WIAprojects

 Feminist arts-informed community-based action research!  Candace Wilkins  is our arts informed research resident at WIAprojects this coming year April 2016-17. She has posted a gofundme campaign to raise funds for an arts informed community based  initiative focused in  Belleville, updates and information on her project are below. We look forward to her continuing work with us this coming year!   Candace's Project:  NEXTDOOR is an inclusive arts-based group in  downtown  Belleville,  Ontario  that promotes   c reativity,  poetry,  the p ractice  of  loving  kindness  meditation,  non-­judgment  and  compassion . The goal of NEXTDOOR is to support  mental health by creating a safe space where individuals can come together on a weekly basis.  This program is accessible with no cost to the participants. This  group  is...

May 02 – July 1st, 2016 Opening: May 02, 5.30 - 6.30pm Informal Discussion with Artist: 6pm CWSE Hallway Gallery 2nd Floor, OISE 252 Bloor Street West (Bloor & St George) Images by Joanna Black Winnipeg artist/researcher Joanna Black explores prejudice in academia in   Sex/ism: ECHoes & ‘ReVERBS’  @  Ivory Towers .  The abundance of articles and reports about longstanding persistent sexist problems in our universities informed the content of this work. For this exhibition in particular, attention has been given to the University of Toronto (U of T). Sexism at U of T was established in the university’s founding year, 1850. Its illustrious professor and president John McCaul firmly exclaimed at the time that the university doors would never be open to women in his day! (Canadian Encyclopedia, 2016). Even though the doors have been opened – and indeed during his day no less! – today’s glass ceiling remains intact: existent sexi...

Come check out some amazing designers speak about the historical and contemporary graphic design from the Women's Movement in Toronto! About the panelists: Frieda Forman: Frieda Forman established the Women's Educational Resources Centre at OISE and has worked with the CWSE for nearly twenty-five years. Frieda's central research and writing interests have focused on the various manifestations of feminism and the women’s movement. Sarah Dugan: Sarah Dugan is a queer aspiring art director, practicing graphic designer, and intersectional activist. She completed her Bachelor of Design at Alberta College of Art + Design in 2012, and is nearing the completion of her Master of Design from York University. Sarah’s work explores the role of graphic design as an agent for social change. Suzanne Stein: Suzanne is a Foresight Analyst, Mentor, and Educator. She is the Lab Director of DMRII’s Super Ordinary and a member of OCAD U’s Digital Futures Office (established in 2009)...

What’s our story that needs to be told, or be heard?  For centuries we, the people of African Descent and our ancestors, have been listening to and enduring the traumatic stereotypes, misrepresentations and misappropriations of our histories. This International Women’s Day Forum encourages our fellow women of African Descent to come together to share our stories and experiences through our traditional forms of expressions, styles and production in the fine arts, orally (literature and spoken word), dance and music.  The CWSE is co-sponsoring this event with WIAprojects' Associate  Director,  writer, artist and women's activist, Mary Wright.   For further information on this event, please see the poster below or contact the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at:  cwse@utoronto.ca  or telephone 416-978-2080 or 416-769-4397.  

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   f...

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 Forma...

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.”                                                                                                                                                                  ...