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SUMMARY:Introduction to BELIEVE
DESCRIPTION: Tour with curator\, David Liss\nAt 1pm and 1:30pm\n\nJoin us for a 20-minute introductory tour. Meet on Floor 1 under Kendell Geers’ BE:LIE:VE installation.\n\nNo registration needed.\nPlease purchase your admission ticket in advance online.\n\nAbove: Kendell Geers\, BE:LIE:VE\, 2002/2018. Below: Andreas Angelidakis\, DEMOS – A Reconstruction\, 2018. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/introduction-to-believe/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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SUMMARY:DEMOS - A Reconstruction - Nuit Blanche at MOCA
DESCRIPTION:DEMOS – A Reconstruction\, 2018 \n74 vinyl-covered foam modules \nRelationships that are constantly negotiated in the age of the Internet are explored in three dimensions by Andreas Angelidakis’s DEMOS – A Reconstruction. \nThe work consists of 74 foam modules that have been arranged for Nuit Blanche into a fixed structure designed by the artist. This amphitheatre-like space can be used as seating from which to watch three videos that trace the story of Angelidakis’s first Soft Ruin that was produced in 2007 to his current installation at MOCA. \nWorks on show: \nTetris Mountain\, 2003 \nBuilding an Electronic Ruin\, 2011 \nMINERVA\, 2014 \nPlease note that for Nuit Blanche the installation of DEMOS – A Reconstruction is a fixed structure and the modules should not be moved. \n  \n“I started out as an architect\, working in online communities such as Active Worlds and Second Life. I was part of a collective called NEEN\, which in the early 2000s explored the new boundaries of Art Online\, or what we used to call “the emotional landscape of the Internet.” I built worlds for our group\, places where we could hang out as avatars and pretend to be together. I tried to understand what the architecture of the internet could be\, what kind of buildings would grab the fleeting attention span of the online human. \nA few years later\, I visited Second Life again\, and found some of my abandoned buildings\, looking as new as when I copy-pasted and re-coded modules to build them. I began to think of how I could make an electronic building age gracefully\, instead of just looking dated. I went back to Second Life\, and tried to teach a building how to become a ruin. \nSomewhere in the process\, I turned my electronic ruin into soft building parts\, upholstered with digitally printed textures. On these new ruins\, visitors could comfortably lie down to watch the story of my Soft (ware) Ruin.” \nExtract from text by Andreas Angelidakis \n\nLast entry time: 6:30 a.m. \n  \nAccessibility: \nMOCA Toronto is a barrier-free and accessible museum for all. We are located on the first five floors of the Tower Automotive Building\, with elevators serving each floor. The museum has wheelchair and stroller parking as well as two walkers and wheelchairs available onsite for use. If you have other needs we should know about\, contact us at visitorexperience@mocalegacy.webpreview.site ahead of time to make any arrangements. \nAndreas Angelidakis\, Installation View DEMOS – A Reconstruction\, 2018. Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/demos-a-reconstruction-nuit-blanche-at-moca/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180314T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180314T210000
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SUMMARY:Jo SiMalaya Alcampo: Singing Plants
DESCRIPTION:Artist Jo SiMalaya Alcampo will introduce us to the Singing Plants – keepers of indigenous knowledges\, stories and memory. These banana plants respond to human touch with songs – the Hudhud chant of the Ifugao people – and sounds of bamboo instruments and gongs indigenous to the Philippines. \nThis interactive installation explores our interconnectedness with the land\, the need to protect intangible cultural heritage\, and honour ancestor spirits. \nJoin us for a participatory jam session with singing plants and indigenous instruments. In closing\, we will share suman\, a steamed glutinous rice cake cooked in coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves. \nJo SiMalaya Alcamp: Singing Plants\nThe Art of Propagation performative speaker series\nWednesday\, March 14\, 7 – 9 pm\nHenderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd.\nRSVP for free admission \nThe Art of Propagation\nThe Art of Propagation performative speaker series aims to broaden perspectives on art and culture through acts\, thinking and projects of cultivation\, fermentation and propagation. Talks will take place every second Wednesday of the month at Henderson Brewery until March 2018. \nJo Simalaya Alcampo\nJo SiMalaya Alcampo is an interdisciplinary artist who integrates community storytelling and electroacoustic soundscapes. Jo makes comics with Kwentong Bayan Collective\, bridges the Indigenous and Diasporic with Kapwa Collective\, and is writing a magical realist play with Cahoots Theatre. Jo has developed technology that allows people to hear plants sing. \nHenderson Brewing Co.\n128A Sterling Rd\nHenderson Brewing company is a locally owned\, award winning\, neighbourhood brewery in downtown Toronto. Founded in 2014\, Henderson is all about celebrating the stories and culture of our city through the beers we brew.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/jo-simalaya-alcampo/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180222T183000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Wright: Getting Used to Usership
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Wright: Getting Used to Usership\nThe Museum Is Not What It Used To Be speaker series\nThursday\, February 22\, 6:30 – 8:30 pm\nThe Commons at 401 Richmond \nRSVP for free admission \n  \nThe program of talks\, The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be\, invites arts professionals to share their thoughts on how to create a museum model that answers to the pressures of our extreme present\, but at the same time establishes a meaningful and enduring agenda. \nThe third speaker in the series\, Stephen Wright\, is a Canadian\, Paris-based writer and co-director of the PhD-level artistic research program “Document & contemporary art” at the European School of Visual Art (ÉESI). His talk\, Getting Used to Usership\, will explore his research over the past decade examining the ongoing usological turn in art-related practice\, focusing on the shift from modernist categories of autonomy to an art on the 1:1 scale\, premised on usership rather than spectatorship. He is the author of “Toward a Lexicon of Usership“\, is currently preparing a book on the “Politics of Usership” and a companion volume\, “Not\, Not Art.” \n“The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be\, that’s for sure\, but what did it “used to be”? And what does that odd verbal construction even mean? Since its inception some two centuries ago\, the Museum’s task has been to showcase the specificity of art\, often warehousing exemplary instances for periodic display. Art’s specificity outside the realm of use was instituted as the cornerstone of the museum’s conceptual architecture. But over the past two decades\, with the deactivation of art’s aesthetic function\, a patent dissatisfaction with so-called autonomous art\, and a quest for greater traction amongst practitioners\, it is art’s compatibility with other social processes that has come to replace specificity as art’s operative horizon. Today museums — or at least those that care about keeping step with art’s evolving modus operandi — find themselves repurposing what they are “used to” as they experiment with this compatibility and make way for its usership. Still\, is there some link between the proscription of use and what the museum “used to be”? There is a line in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night\, “How use doth breed a habit in man!”\, which seems to point to a gradual slippage from one use\, to common use\, to custom\, to habit. Today\, breaking the modernist museum’s habits (not bad habits\, merely ill adapted to the challenges of the present) requires reverse engineering that trajectory toward new modes of common use.” – Stephen Wright
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LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Programming
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SUMMARY:Richard Fung: The Wayward Roti
DESCRIPTION:Artist Richard Fung’s documentary Dal Puri Diaspora traces Caribbean roti’s passage across space and time. Fung will use this documentary as a starting point for tracing the vast web of connections that entangle flour\, flatbread\, and British colonialism. \nRichard Fung: The Wayward Roti\nThe Art of Propagation performative speaker series\nWednesday\, February 14\, 7 – 9 pm\nHenderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd.\nRSVP for free admission \nThe Art of Propagation\nThe Art of Propagation performative speaker series aims to broaden perspectives on art and culture through acts\, thinking and projects of cultivation\, fermentation and propagation. Talks will take place every second Wednesday of the month at Henderson Brewery until March 2018. \nRichard Fung\nRichard Fung makes videos\, teaches at OCAD University and reads cookbooks in bed. Most of Richard’s videos centre on people moving across geopolitical space. \nHenderson Brewing Co.\n128A Sterling Rd\nHenderson Brewing company is a locally owned\, award winning\, neighbourhood brewery in downtown Toronto. Founded in 2014\, Henderson is all about celebrating the stories and culture of our city through the beers we brew.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/richard-fung/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180110T210000
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SUMMARY:Myung-Sun Kim: Living Spirits
DESCRIPTION:Living Spirits explores the practice of Makgeolli\, Korean fermented rice wine\, which survived many decades of prohibition through Japanese Occupation and military dictatorship. In making Makgeolli\, raw ingredients nearing their expiration transform into an entirely different being through the process of fermentation – suggesting alchemy\, a sense of magic. Living Spirits expands on ideas around lineage\, desire\, longing\, care\, resilience and sustenance through its consideration of recipes as instructional artefacts of memory and time. \n  \nMyung-Sun Kim: Living Spirits\nPart of The Art of Propagation series\nWednesday\, January 10\, 7 – 9 pm\nHenderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd.\n \n  \nThe Art of Propagation\nThe Art of Propagation presents a monthly conversation about varied relationships between culture\, food and social histories. The series features artists who broaden perspectives on art and culture through acts and projects of cultivation\, fermentation and propagation. \nThe series will continue every second Wednesday of the month through March 2018 at Henderson Brewery\, MOCA’s future neighbour on Sterling Rd. \n  \nMyung-Sun Kim\nMyung-Sun Kim’s work explores ideas of foodways\, undocumented history\, war\, fiction\, memory\, trauma\, resilience\, and community care. She is interested in sharing of lived experiences and methodologies that may evoke a collective sense of empathy\, a deeper understanding and a care for the differences that exist within our complex intercultural communities\, in ways that provides sustenance. \n  \nHenderson Brewing Co.\n128A Sterling Rd\nHenderson Brewing company is a locally owned\, award winning\, neighbourhood brewery in downtown Toronto. Founded in 2014\, Henderson is all about celebrating the stories and culture of our city through the beers we brew.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/myung-sun-kim/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171213T210000
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SUMMARY:Amy Wong: Angry Asian Feminist Loves Detox Soup
DESCRIPTION:Amy Wong‘s performative artist talk\, Angry Asian Feminist Loves Detox Soup\, will be conceptualized around her mother Regina Wong’s recipe for Lok Dou Sa\, a sweet mung bean detox soup. By framing artistic gesture as a means for detoxification\, she will discuss various projects\, highlighting an organic working process\, and reflecting on how doing what one isn’t supposed to can be a cathartic point of departure. Drawing connections between painting\, mixtape making\, motherhood\, social practice\, and the founding of the group the Angry Asian Feminist Gang (AAFG)\, Wong will describe how expansiveness can destabilize conventional systems or ways of being. \n  \nAmy Wong: Angry Asian Feminist  Loves Detox Soup\nPart of The Art of Propagation series\nWednesday\, December 13\, 7 – 9 pm\nHenderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd.\nRSVP for free admission \n  \nThe Art of Propagation\nThe Art of Propagation presents a monthly conversation about varied relationships between culture\, food and social histories. The series features artists who broaden perspectives on art and culture through acts and projects of cultivation\, fermentation and propagation. \nThe series will continue every second Wednesday of the month through March 2018 at Henderson Brewery\, MOCA’s future neighbour on Sterling Rd. \n  \nAmy Wong\nAmy Wong is an oil painter who navigates mixtape culture to claim feminist space. Her practice ranges from painting-based installation to collaborative projects that explore the politics of making noise\, and conditioning spaces that allow for thinking through together.  She is the founder of the Angry Asian Feminist Gang (AAFG)\, a collective of Diaspora cultural producers dedicated to dialogue centered on Asian feminist concerns. \n  \nHenderson Brewing Co.\n128A Sterling Rd\nHenderson Brewing company is a locally owned\, award winning\, neighbourhood brewery in downtown Toronto. Founded in 2014\, Henderson is all about celebrating the stories and culture of our city through the beers we brew.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/amy-wong/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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SUMMARY:Kate Fowle: The Reflexive Museum
DESCRIPTION:Kate Fowle: The Reflexive Museum\nThe Museum Is Not What It Used To Be speaker series\nWednesday\, November 29\, 6:30 – 8:30 pm\nScrap Metal Gallery\, 11 Dublin Street\, Unit E \n  \n\n\n\n\nKate Fowle is Chief Curator for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Director-at-Large at Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York. \nFounded in 2008\, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art was one of the new wave of institutions established since the turn of the millennium in (re)emerging art centres around the world. Conceived as a place where people\, art\, and ideas\, create history\, the Museum provides access to knowledge\, the agency to ask questions\, and a forum for public debate. Through prioritizing collaboration and dialog it has developed as a production house\, working closely with artists to form a broad program of exhibitions\, performance\, education\, training\, research\, and publishing that engages with both international and local concerns. \nHaving welcomed over 2 million visitors since 2015—when Garage moved to its first permanent home—the Museum has become integral to Moscow’s creative life.  Now\, in preparation for the 10th anniversary\, attentions are turning to the future. As a contemporary institution in an evolving\, young culture—one that is not beholden to either the nineteenth- or twentieth-century museum models—the question is what imaginaries will support the advancement of a reflexive museum that can critically contribute to twenty-first-century society? \nWith thanks to Scrap Metal Gallery for providing the venue.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/kate-fowle/
LOCATION:Scrap Metal Gallery\, 11 Dublin Street East\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
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SUMMARY:Basil AlZeri: The Most Prized Of All Closets
DESCRIPTION:Basil AlZeri’s performance-lecture The Most Prized of All Closets explores the dual function of the pantry as a site of preservation and resistance. The pantry serves a basic function in a home as the place where fermented\, pickled\, preserved and dried foods are stored. With the advent of the global production and distribution of food\, many people are losing their connection to their local food practices\, traditions\, cultures\, and\, thus\, their pantries. For this reason\, social movements aiming to revitalize local food cultures and establish food sovereignty see the pantry as a vital site in the struggle against globalization and colonialism. Through an examination of the role of the pantry in Canada\, Estonia\, and Palestine\, AlZeri examines the pantry as a complex site where cultural\, economic\, political and social preservation become intertwined with practices of resistance. \n  \nBasil AlZeri: Most Prized Of All Closets\nPart of The Art of Propagation series\nWednesday\, November 8\, 7 – 9 pm\nHenderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd.\nRSVP for free admission \n  \nThe Art of Propagation \nThe Art of Propagation presents a monthly conversation about varied relationships between culture\, food and social histories. The series features artists who broaden perspectives on art and culture through acts and projects of cultivation\, fermentation and propagation. \n  \nThe series will continue every second Wednesday of the month through March 2018 at Henderson Brewery\, MOCA’s future neighbour on Sterling Rd. \n  \nBasil AlZeri \nBasil AlZeri is a visual artist living and working in Toronto\, Canada. AlZeri’s practice involves the intersection of art\, education\, and food\, taking multiple forms\, such as performance\, interventions\, gallery and public installation. AlZeri’s work examines the socio-political dynamics of the family and its intersection with cultural practices\, drawing on the necessities of everyday life and the visibility of labour as sites of exploration. His work aims to facilitate a space for empathy through gestures of inclusivity and generosity. \n  \nHenderson Brewing Co.\n128A Sterling Rd\nHenderson Brewing company is a locally owned\, award winning\, neighbourhood brewery in downtown Toronto. Founded in 2014\, Henderson is all about celebrating the stories and culture of our city through the beers we brew.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/basil-alzeri/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171031
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SUMMARY:MOCA Lounge at Art Toronto
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with superkül\, MOCA will be sharing proposals for the entry floor landscape of its future home on Sterling Road within a lounge in the SOLO Section of the fair. \nsuperkül’s seating structure responds to the mushroom column heads found in the Auto Building\, designed by architect J. W. Schreiber. Erected in 1919\, the building continues to be an important early example of flat-slab concrete construction. At the fair\, MOCA’s installation will act as a prototype for a circular seating composition that tests form\, scale\, user-friendliness and flexibility. A key element of the finish\, the surface detailing\, will be inspired by material textures found inside the heritage building. \nCome join the conversation and help select final aspects of the design in the lead up to MOCA’s opening in spring 2018. \n  \nArt Toronto \nFriday\, October 27\, 12 – 8pm\nSaturday\, October 28\, 12 – 8pm\nSunday\, October 29\, 12 – 6pm\nMonday\, October 30\, 12 – 6pm \nMetro Toronto Convention Centre\nNorth Building\, Exhibit Hall A & B\n255 Front Street West\, Toronto  \nFounded in 2000\, Art Toronto is Canada’s international contemporary and modern art fair\, located at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in the city’s downtown core. Providing unique access to the Canadian art market\, the fair is one of the most important annual art events in Canada. Now in its 18th year\, Art Toronto presents important artwork from leading Canadian and international galleries combined with PLATFORM\, our engaging series of lectures and panel discussions from prominent art world figures\, curated projects\, an extensive VIP Program\, and top-tier cultural offerings throughout the city.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/moca-lounge-at-art-toronto/
LOCATION:Art Toronto\, 255 Front Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171011T210000
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SUMMARY:Amy Franceschini: A Farm That Sailed Away
DESCRIPTION:Amy Franceschini\, founder of Futurefarmers\, inaugurates MOCA’s The Art of Propagation series of conversations. Thinking about site\, environmental awareness\, food culture and agriculture\, Franceschini is invited to work with MOCA and across the city on a long-term engagement. The aim\, in time\, is to filter her thinking and actions\, in collaboration with local organizations\, artists\, researchers\, designers\, architects\, scientists and farmers. Her performative lecture will discuss Seed Journey\, a seafaring voyage from Oslo to Istanbul that linked the commons as they relate to local networks and a global complex of seed savers and stewards of the land\, air and water. \nThe Art of Propagation presents a monthly conversation about varied relationships between culture\, food and social histories. Franceshini’s event will be followed by presentations with five local artists who broaden perspectives on art and culture through acts and projects of cultivation*\, fermentation and propagation. \nThe Art of Propagation will continue every second Wednesday of the month from October 2017 – March 2018 at Henderson Brewery\, MOCA’s future neighbour on Sterling Rd. \n  \nAmy Franceschini: A Farm That Sailed Away\n Part of The Art of Propagation series\nWednesday\, October 11\, 7 – 9 pm\n Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd.\nReserve a free ticket here \n  \nClick here to read a response to A Farm That Sailed Away by Alma Mikulinsky \n  \nAmy Franceschini \nLiving and working in San Francisco\, Amy Franceschini is an artist\, designer and founder of Futurefarmers. Futurefarmers use various media to create work that has the potential to destabilize logics of “certainty”. They deconstruct systems such as food policies\, public transportation and rural farming networks to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics. Through this disassembly new narratives emerge that reconfigure the principles that once dominated these systems. Futurefarmers’ work often provides a playful entry point and tools for participants to gain insight into deeper fields of inquiry- not only to imagine\, but to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.\nClick here to reserve your ticket \n  \nHenderson Brewing Co.\n128A Sterling Rd\nHenderson Brewing company is a locally owned\, award winning\, neighbourhood brewery in downtown Toronto. Founded in 2014\, Henderson is all about celebrating the stories and culture of our city through the beers we brew.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/amy-franceschini/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171001T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171001T160000
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SUMMARY:The Museum Is Not What It Used to Be: Vasif Kortun
DESCRIPTION:The program of talks\, The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be\, invites arts professionals to share their thoughts on how to create a museum model that answers to the pressures of our extreme present\, but at the same time establishes a meaningful and enduring agenda. \nThe first speaker\, Vasif Kortun\, founding Director of Research and Programs\, SALT\, Istanbul and Ankara\, will explore institutional time frames\, non-capitalist museum conditions\, zombie institutions and survivalist expansions with his talk\, Questions on Institutions. \n“The average lifespan of a private company is less than a century\, something like 75 years\, but public time is supposed or expected to be more or less infinite. The museum is a three centuries old operation making it older than most countries\, economic or political systems. It has however veered away from its legacy to align with others\, namely the theme park and the industrial fair.”  Vasif Kortun \nFuture speakers will include Kate Fowle\, Chief Curator for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Director-at-Large at Independent Curators International in New York as well as Alistair Hudson\, Director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.\n \n  \nWatch the video:\n \n\n  \nVasif Kortun: Questions on Institutions\nSunday\, October 1\n2:30– 4:00pm\nUniversity of Toronto\nJohn H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture\, Landscape\, and Design\nMediatheque (Room 200)\, 1 Spadina Crescent \n\n\n\n\n  \nThank you to the University of Toronto MVS Proseminar Series for providing the venue and to Creative Time\, and The Power Plant for supporting Vasif Kortun’s travel to Toronto.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/vasif-kortun/
LOCATION:University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture\, Landscape\, and Design\, 1 Spadina Crescent\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170930T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171001T070000
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SUMMARY:On the horizon the shadow speaks another story
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 30\nDuring Nuit Blanche\, sunset to sunrise\nDrake Commissary\, 128 Sterling Road \n“On the horizon the shadow speaks another story\,” presented by MOCA\, the Drake Commissary in collaboration with Sedition\, is a curated display of video artworks on the screen at 128 Sterling Road from dusk ’til dawn throughout Nuit Blanche Toronto. \nIván Argote / Mat Collishaw / Michael Craig-Martin / Jenny Holzer / Mustafa Hulusi / Herman Kolgen /Mark Lewis / Tim Noble and Sue Webster / Angelo Plessas / Reena Saini-Kallat / Marion Tampon-Lajarriette / Marie Vic \nProgrammed to complement We Pause at Twilight\, a commission on the West Toronto Railpath by ====\\DeRAIL Platform for Art + Architecture\, a partner of MOCA. \nDrake Commissary\n128 Sterling Road \nDrake Commissary is an eat-in restaurant\, a go-to for grab-and-go\, a prepared fare destination\, and a culinary workshop in the evolving Junction Triangle area. It’s 8\,000 sq. ft. of innovation and experimentation as chefs\, bakers\, guests + makers participate in an animated exchange around the creation\, presentation + consumption of food\, in an art-filled environment. \nThe Commissary fuses The Drake’s food production kitchen\, preparing high quality\, healthful and made-from-scratch foods for all Drake properties\, with an eatery\, bakery\, bar and larder. It invites the public to partake in the culinary workshop and enjoy a food emporium\, while also establishing a casual\, social hub for community\, art and culture. Relax in one of the warm\, eclectic dining and living room areas – options include table or counter service – or pick up ready-to-eat and packaged meals to take home or to the office. \nDeRAIL \nDeRAIL is a site-responsive curatorial project to animate spaces along urban infrastructure corridors; to foster\, support\, interpret\, celebrate and expand public understanding around placemaking\, landscape and urbanism\, and to provide an alternative platform for dialogue and collaboration across disciplinary\, geographical\, and ideological boundaries at the intersection of contemporary art and architecture. \n\nSedition \nSedition is the world’s leading online platform for artists to display and sell their art in digital format for connected screens and devices. Sedition offers everyone an easy\, enjoyable and social way to experience art-collecting at affordable prices. The company was founded by Harry Blain\, the owner of Blain|Southern. The mission of Sedition is to change the art world by introducing a marketplace for collecting and trading art in the digital age. \nArt on Sedition is presented as digital limited editions that exist in the digital realm. Any purchased artworks can be experienced seamlessly across all of your devices including TVs\, smartphones\, tablets and computers. Works are either streamed online or offline using our free apps for iPad\, iPhone\, Android\, Samsung Smart TV and Apple TV devices. \nSedition presents an unparalleled selection of artists and artworks – starting from only £5 – with works by leading contemporary artists including Damien Hirst\, Tracey Emin\, Aaron Koblin\, Yoko Ono and many others. With an abundance of tools at their disposal\, members can share\, gift and invite friends to join the Sedition community of artists\, collectors\, and curators. \n          \nTitle of program taken from Saini-Kallat’s work; @seditionart \nImage: Mark Lewis\, From Third Beach1\, digital limited edition © Mark Lewis\, courtesy of www.seditionart.com
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/on-the-horizon/
LOCATION:Drake Commissary\, 128 Sterling Road\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170722T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170723T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
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SUMMARY:MOCA at BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture on July 22 and 23. \nStop by MOCA’s tent for more information about the museum’s new home and to participate in a video project\, which will be featured on our website and social channels. As thanks\, you will receive a newly designed and printed MOCA tote bag. \nDetails\nJuly 22 – 23\, 2017\nSaturday\, July 22\, 1 – 9 pm (MOCA tent hours: 1 – 6 pm)\nSunday\, July 23\, noon – 6 pm\nMOCA tent: Bloor Street between Lansdowne and St. Clarens \nAbout Big on Bloor\nThe BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture is an exceptional community and city-building festival presenting hundreds of culturally significant events\, activities\, displays and exhibitions. Organized by BIG (the Bloor Improvement Group)\, the festival is a two-day summer event presented along a car-free stretch of Bloor Street West between Dufferin and Lansdowne Streets to celebrate local arts\, culture and community. It has drawn up to 100\,000 people.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/moca-at-big-on-bloor-festival-of-arts-and-culture/
LOCATION:Bloor Street (between Lansdowne Ave. and St. Clarens Ave.)\, 1275 Bloor St. West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6H1N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Member's Event,Programming
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170528
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20170331T144540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T150051Z
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SUMMARY:Doors Open at MOCA
DESCRIPTION:Doors Open Toronto 2017 has teamed up with the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada and Castlepoint Greybrook Sterling Inc. (partnership between Castlepoint Numa and Greybrook Realty Partners) to offer special ticketed public access to MOCA’s future home\, the heritage-designated Auto Building at 158 Sterling Road\, while in mid-construction. \nThe Auto Building\, constructed in 1919\, was formerly an aluminum foundry and manufacturing plant until its production ended in 2006.  architectsAlliance’s purpose designed fit-out will pay respect to and enhance the building’s unique historical qualities and patina of use. \nOpening this fall\, MOCA will occupy the first five floors of the ten storey building\, providing five times mores space than its former West Queen West location. The facility will be welcoming\, dynamic\, adaptable and meet all modern accessibility standards. It will include formal and informal spaces to gather\, converge\, exchange ideas\, inspire and be inspired\, learn\, work and socialize. \nClick below to book your tour: \n[product id=”9770″]\nImportant Notes: \nPlease be sure to give yourself enough time to arrive and change into the necessary PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) including a hard hat\, goggles\, high visibility vest\, and steel toe boots and to sign a liability waiver. There will be a safety orientation given at the beginning of each tour. If you miss the safety orientation\, you will not be able to participate in the tour. \nA limited number of steel toe boots will be available. If you own a pair of steel toe boots\, we would encourage you to bring them to wear during the tour. \nThe site is currently an active construction zone so the following safety rules must be followed: \n\nNo shorts or skirts (all participants need to wear pants ie: no bare legs showing)\nNo sleeveless shirts (short sleeve are acceptable)\nNo participants under the age of 16 (children unfortunately cannot participate)\nUnfortunately the site is not accessible to wheel chairs\, or other mobility devices. There will be stairs and uneven dirt terrain to navigate whilst on the tour.\n\nIf you wish to cancel your reservation\, please email us at info@museumofcontemporaryart.ca 24 hours in advance. \nAbout Doors Open Toronto \nSince its inception in 2000\, Doors Open Toronto has attracted more than two million visits to nearly 700 unique locations. It is Canada’s largest Doors Open event and one of the three largest in the world. \nThe 18th annual edition is scheduled for May 27 to 28\, 2017\, and offers an opportunity to see inside more than 150 architecturally\, historically\, culturally and socially significant buildings across the city. \nThe 2017 theme is Fifteen Decades of Canadian Architecture and features highlights from each decade since the 1860s\, as well as a pre-Confederation cluster. By looking at our architectural\, design and urban planning past\, we can more easily look ahead to the next 15 decades! \nDoors Open is produced by the City of Toronto in partnership with the broader community. \nPhoto: Arash Moallemi
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/doors-open/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20161101T185836Z
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SUMMARY:MOCA x Akin Fall Gallery Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public.\n\n\n \n\n\nJoin us in our old neighbourhood for a special Fall edition of the Akin Gallery Crawl featuring gallerist led tours of current exhibitions. \nThe tour will begin at Diaz Contemporary on its final day before closing\, and will end at the Gladstone Hotel where we invite you to stick around for some drinks and socializing. \n1. Meet at Diaz Contemporary\, 12pm\n2. Visit Susan Hobbs Gallery\n3. Visit Georgia Scherman Projects \n3. Visit Birch Contemporary\n4. Visit Paul Petro Contemporary Art\n5. Visit Stephen Bulger Gallery\n6. Visit Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects\n7. Visit the Gladstone Hotel + Drinks\n\nPresented in partnership with Akin Projects
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/fall-gallery-crawl/
LOCATION:Diaz Contemporary\, 100 Niagara Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160619T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160619T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20160527T215251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160531T222030Z
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SUMMARY:The Museum presents Vera Frenkel's Points of Departure: Words & Works at the Toronto Art Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:The Museum celebrates the launch of Vera Frenkel’s new book\, Points of Departure: Words & Works\, at Toronto’s inaugural Art Book Fair. \nThis ambitious and beautiful publication features a brilliant overview of Frenkel’s practice by Jonathan Shaughnessy\, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada\, and has its roots in “Ways of Telling“\, the exhibition he curated for our museum in the Winter of 2014. \nVera Frenkel is among a small number of artists who have changed the way in which art is practiced in Canada. Her recombinant\, exploratory works\, addressing themes of human migration\, cultural memory\, censorship and the bureaucratization of experience have been exhibited in key venues from documenta IX\, Kassel to the Setagaya Art Museum\, Tokyo; from MoMA\, New York to the Martin-Gropius Bau\, Berlin. \nThe book explores Frenkel’s use of interdisciplinary\, socially engaged approaches throughout her practice and underscores the impact of her work on Canadian contemporary art. \nVera Frenkel and Jonathan Shaughnessy plan to be in attendance. \nDate and time:\nSaturday\, June 18\, 3-5pm (Remarks at 3:30pm). Free Admission. \nLocation:\nArtscape Youngplace\n1​80 Shaw Street\, Toronto\, ON \nAbout TOABF:\nThe Toronto Art Book Fair (TOABF) is a free public event featuring curated exhibitions\, 75 Canadian and international vendors\, and community programming that includes a speaker series\, readings\, talks\, launches and workshops. In its inaugural year TOABF will highlight over 150 national and international artists\, publishers\, designers\, curators\, bookmakers\, writers\, and performers.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/points-of-departure-book-launch/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160528T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160528T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20160517T134808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160517T134808Z
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SUMMARY:West End Gallery Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Open to the public \nThe Museum of Contemporary Art_Toronto_Canada and Akin Projects invite you to attend a special CONTACT edition of the Akin Gallery Crawl. \nThe tour will begin at Cooper Cole Gallery (1134 Dupont Street) at noon and will continue with stops at Angell Gallery\, Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects\, Erin Stump Projects\, AC Repair Co.\, Division Gallery\, with a final stop at the Akin Collective Dupont location (1485 Dupont Street). All are welcome to join. Drinks will be served at the Akin studios. \nPresented in partnership with mocamigos and Akin Projects
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/west-end-gallery-crawl/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160530
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20160512T142532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160519T211954Z
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SUMMARY:The 21C Music Festival: Christof Migone\, Mixer
DESCRIPTION:Dates: May 25-29\, 2016\, various times\nLocation: TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning\, 273 Bloor Street West\, Toronto\nTickets: free \nWorks by Christof Migone are mixed and remixed by an ensemble of performers – including Migone himself. These live performances also include works and performances by Abbas Akhavan\, Ronnie Clarke\, Francisco-Fernando Granados\, Jessica Karuhanga\, Duncan MacDonald\, Hazel Meyer\, Stephen Mueller\, Lisa Myers\, Juliana Pivato\, Tazeen Qayyum\, Jon Sasaki\, Skawennati\, Xuan Ye\, and Andrew Zukerman. \nWednesday\, May 25: 1pm – 9pm\nThursday\, May 26: 1pm – 9pm\nFriday\, May 27: 1pm – 7pm\nSaturday\, May 28: 3pm – 9pm\nSunday\, May 29: 1pm – 4pm \nCo-presented with the The Royal Conservatory  \nClick here for more information.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/christofmigone/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20151202T183256Z
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SUMMARY:Chantal Pontbriand at the AGO -- MOVING: 20/20 to 20/40
DESCRIPTION:Free tickets available on the AGO website beginning Monday\, December 14. \nLocation: Jackman Hall | AGO Art Gallery of Ontario\, 317 Dundas Street West\, Toronto \nOn the occasion of her arrival in Toronto as the incoming CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)\, join us for a free talk with the renowned curator and critic Chantal Pontbriand. The reopening of MOCCA in Spring 2017 will coincide with the launch of Demo-Graphics 1\, the international art event planned for the Greater Toronto Area\, of which Pontbriand is the founding curator. She will discuss the new horizons she is now pursuing\, linking political issues to artistic and institutional practices\, in the context of both Toronto’s and Canada’s new leadership on global agendas. \nChantal Pontbriand was born in Montreal where she co-founded the international art magazine Parachute in 1975 and co-founded the FIND (Festival international de nouvelle danse) in 1985\, following several important performance events and festivals she orchestrated in that same city. Her move to Toronto follows a decade in Paris and London where she developed innovative and global projects. \nPresented in partnership with the the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario). \nTICKET HOLDERS: Your free ticket will guarantee admission if you arrive before 6:50 pm. After 6:50 pm\, unclaimed reservations will be released to standby customers. \n*RUSH SEATS: Any unclaimed seats\, 10 minutes prior to the start of the program will be made available to guests in the rush line. \nPhoto: Richard-Max Tremblay
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/chantal-pontbriand/
LOCATION:Jackman Hall | AGO Art Gallery of Ontario\, 317 Dundas Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5T 1G4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150823T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150823T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20160719T134459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160719T134459Z
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming — 21 Bottle Salute
DESCRIPTION:Dean Baldwin’s exhibition Queen West Yacht Club will close with an adaptation of the naval tradition of the 21 gun salute. The custom stems from naval tradition\, where a warship would fire its cannons harmlessly out to sea\, until all ammunition was spent\, to show that it had disarmed. \nOver MOCCA’s final summer at our 952 Queen Street West location\, the artist’s fictitious yacht club and social venue in situ has played host to contributing artists who have gathered in a program of talks\, gleaning\, reading\, welcoming\, eating\, imbibing and performing. \nOn the closing evening\, Baldwin has invited the gallery invigilators to lead the sabering of 21 champagne bottles in a toast to the MOCCA as it raises anchor and begins its voyage west. \nJoin us! BYOB and something tasty to share. \nFor more information about MOCCA’s future site on Sterling Road\, visit mocca.ca/sterling
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/21bottlesalute/
LOCATION:MOCCA\, 952 Queen Street West\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150819T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150819T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming - Henri Fabergé: Feint of Hart
DESCRIPTION:A site-specific performance created by transmedia storytelling artist Henri Fabergé in collaboration with Kayla Lorette and Miguel Rivas. \nSynopsis: You are invited to attend a reception at Boyce Naval Academy in honour of their historic win at the annual Regatta\, their first in over thirty five years. General Headmaster Lorette is celebrating the defeat of his own alma mater – Grey Naval Academy\, widely considered the créme of the nation’s military might. But rumours swirl amidst the festivities\, as the Headmaster of Grey has not been sighted since the racing vessels set sail… \nDURATIONAL PERFORMANCES (6pm-7:15pm) \nGuests are greeted by Instructor Rivas at the door\, a nervous and weedy member of the Boyce staff who ceremoniously ass-kisses those with a powerful name while deflecting questions from Grey cadets who are holding a vigil nearby for their missing Headmaster. \nAs you step into the Boyce’s Boys tavern\, Henri Fabergé and several fellow cadets are boisterously singing a selection of classic naval shanties around a pianist at a keyboard+amp. Grab a drink at the bar and join in the singalong. \nIn the main gallery\, Headmaster General Lorette is gleefully holding court in front of his ship\, draped in the regatta banner and retelling the tale of his regatta victory to anyone who will listen while drowning himself in chardonnay. The Regatta Judge is in attendance\, acquiescing to Lorette’s win but terribly worried about the missing Headmaster from Grey. \nDENOUEMENT (approx 7:30pm)\nLorette calls everyone to the main gallery\, and introduces Fabergé to sing a tune written especially for the occasion. Much to his horror\, the song is titled “We Cheated.” As Lorette and Rivas furiously “shhh” him\, the cadets from Grey have managed to get in and open the ship’s cabin: out comes the Headmaster of Grey\, bound and gagged. They remove a Boyce insignia (stuck to the bow? a flag? whatever the artist is ok with)\, revealing that Lorette did in fact board the Grey vessel mid-sea and sail the superior ship to victory. The reception continues with Fabergé and his Grey counterpart (possibly Carmen Elle from the band DIANA) sing some duets\, as the Boyce and Grey characters argue theatrically with the regatta judge stuck in the middle.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/henrifaberge/
LOCATION:MOCCA\, 952 Queen Street West\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150816T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150816T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20160719T133707Z
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming -- Walter Scott: A HOME UNDERGROUND: A Wendy Meta-Fiction
DESCRIPTION:In Wendy’s favorite feminist sci-fi book\, A HOME UNDERGROUND by Kate Ecker\, an armoured space-traveller\, on the run from her past\, collides with earth and burrows underground to begin writing her 2000-page book. Wendy\, feeling trapped\, bored and alone in her hot\, sticky sublet in L.A\, falls into the comfort of this acrid fiction – until the lines between her reality\, the novel\, and our collective fictions begins to blur. A live\, two-person performance at MOCCA\, featuring voices\, images\, and sound.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/walterscott/
LOCATION:MOCCA\, 952 Queen Street West\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150811T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150811T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20160719T133424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160719T141605Z
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming -- The League of Women of Great Personal Charm and Wit\, Exemplary Whiskey Drinkers\, Feminists\, Defenders of the Earth\, Citizen Smokers\, Survivors of Many Neglects and Troubles
DESCRIPTION:Join the scotch club TLWGPCW for the apéro\, to discuss art and politics over a glass of irresistible malt or kombucha for those who prefer (please specify in your RSVP). \nPlease RSVP to Maryse Larivière at tlwgpcw@gmail.com
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/leagueofwomen/
LOCATION:MOCCA\, 952 Queen Street West\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150726T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150726T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20150707T205454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150708T183844Z
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming -- SCHOOL: Cannibalistic Feminisms
DESCRIPTION:SCHOOL is organized by Jonathan Adjemain and Xenia Benivolski and co presented with No Reading After the Internet. \nSCHOOL is a series of informal school-type seminars for people of any and all educational backgrounds. \nTwo of the four-week sessions will take place at MOCCA\, and will be led by cheyanne turions and Leila Timmins (July 19th and August 2nd at 8/11\, 233 Spadina Ave.). It will revolve\, in all sorts of ways\, around food\, and will involve special guests and gustatory treats in solid and liquid form. \nIf you want to take part\, please email quoteschool@gmail.com to register. The first set of readings will be sent out shortly. We strongly encourage attending all four sessions if possible\, but drop-ins are welcome too. PWYC donations will be taken after each session\, all of which go to thank the facilitators for their time. \nEating Bodies: Towards a Consummate Consumption\n“School” program facilitated by Leila Timmins and cheyanne turions \nWhat else is food\, beyond nourishment? This summer session of SCHOOL will focus on the social and aesthetic aspects of food\, where eating is considered as act with repercussions beyond the fulfillment of a basic need. Drawing on texts that operate outside of the sentimentality and machismo pervasive in much food writing\, taste will be explored as something conditioned by class\, gender\, culture and history. Born of a desire to indulge and critically interrogate our tastes\, especially as they resonate outward from our own plates\, we hope to use food as symbol for human relations\, exploring patterns of interaction between and within societies. \nOver the course of four weeks\, we will read a variety of texts—theoretical and comedic\, historical and contemporary\, fiction and not. Approaching SCHOOL as an experiment in informal education\, please note that we are not experts in these texts\, though our curiosity is voracious. Understandings of the texts will be performed collectively\, and in addition to generally discussing each week’s theme\, participants will be asked to share selections from the texts they find incendiary or spot-on. These observations will be used to guide our conversations. \nFacilitators: \nLeila Timmins is a writer and curator based in Toronto. She is the Head of Exhibitions at Gallery 44 and currently sits on the Board of C Magazine and the Education Programming Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario\, \ncheyanne turions is an independent\, Toronto-based curator and writer. Her work approaches the space of exhibition as alive—the gallery is a space of dialogue where artists\, curators and publics can reflect on and experiment with ways of seeing (and being). She sits on the Board of Directors for Kunstverein Toronto\, the Editorial Advisory Committee for C Magazine and the Advisory Board for the newly federated institution comprising the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre. She is the director of No Reading After the Internet (Toronto). \n12 July: Colonial Foodstuffs\n• Jonah Campbell’s “Notes Preliminary to Actually Thinking About an Anti-Colonial Food Writing” from Still Crapulent\n• Kyla Wazana Tompkins’s “‘She Made the Table a Snare to Them’: Sylvester Graham’s Imperial Dietics” from Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century \n26 July: Cannibalistic Feminisms\n• Jonah Campbell’s “On Nigella Lawson\, Impossible Witnessing\, and the Reification of Analysis” from Still Crapulent\n• Excerpts from F.T. Marinetti/Fillia’s The Futurist Cookbook\n• Candice Lin’s Tales from the Kitchen: Beggar’s Revenge Chicken\n• Excerpts from Three Banquets for a Queen\, edited by Charlotte Birnbaum
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/qwyc-school-cannibalistic-feminisms/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150725
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming -- Diane Borsato: Arrangements\, 2015
DESCRIPTION:Diane Borsato will be producing Sogetsu-style Ikebana flower arrangements using objects and left-over materials from museum installations and receptions. \nShe will be working on the ephemeral sculptures in the gallery on Saturday June 27th and on Friday July 24th. The arrangements will be on view for approximately one week following their construction. \nDiane Borsato is a Canadian visual artist whose work explores pedagogical practices and experiential ways of knowing through performance\, intervention\, video\, installation\, and photography. Her multidisciplinary and socially engaged works are often created through the mobilization of distinct groups of people including arts professionals\, artists\, and naturalists.[2] Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries\, museums and artist-run-centres across Canada and internationally\, including the Vancouver Art Gallery\, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery\, The Art Gallery of York University(AGYU)\, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec\, At rMetropole\, Mercer Union\, the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Montreal\, and in galleries in the US\, France\, Germany\, Mexico\, Taiwan and Japan. Borsato was a Sobey Art Award nominee in 2011 and 2013 and the recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 2008 for her research and practices in the Inter-Arts category from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2013\, she was an artist in residence at The Art Gallery of Ontario where she created actions\, like Tea Service (Conservators Will Wash the Dishes) and Your Temper\, My Weather\, that animated the collections and environments of the gallery. Borsato is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of Guelph where she teaches in the areas of 2D Integrated Media\, Extended Practices and in the MFA program. She creates advanced\, thematic studio courses that explore social and conceptual practices that have included Food and Art\, Special Topics on Walking\,LIVE ART and Outdoor School. \nBorsato is considered to be at the forefront of relational\, interventionist and performative practices in Canada. In his essay\, The Knowing of Diane Borsato\, Philip Monk\, Curator and Director of the Art Gallery of York University\, unpacks and elucidates the complexity of Diane’s art practice saying\, “she might alternately be described as a performance artist\, an interventionist\, or a relational aesthetician. None of these\, though\, adequately describe the subtlety\, intimacy\, and often wry absurdity of her work. The artist proposes alternate forms of knowledge and processes of learning that are eccentric – yet mundane – researches into the forms and experience and boundaries of everyday life.”
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/arrangements/
LOCATION:MOCCA\, 952 Queen Street West\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150719T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150719T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming — Basil AlZeri — Welcome Suad and Shafi / اهلا و سهلا سعاد وشافع: A potluck party
DESCRIPTION:Basil AlZeri’s parents\, Suad and Shafi\, are visiting Canada for the first time. In honour of this occasion\, AlZeri is hosting a potluck party and performance at MOCCA to introduce his parents to residents of the city and the Toronto Arts Community. Please bring something to share\, if you are able\, and join Basil in this extension of hospitality and family. \nAlZeri’s mother Suad has worked on a number of food based projects with him. On her visit to Canada\, Suad is expecting to encounter a lot of animals and insects. In anticipation\, she asked her son to spray his garden\, porch\, entrance and all window frames with insecticide and disinfect his home\, although AlZeri’s parents may not stay with him. \nBasil AlZeri is a visual artist who works in performance\, video\,  ephemeral installation\, food and public art interventions. AlZeri’s work has been exhibited in Toronto (7a11d\, FADO Preformance Art Centre\, Nuit Blanche\, Whippersnapper)\, Québec (Fait Maison\, VIVA! Art Action\, SBC Contemporary Art Gallery)\, Ottawa (Ottawa Art Gallery\, National Art Centre\, The City of Ottawa)\, Sackville\, New Brunswick (Owens art Gallery)\, Mexico ( EX Teresa Arte Actual Contemporary Museum\, Performancear O Morir)\, and Chile (PERFOLINK International Performance Art Festival). Upcoming projects in Regina at the Dunlop Art Gallery and Sunday Drive in Warkworth\, Ontario. \nImage: The Death of Performance Art\, 2014 / 7a11d – photo credit: Henri Chan
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/potluck/
LOCATION:MOCCA\, 952 Queen Street West\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150719T110000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
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SUMMARY:this is breakfast: Q.W.Y.C and Drama Queens
DESCRIPTION:Open to the public and free of charge \nKick off your Sunday morning with a special tour of MOCCA’s current exhibitions: Q.W.Y.C. and Drama Queens. The tour will be led by artist Dean Baldwin. \nOrganized by the moccamigos.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/qwyc_drama_queens_breakfast/
LOCATION:MOCCA\, 952 Queen Street West\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Member's Event,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150712T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150712T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20150707T211235Z
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming -- Steve Gurysh & Craig Fahner Olympic Flame BBQ
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with 8-11 \nScreening of How to improve the World at 6:30-7\nBBQ 7-8pm \nA radioactive wand is waved\, an Olympic flame is beamed across the sky\, and a coal mine burns forever beneath the Earth. A history of energy proceeds not just through rational gestures\, but through the stuff of magic\, of stealing from the gods. \nIn How to improve the world (you will only make things worse)\, Craig Fahner and Steve Gurysh draw from the genealogy of energy to enact a magical circuit\, transporting a flame across time and space. Referencing such events as the 1976 Montreal Olympic torch relay\, this work remystifies technological process into Promethean ritual\, highlighting the absurdities of the Modernist spectacle. \nAfter the screening we will serve BBQ prepared on the Olympic flame. \nCraig Fahner is an artist and musician from Calgary\, Alberta. His electronic\, video and sound-based works reimagine electronic systems\, generating experiences that reflect on the role of technology in our culture. Fahner’s works have been exhibited in various venues internationally\, including the Nuit Blanche festival in Toronto\, the Atomic Testing Museum in Nevada\, and the Museo de la Ciudad in Queretaro\, Mexico. In 2010\, he received the Disney Memorial Pausch Fellowship to pursue graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh\, where he received his MFA in 2013. Fahner currently leads classes in Media Arts + Digital Technologies at the Alberta College of Art. \nSteve Gurysh investigates economies of energy\, processes of transformation\, and modes of exploring time through objects and events. He explores these themes through the parallel\, and often convergent\, histories of science\, art\, and pop cultural trends. While his process employs methods of research\, experimentation\, and collaboration\, illogical premises often drive his work towards inventive and playful scenarios. Here\, the act of storytelling becomes activated by a productive process\, weaving mythological frameworks\, historical narrative\, and invented experience into potent objects\, public interventions\, and temporary experiences. \nGurysh received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the co-founder and director of The Drift\, a platform for temporary public art that explores bodies of water as a context and site for presentation. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited projects in places such as El Museo de la Ciudad in Queretaro\, Mexico; La Societe des arts technologiques in Montreal\, Canada; The Engine Room in Wellington\, New Zealand; Spaces in Cleveland\, OH; Cabinet Magazine’s Exhibition Space in Brooklyn\, NY; and the center of the Allegheny River. \n  \nFrom July 14 to August 5\, Steve Gurysh and Craig Fahner’s exhibition The Radiant will be on view at 8-11 (233 Spadina Avenue).
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/qwyc-olympic-flame-bbq/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150712T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150712T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T044912
CREATED:20150707T204951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150708T183852Z
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SUMMARY:Q.W.Y.C. Programming -- SCHOOL: Colonial Foodstuffs
DESCRIPTION:SCHOOL is organized by Jonathan Adjemain and Xenia Benivolski and co presented with No Reading After the Internet. \nSCHOOL is a series of informal school-type seminars for people of any and all educational backgrounds. \nTwo of the four-week sessions will take place at MOCCA\, and will be led by cheyanne turions and Leila Timmins (July 19th and August 2nd at 8/11\, 233 Spadina Ave.). It will revolve\, in all sorts of ways\, around food\, and will involve special guests and gustatory treats in solid and liquid form. \nIf you want to take part\, please email quoteschool@gmail.com to register. The first set of readings will be sent out shortly. We strongly encourage attending all four sessions if possible\, but drop-ins are welcome too. PWYC donations will be taken after each session\, all of which go to thank the facilitators for their time. \nEating Bodies: Towards a Consummate Consumption\n“School” program facilitated by Leila Timmins and cheyanne turions \nWhat else is food\, beyond nourishment? This summer session of SCHOOL will focus on the social and aesthetic aspects of food\, where eating is considered as act with repercussions beyond the fulfillment of a basic need. Drawing on texts that operate outside of the sentimentality and machismo pervasive in much food writing\, taste will be explored as something conditioned by class\, gender\, culture and history. Born of a desire to indulge and critically interrogate our tastes\, especially as they resonate outward from our own plates\, we hope to use food as symbol for human relations\, exploring patterns of interaction between and within societies. \nOver the course of four weeks\, we will read a variety of texts—theoretical and comedic\, historical and contemporary\, fiction and not. Approaching SCHOOL as an experiment in informal education\, please note that we are not experts in these texts\, though our curiosity is voracious. Understandings of the texts will be performed collectively\, and in addition to generally discussing each week’s theme\, participants will be asked to share selections from the texts they find incendiary or spot-on. These observations will be used to guide our conversations. \nFacilitators: \nLeila Timmins is a writer and curator based in Toronto. She is the Head of Exhibitions at Gallery 44 and currently sits on the Board of C Magazine and the Education Programming Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario\, \ncheyanne turions is an independent\, Toronto-based curator and writer. Her work approaches the space of exhibition as alive—the gallery is a space of dialogue where artists\, curators and publics can reflect on and experiment with ways of seeing (and being). She sits on the Board of Directors for Kunstverein Toronto\, the Editorial Advisory Committee for C Magazine and the Advisory Board for the newly federated institution comprising the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre. She is the director of No Reading After the Internet (Toronto). \n12 July: Colonial Foodstuffs\n• Jonah Campbell’s “Notes Preliminary to Actually Thinking About an Anti-Colonial Food Writing” from Still Crapulent\n• Kyla Wazana Tompkins’s “‘She Made the Table a Snare to Them’: Sylvester Graham’s Imperial Dietics” from Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century \n26 July: Cannibalistic Feminisms\n• Jonah Campbell’s “On Nigella Lawson\, Impossible Witnessing\, and the Reification of Analysis” from Still Crapulent\n• Excerpts from F.T. Marinetti/Fillia’s The Futurist Cookbook\n• Candice Lin’s Tales from the Kitchen: Beggar’s Revenge Chicken\n• Excerpts from Three Banquets for a Queen\, edited by Charlotte Birnbaum
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/q-w-y-c-school-colonial-foodstuffs/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Programming
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