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With Burner Issue 05 just days away from release, here’s a sneak peek of our new cover! Photo: Sarah Allegra
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![You’re invited to our Burner: The Revolutionaries Issue Party! With free wine (from our friends at House Wine Co) and beer (from Kronenbourg 1664), contributors’ artwork, tasty treats, a gorgeous art gallery (plus summer patio), and engaging peeps like you, the Burner Party promises to be another smashing, smart, sexy good time.Wednesday, August 3, 20116:30 - 9:30 PMThe Department (www.thedepartment.ca)1389 Dundas Street WestRSVP only - email us ASAP at rsvp [at] burnermag [dot] com to secure your spot - space is limited & first come first serve!xxx.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp1vmklv411qc2smzo1_1280.jpg)
You’re invited to our Burner: The Revolutionaries Issue Party!
With free wine (from our friends at House Wine Co) and beer (from Kronenbourg 1664), contributors’ artwork, tasty treats, a gorgeous art gallery (plus summer patio), and engaging peeps like you, the Burner Party promises to be another smashing, smart, sexy good time.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
6:30 - 9:30 PM
The Department (www.thedepartment.ca)
1389 Dundas Street West
RSVP only - email us ASAP at rsvp [at] burnermag [dot] com to secure your spot - space is limited & first come first serve!
xxx.
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Burner 04: The Revolutionaries Issue, launched today at www.burnermag.com
To all you gorgeous, creative people: check it out, let us know what you think, and share it with your friends and social networks!
xx.
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Behold! The stunning work of Lluís Barba on the cover of Burner: The Revolutionaries Issue - showing in full at a computer screen near you Wednesday June 15, 2011.
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Some snaps of us at the Burner: The Revolutionaries Issue editor’s shoot this evening.
Hanging out in the woods, drinking tequila (from Mexico!) + wine (House, of course!) straight from the bottle and setting fire to driftwood has never been so much fun.
We seriously can’t wait to share the awesome content of the Revolutionaries Issue with you all on Wednesday. We are consistently blown away by the fantastic poems and paintings and everything in between that you guys send us from all over the globe, and are proud to say that this issue features our highest caliber of work yet.
With lots of love and gratitude always - YOU ARE ALL BURNER BABES.
xxx.
Sarah & Leah
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I’m only two-thirds of my way through a glass of House Wine Company’s 2010 Riesling Pinot Grigio. And yet I’m already inspired to whip my shirt off and go tree swinging tonight. Julia Roven’s photo from Burner 04: The Revolutionaries Issue perfectly reflects my feeling.
I drain the last of the glass. Bring me now to the Festival of Colours. Let me leap through the streets celebrating the art of life together. I want to join the joy of these boys’ revelation as the woman’s three eyes appear, placed there by street artist, JR, who is featured in The Revolutionaries Issue, launching on Wednesday, June 15.
House Wine Co.’s mandate is to give people awesome wine, at which they’ve succeeded brilliantly.
Their 2010 Riesling Pinot Grigio is now available at LCBO.
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The first glass of the newly launched House Wine Co’s red wine, an 09 Cabernet Shiraz, reminds me of walking outside on a vividly bright and beautiful day, dappled by shade. The earth is firm and secure; the sun is warm and inviting; the air is cooling and fresh. The walk invigorates and relaxes me.
The second glass of House Wine Co’s red wine is like leaping off a cliff as in Jonahs Coel’s Hello Earth, visual art from Burner The Revolutionaries Issue (launching June 15). Am I earth, in my earth toned clothes? All I know is I am flying through colour, without fear of an unhappy landing…
House Wine Co.’s mandate is to give people awesome wine, at which they’ve succeeded brilliantly.
Their 2009 Cabernet Shiraz is now available at LCBO.
Follow ‘em on TWITTER.
Like ‘em on FACEBOOK.
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ARTIST GOING WILD: KYRA DAHLKE
by JESSICA WILSON
Wild woman that she is, Kyra Dahlke gets off on pushing boundaries. When she hitches a ride on her brush and steps out of the world and into her canvass, she finds the space outside of herself that the true artist is intuitively guided to. With a meditative breath, she surrenders and allows something else — something deeper and more primal — to take over. And when she resurfaces, what’s left behind is a swirling vortex of something so intrinsically feminine and yet also so gutsy, that the first time I saw it, my skin prickled, and I felt a bit like getting naked.
A perfect match then for Wild Women Expeditions, Canada’s biggest female-only adventure travel company, known across North America for bringing women together to push boundaries, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
“Being in nature is a powerful force; it connects us to secret places that are known only to us. It demands that we push beyond the boundaries of what we thought possible. My art is reflective of this process.” says Kyra.
But not just any art is boundless enough in its inclusivity to set the tone for a night full of brave and brash babes reuniting across a galaxy of interconnectivity.
The 20th anniversary of Wild Women Expeditions marked Kyra’s first show, a fortuitous combination of friendship and finally being ready to let the world see her talent, raw and unfiltered. Kyra Dahlke’s art embodies the spirit of Wild Women in that it’s reflective of those meditative moments in nature when we cease to think and are able to just be.
“Wild Women is about woman coming together in perfect trust and harmony. It is about women facing their fears and challenging themselves to doing more than they thought possible. It means a safe place to explore new ideas.”
Whether pushing boundaries in a kayak, on a mountain, or in front of a canvass, women everywhere deserve — nay, crave — that connection with wild space, where expectations (both real and imagined) fall away like overripe pears from a tree; where the very notion of freedom ceases to be an intangible wish and becomes instead a superhero-like alter ego where nothing is impossible and everything is suddenly gleefully within reach.
“Art is inspired by experience, and it is the unique experiences women have on our adventures that move them to create such natural wonders as Kyra’s paintings”, muses WWE Director Jennifer Brammer. “Being a Wild Woman is about being free, uninhibited, sensual, playful, connected to source and that is what magically manifests on her colourful canvases”.
