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WIAprojects and U of T Scarborough present: Spy Dénommé-Welch & Catherine McGowan.... public artist talk on their collaboration as An Indie(n) Rights Reserve and in composing and presenting the opera Giiwedin. Thurs. Oct 28th, 1-3pm FREE. At the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Military Trail, Scarborough Talk is open to anyone in AA-209 - 2nd floor of the Arts & Administration Building, the light yellow brick building just behind the Student Centre at that front of the campus. Workshop is open to U of T Scarborough performance students. For info call: Arts & Events Programming at 416.208.4769

Performing Feminist Culture (Nov 5/6 at XPACE Cultural Centre, 55 Ossington Ave., Toronto) as symposium seeks to perform feminist culture in the postmodern. The misinformed clarity of the modernist feminist agenda has been splintered into a myriad of practices, concerns and communities. Such a shift has unquestionably created a more inclusive feminisms in which intersecting oppressions, privileges and needs speak across communities of difference. “Feminist artist” has been replaced by “cultural practitioner”, who in dialogue with curators, historians, critics, theorists, viewers, educators, galleries help create a space in which artifact becomes a site that acquires multiple meanings. But, what are those meanings? Is feminist production still alive and well? How can we perform (or re-perform) these newer configurations? Intention: WIA projects with OCADU Faculty of Art and Equity & Diversity is facilitating an active two-day symposium at XPACE, Nov 5 & 6, 2010. Our intention