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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.
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LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming
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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
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200223T160000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200221T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200221T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200221T160000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Family,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200217T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200217T123000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200212T210000
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SUMMARY:Pint-Sized Conversations: Body of Work with Clare Butcher
DESCRIPTION:Pint-Sized Conversations with MOCA is a monthly night brought to you by Henderson Brewing Co. MOCA will present Body of Work every second Wednesday of the month.\n\n\n \n\n\nBody of Work talks invite artists and those who have worked across the floors of MOCA Toronto—members of Akin’s Studio Program\, Art Metropole\, the Ontario Science Centre’s studio residency and the Toronto Biennial—to discuss their individual practices. ‘Body’ is a term used to describe the texture and weight of beer\, and the word body in artistic practice often refers to a particular arrangement of artworks. The speakers in this series have been invited to respond to this duality.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClare Butcher is the Curator of Public Programming and Learning at the Toronto Biennial of Art\, an international contemporary visual arts event presented in the GTA every two years. In this talk\, Clare will discuss some of the conversations and questions generated following the Biennial’s first iteration in 2019. How might we consider not only the body of work involved in thinking and making together\, but also the body at work within art’s organizational logics and support structures? Reflecting on this question\, Clare invites us to consider some of the ways we learn and unlearn with our bodies through arts programming and education.   \nClare Butcher is a curator and educator from Zimbabwe who cooks and collaborates as part of her practice. She is Curator of Public Programming and Learning for the Toronto Biennial of Art\, before which she coordinated programs such as unsettling Rietveld Sandberg in Amsterdam\, the Netherlands\, and aneducation for documenta 14 in Kassel\, Germany. Clare has worked with museums\, academies\, and communities in Europe and Southern Africa\, and holds an MFA from the School of Missing Studies\, an MA in Curating the Archive from the University of Cape Town\, and has participated in the De Appel Curatorial Program. Some collective and individual endeavors include Men Are Easier to Manage Than Rivers (2015); The Principles of Packing… on two travelling exhibitions (2012); and If A Tree… on the Second Johannesburg Biennale (2012). \n  \n\n\nThis event is free and all are welcome. If you’d like to reserve a spot\, you can buy a ticket for $5 and enjoy a free pint when you arrive.\n\nLearn more about Pint-Sized Conversations \n\nRegister for tickets\n\n Excavating the Garrison Creek with colleagues in TBA Public Programming and Learning’s collaboration with Maria Thereza Alves and her Garrison Creek project\, 2019.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/pint-sized-conversations-body-of-work-with-clare-butcher/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200207T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200207T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200205T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
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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
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200205T220000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200124T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200124T213000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200117T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191209T203702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T203702Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191216T174255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T175831Z
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SUMMARY:Pint-Sized Conversations: Body of Work with Helen Liene Dreifelds
DESCRIPTION:Pint-Sized Conversations with MOCA is a monthly night brought to you by Henderson Brewing Co. MOCA will present Body of Work every second Wednesday of the month.\n\n\n \n\n\nBody of Work talks invite artists and those who have worked across the floors of MOCA Toronto—members of Akin’s Studio Program\, Art Metropole\, the Ontario Science Centre’s studio residency and the Toronto Biennial—to discuss their individual practices. ‘Body’ is a term used to describe the texture and weight of beer\, and the word body in artistic practice often refers to a particular arrangement of artworks. The speakers in this series have been invited to respond to this duality.\n\n\n \n\n\n—\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHow can encounters with materials reveal knowledge about individual and collective care? What if textile-informed objects could aid in relational service work? These questions drive Helen Liene Dreifelds’ process-based sculpture and installation practice. In this talk\, Dreifelds will discuss the ways in which she utilizes handwoven textiles as entry points for her research into affective labour\, social geography\, duration\, and combined sensory experiences such as sight and touch. \nHelen Liene Dreifelds is a sculpture and installation artist whose work is informed by textile thinking. She recently participated in the Akin Studio Program at the MOCA Toronto (2019) and completed the Artist-in-Residence program at Harbourfront Centre’s Craft & Design Studios (2018). She holds a BA in Applied Human Sciences with a minor in Art History from Concordia University (2009) and a DEC in Constructed Textiles from the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (2014). She has exhibited in Toronto and Montreal\, including exhibitions at Cambridge Art Galleries\, Lonsdale Gallery\, and Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts.  \n  \n\n\nThis event is free and all are welcome! If you’d like to reserve a spot\, you can buy a ticket for $5 and enjoy a free pint when you arrive.\n\nLearn more about Pint-Sized Conversations \n\nRegister for tickets\n\nHelen Liene Dreifelds\, Meanwhile (detail)\, Medium and technique: Mixed media installation\, 2019.\nImage courtesy of Yuula Benivolski
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/pint-sized-conversations-body-of-work-with-helen-liene-dreifelds/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191229T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191229T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191105T154605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T215107Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191229T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191229T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191007T203038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T170407Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191221T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191221T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191105T154605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T215100Z
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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 \n  \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-2019-12-21/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191214T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191118T151915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T205601Z
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SUMMARY:Akin Holiday Market & Party
DESCRIPTION:Akin’s annual holiday market and party features work by local artists. This event is a celebration for members from all nine Akin studios\, as well as our neighbors\, community partners\, friends and family. \nIn 2019\, Akin collaborated with some amazing partners\, said goodbye to one of our most central locations\, opened a new studio\, our first location outside of Toronto (Akin Lakeshore)\, turned 11 years old\, and welcomed many more artists to the studio community.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/akin-holiday-market-party/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Akin,Art in Use,Fairs
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191008T151843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191111T153207Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Sharma: "From Mommy’s Basement to Outer Space"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will draw a line between Mommy’s Basement to Outer Space and offer a feminist alternative to the technological escapism that pervades our present moment\, justly termed the Age of You. The lone male in Mommy’s Basement\, equipped with technological portals to more habitable worlds\, is by now a common cultural trope. But the cliché goes beyond the wounded masculinity that festers in the extreme right wings of the political spectrum. Mommy’s Basement contains a motley crew of men who temporarily descend and retreat from social life\, including the hikikomori (Japan)\, alt-right hate mongers\, internet trolls\, the new precariat\, internet addicts\, gamers\, enterprising tech-bros\, and (maybe) a few geniuses hard at work. But as this talk will argue\, Mommy’s Basement isn’t a futile space: it is a powerful media lab\, where unjust ideas about gender and social difference become part of the logic of new technological designs. \nSarah Sharma is Associate Professor of Media Theory at the ICCIT/Faculty of Information and Director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between technology\, time and labour and in particular on issues related to gender\, race and class. She is the author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP\, 2014) and is currently working on a new book\, The sExit\, which explores the relationship between technology\, gender and cultural fantasies of exit. At the McLuhan Centre\, Sarah directs interdisciplinary research and public programming concerned with navigating and understanding the complexities of contemporary digital life. \nRegister here \n  \n\n 
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/sarah-sharma-from-mommys-basement-to-outer-space/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Age of You,Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191016T175416Z
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SUMMARY:Pint-Sized Conversations: Body of Work with Matt Russo
DESCRIPTION:Pint-Sized Conversations with MOCA is a monthly night brought to you by Henderson Brewing Co. MOCA will present Body of Work every second Wednesday of the month.\n\n\n \n\n\nBody of Work talks invite artists and those who have worked across the floors of MOCA Toronto—members of Akin’s Studio Program\, Art Metropole\, the Ontario Science Centre’s studio residency and the Toronto Biennial—to discuss their individual practices. ‘Body’ is a term used to describe the texture and weight of beer\, and the word body in artistic practice often refers to a particular arrangement of artworks. The speakers in this series have been invited to respond to this duality.\n\n\n \n\n\n—\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMusic of the Moon\nMatt Russo \nWhat is the rhythm of asteroid impacts on the Moon? Can the Moon’s surface carry a tune? What does 50 years of lunar exploration sound like? In this talk\, Matt from SYSTEM Sounds will share some of the ways they’ve been able to generate sound and music using lunar data and what it means for the people of Earth. This is also your chance to play the Sonic Orbiter\, an interactive exhibit they created for their MOCA residency that lets you explore the Moon’s surface through sound.  \nMatt Russo is an astrophysicist and musician\, currently teaching physics and developing planetarium shows at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD and postdoctoral research in theoretical astrophysics and is also a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Jazz Guitar Performance program. In May of 2017 he co-founded SYSTEM Sounds\, a sci-art outreach project that converts astronomical data into music and sound. Their work has been featured in the New York Times and they frequently collaborate with NASA to make astronomy accessible to the visually impaired. Matt’s TED Talk “What does the universe sound like? A Musical Tour” has been viewed over 1.5 million times. \n\n\nThis event is free and all are welcome! If you’d like to reserve a spot\, you can buy a ticket for $5 and enjoy a free pint when you arrive.\n\nLearn more about Pint-Sized Conversations \n\nRegister for tickets\n\nImage courtesy the artist.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/pint-sized-conversations-body-of-work-with-matt-russo/
LOCATION:Henderson Brewery\, 128A Sterling Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Free,Partner Event,Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191207T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191120T221101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T193333Z
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SUMMARY:Sterling Road Bingo
DESCRIPTION:Believe the hype\, folks: Sterling Road is jam-packed with tons of cool stuff – artist spaces\, yoga studios\, bookstores\, restaurants\, a brewery\, clothing stores\, galleries\, and a lot more! Come join us for the 4th installment of Sterling Road BINGO for your chance to check them all out\, and get special\, behind-the-scenes looks at all of them. \nHere’s how to play: \n\nCome to any one of the participating locations on Sterling Rd. on Saturday Dec. 7th\, anytime between 1 and 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 – the goal is a FULL CARD!\nOnce you’ve hit up every spot on the list\, 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 the now-legendary On Sterling Raffle\, which will include BIG prizes from all participating BINGO spots (plus other Sterling road spots)! Just show your full card at Henderson before 9pm on Saturday! MOCA’s prize is an individual membership\, which includes unlimited admission to the museum and invites to member events (12-month membership). Stay tuned for more info about the exclusive offers each spot will be offering.\n\nHere’s who participating \n\nMOCA Toronto\nRepetitive Press\nSartoria\nHouse of Anansi Press\nDrake Commissary (Closed at 2:30 pm)\nThe Make Den Sewing School\nHenderson Brewing Co\n\nDriving? \nThere is free parking in the lot across the museum at the centre of Sterling Road
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/sterling-road-bingo/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Family,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191207T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191105T154605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191203T150939Z
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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 of these workshops will feature a different plant variety. You will learn about its characteristics\, its importance to wildlife\, as well as the basics of seed stratification as well as the basics of stratification and preparing a seed to grow in certain conditions.  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/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art in Use,Free,Programming
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191007T202655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191122T184449Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Justice Lab Workshop: Mapping Data Bodies
DESCRIPTION:From the apps we use on our devices to the surveillance systems on city streets\, we live in a datafied world\, in which information about us is being collected on a daily basis. In this workshop\, we will navigate the impact of datafication to form a better understanding of our “data bodies” and how they are used\, stored and shared by governments and corporations. \nThe Digital Justice Lab’s (DJL) mission is to focus on building a more just and equitable digital future. Working alongside technologists\, community activists and policymakers\, DJL helps shape a better public understanding of technology and its impact on communities across the country. Through capacity building\, public engagement and continuous collaboration\, DJL supports diverse communities in making informed decisions around digital issues. Digital Justice Lab is a project of Tides Canada\, a registered Canadian charity dedicated to providing uncommon solutions for the common good. \nThis workshop is part of a series of workshops presented in partnership with Digital Justice Lab for Age of You. \nRegister here \n  \n\n  \n \nIllustration by Annalise Hyunh
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/digital-justice-lab-workshop-mapping-data-bodies/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Age of You,Free,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191016T153153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T155849Z
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SUMMARY:Monday Night Seminars: "HotMessAge" with Skawennati
DESCRIPTION:Registration is now open \nJoin us for Call Forward\, where our guest Skawennati will present her current project\, Calico & Camouflage\, currently in production. The project is a fashion collection of ResistanceWear that blends traditional regalia with military clothing. \nThe McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology’s annual theme\, HotMessAge\, explores how media and technology underlie today’s social\, economic and environmental crises while at the same time offering us tools to address these challenges. \nThis year the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology amplifies some of the voices in Media Studies — voices that offer hot takes with cool possibilities of radical social change. \nThis programme is presented in partnership with the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology\, University of Toronto. \nSkawennati makes art that addresses history\, the future\, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her work has been widely presented in both group exhibitions and solo shows and is included in public and private collections\, such as the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. \nBorn in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory\, Skawennati graduated with a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal\, where she is based. She is Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC)\, a research-creation network of artists and academics who investigate and create Indigenous virtual environments. Their Skins workshops in Aboriginal Storytelling and Experimental Digital Media are aimed at empowering youth. In 2015 they launched IIF\, the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. \nPortrait by Zoe Tennant\, 2018.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/monday-night-seminars-hotmessage/
LOCATION:McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology\, 39A Queens Park Crescent East\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Age of You,Free,Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
CREATED:20191107T201424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T201515Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Emery in conversation with Jonathon Gatehouse
DESCRIPTION:Marine biologist\, Alan Emery\, and journalist\, Jonathon Gatehouse\, discuss the immense changes occurring in the oceans and how these shifts are affecting Canada\, a country with three ocean coasts. This conversation delves into what can be done with technology\, resources\, changes\, and sacrifice to address the global climate crisis.  \n  \nJonathon Gatehouse is a Toronto-based journalist and author who has covered news and politics at home and abroad for more than two decades\, reporting from dozens of countries. He has also written extensively about science and the arts. \nAlan Emery is a marine biologist who has published on the subjects of ecology\, evolution\, and taxonomy as well as the origins and natural history of coral reefs. For 13 years he was president of the Canadian Museum of Nature. He has worked on numerous documentaries on the topic of marine biology; developed environmental policy documents for the Canadian government\, the World Bank\, and the United Nations. \nThis programme is organised in dialogue with Shezad Dawood’s exhibition Leviathan. Public programmes for Leviathan are supported by Brenda Simpson and Len Goodman.  \nFree with RSVP. Reserve your tickets here. \nShezad Dawood\, Leviathan Legacy Pt 1\, 2018\, VR environment\, duration variable\n 
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/alan-emery-in-conversation-with-jonathon-gatehouse/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Victoria Sin: "If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now"
DESCRIPTION:If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now uses storytelling\, drag and theatrical devices to explore how language not only gives shape to thought\, but shapes thought. The performance stages a dialogue with a desiring queer body and a percussionist to illuminate how identity and experience are not only represented but also created and reinforced through language and naming. \nFor the North American premiere of If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now\, Sin performs alongside percussionist Nikki Joshi and wears a specially commissioned oceanic costume by Athens-based designer Dimitra Petsa. The work is site-responsive\, changing in composition each time it’s performed. If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now was first performed at Chi Wen gallery in Taipei and later travelled to the 2019 Venice Biennale. \nVictoria Sin is an artist whose work uses speculative fiction within performance\, moving image\, writing and print to interrupt normative processes of desire\, identification and objectification. Drawing upon personal encounters of looking and wanting\, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives about the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body. \nRecent presentations include Age of You\, MOCA\, Toronto (2019); Kiss My Genders\, Hayward Gallery\, London (2019); Meetings on Art\, Venice Biennale\, Venice (2019); BCE\, Whitechapel Gallery\, London (2019); Art Basel\, Hong Kong (2019); Park Nights\, Serpentine Galleries\, London (2018); and Indifferent Idols\, Taipei Contemporary Art Center\, Taipei (2018). \nNikki Joshi is a percussionist based in Toronto\, where she recently completed the 2018/19 Rebanks Family Fellowship at the Glenn Gould School. She holds a Master’s Degree from McGill University\, where she studied with Aiyun Huang. During her time at McGill\, she received the 2017 Mobility Award\, and travelled to Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland to conduct research at the school’s renowned Department of Music Theatre. Joshi holds a Bachelor’s Degree\, Performer’s Certificate\, Arts Leadership Certificate and 2015 John Beck Percussion Scholarship from the Eastman School of Music\, where she studied with Michael Burritt. \nSupport from Beverly and Jack Creed. \n  \nSOLD OUT \nPerformance starts at 7 pm. \n\n  \n \nVictoria Sin ft. Matteo Gemolo (traverso)\, If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now\, 2019. Performance part of Meetings on Art\, 58th Venice Biennale\, 2019. Credit Riccardo Banfi. Courtesy Delfina Foundation and Arts Council England.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/victoria-sin-if-i-had-the-words-to-tell-you-we-wouldnt-be-here-now/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Age of You,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191124T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191124T160000
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SUMMARY:"Age of You" Drop-In Activity: Draw the Internet
DESCRIPTION:What does the internet look like — to you? MOCA invites you to consider this question while exploring Age of You\, an exhibition highlighting such themes as data\, artificial intelligence\, surveillance and the limitless capabilities of the internet. After exploring the exhibition\, head to Floor 1 to draw how you picture the internet in your mind’s eye. You can add your drawing to a cumulative piece that will reveal\, over the course of the day\, how our visitors see the internet — as an infinite\, sprawling collective of images and ideas. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/age-of-you-drop-in-activity-draw-the-internet/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Age of You,Free,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191119T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T191507
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SUMMARY:Canadian Art Encounters: Trevor Paglen
DESCRIPTION:Join internationally renowned\, Berlin-based artist Trevor Paglen on November 19th for a lecture at Ryerson University.  \nPaglen is an artist whose work spans disciplines including image-making\, sculpture\, investigative journalism\, writing and engineering. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures. Paglen will discuss his ongoing research into artificial intelligence and the relationships between technology and power. \nTrevor Paglen’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; and the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London\, among others. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT\, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima\, Japan. Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography\, state secrecy\, military symbology\, photography and visuality.  \n  \nThis event is a co-presentation between MOCA Toronto\, Canadian Art and Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts. This event coincides with MOCA’s concurrent exhibition Age of You (September 5\, 2019 to January 5\, 2020) which features Paglen’s installation Behold These Glorious Times! \n  \nAll advance tickets have been sold. A limited number of standby tickets will be available at the venue. A standby line will form as of 6:30 pm\, and any remaining seats will be sold to the standby line beginning 10 minutes before the start of the talk. Pay-what you-can\, cash only.\n\nThe George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre is an accessible venue. \n  \n\n\nTrevor Paglen\, CLOUD #735\, Scale Invariant Feature Transform; Region Adjacency Graph; Watershed\, 2019. Dye sublimation print\, 48 × 66 in. Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel\, San Francisco.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/canadian-art-encounters-trevor-paglen/
LOCATION:Ryerson University (George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre)\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Age of You,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191117T170000
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SUMMARY:In the Age of You with Hans Ulrich Obrist
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to have Hans Ulrich Obrist in town on Sunday November 17. As co-curator of MOCA’s current exhibition Age of You he will talk about the central themes of the show\, the coming publication and the future life of the project\, in the gallery space at 4 pm. \nObrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. He has curated more than 300 exhibitions. His books include Ways of Curating\, Mondialité\, Somewhere Totally Else and Lives of the Artists\, Lives of the Architects. \n  \nInstallation view\, Age of You\, MOCA Toronto. Photo by Tom Arban Photography Inc.\n 
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/in-the-age-of-you-with-hans-ulrich-obrist/
LOCATION:MOCA Toronto\, 158 Sterling Rd.\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Age of You,Talks,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191115T190000
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SUMMARY:Artists on Artists: Sophia Oppel on "Age of You"
DESCRIPTION:Sophia Oppel is an artist and researcher whose work addresses the insidious positions of embedded power in networked infrastructures. Oppel will lead a tour and discussion of Age of You that focuses primarily on the theme of “Post-Work\,” drawing connections to her own research on immaterial labour and outsourced or automated work. \nSophia Oppel received her BFA from OCAD University and is currently a co-director of Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container\, a curatorial project assistant at Gallery 44\, and a Masters of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto. Oppel has exhibited locally and internationally\, including shows at InterAccess\, Queen Specific\, Gallery TPW\, Forest City Gallery and Xpace Cultural Center. \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  \n\n  \n \nImage: Sophia Oppel (in collaboration with Blair Swann)\, how does a .jpg feel against your skin? Detail\, Heat-bent acrylic\, gel wax\, gel medium transfers\, 2018.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/artists-on-artists-sophia-oppel-on-age-of-you/
CATEGORIES:Age of You,Free,Tours
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