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Art Battle rages at creatiValley

This article was published on October 7, 2015 and may be out of date. To maintain our historical record, The Cascade does not update or remove outdated articles.
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By Mitch Huttema (The Cascade) – Email

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On October 2 at the Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford, the creatiValley Festival welcomed 12 artists to face off in Abbotsford’s first ever Art Battle. Started by a group of artists from Toronto, Art Battle competitions have been held over 300 times across Canada, starting in local competitions moving on to regional face-offs and eventually culminating in the national playoffs held in Toronto.

CreatiValley is an event put on by the UFV bachelor of fine arts (BFA) program showcasing Abbotsford talent. On Friday night as part of the festival, the Art Battle capped off a full day of BFA related activities at the Reach. The battle consisted of two groups of six facing off against one another, with two winners from each heat. The winners of the two heats came head to head in a final round to determine the winner of the battle, who will move on to the regionals in Vancouver. Each round is 20 minutes long and winners are decided by audience voting.

For the first time ever there was a tie for first, so Abbotsford will be sending on two artists to compete in Vancouver.

In just under two weeks the Art Battle managed to bring together over two hundred people, including Henry Braun, Mayor of Abbotsford and Mark Evered, president of UFV.

In an interview with The Cascade, CIVL 101.7 Station manager and the evening’s emcee Aaron Levy talked about how there had been talk between UFV Faculty and Art Battle co-ordinator Zoe Howarth about having an Art Battle exclusively for UFV student artists.

For more information, and to see firsthand exactly what went down at the Abbotsford Art Battle, check out youtube.com/ufvcascadecanada.

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