Performing Acts






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.

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