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A promotional poster image depicting a digital image of a 3D forest at night with a bright light in the centre of a group of trees. Around the image is text communicating that the name of the promoted exhibition is "more-than-human" and that it will be running from February 1 to May 13, 2023.

Exhibition | more-than-human, Onsite Gallery, OCAD, Feb 1 - May 13

199 Richmond Street West 
Toronto ON M5V 0H4
Canada

This interdisciplinary exhibition of media artworks features work from several A/CA members, including Suzanne Morrissette, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, and Mary Bunch. In addition to the exhibition itself, there are also a number of events scheduled over the course of its duration.
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Publication | Canadian Cinema in the New Millenium

This volume, co-edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman and published by McGill-Queen's University Press, features several essays written by A/CA members about Canadian films, filmmakers, and film contexts since the year 2000. 

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Publication | Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

We are very excited to announce that Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After, the book A/CA Project Manager Antoine Damiens recently co-edited with Marijke de Valck on the impact of Covid-19 on international film festivals, has just been published in open access with Palgrave Macmillan.

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A square book cover with the title text "A Leap in the Dark" written in black and yellow all caps font at the top and a black and blue duotone photograph of a man wearing a surgical mask taking up the majority of the rest of the cover.

Publication | A Leap in the Dark 30th Anniversary Digitized Reissue

A newly digitized open-access version of Allan Klusaček and Ken Morrison's 1992 edited collection, A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art and Contemporary Cultures, has been rereleased alongside World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art. The book originally came out of the cultural interventions at the 1989 Montreal International AIDS Conference and significantly contributed to the literature about cultural resistance and HIV/AIDS activism within Canada.

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Screening | Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging | Dec 1st, Vtape

Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space (Fourth Floor)
401 Richmond St. West
Toronto ON M5V 3A8
Canada

Vtape is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world. We also feature two new works by Toronto-based artists TJ Cuthand and Sarah Flicker.
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A animated film still of two Asian characters sitting around a table with lots of traditional decorations hung on the wall in the background. The image is mostly various shades of brown and green and has been rendered using watercolours and inks.

Moving On | Reel Asian Film Festival Short Film Screening | Nov 10, 6:30 PM, TIFF

TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King St W
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada

Archive/Counter-Archive is excited to act as a Community Partner for the 26th iteration of the Reel Asian Film Festival  (Nov 10-19) to support of their presentation of Moving On, a programme of short films that will screen at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Nov 10 at 6:30 PM.
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Sexile and the Task of Archiving Cuban Queer Diasporas | Screening & Talk | Nov 14th, Concordia University

Concordia University, York Amphitheatre, EV-1.605, Main Floor
1515 Saint Catherine Street Ouest
Montreal QC H3G 2W1
Canada

Please join us for a talk and screening with Lázaro González at Concordia University on November 14th 2022 - held at Concordia University's York Amphitheatre (EV 1.615, 1515 Saint Catherine Street Ouest, Montréal, Quebec) from 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
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