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SUMMARY:Live Performance: Adee Roberson and Rashid Zakat
DESCRIPTION:Live Performance\nAdee Roberson and Rashid Zakat \nFriday\, October 13th\, 2023\n6:00 pm\n401 Richmond\, Critical Distance\, Suite 122 \nAs part of the opening reception of this bridge between starshine and clay\,  artist Adee Roberson will present an activation and performance in the gallery at 6:00 pm\, where she will be channeling oceanic and cosmic sounds through synthesizer\, percussion and voice. \nAt 6:30 pm\, artist Rashid Zakat will perform in the Urbanspace Gallery just around the corner from the gallery. Using two turntables and a mixer\, Zakat live-edits an archive of personal and public films\, found footage and animation to produce a spontaneous and thoughtful audio-visual narrative. Part dance party\, part live video art performance\, Revival! is a celebration of the visual and sonic frequencies that are contained within and spill out of Black ecstatic experiences. These images and sounds marry and multiply to tell textured stories of African cultural retention\, the relationship between survival and faith\, and the collective creative strategies of adaptation\, joy\, and mutual aid embedded in Black life and history in the Americas. \nASL interpretation and a Deaf performance will feature alongside the Revival! performance from artist Rashid Zakat. \nThis is a free\, public event: everyone is invited. \n  \n\nPhoto: Rashid Zakat performing Revival! at Critical Distance. Photo: Ashman Deshmukh. \n 
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/live-performance-adee-roberson-and-rashid-zakat/
LOCATION:401 Richmond\, 401 Richmond St. West\, Toronto\, ON\, M5V3A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:EVENT: Diasporic Futurisms: Temporal Tempest
DESCRIPTION:Diasporic Futurisms is excited to announce the launch of the virtual database Temporal Tempest at Critical Distance Centre for Curators on January 18\, 2024 at 5pm.  \nThis project has been developed to understand and disseminate how artists and organizations are utilizing and engaging with themes of diasporic futurisms in Canadian arts culture. The database showcases visual art\, sound art\, media art\, and documentation of curatorial projects that materialize the genre of diasporic futurisms. \nThe premiere of Temporal Tempest features twelve projects by arts practitioners across Canada\, including Quite Ourselves\, Camila Salcedo\, Tamil Archive Project\, Kofi Oduro\, nichola feldman-kiss\, Karina Iskandarsjah\, Candide Uyanze\, Jasmine Liaw\, Brigita Gedgaudas\, Luis N. Del Angel\, Rah Eleh\, and Olivia Mc Gilchrist. Each project speaks to themes of diasporic futurisms through interactive digital worlds\, coding\, video performance\, digital archives\, and new media art. Themes of works that have been included in this database are: magical realism\, fantasy\, science fiction\, speculative fiction\, folklore\, and related sub-genres.  \nThis project has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. The launch event is delivered in partnership with Critical Distance and Trinity Square Video and sponsored by V-Tape and SAVAC.  \nLearn more at: diasporicfuturisms.com
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/diasporic-futurisms-temporal-tempest/
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Ontario Culture Days: Collage with Bushra Junaid
DESCRIPTION:As part of Ontario Culture Days at 401 Richmond Street West\, Burnt Sugar artist Bushra Junaid will share her collage practice in a drop-in hands-on workshop. Junaid will describe how she has treated turn of the twentieth century photographs of Caribbean sugarcane workers as family portraiture; renaming and reinventing them to resist erasure. By collaging period ads onto the subjects’ clothing\, she complicates understandings of Black Atlantic history. \nMaterials will be provided. Using paint and found materials (i.e. magazines\, fabric\, matte board\, etc.) workshop participants will create one-of-a-kind collages that engage with the themes of the Burnt Sugar exhibition. We also encourage you to bring your own family photos\, mementos\, and interesting images — the better to make something truly meaningful to you. \nNo experience necessary\, and spaces are first come\, first served. If we’re full when you arrive\, don’t fret\, as there will be over 20 other FREE arts-focused interactive events throughout the building! The Ontario Culture Days Festival is an annual celebration of arts\, culture and heritage taking place each fall across the province. This year their Toronto headquarters is located at 401 Richmond Street West\, a restored\, heritage-designated\, industrial building turned arts-and-culture hub in downtown Toronto. It is home to over 140 artists\, cultural producers\, social innovators\, micro-enterprises\, festivals\, shops\, and galleries\, including Critical Distance Centre for Curators. \n 
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/ontario-culture-days-collage-with-bushra-junaid/
LOCATION:Critical Distance\, Suite 122 at 401 Richmond Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Lucky 13: A message from our Founding Director
DESCRIPTION:Happy 2026! My name is Shani Khoo Parsons\, and I’m the founder and current director of Critical Distance Centre for Curators. \nOn this 13th day of a brand new year\, I thought it might be nice to reintroduce myself and share some background on why I started a not-for-profit devoted to critical curatorial practice and inquiry. \n>>> TL;DR? DONATE NOW! <<< \nOriginally from Philadelphia\, I moved to Toronto at the end of 2008 with my family\, and during my first few years in Canada\, I focused on nurturing my young son — and my own growing interest in curating; my curiosity sparked over a decade of working with curators at museums and galleries in New York. By 2013\, with Jasper entering elementary\, I decided to take a chance on this little dream\, opening a not-for-profit project space for curatorial experimentation in the newly repurposed school that became Youngplace. \nEmerging from conversations with both professors and peers I met in the curatorial program at OCADU\, this space — which I named TYPOLOGY — was conceived from day one as a platform for guest-curated projects. As such\, it was never intended to be about me or my own topical interests\, but rather as a way to connect with the local curatorial community in collaboration and conversation on critical approaches to curating and exhibition-making. \nBetween 2013 and 2016\, TYPOLOGY supported 14 exhibitions\, 3 screening programs\, 2 book launches\, and an event series; participated in two art book fairs\, and produced our first public art billboard in collaboration with local and international guest curators and artists at all levels of professional development. \nFollowing a full-house roundtable discussion with local curators in 2016\, with demand for our platform made clear\, we renamed the space Critical Distance Centre for Curators to underscore our curatorial mission and dedication to supporting critical inquiry and experimental practices. \nAnd the rest is history — a history we’ll be revisiting and celebrating throughout our Lucky 13th year even as we continue to pursue new directions for Critical Distance! Whatever the future may bring\, it’s the collaborations\, conversations\, and connections that this work makes possible which in turn make this labour of love still so worthwhile after 13 years— and I hope — worthy of your support as well. \nIf you agree that Toronto’s dedicated space for curators is worth supporting — a place to gather\, learn with each another\, develop new projects\, and level up your professional practice in collaboration with the artists and audiences we both work with and serve — please consider supporting our LUCKY 13 crowdfunding campaign so we can continue to support critical curatorial research and production both impactfully and sustainably. \nWe’re adding new perks each month so check out our LUCKY 13 Donation Page for updates — and whatever you can contribute\, I sincerely thank you for showing up for CDCC! \nWith gratitude\,\nShani
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/lucky-13-a-message-from-our-founding-director/
LOCATION:Critical Distance\, Suite 122 at 401 Richmond Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
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