Whippersnapper

Matriarchs, Muffins & Art Forms

Terri Monture and M. Carmen Lane

October 15, 2017 @ 2 - 4pm

A dialogue between Terri Monture and M. Carmen Lane around themes of Onkwehonwe governance, matriarchy, two-spirit leadership and how these relate to ceremony, art making and life (which are sometimes all the same thing at the same time).

somehow i found you: Black Archival Practices Workshop

Maandeeq Mohamed

DEC 2, 2017 @ 2 - 5 at the CLGA

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST for a two-day workshop on black queer and trans archival practices facilitated by Maandeeq Mohamed at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.

FACE VALUE: A Conversation on the Aesthetics of Believability

Alok Vaid-Menon
Barak adé Soleil
Fallon Simard

September 30th, 2017 @ 3PM
Art Gallery of Ontario as part of the Creative Time Summit

Aesthetics play a large role in how we make decisions about what is believable and what isn’t. Being believed has political and material benefits. Join Alok Vaid-Menon, Fallon Simard and Barak adé Soleil in conversation as they explore some of the ways power is bestowed, upheld and named through aesthetic legibility.

The Angry Asian Feminist Gang Bring Soup Love

The Angry Asian Feminist Gang

September 30th @ 1:30
Art Gallery of Ontario
presented at the Creative Time Summit

The Angry Asian Feminist Gang will be hosting a healing soup workshop at the Creative Time Summit, collaboratively making a medicinal bone broth called sey mei tong as a metaphor for finding safety, support and nourishment within one’s community. 

Guided Neighborhood Tasting Tour

Shellie Zhang
Speakers:
Arlene Chan
John Smith
Vanessa Ling Yu

September 24 @ 12:45 - 4 PM

Join speakers Arlene Chan, John Smith and Vanessa Ling Yu for a guided tasting tour highlighting the histories behind the restaurants, markets, bakeries grocery stores and more in the Gallery’s surrounding neighbourhoods. Each speaker will be presenting a dish, snack or sample during the tour as a storytelling device.

BOIL THE OCEAN: A Conversation on the Labour of Translation

Tannis Nielsen
Syrus Marcus Ware

February 7, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
Second Floor, The Theatre Centre
1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON

It’s not uncommon to encounter people that live in completely different worlds from you, but what kind of work goes into bridging those distances, and who is expected to do the heavy lifting? Artists Tannis Nielsen and Syrus Marcus Ware discuss.

DAMNED IF YOU DO: A Conversation on the Politics of Refusal

Deanna Bowen
Abbas Akhavan

Sunday, May 29 @ 2:30 PM
Second Floor, The Theatre Centre
1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON

A conversation between artists Deanna Bowen and Abbas Akhavan facilitated by Joshua Vettivelu about their experiences negotiating participation within neoliberal art and funding systems.

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Saturday, November 28th, 2015

Join us for one night only music/performance/visual overload of your senses!

Business Casual

Halloway Jones & Katie Hernendez

September - December 25th, 2015

Business Casual is a series of paintings by Halloway Jones & Katie Hernendez, co-presented with MakeWorks Lab, as an off sight project.

V I R T U A L B O D I E S ~ CRIT issue 07 Toronto Launch

CRIT Paper

September 27, 2015
5-7PM

Come & get a copy of Virtual Bodies, the 7th issue of CRITpaper, at its first Toronto launch.