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• Celebrating creativity and diversity in Niagara with SAFRAN 2024

  Saturday, April 06, 2024 | By dvivian

  

  Image caption: Brock Professor Jean Ntakiturimana of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures, (right) at the Sunday morning long table about the world of publishing, hosted by Binta Wague of les Éditions Touana (Toronto , centre-right, in green). 

  Brock University recently welcomed the Salon du livre des Francophonies du Niagara (SAFRAN) 2024 for a diverse and dynamic weekend of events and performances celebrating literary creativity and diversity in the Niagara region.

  Hosted by Brock’s Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) and Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (MLLC) in collaboration with SOFIFRAN, the event was held from March 21 to 24 at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, with an opening ceremony at the Film House in the First Ontario Performing Arts Centre. With the important collaboration of the Maison de la culture francophone du Niagara, the event coincided with the UNESCO World Poetry Day, World Puppetry Day and International Francophonie Day.

  

  Director of the Salon du livre and MLLC Instructor, Nafée Faigou, hosting the opening ceremonies at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.

  “It’s been an absolutely remarkable celebration of language and culture, beautifully led and produced by Director of the Salon du livre, Nafée Faigou and Fété Ngira-Batware Kimpiobi, Director General of SOFIFRAN,” said Professor David Vivian, Director of the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture. “Our learning community is so much richer for having hosted SAFRAN.”

  Guests and community members from the Niagara Francophone community and beyond were treated to a diverse offering of cultural interactions including entertaining and thoughtful puppet shows by Le chemin qui marche from Quebec, workshops for youth on robotics and AI and compelling roundtable discussions  in the MIWSFPA venues.

  A highlight was the publisher’s fair in the MIWSFPA lobby, igniting important long-table discussions amongst publishers and authors that celebrated the Francophonie of the region, including both Franco-Ontarian and new Franco-Canadian voices.

  For more information about the event, please visit the STAC website.

  Tags: Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, david vivian, Fété Ngira-Batware Kimpiobi, Humanities, Jean Ntakiturimana, Literatures & Cultures, MIWSFPA, MLLC, Modern Languages, Nafée Faigou, STAC
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• Salon du livre des francophonies du Niagara (SAFRAN), a special collaboration at the MIWSFPA, opens March 21

  Friday, March 01, 2024 | By dvivian

  

  Salon du livre des francophonies du Niagara (SAFRAN):
  Les contradictions dans les littératures
  

  March 21-24, 2024
  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts
  15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines

  SOFIFRAN is delighted to announce the details of the next edition of the Salon du Livre des Francophonies du Niagara (SAFRAN), an exceptional literary event in and for the peninsula. The event will take place March 21st to 24th, 2024, and will begin at 10am each day in the prestigious space of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University, downtown St Catharines. The opening will be held at the Film House, in the First Ontario Performing Arts Centre, also located in downtown St Catharines.

  We are especially honoured to present Nafée Faïgou, the director of the Salon du Livre des Francophonies du Niagara. Nafée Faïgou is passionately devoted to Niagara’s francophone literary ecosystem and plays a central role in the planning and development of this major event. You can contact her directly at the following email address: lesafran2024@gmail.com.

  SAFRAN is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Ministry of Francophone Affairs, through the Francophone Community Grants Program.

  We invite all members of the community to come and celebrate the diversity of francophone literatures at the Salon du Livre des Francophonies du Niagara. Join us and immerse yourselves in captivating stories, literary discoveries, workshops, and inspiring encounters.

  For more information and to stay connected with the latest updates, follow us on social media and visit our official website: www.sofifran-safran.com.

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  SOFIFRAN annonce avec enthousiasme la 2ème édition du Salon du livre des Francophonies du Niagara (SAFRAN)

  SOFIFRAN est ravie de dévoiler les détails de la prochaine édition du Salon du livre des francophonies du Niagara (SAFRAN), un événement littéraire et culturel incontournable qui se tiendra du jeudi 21 mars au dimanche 24 mars 2024. L’événement débutera à 10h chaque jour et se déroulera au prestigieux espace de l’école des beaux-arts Marilyn A. Walker de l’université Brock, située à St. Catharines.

  Nous sommes particulièrement honorées de présenter Nafée Nelly Faïgou, la directrice du Salon du livre des francophonies du Niagara. Nafée Nelly Faïgou apporte une passion dévouée à l’univers littéraire francophone et joue un rôle clé dans la réalisation de cet événement majeur. Vous pouvez la contacter directement par courriel à l’adresse suivante : lesafran2024@gmail.com.

  Le SAFRAN est rendu possible grâce au soutien financier du Ministère des Affaires Francophones, dans le cadre du Programme d’appui à la Francophonie ontarienne (PAFO).

  Nous invitons chaleureusement la communauté à se joindre à nous pour célébrer la diversité littéraire francophone au Salon du livre des francophonies du Niagara. Venez plonger dans un monde d’histoires captivantes, de découvertes littéraires et de rencontres inspirantes.

  Pour plus d’informations et pour rester connectés avec les dernières actualités du SAFRAN, suivez-nous sur nos réseaux sociaux et visitez notre site web officiel : www.sofifran-safran.com

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  Organized under the  main theme of Les contradictions dans les littératures,
  programming will address the sub themes of:
  – Sensitivity and Sensationalism
  – Waiting: Hope and Despair
  – Spaces and Comfort Zones (status quo in opposition to evolution)
  – Beliefs (in oneself and in others), Fear and Courage
  – Nature and Materialism/Artificial Intelligence/Technology
  – Individuality and Sense of Group
  – Body/Mind/Psyche

  Free event, open to the public.
  la programmation est disponible ici / The program is available here.

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  Les auteurs

  Le Safran a pour objectif de promouvoir la diversité culturelle et linguistique des francophones du Niagara, de valoriser les auteurs et les artistes d’expression française, et de favoriser le dialogue et les échanges entre les différentes communautés.

  SAFRAN aims to promote the cultural and linguistic diversity of French speakers in Niagara, to celebrate authors and artists of French expression, and to promote dialogue and exchanges between different communities.

  Didier Leclair
  Mireille Messier
  Gaston Mabaya
  Kalula Kalambay
  Unblind Tibbin
  Marie Yanick Dutelly
  Binta Wague
  Marlène Thélusma
  Serge Stéphane TESSA
  Michèle Laframboise
  Mélina Seymour
  Khadydja Ndoye
  Nafée Faïgou
  Fété Ngira-Batware Kimpiobi
  Aristote Kavungu

  avec la précieuse participation de professeurs et d’instructeurs de l’Université Brock du département / with the special participation of Brock University faculty and instructors from the
  Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures:

  Nafée Faïgou
  Nicholas Hauck
  Richard Ndayizigamiye
  Jean B. Ntakirutimana
  Catherine Parayre (also Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture)
  Paul Savoie
  David Vivian (Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture/Department of Dramatic Arts)

  …and others. For more information: www.sofifran-safran.com

  To reserve a ticket for events organized by the Maison de la culture francophone du Niagara in honour of the Journée internationale de la Francophonie et les Rendez-vous Poétiques 2024 (March 20, 2024) and the Journée mondiale de la marionnette et les Rendez-Vous Poétiques 2024 (March 21, 2024) : mcfniagara.com/programmationsVeuillez noter q’un laptop est nécessaire pour s’inscrire à cet atelier./ Please note that a laptop is required to participate in this workshop. lesafran2024@gmail.com pour s’inscrire/to register

  

  Tags: Humanities, MLLC, Nafée Faigou, SAFRAN, Salon du Livre des Francophonies du Niagara, SOFIFRAN, STAC
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• ‘Someone Lives Here’ – Free Community Screening and Panel Discussion

  Friday, November 17, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  SOMEONE LIVES HERE – Free Community Screening & Panel Discussion
  presented by Rad Snax and hosted by the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

  Saturday, November 18, 7:00 pm

  Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts
  15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines, ON L2R 0B5,
  Room MWS 156.

  Ground level with elevator and accessible washrooms. Event is free. No childcare. If you have additional accessibility needs, please reach out to us.

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  Throughout the COVID pandemic, Toronto has seen a catastrophic increase in homelessness. Sick of seeing his city unable to care for its unhoused people, Khaleel Seivwright quit his job as a full-time carpenter and dedicated himself to building insulated shelters—called “tiny shelters.”

  Innovatively using body temperature for heating, Khaleel’s efforts garnered international media attention, leading Toronto to propose a possible partnership—only to reverse its decision a week later.

  Capturing the ups and downs of Khaleel’s brilliant intervention, Someone Lives Here also features the voices of those experiencing homelessness, including the articulate and philosophical Taka. The film poignantly captures the City of Toronto’s costly $1.9 million clearance of Toronto’s park encampments, asking all the right questions: What makes Toronto unable and unwilling to address this humanitarian crisis? Why are people like Khaleel being prevented from trying to find solutions?

  Who do we prioritize in this city? A sobering and maddening watch.
  Film description by Hot Docs programmer Aisha Jamal.

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27366407/

  Winner – Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2023

  Winner – Bill Nemtin Award for Best Social Impact Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2023

  —- This presentation is organized by Rad Snax with the participation of community partners.

  Guests include Khaleel Seivwright who will participate in a panel discussion after the film with:

  Patty Krawec, an indigenous author and activist, moderator

  https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2107428931725

  Alicia Marshall, a local social service provider and advocate for unhoused folks
  https://twitter.com/Aliciaadvocate

  Sabrina Shawana, Anishinaabe Nation, Eagle Clan, tireless advocate for her People, and who established the Strong Water Singers in 2015.

  Brock grad and researcher Sarah Lukaszczyk, who has just returned from the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness conference, previously with Housing Help Centre, and who has written about the City of St. Catharines rhetoric of compassion, exposing participation in the Compassionate Cities movement as hollow municipal marketing.

  among others.

  See the FB posting for more info: https://fb.me/e/1ANjJFyH9

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  Approximately 100 people participated in the evening program.  Seen below (l-r) are Sarah Lukaszczyk, Alicia Marshall, Khaleel Seivwright, Sabrina Shawana and moderator Patty Krawec during the post-screening discussion. Thank-you to Hilary of Game Theory Films for the opportunity to share this film with the community.

  

  Tags: cinema, community event, homelessness, Rad Snax, Someone lives here
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• STAC at the Makerspace with workshops to teach creative technologies skills

  Sunday, November 05, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Makerspace Assistant and fourth-year Studies in Arts and Culture student Christy Mitchell removes a model from a 3D printer. The Brock community is invited to participate in an Intro to 3d Printing workshop on Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. in the Makerspace.

  published in the Brock News on Friday 03, November 2023

  The Brock University Library Makerspace is providing students, staff and faculty with opportunities to develop new skills in 3D printing, modelling and animation as well as podcasting through a series of upcoming introductory workshops.

  The free in-person sessions, held in RFP 203, are intended to help participants build their confidence working with 3d Studio Max, a professional 3D modelling, animation and rendering application, and Blender, an open-source 3D creation suite.

  “All of the workshops teach participants from scratch,” says Makerspace Technician and Facilitator Zak Mason. “No previous experience is required; however, for optimal learning, we recommended participants commit to doing both in the same week when sessions are offered in two parts.”

  Also offered this semester are drop-in times for miniature painting and musical jam sessions.

  “Come hang out with like-minded people and make some new friends,” says Mason. “We supply everything you need except the appetite to learn new skills.”

  Upcoming workshops include:

  Introduction to Podcasting

  • Monday, Nov. 6 at 11 a.m.
  • Monday, Nov. 20 at 11 a.m.
  • Monday, Dec. 4 at 11 a.m.

  3D Modelling in Blender – A two-part series

  • Part 1: Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 1 p.m.
  • Part 2: Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 1 p.m.
  • Part 1: Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 1 p.m.
  • Part 2: Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 1 p.m.

  Introduction to 3d Studio Max

  • Part 1: Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 1 p.m.
  • Part 2: Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 1 p.m.
  • Part 1: Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 1 p.m.
  • Part 2: Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 1 p.m.

  Introduction to 3D printing

  • Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m.

  Miniature Model Painting

  • Friday, Nov. 17 at 1 p.m.
  • Friday, Dec. 1 at 1 p.m.

  Jam Sessions

  • Thursdays Nov. 9, 16, 23, 30 and Dec. 7 starting at 1:30 p.m.

  To learn more or to register for a workshop visit ExperienceBU.

  Drop-in hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday.

  Additional learning resources, such as self-directed tutorials and an online tour of the Makerspace, are available on the Brock University Library Makerspace website.

  Questions about workshops and the Makerspace can be emailed to makerspace@brocku.ca

  Tags: Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Christy Mitchell, Maker Space, Makerspace, STAC
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• Thousands of prospective Brock students to explore campus Sunday

  Wednesday, November 01, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Originally published in the Brock News, November 01, 2023.

  Brock will welcome thousands of potential Badgers and their families to campus Sunday, Nov. 5 to get a glimpse of the University’s renowned student experience. Representatives from the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture will be present.

  Academic programs, extracurricular activities, student supports and campus services will be among the highlights of Brock’s annual Fall Preview Day, which will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at both the University’s main campus and the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines.

  The University’s largest on-campus recruiting event will offer visitors a chance to attend Faculty- and program-specific presentations, explore residences and various labs and facilities, attend an 80-booth information fair and tour the scenic campus on the Niagara escarpment as they learn about all that Brock has to offer.

  “This year, Fall Preview Day comes on the heels of Brock employees and volunteers making connections with students across the province at the popular Ontario Universities’ Fair in Toronto, previously held in September,” says Kara Kelly, Manager, Recruitment Operations and Communications. “We’re excited to see that momentum continue as students arrive to experience campus for themselves and learn more about Brock’s outstanding academic offerings, its dedicated faculty and staff, and the wealth of supports available here to help them on their path to success.”

  In addition to a packed schedule of presentations, dozens of tours and drop-in opportunities will welcome prospective students into labs and classrooms across campus, visiting a variety of spaces such as Brock’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute, the newly opened Black Student Success Centre, Nursing Clinical Simulation Lab and Brock Functional Inclusive Training Centre, where health sciences students lead exercise and wellness programming for local seniors. A shuttle will also be available from the main campus for visitors interested in exploring Brock’s downtown arts school.

  While many of the attendees are typically high school applicants, the day will also feature information for transfer and mature students interested in pursuing their studies at Brock.

  “Brock offers a variety of pathways to higher learning, and we encourage people interested in finding out more to come out on Sunday and speak with our knowledgeable staff,” Kelly says.

  The MIWSFPA-specific program includes:

  Sunday, November 5,11 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

  Information Fair, Ian Beddis Gymnasium
  MIWSFPA tables
  11 a.m.- 4 p.m.

  Humanities presentation
  South Block 202
  11:15 a.m.- noon.
  Meet the Dean and Associate Dean of Humanities, to learn about the first-year experience in the Humanities. Information will include departments, programs, and key contacts.

  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts presentation
  South Block 202
  12:15-12:55 p.m.
  Meet the Dean and Associate Dean, Fine & Performing Arts to learn about the first-year experience as students in the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. Information will include departments, programs, and key contacts, followed by a tour of MIWSFPA downtown.

  Experience Humanities (Walking Tour)
  Meet outside of South Block 202
  1 p.m.
  Visit each department in the Faculty of Humanities on our main campus, with students from many programs in attendance to convey real-life experiences. There will be drop offs at Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Centre for Digital Humanities, English, History, Philosophy, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Canadian Studies, and Classics. Learn more about student spaces, faculty office hours, and how to get involved in special Humanities events.

  Experience MIWSFPA (Tours)
  Gather at the Brock Statue
  1 p.m.
  You’ll be taken via bus downtown to the MIWSFPA, and a shuttle will take you back to main campus at 2:45 p.m.

  Program Specific Tours for Dramatic Arts, Music, Visual Art, and Studies in Arts and Culture.
  15 Artists’ Common, downtown St. Catharines (main Lobby doors)
  1:30-2:30
  Tour the classrooms, studios, and rehearsal spaces that you will be learning in during your time at MIWSFPA. Your Program Chair or Director will be available for questions you may have, along with students to convey their real-life experiences at the School. Parking also available on-site.

  MIWSFPA Open Tour
  15 Artists’ Common, downtown St. Catharines (main Lobby doors)
  3:00-4:00
  Tour the classrooms, studios, and rehearsal spaces that you will be learning in during your time at MIWSFPA. Parking available on-site.

  For more information or to register for Fall Preview Day, visit the event website.

  Tags: Catherine Parayre, Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, david vivian, fall preview day, recruitment, STAC, tours
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• Join us on Nov. 2 for Lan ‘Florence’ Yee: Sharper Tools for Unripe Fruit

  Sunday, October 29, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Image: Lan ‘Florence’ Yee

  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture and Walker Cultural Leader Series:

  Lan ‘Florence’ Yee: Sharper Tools for Unripe Fruit

  Online and onsite artist talk
  STAC 2P93 — Critical Practice in the Fine & Performing Arts
  Thursday, Nov. 2 from 7 to 9 p.m.

  Spanning media from textiles to signage, Lan “Florence” Yee’s interdisciplinary practice uses text and labour-intensive creation. Inspired by the socio-political and personal history of Cantonese displacement, Lan explores what Desmond Wong calls “the intersection of filiality and arrival.”

  The public is invited to join us in MWS 156 to attend Lan Yee’s virtual presentation or to join us on zoom.
  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts
  Art and Val Fleming Smart Presentation Classroom
  MWS 156, MIWSFPA , 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines

  The presentation is also available to view online,
  please register ahead of time via Zoom.

  Tags: artists talk, Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Lan Yee, Sharper Tools, STAC 2P93
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• Derek Knight: PLACES, A Flâneur’s Eye opens October 27 at the MIWSFPA

  Monday, October 23, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Photo credit: Derek J.J. Knight, Gaston Lachaise, Floating Figure, 1927 (cast 1935), Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (© dk 2018).

  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture presents

  Derek Knight: PLACES, A Flâneur’s Eye
  October 27, 2023 to January 13, 2024

  Exhibition opening: Friday, October 27 from 5 to 7 p.m.
  Museum in the Hallway / Boîte-en-valise
  (2nd floor by the Theatre entrance), MIWSFPA
  15 Artists Common, St. Catharines

  Museums and galleries draw prestige from their architecture, geographic locale or historical significance, while compelling works of art, performances, and public expressions of creativity galvanize the diversity of art both within sanctioned institutional spaces and the ‘non-spaces’ that have the capacity to take on resonance.

  Derek Knight: PLACES, A Flâneur’s Eye documents Knight’s museum visits over the last decade in North America and Europe.

  Curators: Catherine Parayre and David Vivian
  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture

  Tags: Catherine Parayre, david vivian, Derek Knight, Places
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• Small Walker Press at Art Metropole, Sat. Oct. 7, 2023

  Friday, October 06, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Photo credits: Annette le Fort; Bernhard Cella

  The Small Walker Press (SWP) was hosted by Art Metropole in Toronto for the launch of the 2023 volumes Touch, and Tender Readings. Books As Archives, and Handmade.  The editors of the SWP, Catherine Parayre and Nicholas Hauck, of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, and David Vivian of the Department of Dramatic Arts, the Director of STAC, were joined by the creators of Handmade, Seth Weiner and Bernhard Cella, via zoom from Vienna, Austria.  In the audience were members of the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective Collective, among others.

  The SWP thanks Sara Maston, Communications & Data Coordinator for Art Metropole, Blair Swann, Associate Director, and Arshdeep Kang, Programs, Publications & Shop Assistant, for their generous hospitality.

  For the 2023 series Books and Archives, four book designers published their reflections on archives.

  Two artists – Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort – visit their local public library, check out a few books, keep these for a few days then return them. The text and black-and-white photographs included in Touch, and Tender Readings. Books As Archives document this trip to the library. They evoke a sensory experience – tactile, visual, and olfactive – and a meditative performance – walking through the stacks, touching book covers, turning the pages of a book. LaBelle and le Fort present the library as an organic space and the destination of an intellectual and sensuous journey during which thoughts expand quickly beyond the books displayed on the shelves.

  

  Handmade is the product of a reflection between two artists whose practice includes book design and curatorial projects.
  For Handmade, Bernhard Cella and Seth Weiner wrote together short creative-writing pieces. Each is the facetious description of contents in an imaginary book. They then used these descriptions to generate images of book covers through AI. The images look like photographs of books, although none of these books (none of these covers) actually exists. The book descriptions refer to content that was never written. The result is a catalogue of books that do not exist. Handmade points to the importance of book design and marketing (book descriptions, catalogues).

  Parayre and Hauck also presented the online volume (Im)mobilités, and the many other notable volumes of the Small Walker Press, including Possible Grounds. Redrawing Relations in Toronto, Beneath a Velvet Moon. Early Love Poems and Tewaaraton. La crosse / Lacrosse, seen here on a shelf celebrating indigenous art and artists at Art Metropole.

  Join us for the next SWP event on Thursday Oct. 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Commons of the Brock Library, for another Small Walker Press book launch for Books and Archives, presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and the Walker Cultural Leader Series.

   

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  Small Walker Press book launch: Books and Archives
  Presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and  Walker Cultural Leader Series

  Saturday, Oct. 7 from 2 to 3 p.m.
  Art Metropole, Toronto, https://artmetropole.com/
  896 College Street, Toronto, ON M6H 1A4 +1 416-703-4400

  OUR NEXT EVENT:

  Small Walker Press book launch:
  Books and Archives
  Presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and  Walker Cultural Leader Series

  Thursday, Oct. 19 from 2 to 4 p.m.
  Brock Library, Learning Commons

  Free event, open to the public

  Small Walker Press Catalogue Fall 2023

  Small Walker Press Book Launch two-pager Fall 2023

  Tags: Art Metropole, book launch, Small Walker Press, swp, Walker Cultural Leader, WCL
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• Geoff Farnsworth and the Small Walker Press, launch Tuesday, Sept. 26, at the MIWSFPA

  Monday, September 25, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Stockholm Interior, 2023. Oil and acrylic on panel, 30 x 24 inches. Image: Geoff Farnsworth.

  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture presents

  Geoff Farnsworth: Blurs and Vagueness – An exhibition of small paintings
  Sept. 26 to Oct. 22, 2023
  Opening reception – Sept. 26, 2023 from noon to 2 p.m.
  Museum in the Hallway/Boîte-en-valise
  (2nd floor by the Theatre entrance)
  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts
  15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
  Ontario Culture Days event

  In partnership with 13th Street Gallery’s exhibition of larger paintings by Geoff Farnsworth running Sept. 23 to Oct. 21, 2023.

  Demonstrating a spirit for process, experimentation, and colour exploration, Geoff Farnsworth’s small-sized paintings offer a meditative reflection between figurative and abstraction. They are presented here with small drawings.

  Rarely shown to the public, Farnsworth’s drawings form a significant part of his work. They often – although not always – represent a more tightly structured environment. When seen together, his paintings and drawings evoke a fluctuating world of everyday realities and the dreamy fantasies of our imagination.

  Geoff Farnsworth studied with the Federation of Canadian Artists (Vancouver chapter), Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Capilano University (Graphic Design & Illustration Program), and the Art Students League of New York. After five years in New York City, Farnsworth relocated to Toronto. 4He currently lives and works in downtown St. Catharines. His paintings have been shown in New York City, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Niagara Falls, Norway, Sweden, and Trinidad.

  Curators: Catherine Parayre and David Vivian
  Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture

  The virtual catalogue for the exhibition is available here:
  https://exhibits.library.brocku.ca/s/geoff-farnsworth-blurs-and-vagueness/page/virtual-catalogue

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  Small Walker Press book launch:

  

  Photo credits: Annette le Fort; Bernhard Cella

  Books and Archives
  Presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts & Culture and  Walker Cultural Leader Series

  Tuesday, Sept. 26 from 12 to 2 p.m.
  Museum in the Hallway/Boîte-en-valise
  (2nd floor by the Theatre entrance), MIWSFPA
  Ontario Culture Days event

  In conjunction with exhibition opening of Geoff Farnsworth: Blurs and Vagueness, 

  Four book designers publish their reflection on Books and Archives:

  • Annette le Fort / Brandon Labelle, Touch and Tender Readings. Books As Archives, a sensory experience at the local library.
  • Seth Weiner, Bernhard Cella, Handmade, an illustrated catalogue of books that do not exist.

  Small Walker Press Catalogue Fall 2023

  Small Walker Press Book Launch two-pager Fall 2023

  A Walker Cultural Leader event.

  Tags: Blurs and Vagueness, Catherine Parayre, david vivian, Geoff Farnsworth, Geoff Farnsworth; Blurs and Vagueness, Small Walker Press, swp
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• STAC collaborating artists exhibit at PARALLEL VIENNA

  Monday, September 11, 2023 | By dvivian

  

  Installation view at PARALLEL VIENNA in September, 2023. Photo by Bernhard Cella. Used with permission.

  The PARALLEL VIENNA Art Fair takes place every September in Vienna Austria. PARALLEL VIENNA presents young and emerging as well as established artistic practices and brings together art initiatives of every kind – art associations, galleries, project spaces, off spaces and artist spaces – both Austrian and international, all under one roof. It thus combines local artistic creation with international trends and contributes to building networks and fosters exchanges between artists, curators, collectors and exhibition visitors.

  This year from 5-10 September, 2023 the event takes place in an architectural and historic landmark known locally as Steinhof: the huge, old psychiatric hospital designed by Otto Wagner, built in 1907 and the site of a memorial to the crimes committed by the Nazis during before and during World War II. It is also the site of a magnificent Jugendstil theatre (of the Vienna Secession movement, closely related to Art Nouveau).

  Bernhard Cella, the author of one of the Small Walker press volumes this year, Handmade, and lead designer of the SWP catalogue, and Seth Weiner, a Walker Cultural leader for 2022-23 and author of a STAC-produced online tutorial in zine-making, are presenting at PARALLEL VIENNA in 2023. Bernhard and Seth’s project at PARALLEL VIENNA is Handmade (our SWP book). This is a Handmade project, a collaboration between two artists. Some of the posters at Steinhof show images that the Small Walker Press editors did not include for the final SWP publication. Copies of Handmade will be available at the art fair.

  

  The Catalogue PDF. CLICK to read.

  For more information about the Parallel Art Fair see the website and read the catalogue.

  Images included in the article show installation views at PARALLEL VIENNA in September, 2023. Photos by Bernhard Cella. Used by permission.

  Tags: Cella, Handmade, Parallel, Small Walker Press, Steinhof, Vienna, Weiner
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