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Results filed under: Exhibition
The Weight of Inheritance
Gallery Hours Wed-Sat, 1pm -5pm In the spring of 2016, a chance encounter at a house in Toronto’s east end led to Hazel Meyer being…
Everything is in the language we use
Gallery Hours Wed-Sat, 1pm -5pm Wednesday, July 22, 29, August 5, 12, and 19 Launch of weekly podcast featuring selections from Lis Rhodes’ book of…
Experimental Time Order—Black Quantum Futurism
Talk / Workshop Sept 14, 3:00pm Performance Sept 14, 8:00pm Black Quantum Futurism (BQF) is a multidisciplinary collaboration between artists Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips.…
Teach Me a Song
Performance of Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᏕᎫᏗ: Nov 23, 3pm Artist and composer Elisa Harkins presents a series of songs and sculptures at Western Front that build on…
cuculoris, a time machine for shadows Nicole Kelly Westman
quivering light is interrupted by fluttering darkness. filtered through the leaves of a shivering tree. shadows gyrate to the rhythm of the wind. except when…
Deanna Bowen: ON TRIAL The Long Doorway
A Black legal aide lawyer is assigned to represent a young white student who has assaulted a fellow student/rising Black athlete. ON TRIAL The Long…
That which identifies them, like the eye of the cyclops
Performance with Marién Velez: March 23 @ 2pm Monique Wittig’s 1969 novel Les Guérillères envisions the aftermath of a violent war of the sexes in a future…
Mouthfeel
Mouthfeel, presented by Big Rock Candy Mountain, features sticky, pliable, and oral forms that center on the mouth as a means of aesthetic perception and…
I Don’t Get it
Free to the public The final stop on a three-part exhibition tour, I Don’t Get It is a new body of work by Aleesa Cohene. The…
Veils of a Bog
Peaty and tannic, soft and saturated with water, a bog is place brimming with life forms, yet built up on a bed of decay. Veils…
These Hands
Rabbit hunting in the snow. Weaving textiles on a backstrap loom. Smashing up rocks in a sun drenched quarry in Tanzania. Cleaning office buildings by…
Sonic Playground Celebrates BC Youth Week
Sonic Playground celebrates youth exploring the creative potential of sound and technology. Teens from King George Secondary and Burnaby North High show off a year of…
apparatus for the circulation of Indigenous voices and ideas into the air
Wawatay Radio has been broadcasting across the Treaty 9 area and beyond for many years, providing listeners and active users of the network access to…
The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy
Screening of Campbell’s 2013 film It For Others and dialogue with Jordan Wilson: May 13 @ 2pm Duncan Campbell is known for his films, which…
Another time, this time, one time
Opening: September 21, 7pm Performance: September 22, 8pm + September 23, 2pm Another time, this time, one time features a series of new works made…
going to go out now
going to go out now arranges a second meeting between Ellie Epp and Juliette Blightman following their exhibition holding one’s own in an unfinished system…
Hors-champs
Stan Douglas and George Lewis in conversation Saturday February 16, 3pm FREE In Stan Douglas’ Hors-champs (1992), a quartet of musicians—Kent Carter, Douglas Ewart, Oliver Johnson,…