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A promotional image with the text "Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures" displayed on the top portion of a book cover that also features a photograph of a costumed person in front of cheering crowd at night.

Book Launch | Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures

Artscape Daniels Launchpad
East Tower, 130 Queens Quay E, 4th Floor
Toronto ON M5A 0P6
Canada

Commemorating the 15-year history of Nuit Blanche, Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures is an edited collection by artists, scholars, curators and contributors that considers Nuit Blanche in Canada and abroad. Through personal reflections, dialogues, and projects, the essays and images in this full-colour volume generate a multi-perspectival view of Nuit Blanche, which has spanned numerous urban centres and forged countless community relations, in a volume that brings together historical, contemporary and future-oriented understandings of this large-scale public art event. Hosted by Nuit Blanche and the City of Toronto with PUBLIC Books.
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A film still of a group of women sitting around small circular tables in front of a wall with four large framed pieces of art hung on it.

Symposium: In Visible Colours Remediated 2022

2625 Kaslo Street
Vancouver BC V5M 1Y8
Canada

Originally held in Vancouver from November 15th-19th, 1989, the ground-breaking event, In Visible Colours: An International Women of Colour and Third World Women Film/Video Festival and Symposium was co-founded by Zainub Verjee and Lorraine Chan in partnership with Women in Focus and National Film Board. With over 100 films and videos from 28 countries, In Visible Colours emerged amid socio-political upheaval of the late 1970s and 1980s that foregrounded race and gender and the politics of cultural difference. Thirty years later, we bring together some of the original participants of IVC, alongside students, researchers, curators and contemporary producers. The event — organized in collaboration with VIVO Media Arts Centre, the Archive/Counter Archive project, and the Vulnerable Media Lab (Queen's University) — is planned as an inter-generational, multi-sited gathering.
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A black and white archival photograph of a woman operating a film camera on a tripod standing in front of a boat.

Activating an Archive: Margaret Perry and the Nova Scotia Film Bureau

Nova Scotia Archives
6016 University Avenue
Halifax NS B3H 1W4
Canada

Join us for three nights of events to mark the digital release of the career work of Margaret Perry, the filmmaker and director who made over 50 films for the Nova Scotia Film Bureau (1945-1969). These promotional films depict the province as a site of tourism, industry, labour, and heritage and are complex artifacts that articulate and reflect understandings of government policy, cultural discourse, as well as Perry’s own perspectives and artistic voice.
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A promotional image with the text "Floating Relics: A Cinematic Walkshop in Search of Niagara" displayed over a film still of a shirtless person in stripes shorts floating in churning water.

Aug 24: Floating Relics: A Cinematic Walkshop in Search of Niagara

Niagara Artists Centre
354 St Paul Street
St Catharines ON L2R 3N2
Canada

As part of the Mighty Niagara Film Festival on August 24th, join us for a strata-walk around St. Catharines followed by a rooftop screening at the Niagara Artists Centre!

The participatory mapping exercise, led by researchers Taien Ng-Chan, Lee Rodney, and Donna Akrey, will take its prompts from the mediated history of the region. A walk-book will be provided for participants with creative questions, prompts, and drawing spaces, and the walkshop will loop back to the NAC to conclude with an experimental screening presentation. 

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A promotional image with the text "The Archive as Commemoration" in large capital letters on the right hand side and a film still of two people embracing in front of a window sill.

Aug 5–11: The Archive as Commemoration, an online screening program curated by Mahlet Cuff for the8fest

The Archive as Commemoration is an online screening program curated by A/CA member Mahlet Cuff for the8fest (Aug 5–11, 2022). This program is focused on artists who use 8mm film to explore diasporic histories, memory, and familial stories. Presenting films by Hagere Selam Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, Sonya Mwambu, Nesanet Teshager Abegaze, and Akosua Adoma Owusu.
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White background with red and black text: "Indexing Resistance: The blood & Guts of Queer Protest in Canada. Symposium: Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas St. W. Toronto, ON M6J 1T9). Thursday June 23rd & Friday June 24th, 2022. Exhibition: The Plumb (1655 Dufferin St. Basement, Toronto, ON M6H 3L9. Saturday June 18th - Sunday July 17th, 2022"

Indexing Resistance: The Blood and Guts of Queer Protest Symposium

1585 Dundas Street West
Toronto ON M6J 1T9
Canada

Indexing Resistance is an interdisciplinary 2- day symposium at Lula Lounge with an accompanying month-long exhibition at the plumb. By reflecting on relationships between the visual, the scholarly, and preservation, Indexing Resistance presents papers and artwork exploring the diversity of resistance and protest in queer communities in Canada, focussing on untold, overlooked or forgotten histories.

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Faded black and white sketch of a man's face with the text "Devotion" in white font overtop. "Edited by Jarrett Earnest" is written across the top and "Today's Future Becomes Tomorrow's Archive" is across the bottom.

Book Launch: Devotion

Join us in launching Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive, edited by Jarrett Earnest, from 5-7pm at Olga Korper Gallery (17 Morrow Avenue, Toronto) on Wednesday June 22, 2022!

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May 20-22: Our Home and Haunted Land

Consider attending this event organized by A/CA artist-in-residence Nadine Valcin!

 

Our Home and Haunted Land
WHEN: May 20 - 22, 2022 | 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.
WHERE: Canada Malting Silo at Queens Quay and Bathurst
 

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Transiting the Queer Uncommons: Queer Summer Institute in Research Creation (TQU)

Transiting the Queer Uncommons: Queer Summer Institute in Research Creation (TQU) will run from May 2 to 26 and features two graduate courses at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD). 

Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial performance storytelling, transgressive visual techniques emerging from new media

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Archival Atelier: Kim Tomczak, "Tackling VHS Tapes: An Overview of Digitization Workflow"

Artists, archivists, and researchers engage with analog and legacy digital materials, many of which are at-risk. Explore different ways of assessing these media at Archival Atelier, A/CA’s new series of workshops devoted to varied media types and their preservation.

"Tackling VHS Tapes: An Overview of Digitization Workflow"

April 22, 2022. 4:30-6:00 PM EST, on Zoom

Instructors: Kim Tomczak

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