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SUMMARY:Tea Base: Mahjong Live Zoom Hall
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n	\n	\n				Online pre-registration required \n 	Join Tea Base for a performative Mahjong game where a family group\, Hannia\, Jade and Chau Cheng will play together with Florence Yee facilitating and the audience acting as the fourth player! \nFrom December 2020 – March 2021\, Tea Base is in residence with MOCA. A plan to host monthly Mahjong Halls on Michael Lin’s installation Archipelago (2020) has been reformatted to launch online. Once MOCA can reopen and it is safe to do so\, the programme will activate the space and be hosted in person. Additionally an instructional manual has been produced by Tea Base that anyone can download and spend more time with. During their virtual residency\, Tea Base will also be conducting research into oral histories to create a living archive of grassroots endeavours by queer and BIPOC collectives in the neighbourhood. \nMahjong is a tile-based game played in much of East and South-East Asia\, originating sometime in the Qing dynasty. There are different rules in each location\, although the version Tea Base play is the Hong Kong style. It is meant to be a gambling game\, but most people only use chips to keep score. As a tool for social engagement\, it is often seen as a game for seniors\, like in the dozens of Mahjong halls in family associations in Toronto. It is used by Tea Base and the community as a way of practicing Cantonese\, connecting others and working the brain. \nDon’t forget to download Tea Base’s Mahjong Instruction Booklet to become familiar with the game of mahjong. \n \n	\n	\n				 \n Download\n\n\n	\n	\n				Tea Base is a curious community arts space tucked away in Tkaronto/Toronto’s Chinatown Centre Mall. The community aim to make accessible space for intergenerational activists and artists who support social justice movements in and around Chinatown. Tea Base is a space that develops solidarity across marginalized groups through relationships\, joy\, and collaboration. Some of the members taking part in MOCA’s programming include Christie Carrière\, Florence Yee\, Hannia Cheng. \n \n	\n\n	\n	\n				 \nAnimation based on an illustration by Christie Carrière
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SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Paint your Cake with Libby Brewer-Dulac from Sift Baking Co.
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				Get creative with cake! Try a new way to let your creativity flow… with buttercream! In this hands-on online workshop\, you’ll get an introduction to the palette knife painting technique using Swiss meringue buttercream with Libby Brewer-Dulac from Sift Baking Co. Taking the lead from artist Michael Lin and his current MOCA exhibition Archipelago\, we’ll look to everyday fabrics for inspiration to bring design to your dessert. \n Workshop Facilitator\nLibby Brewer-Dulac – Toronto based\, East Coast born multidisciplinary artist and self-taught baker	“Everyday design\, art and architecture bring inspiration\, and I’m lucky if they come together in cake form on my turntable.” \nAn artist and tinkerer since childhood\, Libby found a playground in OCAD’s Interdisciplinary Studies program. There\, she practiced making and breaking things in ceramics\, metal\, wood\, glass\, plastics\, paper\, paint\, and digital arts. Because of the very nature of cake and its ability to bring joy\, her current medium of choice is buttercream.  \nLibby found inspiration in Carlos Bunga’s cardboard constructions while visiting his 2020 exhibition at MOCA. She created an olive oil cake filled with blueberry hibiscus\, iced in colour-blocked Swiss meringue buttercream. Libby shared the cake on Instagram and once MOCA saw it\, we just knew we had to collaborate. \nView Libby’s other cake creations at @sift.baking \n \nMaterials to gather/prepare ahead of time \n	Before the workshop\, you’ll need to gather and prepare a few materials\, including a baked cake\, as well as buttercream or frosting. You can use Libby’s recipe for chocolate cake with Swiss meringue buttercream if you like. \n\nA baked\, layered and crumb coated cake of your choice on a cake board or a serving plate – it could be three layers tall like mine\, or it could be a simple single layer cake. If it’s tall\, you can paint top and sides\, if it’s short\, your top is your canvas. Crumb coated: spread a thin layer of buttercream over the entire cake to seal in the crumbs and prepare for painting\nButtercream (Swiss Meringue is best) or frosting – enough to cover the cake plus about half a cup for painting\nEdible colours – gel food colours like Wilton or Chefmaster are best for vibrant colours\, natural powdered colours can also be used but sometimes impart their own flavours\nAn offset cake spatula – alternatives: a butter knife\, the back of a teaspoon\nOther food safe tools for making marks in your buttercream – examples: a silicone spatula\, bamboo skewers\, wire mesh sieve\, your Grandmother’s cookie cutters\nA cake turntable or lazy susan – alternatives: the turntable from your microwave\, a small bowl upside down\, with a dinner plate placed on top\nAnother dinner plate to act as your palette\nA soft cloth or kitchen towel for wiping off your tools\nInspiration! Take a cue from artist Michael Lin and find patterns from textiles around your home\, wrapping paper\, your favourite shirt or throw pillow\n\n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \nPhoto Credit: Libby Brewer-Dulac
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-paint-your-cake-with-libby-brewer-dulac-from-sift-baking-co/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Michael Lin in Conversation with Kathleen Bartels
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				Join MOCA’s Executive Director Kathleen Bartels and artist Michael Lin for a discussion that explores a decade of Lin’s monumental painting installations. In 2010 Lin was commissioned by Bartels and her curatorial team to create a significant painting intervention that was installed on the exterior of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The project invited visitors to reconsider the building’s history and neo-classical architecture in a new light\, while acknowledging the city’s diverse cultural traditions. Titled A Modest Veil\, this was the first presentation of Lin’s work in Canada.  \nTen years later\, in her new position at MOCA Toronto\, Bartels invited Lin to create a painted series of floor and seating structures for the entrance floor of the Museum. Lin’s work Archipelago (2020)\, incorporates motifs from Taiwanese\, Indonesian\, and Hawaiian-inspired textiles. Much like the work in Vancouver\, Lin engaged local artists to help create his vision. An open call process employed eleven artists in the painting of Archipelago. These emerging artists also received mentorship from Lin\, his studio\, local project manager Vanessa Maltese and the team at MOCA.  \nWhen the Museum reopens\, Archipelago will offer a meditation on realities that emerged in 2020 via its reference to a chain of separate\, but related\, islands. Bartels and Lin will discuss how his large-scale paintings invite visitors to position themselves within an artwork\, his inspiration for their colours and patterns\, and how his work continues to function as a meeting space despite the current challenges we are facing under COVID-19 gathering restrictions. \nMichael Lin’s (b. 1964\, Taiwan) work has been exhibited internationally in major institutions and international Biennials around the world\, including the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Tokyo; UCCA\, Beijing; Vancouver Art Gallery; Lyon Biennial; Singapore Biennial and Towada Art Center\, Japan. \n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	\nMichael Lin\, Archipelago\, 2020. Installation view. Photo credit: Tom Arban Photography Inc.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/michael-lin-in-conversation-with-kathleen-bartels/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Talks
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SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Make a Mahjong Tile Treasure Box with Christie Carrière
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				Join artist Christie Carrière for this live workshop where you will learn how to make your own Mahjong Tile Treasure Box! Christie will show participants how to trace\, cut out\, and glue your treasure box together. Then\, she will show you some different ways to decorate your box\, including how to make it look like a real mahjong tile! If you’re really dedicated\, you can make all 144 tiles and play a game of giant mahjong. \nWorkshop Facilitator: Christie Jia Wen Carrière (she/her)\, who also goes by Chris\, is a painter\, illustrator\, rug-maker and artistically curious individual. Chris is intrigued by\, and aims to explore through her work\, the nuances of the in-between. In-between her own ethnic identities; in-between culture and familial nostalgia; community and alienation. \nShe is currently working as a painting instructor\, a freelance illustrator\, as well as the Co-Creative Director at Tea Base\, a grassroots community arts space located in Chinatown. In this role\, she has collaborated with Myseum\, the AGO\, The Gladstone Hotel\, Mayworks\, and others. She obtained her BFA in Drawing & Painting with an Art History minor from OCAD University. \nSince March 2020\, Chris has been living and working out of the 4 walls of her bedroom\, which can be found somewhere in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is an Aquarius and an Earth Tiger. \nMaterials Needed \n\nCereal box (or any thin cardboard)\nPencil\nRuler\nScissors\nGlue\nPaint/paintbrushes (or whatever you’d like to use to decorate!)\nTemplate / Blueprint\n\n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \n \nimage Credit: Christie Carrière
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-make-a-mahjong-tile-treasure-box-with-christie-carriere/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210404T120000
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SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Reduce\, Reuse\, Recycle - Sculpture Art with Naz Rahbar
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				Making a sculpture out of found and recycled materials can have endless possibilities! It can also help the environment by reducing waste. Join artist Naz Rahbar in this virtual workshop and make a sculpture out of recycled objects. This activity will get us thinking about our relationship to matter and materials\, similar to Mika Rottenberg in her exhibition Spaghetti Blockchain. \nWorkshop Facilitator:Naz Rahbar is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist with drawing at the core of their practice; they work in print\, artist books\, performance\, animation and installation. Naz graduated with a BFA from OCAD University in 2009. They have been active in arts education and community arts in Toronto (www.art-cave.ca) and across the GTA for many years. They completed a bachelor of Education with a Fine Arts focus at York University in 2012\, as well as MFA in 2019. Naz currently teaches at The School of Creative Arts\, Animation and Design at Seneca College\, as well as the joint Art and Art History program at Sheridan College and the University of Toronto. \nMaterials Needed \n\nToothpicks\nTinfoil\nRecycled bottles\nRecycled boxes\nRecycled bottle caps\nPaint and brushes\nMarkers\nGlue\nButtons\nCardboard\nCardboard tubes\nRibbon\nDiscarded toys\nStyrofoam from packaging\nGlue\nRecycled newspaper or tissue paper\nSticks\nStones or rocks\nLeaves (from the ground)\n\n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \n \nImage Credit: from ACK collective community art project at Special Projects Gallery York University\,  Ella Tetrault\, Katika Marczell and Naz Rahbar
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-reduce-reuse-recycle-sculpture-art-with-naz-rahbar/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210502T130000
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SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Experimenting with Oozing Oobleck
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				In her films\, artist Mika Rottenberg explores the different ways we can interact with matter. Her film\, Spaghetti Blockchain\, which is also the title of her exhibition at MOCA\, shows colourful objects being melted\, burned\, squished\, and sliced. When we handle an object or material\, it will behave based on its state of matter – solid\, liquid\, or gas. But what if a material acted like two different states of matter at the same time? \nFor our May TD Community Sunday\, join MOCA and three special guests for a live workshop all about Oobleck\, an ooey-gooey material that can shift from solid to liquid instantly. Follow along with an Ontario Science Centre Host to create Oobleck using just cornstarch and water\, and learn about the science behind this fascinating material. Then\, artists Germaine Liu and Christopher Willes will guide you through a journey of listening and sound-making through touch\, movement\, and object activation to allow us to explore and get to know the Oobleck. \n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \nGovernment Funder of Public Programmes & Learning
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-experimenting-with-oozing-oobleck/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210527T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210527T160000
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SUMMARY:Between Us: Eriola Pira with Loreto Garín Guzmán and Federico Zukerfeld of Etcétera
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				Join Eriola Pira—curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in a scintillating conversation—with Loreto Garín Guzmán and Federico Zukerfeld of Etcétera on the aesthetics of protest\, the politics of performance and what it means to present collective\, embodied artistic practice in a globalized—yet fractured—world. In situating lived experience at the centre of their creative explorations\, Etcétera’s Guzmán and Zukerfeld call attention to the fundamental interconnectedness between human\, animal and plant life forms in their MOCA Toronto “Shift Key” presentation Letter for Buen Vivir. Through a use of pantomime and humour\, Etcétera call attention to what has now become a preternatural reliance between human existence and the natural world\, elevating the seemingly mundane into critical points of ethical inquiry. \nAbout the Speakers\nEriola Pira is curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. Most recently\, as Director of Programs\, Pira led Art in General’s international collaborations\, residencies\, public events and fellowship programs building on her professional networks and experiences as Program Director and Curator at the artist-founded NARS Foundation\, as Program Director for The Foundation for Culture and Society\, where she led a network and exchange program between 12 art organizations throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the US. In this capacity\, she also organized a number of international exhibitions\, publications and symposia\, and created a Curatorial Fellowship. A native of Albania\, Pira has an M.A. in Visual Culture Theory from New York University and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship\, a Global Cultural Leadership Fellowship\, and a Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship. \n  \nFormed in 1997 in Buenos Aires\, Etcétera is a multidisciplinary collective composed of visual artists\, poets\, and performers. Since 2007 it has been led by co-founders Loreto Garín Guzmán (Chile) and Federico Zukerfeld (Argentina). In 2005\, they were part of the founding of the International Errorist Movement\, an international organization that proclaims error as a philosophy of life. In addition to participating in exhibitions in museums and biennials such as the biennials of Jakarta (2015)\, São Paulo (2014)\, Athens (2013)\, Istanbul (2009)\, and Taipei (2008)\, they often work with street-art\, public interventions\, actions\, and performances that are necessarily contextual\, ephemeral\, and circumstantial. In 2015\, they received the Prince Claus Award in the Netherlands. From 2020-2022 Etcétera is the Boris Lurie Fellow\, at the Vera List Center\, The New School with their fellowship project\, NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM\, Protocols for Buen Vivir. Their work has been recognized for its denouncement of human rights and environmental abuses through theatrical and poetic actions and statements often exercised at personal risk. \n  \n\nAbout Between Us\nBetween Us is a new public programme series where informal conversations delve into the Museum’s online and physical exhibitions. The discussions will emphasize culturally-rooted creative practice and the aesthetics of social engagement to ask: “How do we know ourselves\, and the world around us\, artistically?” \n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	 \nImage: Eriola Pira and on the left frame; Frederico Zukerfeld and Loreto Garin Garcia  on the right frame – credit: Khaled Jarra and Etcétera Archive.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/between-us-eriola-pira-with-loreto-garin-guzman-and-federico-zukerfeld-of-etcetera/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Online,Talks
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SUMMARY:TD Community Sunday: Little Islands with Emmie Tsumura
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				Join artist Emmie Tsumura for a hands-on virtual workshop inspired by Michael Lin’s Archipelago! Emmie will show you how to create your own patterned archipelago\, or chain of islands\, drawing inspiration from your immediate surroundings. After collecting motifs and patterns that represent your home or neighbourhood\, participants will cut out and decorate their island shapes\, creating their own archipelago – separate but all parts of a whole. Your archipelago will become a unique snapshot of you! \nAbout the Artist: \nEmmie Tsumura is an interdisciplinary artist working in illustration\, collage\, and graphic design and is currently based in Tkarón:to/Toronto. Guided by Japanese folk tales and personal ancestry\, her work documents an ongoing process of negotiating Japanese settler/colonial identity and contemplates human relationships to consumption and the urban environment. Using psychogeography as an exploratory tool\, she is interested in how artists can reach communities outside of traditional art spaces\, disrupt familiar narratives\, and combine forces to support grassroots justice movements. She has an undergraduate degree from Trent University in Cultural Studies and completed a Masters Degree in Design at York University in 2015. \n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	This event takes place on TD Community Sunday.\nTD Community Sundays are made possible through TD Community Sundays by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. \n \nGovernment Funder of Public Programmes & Learning
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/td-community-sunday-little-islands-with-emmie-tsumura/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210612T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210612T160000
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SUMMARY:Between Us: 3.9 Collective\, Protection Spells and "Black Magic"
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				In the 2010 census\, the African American population of San Francisco—a city rich in Black politics\, art and creativity—had declined to 3.9 percent. If\, as the 3.9 collective mandate states\, being “Black” is now synonymous with “vanishing\,” what does it mean to be Black\, creative and in America at this time? In their response to the Native Art Department International’s prompt of investigating “protection spells” during this time of universal upheaval\, the 3.9 collective situates the concepts of “protection\,” “strength\,” “resilience\,” and “endurance” as both individual\, embodied practices and collective acts of creative and cultural production. In this conversation\, they will unpack the conceptual framework for their Shift Key-created project\, “Black Magic\,” exploring what it means to bear witness to\, for and with a dwindling population of African Americans—creative and otherwise—in an increasingly gentrified locale. \nAbout the Speakers\nThe 3.9 Art Collective is an association of African American artists\, curators\, and art writers who live in San Francisco\, and who came together to draw attention to the city’s dwindling black population. The 3.9 Art Collective bears witness to this phenomenon and seeks to reverse it by drawing attention to the historical and ongoing presence of black artists in the city and creative expression in its black communities. Through multiple forms of presentation and outreach\, we create and claim spaces to display our art work; nurture young artists and develop educational programs for students; and write about and curate exhibitions meant to generate productive\, cross-cultural dialogues. \n  \n\nAbout Between Us\nBetween Us is a new public programme series where informal conversations delve into the Museum’s online and physical exhibitions. The discussions will emphasize culturally-rooted creative practice and the aesthetics of social engagement to ask: “How do we know ourselves\, and the world around us\, artistically?” \n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	 \nImage: 3.9 Art Collective.
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/between-us-3-9-collective-protection-spells-and-black-magic/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Online,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210624T160000
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SUMMARY:Mahjong Movie Moments with Tea Base
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n	Online pre-registration required \n \n	\n	\n				Ever wondered what that one moment in Crazy Rich Asians\, when Constance Wu’s character lays down that tile in the mahjong hall meant? Have the classic poker table moments in Spaghetti Westerns (or almost every Clint Eastwood movie) been your secret favourite? Been fascinated by the hidden meanings in classic board games? \nJoin Tea Base collective members and guests as they collectively analyze mahjong scenes and hands from “classic” movie moments. As a symbolic touchpoint in multiple East and South East Asian cultures\, mahjong’s role in cinematic lore is as a social signifier\, a form of narrative subtext or a culturally specific form of character development. So if you’ve ever wondered why there was a collective gasp in the movie theatre when Michelle Yeoh’s character sees that final tile on the table\, now’s your chance to find out. \nAbout Tea Base\nTea Base is a curious community arts space tucked away in Tkaronto/Toronto’s Chinatown Centre Mall. The community aims to make accessible space for intergenerational activists and artists who support social justice movements in and around Chinatown. Tea Base is a space that develops solidarity across marginalized groups through relationships\, joy and collaboration. \n \n	\n	\n			\n	\n	 \nImage: N/A
URL:https://mocalegacy.webpreview.site/calendar/mahjong-movie-moments-with-tea-base/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Online
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