Tiki Bar Mayhem...

So one coldcoldcold, snowy December night, an artist named Robert Turriff invited the Bownesians to play in the midst of his magical art installation at ACAD - a make-shift but incredibly authentic looking tiki lounge! The weather outside might have been nothing short of frightful, but with a video loop of a beach scene playing outside the fake window, and a crowd that was eager to believe that they were drinking mai tais in a tropical paradise (instead of inside the Alberta College of Art with the windchill at a record -50 outside) the atmosphere was pretty damn balmy...

Photos by Kenneth Locke