Enjoy Your Favourite Spring Festival at Home

Today we have rounded up a shortlist of Canadian festivals who have made the tough but exciting decision to share some of their programming online so you can continue to enjoy fresh content at home. Many of these festivals kick off tonight so tune in this evening for some new documentaries, art films and more!

Image source: CBC

Hot Docs at Home on CBC

When: Thursday nights starting on April 16th 2020.

Watch Hot Docs at Home on CBC, a multiplatform festival-at-home experience providing Canadians with front-row access to select titles from the 2020 Hot Docs Festival premiering Thursday nights starting April 16.

Following the postponement of the 2020 Hot Docs Festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a small selection of exclusive first-run feature documentaries that would have debuted at the Festival will now premiere on CBC, the free CBC Gem streaming service and documentary Channel. CBC will also partner with Hot Docs to expand the at-home audience experience with interactive, livestreamed Q&As with filmmakers and other original digital content at CBC Docs.

Image source: Images Festival. Sky Hopinka, maɬni — towards the ocean, towards the shore, 2020

Images Festival

Images Festival invites audiences to experience new and independent voices from Canada and across the globe at its 33rd edition, taking place online.

When: April 16-22, 2020

As one of the most enduring and respected platforms in the world for the exhibition and discourse of independent film and media art, Images continues to explore how moving image works are created, exhibited, and received in the current socio-political moment. Responding to the Covid-19 crisis, Images’ ON SCREEN program will be presented via live-stream at imagesfestival.com. Over 75 extraordinary works from some of the world’s most innovative and daring filmmakers and video artists will be available to stream, starting April 16th.

Silvia Kolbowski, That Monster: An Allegory, B+W film projection, 18 minutes (9 mins with sound, 9 mins silent), 2018.

Gallery 44 & Images Festival Present Silvia Kolbowski Digital Screening and Artist Talk

When: Saturday, April 18 at 12:00PM

Join Gallery 44 for an online screening of Silvia Kolbowski’s 2018 video That Monster: An Allegory, followed by a conversation between Kolbowski and co-curator Jared Quinton. That Monster is part of the artist’s solo exhibition A Few Howls Again, currently set to open in Gallery 44’s main space and vitrines, later this year.

That Monster: An Allegory addresses the projections and identifications at play in today’s mass politics. The film was developed out of a desire to elucidate the riddle of mass enthrallment to demagogic power that does not serve its interests. That Monster features remixed images and sequences from the classic horror film The Bride of Frankenstein, (1935; James Whale). The film plays once with sound and once in silence.”
—Silvia Kolbowski

Please email heather@gallery44.org if you would like to attend. Registered attendees will receive a link to join the event.

Remote Control: an AGYU Live Instagram Performance Series

When: Tuesdays beginning on April 14th, 2020. 7-8PM.

Starting Tuesday April 14, at 7 pm, join the AGYU live on Instagram @a_g_y_u for Remote Control—a spoken word, dance, and music performance series curated by Randell Adjei and Nathan Baya. The series continues each Tuesday evening for the next four weeks.

AGYU is excited to launch a new Instagram takeover, featuring two influential performance scenes of spoken word poets, singers, rappers, and dancers. Working in partnership with cultural visionaries—Scarborough-based R.I.S.E. Edutainment Director, Randell Adjei and Jane Street Speaks Founder, Nathan Baya—AGYU presents Remote Control, an online social media forum for performance that builds virtual communities and creative solidarity in a difficult and unprecedented period of social distancing and cultural isolation.


CONTEMPORARY ART BUS TOUR
Sunday, May 24, 2015 | 12 – 5 PM | FREE

Tour starts at the Koffler Gallery (at Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street) and then departs for Blackwood Gallery and AGYU, returning to Shaw Street at 5 PM. Seating is limited.

Please RSVP by Friday, May 22, 2015 to: Sarah Munro | kofflergallery@kofflerarts.org | 647.925.0643 x 221

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KOFFLER GALLERY
Erratics
Martha Baillie | Malka Greene with Alan Resnick

April 16 – June 14, 2015 | Curator: Mona Filip

Featuring installations by Toronto author Martha Baillie and artist/curator Malka Greene with writer Alan Resnick, Erraticsexplores the tensions between memory and fiction, bringing together two archives where photography takes a central role in an attempt to uncover hidden narratives. Staged as museological displays conveying two personal stories, these collections of images, texts and records reveal both the impossibility of fully knowing the past and the effectiveness of literary imagination in grappling with history. A Featured Exhibition in the 2015 CONTACT Photography Festival.

kofflerarts.org


BLACKWOOD GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA
Sameer Farooq & Mirjam Linschooten, Artists-in-Residence

Residency: May 11 – June 14, 2015
Exhibition: June 14 – August 2, 2015

Talk with artists Sameer Farooq & Mirjam Linschooten

Artists-in-Residence Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten will talk about their exhibition in progress, which will take a step back from specific objects on display to reveal a complex space of social codes, ideological agendas, and decisions. Instead, the artists are assigning value to the places inside of the museum where an object is held: the vitrine, the plinth, the wall, the archival photograph, etc. These models of display provide a valuable glimpse into tactics of representation: the ideas and values of the exhibition’s arrangers, claims about what a cultural group is and ought to be, protocols of approaching an object, and an image of who the intended viewer is. Through a rigorous analysis of exhibition installations Farooq and Linschooten aim to observe the way knowledge is displayed, asking: What gets lost in the capture? And, Who is on display?

www.blackwoodgallery.ca


ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY (AGYU)
Rashaad Newsome: Silence Please, the Show is About to Begin
April 8 – June 14, 2015

Tour of exhibition by curator Suzanne Carte

Rashaad Newsome’s first Canadian exhibition, Silence Please, the Show is About to Begin, features recent video, performance, and collage works by this New York-based artist that explode constructions of gender, race, and class. With big, bright, and bold compositions, Newsome’s work bursts with light and colour; images drip with gold chains, diamond rings, and jewel studs. Through sampling, clashing, and choreographing the iconic works of hip-hop artists and the legendary moves of ballroom superstars with motifs from Baroque architecture, images of European heraldry, and tales from medieval poems, Newsome boldly proclaims a new vision of blackness and queerness.

www.theAGYUisOutThere.org

Image Credits: (clockwise from left) Malka Greene, His Father Over Time (installation detail – photo from the Estate of Morris Resnick), 2015; Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten, Something stolen, something blue, something borrowed and something new, 2013, courtesy of the artists; Rashaad Newsome, ICON (Video Still), 2014, courtesy of the artist & Marlborough Gallery, New York.

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Koffler Gallery
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Suite 104-105
Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
647.925.0643
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Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
905.828.3789
www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Art Gallery of York University (AGYU)
Accolade East Building
4700 Keele Street, Toronto
416.736.5169
www.theAGYUisOutThere.org