Oakville Town Hall Atrium
1225 Trafalgar Road
15 April 2008
6:30 to 8:00 pm

Chef Michael Stadtländer will screen clips from his recent documentary The Islands Projects, which follows Stadtländer, his family and a kitchen brigade on a biodiesel/solar-powered bus tour to Vancouver, Quadra and Cortes Islands in British Columbia. Returning to the land that nurtured his first days as a chef, Stadtländer and his crew create seven extraordinary dinners with the local community including environmentalists, farmers, artists, oyster cultivators and loggers. The screening will complement our current exhibition What We Bring to the Table.

Tickets for this event will be available at $5 each as of March 24th at your local library branch.  Call (905) 815-2014 to reserve your tickets now.

This event is proudly supported by Fern Hill School and is held in partnership with the Oakville Public Library as part of our joint spring lecture series.

Oakville Galleries at Gairloch Gardens
1306 Lakeshore Road E.
15 April 2008  
8:30 to 11:00pm

Tickets for this event are SOLD OUT.

Michael Stadtländer is an internationally acclaimed chef. The dining room of Stadtländer’s home, Eigensinn Farm, has been ranked as the ninth best restaurant in the world by London-based Restaurant Magazine. Stadtländer is a staunch advocate of regional organic farming and a dedicated citizen who has assisted countless charities, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout Canada.

Part of a new series of curator’s private cocktail receptions, Michael Stadtländer comes to Oakville Galleries and brings a delicious edge and cunning sense of humour to the table. Ticket holders to this event will experience chef Stadtländer’s acutely artistic eye, as he discusses the exhibition What We Bring to the Table in a unique and intimate setting. Very limited places are available. Cocktail menu will be influenced by chef Stadtländer.                                                       

Oakville Town Hall, Trafalgar Room
1225 Trafalgar Road
27 April 2008
2:30 to 4:30pm 

New Models for Better Living? features architects Chris Hardwicke (Sweeny Sterling Finlayson & Co. Architects) and Andy Thomson (Altius Architecture Inc. and Sustain Design), along with Oakville Planner Kirk Biggar. Their dialogue will be moderated by Lisa Rochon, architecture critic for the Globe and Mail.

Looking at models such as the velo-city project by Chris Hardwicke, Andy Thomson’s miniHome, as well as the concepts featured in the current Oakville Galleries exhibit, T&T: Onward Future, panellists will bridge utopian architectural models with the reality of suburban planning. Oakville aims to be "the most liveable town in Canada" -- could these models be a solution for the future of the town?

Oakville Public Library Auditorium
120 Navy Street
15 May 2008
7:00 pm

Kate Taylor, Cultural Critic for the Globe and Mail and author of Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, will explore social anxiety and social standing as they relate to the dinner party. She will read excerpts of her award-winning novel and discuss the exhibition What We Bring to the Table.

 This event is held in partnership with the Oakville Public Library as part of our joint spring lecture series.