at Central St-Martins School of Art in London, England and at Curtin University in Perth, Australia and Singapore.
Bettina's work deals with the subjects of astronomy and meteorology, establishing a link between art and science. Pushing traditional painting techniques to their limits, she subjects her canvases to being frozen into ice, pummeled by rain and scorched by fire. She also invented a technique of cutting holes into stretched canvas and suspending smaller pieces of canvas in the voids, therefore turning paintings into three-dimensional objects.
Bettina is member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) and is Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) Montreal Centre.

FOR MORE INFO
go to the artist's website at
www.bettinaforget.com

Exhibition Dates:
1 - 11 March, 2008