SPECIAL EVENT: Sat Nov 29 from 11am ‘til the bagels are gone! Join us for a casual meet-and-greet with Dena Davida, co-founder and Managing Editor of TURBA Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, the first journal for the study, theory, and praxis of curatorial strategies in the live arts. These include, but are not limited to, dance, music, sound art, theatre, performance art, verbal arts, circus arts, live media arts and inter-arts performance works. TURBA aims to create a platform for a community of discourse in the exploration of ideas, concepts, constraints, expectations, and contingencies which guide and drive curatorial practices in these fields. TURBA seeks to connect, amplify, and contextualize movements and voices as a seismographic observatory…Find out more
Launching in conjunction with 401 Richmond’s Holiday Open House: Thursday, November 27, 2025 from 5–8 pm Launch weekend: Friday–Saturday, November 28–29, 12–6 pm Continuing thereafter: Thursday–Saturday, 12–6 pm, and by appointment through Dec 19th Special event: Meet the Editor: Sat, Nov 29, 11 am (until the bagels are gone!)Dena Davida presents TURBA Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, hosted in partnership with Dancemakers NEW + FEATURED SILVER PRESS LONDON DAVID ZWIRNER BOOKS NEW YORK SET MARGINS EINDHOVEN TOXOPLASMA STOCKHOLM TURBA JOURNAL FOR GLOBAL PRACTICES IN LIVE ARTS CURATION MONTREAL INUIT ART QUARTERLY TORONTO MACKENZIE ART GALLERY SASKATOON DUNLOP ART GALLERY REGINA PUBLICATION STUDIO GUELPH GUELPH OR GALLERY VANCOUVER ESSE MAGAZINE MONTREAL OTTAWA ART GALLERY OTTAWA VERA LIST CENTER…Find out more
Join us at Critical Distance on Friday, October 3, 6:30 – 8 pm for the Toronto launch of two new books in conversation: As for Protocols (Vera List Center for Art and Politics/Amherst College Press, 2025) and Convivialities (Talonbooks, 2025). New York-based writer, editor, and curator Re’al Christian, co-editor of As for Protocols, will be joined by Montréal-based writer and editor Michael Nardone, editor of Convivialities, for a conversation on the editorial/curatorial practices and perspectives at the core of their two volumes. Both books emerge out of sustained engagements with writers and artists; together, Christian and Nardone will consider how the array of artists and writers involved in their editions articulate the contemporary conditions, relational affinities, and protocols of making.…Find out more
Artist: John Climenhage Curator: CDCC Director, Shani K Parsons On view September 20 — November 15, 2025 Opening Saturday, 9/20 in conjunction with Ontario Culture Days at 401 Richmond, RSVP for the Hands-on Curatorial Workshop Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) is pleased to present The Contingent Image, an artistic and curatorial collaboration and exhibition-as-research developed by Peterborough-based artist John Climenhage in conversation with CDCC Director Shani Khoo Parsons. Featuring an expansive new body of work that Climenhage has been developing since 2015, The Contingent Image is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Toronto in over 20 years. The Contingent Image comprises three large-scale wall-based assemblages of 170+ paintings selected from a series of over 250 panels. Following a decisive…Find out more
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD), in partnership with Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC), is pleased to present this Public Art Billboard and Exhibition Essay Career Launcher featuring artwork by Jenelle Smith and a commissioned essay by Kathleen Foran-Spragge.
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