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FEMINIST FOMO NOMO  OCAD U: FEMINIST ART EXHIBITION, NOVEMBER 2015 Artists, this is your chance to show what feminism means to you.  From November 10 to December 6, The Learning Zone at OCAD U will exhibit the collaborative creativity of artists reflecting on feminism. For a month, interact within a feminist space that connects artists across ages, mediums and perspectives.   Don’t let the word feminism dissuade you. This is an all-inclusive event.  GET INVOLVED  Artists, email us for more information including name, school, copyright and redistribution rights.  Groups, this is the perfect time and space to host discussions, presentations and events relating to feminism. Submit a date on which you would like to host an event during the exhibit along with a description of it. We will accept work through the month . If there is no room on the wall, there will be online!  For further information contact Julia Pereira at   feministfomonomo@gmail.com   The Learn

FAC 2015 Conference link:  http://factoronto.org/ at OCAD University Sept 23- 27 2015 Opening Sept 23 as satellite event to FAC at Artscape Youngplace Making Feminism (In)Visible Our interest is in the creative use, and transgressive potential of, non-institutional spaces, the spaces in between and outside of the conventional galleries or academic settings where women and feminism, as praxis in particular, leak out of the cracks and make a mark. We do not intend to define feminism per se but rather to map a presence - perhaps intangible and ill-defined but certainly energetic, active, and persistent - in culture and in society. independent yet interrelated exhibitions address these considerations in very different ways. Women’s Poster Project: Feminist Organizing! View the history of feminist organizing through historic posters which detail key cultural, social and political events in the women’s community. Curated by Paula Bourne & Frieda Forman. CWSE with

That F Word  - Lana Missen  Curated by Meaghan Barry May 2 9  - July 31, 2nd Floor CWSE Hallway Gallery, OISE/UT, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto Opening Reception: May 2 9 th 5-7pm “I’m a feminist with a small ‘f’ not a capital one, just trying to raise awareness. But these stigmas are sticking and becoming a hindrance. We need to reclaim something but I don’t know what it is yet.”                                                                                                                                                                                    ... from Missen’s spoken word piece “It Doesn’t Matter” (2014)                Lana Missen’s work “That F Word” brings together a diverse community of self-identified feminists. Through portraiture and personal handwritten texts, various voices express ideas, feelings, and positions from within the movement. This project embraces those from different backgrounds and cultures, ranging from Zimbabw

We are going to contribute to  Global Performance Art Walk  From Gustaf Broms: DEAR ALL GLOBAL PERFORMANCE ART WALKERS...... A proposal for a joint action: Last year I made a five day walking project in Stockholm, Sweden. In its exhausted state this MIND started to think about :     my moving feet as the cause for the planet spinning,     like a hamster in the treadmill.     This image lingered on and became a question about, HOW WE CREATE REALITY ? The possibility - responsibility of our expression. If we had many bodies, in many places, that simultaneously made actions with intention WILL THIS AFFECT REALITY AND HOW WE PERCEIVE IT ? If you are interested in this type of exploration, making parallel actions - in time wherever your body might BE feel free to join. 4 TH - 10 TH OF MAY 2015 9-4 GMT Link -  https://www.facebook.com/groups/globalperformanceartwalks/ Please share your performances with us at:  https://www.facebook.com/WIAprojects

"Talking" performances and research were done individually and in outreach with others. One such "talking" research event  and performance (organised by Pam Patterson) evolved into an exhibition  HOW ARE U OCAD U?  opening April 15 at CWSE Gallery. Here we took stock of one learning community and recommended strategies for change.  The link to our OCADU talk project  is on Facebook at:   https://www.facebook.com/events/1547531022150255/

Info Graphic by Meaghan Barry Research/exhibition by undergraduate art and design education students. Curated by Meaghan Barry, OCADU. Facilitated by Pam Patterson, OCADU (Faculty) & Director WIAprojects, CWSE/OISE/UT April 15 - May 30, 2nd Floor CWSE Hallway Gallery, OISE/UT, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto. A community of art & design educators mounted a campaign inviting the OCADU community to assist them in re-imagining OCADU for the 21st C .  This action was an outgrowth of our deep curiosity about our own complicity in teaching and learning at OCADU. We wanted to open the Pandora’s Box and excavate the messiness. We all know that we need to dig deep and take risks in studio practice in order to push our work to stronger and richer iterations. But, how can we as educators do the same? How can we define OCADU as a community: Is it a place of/for community gathering(s)? What is its ethical grounding? What is its reason for being? How can we determine what le