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Curatorial & Educational Collaboration: Eksperimenta! Date: Wed. Jan 18, 2012 Locations: CWSE, OISE/UT: Rm 2-227, 252 Bloor Street West - Seminar on Curatorial Collaboration w/ discussion - 12 noon-1 pm (contact for info_ CWSE @ 416-978-2080) & OCAD University:   Room 230, 100 McCaul Street, - Presentation on Eksperimenta! 5pm - 6.30 pm (contact for info_ Denise Gagnon, OCADU Faculty of Art 416-977-6000 x317)  http://apache.ocad.ca/events_calendar/eventdetail.php?id=3910 Both events are FREE and all are welcome! Drs. Joanna Black (U of Manitoba) and Miriam Cooley (U of Alberta) brought digital art created by Canadian high school students to Eksperimenta!, a first of its kind international conference and Triennial Art Exhibition that celebrated secondary school visual art and contemporary art education. This presentation and discussion will focus on women’s collaborative curation, the role of educators, and on  innovation in student work. Dr. Joan

Nov 3, 2011, 2-4 pm University of Toronto Scarborough Curator: Pam Patterson Assistant Curator: Pailagi Pandya FREE... all are welcome! Mesma S. Belsare is described by the New York Times as ëa tour de force, a true act of transcendence and religious immersion’ and by The Dance Current Magazine as ‘a consummate dancer, as mesmerizing as staring into the heart of a fire’. She is a Boston based dancer, choreographer, actor, visual artist and educator and belongs to a generation of young dancers in the South Asian Diaspora who have created a unique niche for themselves in the realm of classical Indian arts, while expanding their repertory in the contemporary idiom. She is formally trained in Bharatanatyam (South Indian Classical dance) and Carnatic vocal by Sri Shankar Hombal and Padmashri Geeta Chandran. Mesma’s work is based on concepts of gender, gender-identity and sexuality and the classical tradition of Nayaki Bhava (the voice of the female protagonist) in tradition

Come and see work by students from Martingrove Collegiate Institute, TDSB! Gender Archaeology Opening Oct 3rd, 2011, 6-7.30pm Exhibit Runs: Oct. 3-29th 2nd Floor Hallway at OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Teacher: Christina Yarmol, WIAprojects Intern & Curatorial Assistant: Irena Radic Christina Yarmol, Head of Visual Arts, Photography, Graphics, Film and Video at Martingrove Collegiate Institute met and paired with Irena Radic a recent fine arts graduate from York University through the WIAprojects teaching mentoring/internship program. Through this collaboration the project “Gender Archaeology” was born. The concept of this project was to get the students thinking about gender and how it relates to work both in and out of the domestic sphere while learning the practical skills of intaglio printmaking. The students were asked to think about how their own lived-experience and those of their families related to work both inside and outside of home. They were

WIAprojects has a very challenging and interesting 2011-12 program (see 2011-12 programming). We have one work-study position now filled by UTSC student Pailagi Pandya who will be assisting with production, curation and design. Jay Smith a work-study student in theatre will also be assisting with the UTSC program. Also new NSCAD grad, Vida Beyer is joining us as a curatorial and production intern and Kayla Barbeau in Education. Eireann Oughton is returning as a production intern as well. So welcome to WIAprojects and CWSE! We still have sites available for educational interns. If you are applying to the BEd or Masters in Teaching programs come and get valuable teaching experience. We have one slot in elementary (learning through the  arts) and one in secondary (design) education.

Performing Acts, Sun March 6th 2pm- 4pm Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Performance 2pm Book launch, reception & exhibit until 4pm. Performance: Palimpsest by ARTIFACTS (Pam Patterson & Leena Raudvee) Book Launch: Pam Patterson's Enacting Learning: An Arts-Informed Inquiry with the Bay Area Artists for Women’s Art (BAAWA) (Saarbruken, Germany:Lambert) and Performing Pedagogy: Communitas in Context (Toronto: WIAprojects). Exhibition of photo-based images relating to the books and their research including BAAWA portraits by Pam Patterson.