BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada - ECPv6.0.8//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210624T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210624T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20210604T160852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T204905Z UID:20292-1624550400-1624554000@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Mahjong Movie Moments with Tea Base DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n Online pre-registration required \n \n \n \n Ever wondered what that one moment in Crazy Rich Asians\, when Constance Wu’s character lays down that tile in the mahjong hall meant? Have the classic poker table moments in Spaghetti Westerns (or almost every Clint Eastwood movie) been your secret favourite? Been fascinated by the hidden meanings in classic board games? \nJoin Tea Base collective members and guests as they collectively analyze mahjong scenes and hands from “classic” movie moments. As a symbolic touchpoint in multiple East and South East Asian cultures\, mahjong’s role in cinematic lore is as a social signifier\, a form of narrative subtext or a culturally specific form of character development. So if you’ve ever wondered why there was a collective gasp in the movie theatre when Michelle Yeoh’s character sees that final tile on the table\, now’s your chance to find out. \nAbout Tea Base\nTea Base is a curious community arts space tucked away in Tkaronto/Toronto’s Chinatown Centre Mall. The community aims to make accessible space for intergenerational activists and artists who support social justice movements in and around Chinatown. Tea Base is a space that develops solidarity across marginalized groups through relationships\, joy and collaboration. \n \n \n \n \n \n \nImage: N/A URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/mahjong-movie-moments-with-tea-base/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Free,Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210612T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210612T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20210526T191246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T204910Z UID:20258-1623510000-1623513600@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Between Us: 3.9 Collective\, Protection Spells and "Black Magic" DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n Online pre-registration required \n \n \n \n In the 2010 census\, the African American population of San Francisco—a city rich in Black politics\, art and creativity—had declined to 3.9 percent. If\, as the 3.9 collective mandate states\, being “Black” is now synonymous with “vanishing\,” what does it mean to be Black\, creative and in America at this time? In their response to the Native Art Department International’s prompt of investigating “protection spells” during this time of universal upheaval\, the 3.9 collective situates the concepts of “protection\,” “strength\,” “resilience\,” and “endurance” as both individual\, embodied practices and collective acts of creative and cultural production. In this conversation\, they will unpack the conceptual framework for their Shift Key-created project\, “Black Magic\,” exploring what it means to bear witness to\, for and with a dwindling population of African Americans—creative and otherwise—in an increasingly gentrified locale. \nAbout the Speakers\nThe 3.9 Art Collective is an association of African American artists\, curators\, and art writers who live in San Francisco\, and who came together to draw attention to the city’s dwindling black population. The 3.9 Art Collective bears witness to this phenomenon and seeks to reverse it by drawing attention to the historical and ongoing presence of black artists in the city and creative expression in its black communities. Through multiple forms of presentation and outreach\, we create and claim spaces to display our art work; nurture young artists and develop educational programs for students; and write about and curate exhibitions meant to generate productive\, cross-cultural dialogues. \n  \n\nAbout Between Us\nBetween Us is a new public programme series where informal conversations delve into the Museum’s online and physical exhibitions. The discussions will emphasize culturally-rooted creative practice and the aesthetics of social engagement to ask: “How do we know ourselves\, and the world around us\, artistically?” \n \n \n \n \n \n \nImage: 3.9 Art Collective. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/between-us-3-9-collective-protection-spells-and-black-magic/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Free,Online,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/0_3.9-Collective_Intro-Title-Slide-with-logo_800-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210606T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210606T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20210518T175248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T175248Z UID:20235-1622984400-1622988000@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Little Islands with Emmie Tsumura DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n Online pre-registration required \n \n \n \n Join artist Emmie Tsumura for a hands-on virtual workshop inspired by Michael Lin’s Archipelago! Emmie will show you how to create your own patterned archipelago\, or chain of islands\, drawing inspiration from your immediate surroundings. After collecting motifs and patterns that represent your home or neighbourhood\, participants will cut out and decorate their island shapes\, creating their own archipelago – separate but all parts of a whole. Your archipelago will become a unique snapshot of you! \nAbout the Artist: \nEmmie Tsumura is an interdisciplinary artist working in illustration\, collage\, and graphic design and is currently based in Tkarón:to/Toronto. Guided by Japanese folk tales and personal ancestry\, her work documents an ongoing process of negotiating Japanese settler/colonial identity and contemplates human relationships to consumption and the urban environment. Using psychogeography as an exploratory tool\, she is interested in how artists can reach communities outside of traditional art spaces\, disrupt familiar narratives\, and combine forces to support grassroots justice movements. She has an undergraduate degree from Trent University in Cultural Studies and completed a Masters Degree in Design at York University in 2015. \n \n \n \n \n \n This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \nGovernment Funder of Public Programmes & Learning URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-little-islands-with-emmie-tsumura/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/TD-Community-Sunday_Little-Islands-with-Emmie-Tsumura_LittleIslands1_EmmieTsumura_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210527T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210527T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20210520T223532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T213345Z UID:20247-1622127600-1622131200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Between Us: Eriola Pira with Loreto Garín Guzmán and Federico Zukerfeld of Etcétera DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n Online pre-registration required \n \n \n \n Join Eriola Pira—curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in a scintillating conversation—with Loreto Garín Guzmán and Federico Zukerfeld of Etcétera on the aesthetics of protest\, the politics of performance and what it means to present collective\, embodied artistic practice in a globalized—yet fractured—world. In situating lived experience at the centre of their creative explorations\, Etcétera’s Guzmán and Zukerfeld call attention to the fundamental interconnectedness between human\, animal and plant life forms in their MOCA Toronto “Shift Key” presentation Letter for Buen Vivir. Through a use of pantomime and humour\, Etcétera call attention to what has now become a preternatural reliance between human existence and the natural world\, elevating the seemingly mundane into critical points of ethical inquiry. \nAbout the Speakers\nEriola Pira is curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. Most recently\, as Director of Programs\, Pira led Art in General’s international collaborations\, residencies\, public events and fellowship programs building on her professional networks and experiences as Program Director and Curator at the artist-founded NARS Foundation\, as Program Director for The Foundation for Culture and Society\, where she led a network and exchange program between 12 art organizations throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the US. In this capacity\, she also organized a number of international exhibitions\, publications and symposia\, and created a Curatorial Fellowship. A native of Albania\, Pira has an M.A. in Visual Culture Theory from New York University and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship\, a Global Cultural Leadership Fellowship\, and a Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship. \n  \nFormed in 1997 in Buenos Aires\, Etcétera is a multidisciplinary collective composed of visual artists\, poets\, and performers. Since 2007 it has been led by co-founders Loreto Garín Guzmán (Chile) and Federico Zukerfeld (Argentina). In 2005\, they were part of the founding of the International Errorist Movement\, an international organization that proclaims error as a philosophy of life. In addition to participating in exhibitions in museums and biennials such as the biennials of Jakarta (2015)\, São Paulo (2014)\, Athens (2013)\, Istanbul (2009)\, and Taipei (2008)\, they often work with street-art\, public interventions\, actions\, and performances that are necessarily contextual\, ephemeral\, and circumstantial. In 2015\, they received the Prince Claus Award in the Netherlands. From 2020-2022 Etcétera is the Boris Lurie Fellow\, at the Vera List Center\, The New School with their fellowship project\, NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM\, Protocols for Buen Vivir. Their work has been recognized for its denouncement of human rights and environmental abuses through theatrical and poetic actions and statements often exercised at personal risk. \n  \n\nAbout Between Us\nBetween Us is a new public programme series where informal conversations delve into the Museum’s online and physical exhibitions. The discussions will emphasize culturally-rooted creative practice and the aesthetics of social engagement to ask: “How do we know ourselves\, and the world around us\, artistically?” \n \n \n \n \n \n \nImage: Eriola Pira and on the left frame; Frederico Zukerfeld and Loreto Garin Garcia  on the right frame – credit: Khaled Jarra and Etcétera Archive. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/between-us-eriola-pira-with-loreto-garin-guzman-and-federico-zukerfeld-of-etcetera/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Free,Online,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Eriola-Pira-with-Loreto-Garín-Guzmán-and-Federico-Zukerfeld-of-Etcétera_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210502T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210502T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20210427T195810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T195810Z UID:20153-1619960400-1619964000@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Experimenting with Oozing Oobleck DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n Online pre-registration required \n \n \n \n In her films\, artist Mika Rottenberg explores the different ways we can interact with matter. Her film\, Spaghetti Blockchain\, which is also the title of her exhibition at MOCA\, shows colourful objects being melted\, burned\, squished\, and sliced. When we handle an object or material\, it will behave based on its state of matter – solid\, liquid\, or gas. But what if a material acted like two different states of matter at the same time? \nFor our May TD Community Sunday\, join MOCA and three special guests for a live workshop all about Oobleck\, an ooey-gooey material that can shift from solid to liquid instantly. Follow along with an Ontario Science Centre Host to create Oobleck using just cornstarch and water\, and learn about the science behind this fascinating material. Then\, artists Germaine Liu and Christopher Willes will guide you through a journey of listening and sound-making through touch\, movement\, and object activation to allow us to explore and get to know the Oobleck. \n \n \n \n \n \n This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \nGovernment Funder of Public Programmes & Learning URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-experimenting-with-oozing-oobleck/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/TD-Sunday_Ontario-Science-Centre_2021-05_banner.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210404T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210404T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20210326T135355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210329T191546Z UID:19951-1617537600-1617541200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Reduce\, Reuse\, Recycle - Sculpture Art with Naz Rahbar DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n Online pre-registration required \n \n \n \n Making a sculpture out of found and recycled materials can have endless possibilities! It can also help the environment by reducing waste. Join artist Naz Rahbar in this virtual workshop and make a sculpture out of recycled objects. This activity will get us thinking about our relationship to matter and materials\, similar to Mika Rottenberg in her exhibition Spaghetti Blockchain. \nWorkshop Facilitator:Naz Rahbar is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist with drawing at the core of their practice; they work in print\, artist books\, performance\, animation and installation. Naz graduated with a BFA from OCAD University in 2009. They have been active in arts education and community arts in Toronto (www.art-cave.ca) and across the GTA for many years. They completed a bachelor of Education with a Fine Arts focus at York University in 2012\, as well as MFA in 2019. Naz currently teaches at The School of Creative Arts\, Animation and Design at Seneca College\, as well as the joint Art and Art History program at Sheridan College and the University of Toronto. \nMaterials Needed \n\nToothpicks\nTinfoil\nRecycled bottles\nRecycled boxes\nRecycled bottle caps\nPaint and brushes\nMarkers\nGlue\nButtons\nCardboard\nCardboard tubes\nRibbon\nDiscarded toys\nStyrofoam from packaging\nGlue\nRecycled newspaper or tissue paper\nSticks\nStones or rocks\nLeaves (from the ground)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \n \nImage Credit: from ACK collective community art project at Special Projects Gallery York University\,  Ella Tetrault\, Katika Marczell and Naz Rahbar URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-reduce-reuse-recycle-sculpture-art-with-naz-rahbar/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/TD-Community-Sunday_Naz-Rahbar_2021-04_IMG_1706_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210307T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20210225T154816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210307T035724Z UID:19803-1615118400-1615122000@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Make a Mahjong Tile Treasure Box with Christie Carrière DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n Online pre-registration required \n \n \n \n Join artist Christie Carrière for this live workshop where you will learn how to make your own Mahjong Tile Treasure Box! Christie will show participants how to trace\, cut out\, and glue your treasure box together. Then\, she will show you some different ways to decorate your box\, including how to make it look like a real mahjong tile! If you’re really dedicated\, you can make all 144 tiles and play a game of giant mahjong. \nWorkshop Facilitator: Christie Jia Wen Carrière (she/her)\, who also goes by Chris\, is a painter\, illustrator\, rug-maker and artistically curious individual. Chris is intrigued by\, and aims to explore through her work\, the nuances of the in-between. In-between her own ethnic identities; in-between culture and familial nostalgia; community and alienation. \nShe is currently working as a painting instructor\, a freelance illustrator\, as well as the Co-Creative Director at Tea Base\, a grassroots community arts space located in Chinatown. In this role\, she has collaborated with Myseum\, the AGO\, The Gladstone Hotel\, Mayworks\, and others. She obtained her BFA in Drawing & Painting with an Art History minor from OCAD University. \nSince March 2020\, Chris has been living and working out of the 4 walls of her bedroom\, which can be found somewhere in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is an Aquarius and an Earth Tiger. \nMaterials Needed \n\nCereal box (or any thin cardboard)\nPencil\nRuler\nScissors\nGlue\nPaint/paintbrushes (or whatever you’d like to use to decorate!)\nTemplate / Blueprint\n\n \n \n \n \n \n This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \n \nimage Credit: Christie Carrière URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-make-a-mahjong-tile-treasure-box-with-christie-carriere/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Christie-Carriere_Mahjong-Box-coloured_IMG_1406_banner.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200329T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200329T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191105T154605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T205303Z UID:15539-1585486800-1585501200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty DESCRIPTION:Archiving Eden: Exchange presents x-ray images of 5\,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Housed within a vault-like structure\, the installation by artist Dornith Doherty comes to life during seed exchange events\, where visitors are invited to take home an image from the vault’s walls and replace it with a transparent envelope containing a single Canadian seed. Over time\, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual\, dark to light.\n\nThe seeds available for exchange are representative of common agricultural crops grown in Canada\, including soy\, corn and beans\, as well as a variety of native wild plant species. The black-and-white x-rays lining the installation’s walls were captured by Doherty in collaboration with scientists at several international seed banks.\n\nMOCA presents Archiving Eden: Exchange as the fifth installment of Art in Use\, a series devoted to exploring the ways in which museums can be socially and politically useful. With Archiving Eden: Exchange\, viewers are encouraged to examine their collective responsibility to care for the environment while reflecting on the monumental effort required to safeguard biodiversity. At the close of the exhibition\, the 5\,000 seeds will be donated to the Toronto Botanical Garden Seed Library — a collection of vegetable\, herb and flower seeds that growers can borrow from and donate to.\n\nLearn more\n\nThe Power of a Single Seed\nFree\, drop-in\, all ages\, 1-4 pm\nWith Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti\n\n\nJoin us for a 15-minute drop-in workshop on how to grow a native Ontario plant from a single seed. Native plants have evolved over millennia to thrive in a specific climate and are an integral part of our environment. They offer food\, shelter and ecosystems for wildlife and humans alike. Each day of the workshop series will feature a different plant variety. You will learn about its characteristics\, its importance to wildlife\, as well as the basics of seed stratification and preparing a seed to grow in its preferred environment. At the end of the workshop\, you will leave with a seed that is already stratified\, or one that you can stratify to grow at home.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDornith Doherty\, Archiving Eden: Exchange (detail)\, 2019\, Installation view at MOCA Toronto\, Canada. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/archiving-eden-seed-exchange-by-dornith-doherty-2020-02-14-2020-03-29/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Seed-exchange-web-banners-01.png ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200329T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200329T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200127T183231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T151211Z UID:15955-1585483200-1585497600@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Drawing to Communicate with Dalia Hassan DESCRIPTION:MOCA Toronto will be temporarily closed effective Saturday\, March 14\, to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on our communities. We are closely monitoring the situation with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Toronto Public Health.\nWe will be rescheduling this event. Please stay tuned on our website for new dates or changes. \n\nThough drawing is typically viewed as a springboard to further artistic production\, this workshop will explore drawing as a fundamental practice in its own right. Participants will be encouraged to express their personal experiences through the lines\, shapes\, colours and textures they draw\, contributing to and building upon each other’s work in a group activity designed to open up communication and response. \nIn addition to guiding the workshop\, artist and Akin studio resident Dalia Hassan will share her experiences in contemporary drawing and display samples of her work to provide participants with examples of different drawing techniques. \n  \nDalia Hassan is a Cairo-born\, Toronto-based visual artist. She received her Bachelor of Visual Arts from the American University in Cairo in 2007 and has spent the majority of her career working as an independent artist in Egypt. Hassan’s earlier work explored themes relating to city life\, reflecting the abnormalities of her urban environment in a fantasized setting\, often with gallows humor. Hassan’s recent practice\, however\, has turned toward abstraction\, focusing on the mind and the relationship between consciousness and existence. Her work has been exhibited in Cairo and Toronto. \nThis workshop occurs on TD Community Sunday. Admission to the museum is free all day! \n\n\nDalia Hassan\, DRW 12-19\, sumi ink\, felt-tip pen and watercolour on paper\, 8.5 x 11 inches\, 2019 URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/drawing-to-communicate-with-dalia-hassan/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Community Event,Family,Free,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Dalia-Hassan_Event-Calendar-Banner_1200x400.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200328T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200328T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191105T154605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200302T205638Z UID:15538-1585400400-1585414800@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty DESCRIPTION:Archiving Eden: Exchange presents x-ray images of 5\,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Housed within a vault-like structure\, the installation by artist Dornith Doherty comes to life during seed exchange events\, where visitors are invited to take home an image from the vault’s walls and replace it with a transparent envelope containing a single Canadian seed. Over time\, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual\, dark to light. \nThe seeds available for exchange are representative of common agricultural crops grown in Canada\, including soy\, corn and beans\, as well as a variety of native wild plant species. The black-and-white x-rays lining the installation’s walls were captured by Doherty in collaboration with scientists at several international seed banks. \nMOCA presents Archiving Eden: Exchange as the fifth installment of Art in Use\, a series devoted to exploring the ways in which museums can be socially and politically useful. With Archiving Eden: Exchange\, viewers are encouraged to examine their collective responsibility to care for the environment while reflecting on the monumental effort required to safeguard biodiversity. At the close of the exhibition\, the 5\,000 seeds will be donated to the Toronto Botanical Garden Seed Library — a collection of vegetable\, herb and flower seeds that growers can borrow from and donate to. \nLearn more \nThe Power of a Single Seed\nFree\, drop-in\, all ages\, 1-4 pm\nWith Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti\n \nJoin us for a 15-minute drop-in workshop on how to grow a native Ontario plant from a single seed. Native plants have evolved over millennia to thrive in a specific climate and are an integral part of our environment. They offer food\, shelter and ecosystems for wildlife and humans alike. Each day of the workshop series will feature a different plant variety. You will learn about its characteristics\, its importance to wildlife\, as well as the basics of seed stratification and preparing a seed to grow in its preferred environment. At the end of the workshop\, you will leave with a seed that is already stratified\, or one that you can stratify to grow at home. \n\n\n\n\nDornith Doherty\, Archiving Eden: Exchange (detail)\, 2019\, Installation view at MOCA Toronto\, Canada. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/archiving-eden-seed-exchange-by-dornith-doherty-2020-02-14-2020-03-28/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Seed-exchange-web-banners-01.png ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200327T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200127T182730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T205003Z UID:15943-1585335600-1585339200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE DESCRIPTION:MOCA Toronto will be temporarily closed effective Saturday\, March 14\, to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on our communities. We are closely monitoring the situation with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Toronto Public Health.\nWe will be rescheduling this event. Please stay tuned on our website for new dates or changes. \n\nFriday\, March 27 at 7 pm (Chapter I) \nSaturday\, March 28 at 2 pm (Chapter II) \nSunday\, March 29 at 2 pm (Chapter III) \nPresented as part of the exhibition HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE by Megan Rooney\, this three-chapter performance further animates notions of traditional femininity\, domesticity\, consumption-based societies and the mythological that occur throughout Rooney’s practice. Please join us for the Toronto premiere in the exhibition space on MOCA’s Floor 3. \nChoreography: Temitope Ajose-Cutting\nSound: Paolo Thorsen-Nagel\nPerformers: Temitope Ajose-Cutting\, Leah Marojevic\, Megan Rooney\, Moira Rooney\nDirection\, Text and Costumes: Megan Rooney \nIncluded with museum admission. \n\n \nMegan Rooney\, EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE\, Performance Kunsthalle Düsseldorf\, 2019. Photo: Katja Illner URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/everywhere-been-there/2020-03-27/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Free,Performance,Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Megan-Rooney_Event-Calendar-Banner_1200x400.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200320T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200320T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200127T183157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T204946Z UID:15941-1584730800-1584734400@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Artists on Artists: Daniel Rotsztain on Carlos Bunga’s "A Sudden Beginning" DESCRIPTION:MOCA Toronto will be temporarily closed effective Saturday\, March 14\, to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on our communities. We are closely monitoring the situation with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Toronto Public Health.\nWe will be rescheduling this event. Please stay tuned on our website for new dates or changes. \n\nAt an existential moment in Toronto’s development\, how does Carlos Bunga’s A Sudden Beginning respond\, not just to MOCA\, but to the city beyond? This tour by urban geographer Daniel Rotsztain will explore how Bunga’s work can help us grapple with the uncertainty and impermanence of a rapidly changing urban environment. How do we locate ourselves in a city that is shifting beneath our feet? Where do our stories live when the landscape is unstable? Bunga’s immersive\, impermanent sculptures offer clues. \nMOCA’s Artists on Artists series is a programme where local artists are invited to discuss MOCA’s current exhibitions\, or a single artwork\, in any format or direction of their choosing. \n  \nDaniel Rotsztain is an urban geographer\, artist\, writer and cartographer whose work examines our relationship to the places we inhabit. The author and illustrator of All the Libraries Toronto and A Colourful History Toronto\, Rotsztain’s work has been featured in the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star and as a regular segment on CBC Radio’s Here and Now. A frequenter of libraries\, malls and strip malls\, Rotsztain seeks to understand and support the diverse settings of the city’s public life through walking tours\, residencies and landscape interventions. He is the co-lead of plazaPOPS\, an initiative dedicated to recognizing and enhancing strip mall parking lots as community gathering spaces in Toronto’s inner suburbs. \n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy the artist. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/artists-on-artists-daniel-rotsztain-on-carlos-bungas-a-sudden-beginning/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Free,Tours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Daniel-Rotsztain_Event-Calendar-Banner_1200x400.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200316T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200212T144402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T204925Z UID:16221-1584360000-1584374400@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:March Break Sound Workshop DESCRIPTION:MOCA Toronto will be temporarily closed effective Saturday\, March 14\, to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on our communities. We are closely monitoring the situation with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Toronto Public Health.\nWe will be rescheduling this event. Please stay tuned on our website for new dates or changes. \n\nJoin Toronto-based artists/composers Germaine Liu\, Anni Spadafora and Christopher Willes as they construct an evolving installation of sound sculptures and drawings in a noisy meditation on the weather. Participants are invited to play and draw on a sonic table that amplifies their actions into a collective soundscape\, creating an unusual experience of listening. Using everyday objects and audio instruments\, this workshop explores sound as a physical energy that moves through the air. \nEach day at 2 pm the artists will lead participatory sound performances. Experience a vibrant sonic environment that brings weird weather inside. \nChristopher Willes is an interdisciplinary artist\, composer\, and researcher based in Toronto. He is an associate artist of Public Recordings—a collective that focuses on interdisciplinary performance\, publication\, and learning. He studied music at the University of Toronto and received an MFA from Bard College. \nGermaine Liu is a Toronto-based percussionist and composer. Her recent work focuses on the relationships between human and instrumental bodies by developing environmental specific pieces that explore the sounds inherent to objects and spaces. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in music composition at York University in Toronto. \nAnni Spadafora (Guest Facilitator (March 19 and 20) is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Toronto. She is a founding member of the band New Fries. Recent project and performance sites include Extrapool (Nijmegen)\, Milieux Institute (Montreal)\, Gardiner Museum (Toronto)\, Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax)\, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. \n  \nMOCA will be open during March Break\, March 16–20: \nMonday 11 am–6 pm\nTuesday 11 am–6 pm\nWednesday 11 am–6 pm\nThursday 11 am–6 pm\nFriday 11 am–9 pm\nSaturday 11 am–6 pm\nSunday 11 am–6 pm \nMarch Break Workshop is from 12 pm–4pm. \n\nImage by Claire Harvie\n  URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/march-break-sound-workshop/2020-03-16/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Family,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/rock-talking1200x400.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200314T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200224T150130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T172237Z UID:16409-1584190800-1584205200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Sterling Road Bingo - POSTPONED DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED\n\n\nDue to the risk posed by COVID-19\, this event is postponed until a later date. Thank you for the support of this community. Please keep an eye out for any upcoming dates for Sterling Bingo.\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nExplore Sterling Road and meet many of the amazing artists\, businesses and organizations in the neighbourhood\, like artist’s spaces\, yoga studios\, bookstores\, restaurants\, a brewery\, clothing stores\, galleries\, and a lot more. \nOn March 14\, take part in Sterling Road BINGO for your chance to check them all out\, and get special\, behind-the-scenes looks at all of them and enter to win prizes. \nHere’s how to play: \n\nCome to any one of the participating locations on Sterling Rd. on March 14\, 1-5pm)\, and pick up your BINGO card (and your first stamp) to get started.\nWander the neighbourhood\, and pop in and out of all kinds of cool studios\, shops\, and galleries and get your card stamped at every location.\nOnce you’ve visited and collected stamps from all locations\, head on over to Henderson Brewing Co to redeem it for a complimentary pint of beer anytime on Saturday til 9pm (for anyone under 19 who’s playing along\, come grab a free glass of house-made soda).\nYour full card ALSO means you’re eligible to enter to win prizes. Just show your full card at Henderson before 9pm on Saturday.\n\nParticipating locations: \n\nMOCA Toronto (158 Sterling Road)\nHenderson Brewing Co (128A Sterling Road)\nEthica Coffee Roasters (213 Sterling Road)\nRepetitive Press (227 Sterling Rd #103)\nHouse of Anansi Press (128A Sterling Road)\nFly With Me Aerial (163 Sterling Road #113)\nThe Make Den Sewing School (163 Sterling Road)\n\nThis is free and all ages. \nHow to get here:\nSubway: Dundas West and Lansdowne TTC subway stations are both only a few minutes away \nStreet Car: Dundas W streetcar has a Sterling Rd stop. \nThe UP Pearson Express Bloor and GO Transit Bloor stations are just a short walk away along the West Toronto Railpath. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/sterling-road-bingo-2/ LOCATION:Ontario CATEGORIES:Community Event,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Sterling-Bingo-Event-Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200314T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191105T154605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T204929Z UID:15532-1584190800-1584205200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty DESCRIPTION:MOCA Toronto will be temporarily closed effective Saturday\, March 14\, to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on our communities. We are closely monitoring the situation with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Toronto Public Health.\nWe will be rescheduling this event. Please stay tuned on our website for new dates or changes. \n\nArchiving Eden: Exchange presents x-ray images of 5\,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Housed within a vault-like structure\, the installation by artist Dornith Doherty comes to life during seed exchange events\, where visitors are invited to take home an image from the vault’s walls and replace it with a transparent envelope containing a single Canadian seed. Over time\, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual\, dark to light. \nThe seeds available for exchange are representative of common agricultural crops grown in Canada\, including soy\, corn and beans\, as well as a variety of native wild plant species. The black-and-white x-rays lining the installation’s walls were captured by Doherty in collaboration with scientists at several international seed banks. \nMOCA presents Archiving Eden: Exchange as the fifth installment of Art in Use\, a series devoted to exploring the ways in which museums can be socially and politically useful. With Archiving Eden: Exchange\, viewers are encouraged to examine their collective responsibility to care for the environment while reflecting on the monumental effort required to safeguard biodiversity. At the close of the exhibition\, the 5\,000 seeds will be donated to the Toronto Botanical Garden Seed Library — a collection of vegetable\, herb and flower seeds that growers can borrow from and donate to. \nLearn more \n  \n\n\n\n\nDornith Doherty\, Archiving Eden: Exchange (detail)\, 2019\, Installation view at MOCA Toronto\, Canada. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/archiving-eden-seed-exchange-by-dornith-doherty-2020-02-14-2020-03-14/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Seed-exchange-web-banners-01.png ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200311T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200311T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200213T214008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200213T214008Z UID:16280-1583953200-1583953200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Modern Art Explained\, Its Secrets Revealed: A Talk by Marc Mayer DESCRIPTION:“Just as you can’t see the forest for the trees\, you can’t see art for the art works. We must understand forests\, not just trees\, in order to protect our quality of life\, indeed\, for our survival. I believe that the same goes for art.” In this talk\, Marc Mayer looks at the forest that is the artistic culture of our epoch. He will explore the determining influence of science on art\, the consequences of prioritising originality\, and the various uses and abuses of obscurity\, among other topics. \nA native of Sudbury\, Ontario\, Marc Mayer has been the Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada\, Director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal\, Deputy Director for Art of the Brooklyn Museum\, Director of the Power Plant in Toronto and\, most recently\, Strategic Advisor to MOCA Toronto. He is a writer\, lecturer and broadcaster based in Toronto and Delaware County\, New York. \nThis event is in English. \nRegister here URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/modern-art-explained-its-secrets-revealed-a-talk-by-marc-mayer/ LOCATION:Alliance Française\, 24 Spadina Road\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2S7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Free,Partner Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3875_1200x400_3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200229T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200229T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191105T154605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T190916Z UID:15531-1582981200-1582995600@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty DESCRIPTION:Archiving Eden: Exchange presents x-ray images of 5\,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Housed within a vault-like structure\, the installation by artist Dornith Doherty comes to life during seed exchange events\, where visitors are invited to take home an image from the vault’s walls and replace it with a transparent envelope containing a single Canadian seed. Over time\, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual\, dark to light. \nThe seeds available for exchange are representative of common agricultural crops grown in Canada\, including soy\, corn and beans\, as well as a variety of native wild plant species. The black-and-white x-rays lining the installation’s walls were captured by Doherty in collaboration with scientists at several international seed banks. \nMOCA presents Archiving Eden: Exchange as the fifth installment of Art in Use\, a series devoted to exploring the ways in which museums can be socially and politically useful. With Archiving Eden: Exchange\, viewers are encouraged to examine their collective responsibility to care for the environment while reflecting on the monumental effort required to safeguard biodiversity. At the close of the exhibition\, the 5\,000 seeds will be donated to the Toronto Botanical Garden Seed Library — a collection of vegetable\, herb and flower seeds that growers can borrow from and donate to. \nLearn more \nThe Power of a Single Seed\nWith Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti\n \nJoin us for a 15-minute drop-in workshop on how to grow a native Ontario plant from a single seed. Native plants have evolved over millennia to thrive in a specific climate and are an integral part of our environment. They offer food\, shelter and ecosystems for wildlife and humans alike. Each day of the workshop series will feature a different plant variety. You will learn about its characteristics\, its importance to wildlife\, as well as the basics of seed stratification and preparing a seed to grow in its preferred environment. At the end of the workshop\, you will leave with a seed that is already stratified\, or one that you can stratify to grow at home. \nFree\, drop-in\, all ages\, 1-4 pm \n\n\n\n\nDornith Doherty\, Archiving Eden: Exchange (detail)\, 2019\, Installation view at MOCA Toronto\, Canada. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/archiving-eden-seed-exchange-by-dornith-doherty-2020-02-14-2020-02-29/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Seed-exchange-web-banners-01.png ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200223T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200223T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191105T154605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T190856Z UID:15530-1582462800-1582477200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty DESCRIPTION:Archiving Eden: Exchange presents x-ray images of 5\,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Housed within a vault-like structure\, the installation by artist Dornith Doherty comes to life during seed exchange events\, where visitors are invited to take home an image from the vault’s walls and replace it with a transparent envelope containing a single Canadian seed. Over time\, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual\, dark to light. \nThe seeds available for exchange are representative of common agricultural crops grown in Canada\, including soy\, corn and beans\, as well as a variety of native wild plant species. The black-and-white x-rays lining the installation’s walls were captured by Doherty in collaboration with scientists at several international seed banks. \nMOCA presents Archiving Eden: Exchange as the fifth installment of Art in Use\, a series devoted to exploring the ways in which museums can be socially and politically useful. With Archiving Eden: Exchange\, viewers are encouraged to examine their collective responsibility to care for the environment while reflecting on the monumental effort required to safeguard biodiversity. At the close of the exhibition\, the 5\,000 seeds will be donated to the Toronto Botanical Garden Seed Library — a collection of vegetable\, herb and flower seeds that growers can borrow from and donate to. \nLearn more \nThe Power of a Single Seed\nWith Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti\n \nJoin us for a 15-minute drop-in workshop on how to grow a native Ontario plant from a single seed. Native plants have evolved over millennia to thrive in a specific climate and are an integral part of our environment. They offer food\, shelter and ecosystems for wildlife and humans alike. Each day of the workshop series will feature a different plant variety. You will learn about its characteristics\, its importance to wildlife\, as well as the basics of seed stratification and preparing a seed to grow in its preferred environment. At the end of the workshop\, you will leave with a seed that is already stratified\, or one that you can stratify to grow at home. \nFree\, drop-in\, all ages\, 1-4 pm \n\n\n\n\nDornith Doherty\, Archiving Eden: Exchange (detail)\, 2019\, Installation view at MOCA Toronto\, Canada. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/archiving-eden-seed-exchange-by-dornith-doherty-2020-02-14-2020-02-23/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Seed-exchange-web-banners-01.png ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200223T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200127T183118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T143041Z UID:15953-1582459200-1582473600@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Colour Feels with Laura Dawe DESCRIPTION:Drop-in and learn how to transform your feelings into abstract paintings. Taking inspiration from Megan Rooney’s exhibition HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE\, Toronto-based artist Laura Dawe will teach you how to express your emotions through texture and shape\, invite attendees to consider the metaphoric aspects of their feelings\, and learn a variety of mark-making and colour mixing techniques. Leave with two or three small finished works on paper. All materials will be provided. \nLaura Dawe is a multidisciplinary artist whose painting and installation work is frequently exhibited by major Toronto commercial galleries. Recently\, she completed a collaborative installation in the Drake Sky Yard and an interactive Tarot performance at /edition International Art Book Fair. Dawe teaches a drawing workshop called Joyful Still Lives from her studio and is a drawing professor at Sheridan College. She holds an MFA from OCADU and a BA in History from Dalhousie University. \nThis workshop occurs on TD Community Sunday. Admission to the museum is free all day! \n\n \n \nImage courtesy the artist. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/colour-feels-with-laura-dawe/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Family,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Laura-Dawe_Event-Calendar-Banner_1200x400.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200221T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200127T183048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T143025Z UID:15939-1582311600-1582315200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Artists on Artists: Kristina Guison on Sarah Sze’s "Images in Debris" DESCRIPTION:Led by artist Kristina Guison\, this tour invites viewers to engage with Sarah Sze’s installation Images in Debris through a series of perceptual and meditative exercises. Interactive prompts will frame a discussion connecting Sze’s work to cognitive psychological theories of memory and perception. \nMOCA’s Artists on Artists series is a programme where local artists are invited to discuss MOCA’s current exhibitions\, or a single artwork\, in any format or direction of their choosing. \nKristina Guison is a sculpture\, installation and performance artist investigating ontological questions in science and culture. She completed her BFA in Sculpture/Installation at OCAD University in 2016 and is currently studying Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Guison has exhibited her work and participated in artist residencies in Canada\, the Philippines and Spain. \n\n\nKristina Guison\, Weather to Store. Act 3: Outside\, 2018. Co-presented by SAVAC\, FADO and Art Spin\, Toronto. Photo credit: Priam Thomas. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/artists-on-artists-kristina-guison-on-sarah-szes-images-in-debris/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Free,Tours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Kristina-Guison_Event-Calendar-Banner_1200x400.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200221T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200219T172458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200219T172623Z UID:16368-1582282800-1582300800@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Pop-Up Craft Station & Children's Book Reading DESCRIPTION:Craft Station: 11 am–4 pm\nBook Reading: 1 pm\n\n\n \nBack by popular demand\, MOCA is pleased to offer a special pop-up craft station from 11 am–4 pm where you can do creative activities with the kids during the school service interruption this Friday.  \n \nAt 1 pm\, author and illustrator Patricia Storms will perform a reading of her new book Moon Wishes and share some songs\, stories\, and drawings.    \n \nAbout the Author: \nPatricia Storms is a writer and illustrator with over twenty years’ experience. Her work has been featured in Chirp and KNOW magazines. Her previous books include Never Let You Go\, which she wrote and illustrated\, By the Time You Read This… written by Jennifer Lanthier and If You’re Thankful and You Know It written by Chrissy Bozik.\n\n\n \n**Parents and guardians must stay with children at all times**\n \nPhoto courtesy of Milan Pavlović and Groundwood Books  URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/pop-up-craft-station-childrens-book-reading/ LOCATION:Ontario CATEGORIES:Family,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/9781773060767.01_HR-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200217T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200217T123000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200127T182437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T213555Z UID:15935-1581939000-1581942600@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Movement Workshop with Pia Bouman and Annie Feiler DESCRIPTION:This Family Day\, join choreographers Pia Bouman and Annie Feiler for a movement workshop that will guide participants through Carlos Bunga’s sprawling cardboard installation\, A Sudden Beginning. Through a series of somatic prompts\, participants will be invited to interact with the installation and reflect on themes of architecture and temporality. \nPia Bouman is a choreographer whose works reflect on the immediate — on things that must be shared to become part of collective memory. With many of her works appearing at dance festivals and schools throughout Toronto\, Bouman performed Dissemination\, a solo created for her by Alison Cummins\, as part of the Older & Reckless series (curated by Claudia Moore) in 2012\, and a self-choreographed piece\, Erasing Margins\, as part of the same series in 2018. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement\, a not-for-profit organization with a unique and inclusive mandate. After 42 years in Parkdale\, the school opened its doors on Sterling Road in September 2019. \nAnnie Feiler received her dance education at the Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement and\, later\, in Windsor\, Ontario\, with Anne Marie Pilon Gerdun. After reconnecting with Bouman following her university studies\, Feiler teaches in the school’s Young Children’s Program. \nThis workshop takes place at two times on Monday\, February 17. Sign up for free below: \n11:30 am\n2:30 pm \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIntervening A Sudden Beginning\nPictured: allie higgins\, Lauren Runions\, Denise Solleza\, Yui Ugai and Shelby Wright\nI/O Movement\nPhotography by Colin Medley URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/movement-workshop-with-pia-bouman-and-annie-feiler/2020-02-17/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Family,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Web-Banners-Feb-2020-01.png ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200215T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200215T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191105T154605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T190832Z UID:15528-1581771600-1581786000@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty DESCRIPTION:Archiving Eden: Exchange presents x-ray images of 5\,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Housed within a vault-like structure\, the installation by artist Dornith Doherty comes to life during seed exchange events\, where visitors are invited to take home an image from the vault’s walls and replace it with a transparent envelope containing a single Canadian seed. Over time\, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual\, dark to light. \nThe seeds available for exchange are representative of common agricultural crops grown in Canada\, including soy\, corn and beans\, as well as a variety of native wild plant species. The black-and-white x-rays lining the installation’s walls were captured by Doherty in collaboration with scientists at several international seed banks. \nMOCA presents Archiving Eden: Exchange as the fifth installment of Art in Use\, a series devoted to exploring the ways in which museums can be socially and politically useful. With Archiving Eden: Exchange\, viewers are encouraged to examine their collective responsibility to care for the environment while reflecting on the monumental effort required to safeguard biodiversity. At the close of the exhibition\, the 5\,000 seeds will be donated to the Toronto Botanical Garden Seed Library — a collection of vegetable\, herb and flower seeds that growers can borrow from and donate to. \nLearn more \nThe Power of a Single Seed\nWith Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti\n \nJoin us for a 15-minute drop-in workshop on how to grow a native Ontario plant from a single seed. Native plants have evolved over millennia to thrive in a specific climate and are an integral part of our environment. They offer food\, shelter and ecosystems for wildlife and humans alike. Each day of the workshop series will feature a different plant variety. You will learn about its characteristics\, its importance to wildlife\, as well as the basics of seed stratification and preparing a seed to grow in its preferred environment. At the end of the workshop\, you will leave with a seed that is already stratified\, or one that you can stratify to grow at home. \nFree\, drop-in\, all ages\, 1-4 pm \n\n\n\n\nDornith Doherty\, Archiving Eden: Exchange (detail)\, 2019\, Installation view at MOCA Toronto\, Canada. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/archiving-eden-seed-exchange-by-dornith-doherty-2020-02-14-2020-02-15/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Seed-exchange-web-banners-01.png ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191216T151554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T210228Z UID:15797-1581094800-1581109200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Free Friday Nights DESCRIPTION:From 5 pm to 9 pm MOCA’s programmes and exhibitions will be free. \nDine at Forno Cultura. Members receive half off select bottles of wine. \nFree Friday Nights are made possible with support from the Hal Jackman Foundation \nPhoto by Gabriel Li\n  URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/free-friday-nights/2020-02-07/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Web_Event-calandar-.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200205T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20200120T145916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T142930Z UID:15931-1580929200-1580931000@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Intervening "A Sudden Beginning": allie higgins\, Lauren Runions\, Denise Solleza\, Yui Ugai and Shelby Wright DESCRIPTION:To mark the opening of MOCA’s 2020 winter exhibitions\, this performative intervention will take place within and alongside Carlos Bunga’s large-scale cardboard installations included in A Sudden Beginning. Through a succession of slow and deliberate movements carried out by five dancers\, this performance positions Bunga’s installation as a passageway and transitional space\, softening the relationship between body and materiality. Choreographed by Lauren Runions of I/O Movement. \n  \nLauren Runions is a Toronto-based contemporary dance artist\, choreographer and founder of I/O Movement\, a contemporary dance project that considers the flexibility of place and invites movement into daily life. Runions has participated in multiple self-directed and facilitated residencies including Open Space: CreativAction\, The Collective Practice Project\, Banff Centre: Collective Composition Lab\, Dancemakers: Plug & Play\, The Roundtable Residency\, Connection Dance Works and ANDA. As community development increasingly drives her practice\, she has hosted public workshops including Movement at the Mall (Art Starts/Daniel Rotzstain)\, Dancing + Drawing (I/O Movement) and Field Guide for Performance in Public Space (Maximum City). \nallie higgins\, originally from Charlottetown\, Prince Edward Island\, is a Toronto-based contemporary dance artist and longtime collaborator with Lauren Runions and I/O Movement. She has appeared in such works as Last Song for PS: we are all here\, Shell Power for Split Bill\, and in various works by New Blue Dance. higgins has also presented her own work for I/O Movement’s This is Our Place residency and Art in the Open (PEI). \nDenise Solleza (they/them) is a Toronto-based Filipinx-Canadian dance artist. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from York University in 2013\, they have worked with such artists as Valerie Calam\, Brandy Leary/Anandam Dancetheatre\, Hanna Kiel\, Roshanak Jaberi/Jaberi Dance Theatre and Tracey Norman. Solleza is also the co-founder of contemporary dance collective Half Second Echo. \nYui Ugai was born in Hiroshima\, Japan\, and began her training at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and Theatre Dance in Hiroshima and Takarazuka. In 2008\, Ugai was awarded a prize for excellence in dance by Dance Dance Dance magazine\, and has since performed at Nuit Blanche\, Luminato Festival\, Fringe Festival\, Heliconian Club\, WE DAY\, Dance Ontario Dance Weekend and Dance Matters. She has performed with Ballet Creole\, Kashe Dance\, Kaeja d’Dance\, The Little Pear Garden Dance Company\, Parahumans and Anima Inc (Mexico/Peru). She produced Dance Kotoen in 2011\, a dance event sponsored by Nishinomiya city to support youth dance artists and community. \nShelby Wright is a Toronto-based dance artist and choreographer who has performed professionally in New York\, Toronto\, Montréal\, Halifax\, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Since 2015\, Wright has worked with Toronto artist Katie Lyle on a collaborative performance practice combining their artistic backgrounds in dance\, film and visual art. Wright also works as co-artistic director of the Toronto Dance Community Love-In. \nThis performance takes place during our Winter 2020 Members’ Preview and Public Opening on Wednesday\, February 5: \n7 pm (Members’ Preview)\n8:30 pm (Public Opening) \n\n\n\nCarlos Bunga\, Capella\, 2015. Site specific. Installation view at MACBA\, Barcelona\, 2015. Photographed by Adrià Goula. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/intervening-a-sudden-beginning/2020-02-05/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening,Free,Member's Event,Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/Carlos-Bunga-1_Event-Calendar-Banner_1200x400.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200205T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191218T145717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T141006Z UID:15789-1580925600-1580940000@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Winter 2020 Members' Preview & Public Opening DESCRIPTION:Members’ Preview: 6–7:30 pm\nPublic Opening: 7:30–10 pm (No tickets required) \nMOCA’s Winter 2020 Programme brings together the work of artists Carlos Bunga\, Shelagh Keeley\, Megan Rooney and Sarah Sze\, all of whom address space as a physical and emotional construct to be endlessly rebuilt. Spanning the four floors of the museum\, their artistic statements are set into a dialogue that emphasizes the transient and precarious conditions of our time. \n\nSpecial performance: Intervening A Sudden Beginning: allie higgins\, Lauren Runions\, Denise Solleza\, Yui Ugai and Shelby Wright\nTo mark the opening of MOCA’s 2020 winter exhibitions\, this performative intervention will take place within and alongside Carlos Bunga’s large-scale cardboard installation\, A Sudden Beginning. Through a succession of slow and deliberate movements carried out by five dancers\, this performance positions Bunga’s installation as a passageway and transitional space\, softening the relationship between body and materiality. Two performances will take place during the night: \n\n7 pm (Members’ Preview)\n8:30 pm (Public Opening)\n\n\nThe Akin Studios will be open to the public (6–9 pm)\nLight food and drink available during the Members’ Preview (6–7:30 pm)\n\nSee all upcoming exhibitions \nClaim your tickets here\nMembers: Please log in first to claim tickets \nNeed to renew your membership?\nLog in here \n\n\n\n\n\nMegan Rooney\, Installation view: Fire on the Mountain\, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf\, 2019. Courtesy the artist and DREI\, Cologne. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/winter-2020-members-preview-public-opening/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Free,Member's Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/STD_Winter2020_EventCal_DEC4.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200124T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200124T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191211T201440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T145242Z UID:15777-1579888800-1579901400@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:DesignTO x Designlines Magazine’s 2020 Designer of the Year Celebration DESCRIPTION:Designlines has been a longtime supporter of the Toronto design scene\, showcasing its amazing people\, places and products for 18 years and counting. DesignTO is giving props to all this talent with a special celebration during the DesignTO Festival. It’s a great opportunity to meet\, mix and mingle — come party as we crown our 2020 winners. \nThe Designlines 2020 Designer of the Year Celebration honours the best residential interior specialist in Toronto. Also celebrated are the Best Public Space\, Best Product Design and Best Restaurant Design chosen by the Designlines Magazine for 2020. \nLearn more about DesignTO and Designlines \n  URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/designlines-magazines-2020-designer-of-the-year-celebration/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Free,Partner Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/EventCal_DesignLines_DEC11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200117T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191209T203702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T203702Z UID:15772-1579287600-1579298400@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Lisa Robertson Launches "The Baudelaire Fractal" DESCRIPTION:Join Coach House Books\, Art Metropole\, and Canadian Art at the museum to celebrate the launch of Lisa Robertson’s debut novel The Baudelaire Fractal and the Winter 2020 issue of Canadian Art\, which features an advance excerpt from the novel. \nLisa Robertson will give a reading from the novel\, and will appear in conversation with Yaniya Lee\, Features Editor at Canadian Art. \nCanadian Art’s Winter 2020 issue\, themed “Antimatter\,” is about artists making object-based work in a world already full of things\, material practices\, science-based collaborations\, and things that aren’t traditionally understood as art\, becoming art. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/lisa-robertson-launches-the-baudelaire-fractal/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Art Metropole,Free,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/MOCA-Launch-2020-Toronto-scaled-e1575923797899.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191229T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191229T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191105T154605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T215107Z UID:15526-1577624400-1577638800@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty DESCRIPTION:Archiving Eden: Exchange presents x-ray images of 5\,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Housed within a vault-like structure\, the installation by artist Dornith Doherty comes to life during seed exchange events\, where visitors are invited to take home an image from the vault’s walls and replace it with a transparent envelope containing a single Canadian seed. Over time\, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual\, dark to light. \nThe seeds available for exchange are representative of common agricultural crops grown in Canada\, including soy\, corn and beans\, as well as a variety of native wild plant species. The black-and-white x-rays lining the installation’s walls were captured by Doherty in collaboration with scientists at several international seed banks. \nMOCA presents Archiving Eden: Exchange as the fifth installment of Art in Use\, a series devoted to exploring the ways in which museums can be socially and politically useful. With Archiving Eden: Exchange\, viewers are encouraged to examine their collective responsibility to care for the environment while reflecting on the monumental effort required to safeguard biodiversity. At the close of the exhibition\, the 5\,000 seeds will be donated to the Toronto Botanical Garden Seed Library — a collection of vegetable\, herb and flower seeds that growers can borrow from and donate to. \nLearn more \nThe Power of a Single Seed\nWith Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti\n \nJoin us for a 15-minute drop-in workshop on how to grow a native Ontario plant from a single seed. Native plants have evolved over millennia to thrive in a specific climate and are an integral part of our environment. They offer food\, shelter and ecosystems for wildlife and humans alike. Each day of the workshop series will feature a different plant variety. You will learn about its characteristics\, its importance to wildlife\, as well as the basics of seed stratification and preparing a seed to grow in its preferred environment. At the end of the workshop\, you will leave with a seed that is already stratified\, or one that you can stratify to grow at home. \nFree\, drop-in\, all ages\, 1-4 pm \n\n\n\n\nDornith Doherty\, Vault: Exchange (detail)\, Installation view at the Ontario Science Centre Toronto\, Canada. April – August 2019. URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/archiving-eden-seed-exchange-by-dornith-doherty-2019-12-29/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/WebsiteEvent_Dornith_Banner_NOV5-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191229T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191229T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T191643 CREATED:20191007T203038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T170407Z UID:15070-1577617200-1577635200@mocalegacy.webpreview.site SUMMARY:"Age of You" Drop-In Activity: Defying Facial Recognition DESCRIPTION:Think you can outsmart facial recognition? In this workshop\, participants get to design and construct masks and headpieces inspired by CV Dazzle\, a project by artist Adam Harvey that provides information and tips for creating “looks” that can camouflage the face from face detection technology. Using elements such as asymmetry\, tonal inverse and the concealment of certain facial features\, you will be able to learn and test which design combinations are most effective in hiding from facial recognition technology. \nLearn more about Age of You \n  \n\n  URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/age-of-you-drop-in-activity-defying-facial-recognition/ LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada CATEGORIES:Age of You,Free,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/wp-content/uploads/WebsiteEvent_DefyingFacial_AUG29.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MOCA%20Toronto":MAILTO:info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR