events
Kay Tout Moune / Everyone's House Unconference
Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau used Kay tout moune (pronounced KAI TOOT MOON) to describe a world without walls that embraces movement, difference, and change. I use it here as a speculative effect of looking at today's societies from a postmigrant perspective, one "that presents and highlights the voice of migration.” Postmigration is a conceptual intervention in current discourses on migration and will frame our activities for that week.
Join us for poetry night with Laureate Lilia Allen, Gabriel Osson, and a dozen francophone poets, attend the day of knowledge sharing online, hear Bonel Auguste speak directly from Haïti to the world, attend the opening reception of the photography exhibition, or come cook and eat tchaka with our international guest artist, Coutechève Lavoie Aupont.
Historically, significant migratory waves follow the type of world turmoil that we are currently experiencing. How do we shift our understanding of migration from crisis to normalcy? What are such a shift's social, political, and aesthetic implications? These are the very basic questions we hope to explore.
All events are free. Registration required.
(The unconference is supported by an OCADU SEED grant, The Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora, the International Office, the Faculty of ART, and the Faculty of Arts and Science at OCADU. The official image of the Conference Self Inventory is by graduating OCADU student Deanna Greene, photo credit. Delali Cofie)
Notes Towards a Black Feminist Curatorial Practice: Contemplation, Difficult Knowledge, and Radical Friendship
Onsite Gallery @onsite_at_ocadu presents its inaugural annual Black History Month lecture series featuring guest curator Janet Dees.
Neil Price "Illuminations"
In his multi-media lecture-performance, "Illuminations", Toronto-based writer, educator and art critic, Neil Price, offers an interactive presentation based on his ongoing research on Black experiences in higher education.
once more, once again - Ghislan Sutherland-Timm
From the discarded furnishings and neglected findings collected over a period of time, once more, once again engages with the revitalization of found objects activated through an orchestral and unorthodox play of sight and sound.
Black Archive Alliance
Black Archive Alliance was the first research platform advanced by The Recovery Plan*. It was designed to facilitate the development and proliferation of research dedicated to Black history within and beyond Italian archives that speak to diasporic studies and Globally inscribed Blackness.
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[CANCELLED]An encounter with artists Fidelia Lam + Marton Robinson
Please join us at the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora for an encounter with artists Fidelia Lam + Marton Robinson. The duo will present their project entitled, 717.
Reception for South African artist, Dineo Seshee Bopape
Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art invites you to a reception for South African artist, Dineo Seshee Bopape
Christopher Cozier: Solo Exhibition
Presented by the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora in partnership with OCAD U's International Programs & Collaboration Office.
Practice as Ritual/Ritual as Practice Virtual Artist Talk
Practice as Ritual/Ritual as Practice is a group exhibition that features the work of ten Black women artist who in 1989 organized the national touring exhibition, Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter, to address the exclusion of Black women artists from the visual landscape of Canada. Join us for an Artist Talk featuring Marie Booker, Claire Carew, DZI..AN, Mosa McNeilly, Barbara Prézeau Stephenson and Winsom.
The Impact of Afrofuturism and the Black Lives Matter Movement on Canadian Art
On October 26, 2022, the CSBCD hosted a mini-conference at OCAD University, dedicated to the work of the Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Centre (EAHR), led by Dr. Alice Ming Jim, a University Research Chair at Concordia University. The EAHR team is set to interview artists whose…
TELL THE BODY
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022 - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2022
In her program, Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa brings together video works that explore the relationship between language and the senses as constructions of knowledge. Through videos of poetry, dance, oral history, and documentary, layers of thought are uncovered, giving form to the immaterial nature of language. Tell the Body explores the capacity for language, the immaterial, to be given physical form within the body through Afro-diasporic experience. The program touches on the capacity for the immaterial to inform the physical, producing ways of knowing that are sensuous in nature and exist in material form only within individual bodies, returning to a space of liminality as they are passed from one to another.
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Afrofuturism - Black Live Matters
The Afrofuturism - Black Live Matters project proposes to research the history of Afrofuturism in the Canadian art scene over the last decade. Specifically, this research team will be collecting and analyzing sources on Black diasporic visual artistic practice in Canada located at the intersection of Afrofuturism, Black Lives Matter, and intersectional critical race feminism. Our primary objective is to create a robust speculative research archive that the research team and the wider scholarly and practitioner community can use to initiate or continue further research activities rooted in the exchange of solidarity work.
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TO REMEMBER AND REPAIR
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2022 - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 202
Through Temple Marucci-Campbell’s program, she explores the nuances of a legacy in the wake of trauma, and how a ruptured legacy ignites alternative methods of remembering. Remembering through the interconnectivity of language and bodies while also acknowledging the disparity, breathes new life into existing legacies. Marucci-Campbell considers the question of legacies as it pertains to Black diasporic people. How can ruptured legacies survive within ourselves? How can they be nurtured?
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Sustaining Black Creativity: A conversation with Dr. Zoe Whitley
The Centre in partnership with OCAD U’s President’s Speaker Series hosted Dr. Zoé Whitley, one of the United Kingdom’s most influential…
Commit Us to Memory
The Vancouver Art Gallery, in collaboration with The State of Blackness, presents Commit us to memory: Black Women curators interrupting the canon, a public program organized within the framework of the exhibition Where do we go from here?. The event was held on May 27th 2021; moderated by the exhibition’s guest curator and featured artist Nya Lewis, the roundtable included her guests Alyssa Fearon, Kosisochukwu Nnebe and Geneviève Wallen.
The State of Blackness : Revisited
A conversation on shifts in the sphere of Black Canadian production and dissemination with Rinaldo Walcott & Camille Turner