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  • May 30

    Curatorial Encounters 3

    Join us for the third edition of Curatorial Encounters. Exhibition Curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López will be joined by Jenn Goodwin, Curator of Public Programs, and Mary Kim, Senior Manager of Learning & Mediation, who will discuss both exhibition and programming curatorial through lines and how they will manifest in TBA’s public and […]

    Time

    6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Talk

    Workshop

    Location

    Collective Space

  • September 21 – December 1

    Storytelling at 32 Lisgar

    TBA’s Storytelling Program offers visitors of all ages new ways of engaging with the artworks presented in the Biennial by offering artist-led participatory sessions in the exhibition spaces.

    Time

    10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Storytelling

    Talk

    Walk

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • Storyteller Rebecca Flemister is leading a storytelling tour. She is black woman, with long curly hair, glasses, a black shirt, and grey pants. She is holding an iPad. She is sitting on the ground while others stand and sit around her. There are sticky notes on the floor - they are in the middle of an activity. Colourful illustrative artworks hang in the background.

    September 21 – December 1

    Storytelling at the Auto BLDG

    TBA’s Storytelling Program offers visitors of all ages new ways of engaging with the artworks presented in the Biennial by offering artist-led participatory sessions in the exhibition spaces.

    Time

    10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Storytelling

    Talk

    Walk

    Workshop

    Location

    The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

  • Taken from above, the photo is of different coloured construction paper cut into different shapes laid out in a table. They are glued together to make different symbols and art. Hands reach into the frame of the image. Scissors and glue are on the table.

    September 21

    VIBE Arts Family Days: Magical Bead Mandala

    VIBE Arts returns for the 2024 Biennial season to deliver fun, creative and interactive programming for intergenerational learners, families and caregivers in response to the exhibition artists and artworks.

    Time

    11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • A photo of a group of at least 40 people in a room, sitting in a large group and circle, listening to a smaller group of 6 people speaking. The room has a large mural on one wall.

    September 21

    Fresh Arts, Visual Arts: histories and legacies

    2024 Biennial artists Pamila Matharu and Winsom Winsom are joined by artist, activist, and academic d'bi.young anitafrika to discuss aspects of the histories and legacies of Fresh Arts, an artist-led mentorship program which was pivotal to the local community arts ecology in the 1990s.

    Time

    12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

    Talk

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • Two dancers, lisa nevada (left) and Emily Law (right), are on the floor, crouched in the middle of a movement. lisa has one knee on the floor, her body is tilted, and hands are open reaching towards the sky. Her head is tilted upwards similarly. Emily also has her head tilted upwards, with her body leaning sideways with her hand propping her body up for support. They are both wearing black clothing, joggers and hoodies. They are outside in a wooded green area, underneath a wooden gazebo.

    September 21

    With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held)

    Tanya Lukin Linklater leads a choreographic process in relation to plant life, weather, and our lived environments. Visitors are invited to witness this series of site-specific open rehearsals with invited dance artists.

    Time

    1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Performance

    Location

    High Park - Colborne Lodge Coach House

  • A photograph of a group of school children sitting in a large circle in the grass. They are in High Park, with many trees int he background. Their attention is on Melly Davidson, the facilitator, as she speaks to them.

    September 21 – September 22

    Storytelling Session with Melly Davidson: We are with. With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds

    Join artist, educator, and TBA 2022 Storyteller Melly Davidson for listening and learning activities in High Park to activate Tanya Lukin Linklater’s 2024 MAC tool We are with. With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds.

    Time

    1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Storytelling

    Talk

    Walk

    Workshop

    Location

    High Park - Colborne Lodge Coach House

  • September 21

    Opening Day Remarks

    Following the artist panel Fresh Arts, Visual Arts: histories and legacies (located in Winsom Winsom’s exhibition space) and before songs from the edges, join us for the official launch of the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art in Lisgar Park. This opening will feature remarks from Executive Director Patrizia Libralato, Curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López, […]

    Time

    1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

    Community Gathering

    Family Friendly

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • A photograph of the Gather Round Singers choir performing. In the foreground, a Black person with curly hair and wearing an orange shirt is seen smiling, holding and waving a large scarf attached to a paddle with a face drawn on it. In the background there are multiple people with multiple ages and abilities singing outwards to a crowd of people. Some are in movement, others are performing ASL, and others are sitting and singing. Many are wearing orange as well.

    September 21

    songs from the edges

    Presented with Jumblies Theatre’s Gather Round Singers and Suba Sankaran, songs from the edges is a performance featuring songs that explore stories about the various borders people cross throughout their lives.

    Time

    2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Performance

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • September 21

    Difference of a Shared Spirit

    Multi-instrumentalist Olivia Shortt and transmedia artist SA Smythe are invited to collaborate with 2024 TBA exhibition artist Maria Hupfield’s commission The Supernatural Powers of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan).

    Time

    4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Performance

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • Two dancers, lisa nevada (left) and Emily Law (right), are on the floor, crouched in the middle of a movement. lisa has one knee on the floor, her body is tilted, and hands are open reaching towards the sky. Her head is tilted upwards similarly. Emily also has her head tilted upwards, with her body leaning sideways with her hand propping her body up for support. They are both wearing black clothing, joggers and hoodies. They are outside in a wooded green area, underneath a wooden gazebo.

    September 22

    With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held)

    Tanya Lukin Linklater leads a choreographic process in relation to plant life, weather, and our lived environments. Visitors are invited to witness this series of site-specific open rehearsals with invited dance artists.

    Time

    1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Performance

    Location

    High Park - Colborne Lodge Coach House

  • Cristina Flores Pescorán at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands, 2023. Photography: Ruben Grande.

    September 22

    Touching the Whisper has the Sweetest Color

    Touching the Whisper has the Sweetest Color is a performative activation where artist Cristina Flores Pescorán will move threads of her textile to the rhythm of stories, poems, and feelings.

    Time

    1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

    Performance

    Location

    The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

  • September 22

    Exhibition Activation with Elina Waage Mikalsen

    Join us as TBA 2024 artist Elina Waage Mikalsen activates her exhibition artwork.

    Time

    1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

    Performance

    Location

    The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

  • September 22

    Artist Talk: Abraham O. Oghobase and Manuel Mathieu

    Artists Abraham O. Oghobase and Manuel Mathieu join Gallery TPW Curator Liz Ikiriko in conversation about their respective works Onoriode (Who knows tomorrow?) and Pendulum.

    Time

    3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

    Talk

    Location

    Gallery TPW

  • September 27 – November 29

    Storytelling at 32 Lisgar

    TBA’s Storytelling Program offers visitors of all ages new ways of engaging with the artworks presented in the Biennial by offering artist-led participatory sessions in the exhibition spaces.

    Time

    10:00 AM – 8:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Storytelling

    Talk

    Walk

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • Storyteller Rebecca Flemister is leading a storytelling tour. She is black woman, with long curly hair, glasses, a black shirt, and grey pants. She is holding an iPad. She is sitting on the ground while others stand and sit around her. There are sticky notes on the floor - they are in the middle of an activity. Colourful illustrative artworks hang in the background.

    September 27 – November 29

    Storytelling at the Auto BLDG

    TBA’s Storytelling Program offers visitors of all ages new ways of engaging with the artworks presented in the Biennial by offering artist-led participatory sessions in the exhibition spaces.

    Time

    12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Storytelling

    Talk

    Walk

    Workshop

    Location

    The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

  • A designed book cover. It has a back and front cover with a mustard yellow background and dark navy font.

    September 27

    TBA Publication Launch and Reading: Precarious Joys

    Join us as we launch the 2024 Biennial catalogue, Precarious Joys, co-published by the Toronto Biennial of Art, Art Metropole, and Goose Lane Editions and edited by curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López.

    Time

    5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

    Talk

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • In the foreground, Annie Wong is hunched over, her head hung, with her arms raised above. She is in movement, holding her glasses. In the background, several people stand in a choir next to music stands and mics. They are all wearing black.

    September 28

    The self and the chaos

    In homage to friendships fostered through feminist practices, this experimental choral workshop will honour the power of the erotic as imagined in Audre Lorde’s essay, "Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power".

    Time

    1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • October 2

    Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response

    For the duration of the exhibition Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, an invited dance artist will perform in the gallery, prompted by the sounds and visual elements of Boyce's installation.

    Time

    7:00 PM – 7:30 PM

    Performance

    Location

    Art Gallery of Ontario

  • October 3

    MOSSBELLY: A Workshop

    In this movement-based workshop led by Angela, participants will experience her embodied practices in connecting with the more-than-human world.

    Time

    4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    Hart House

  • A photograph of a group of people walking across the street together on The Esplanade in Toronto. Buildings and condos can be seen in the background.

    October 4

    Curatorial Encounters 4 | Precarious Joys: The East End Tour

    For the last Curatorial Encounters, we celebrate the opening of the Biennial with a two-part public tour by TBA curators, highlighting the impact that the Biennial artists have on Toronto.

    Time

    5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Talk

    Walk

    Location

    Toronto Sculpture Garden

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • A photo of a person with brown skin, dark hair pushed back, a white top, and gold jewellery working with a small piece of soft clay in their hands. The table they are working at has a tattered cloth, spray bottle, bowl of water, and paint brushes.

    October 5

    Andbothwith a Gift: A Ceramic Workshop

    This workshop led by Misbah Ahmed offers an opportunity to explore ceramic hand-building and surface design techniques inspired by the artist Pamila Matharu.

    Time

    1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • Taken from above, the photo is of different coloured construction paper cut into different shapes laid out in a table. They are glued together to make different symbols and art. Hands reach into the frame of the image. Scissors and glue are on the table.

    October 6

    VIBE Arts Family Days: Autumn Mini Acrylic Painting

    VIBE Arts returns for the 2024 Biennial season to deliver fun, creative and interactive programming for intergenerational learners, families and caregivers in response to the exhibitions artists and artworks.

    Time

    11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • October 10

    MOSSBELLY: A Workshop

    In this movement-based workshop led by Angela, participants will experience her embodied practices in connecting with the more-than-human world.

    Time

    4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    Hart House

  • A photo taken from above of various items on a table with a beige table cloth. Including: red grapes in a white bowl on a red plaid cloth, green and brown pears, mugs and glasses with coloured paint water, paint brushes, papers with paintings in various stages of completeness, and paper paint palettes with various bright drops of colours.

    October 12

    Joyful Still Lives

    In this workshop with artist Laura Dawe, participants will paint still lifes, grounding themselves in the present moment together.

    Time

    12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • October 12

    Notes to Belonging: An Adaptation

    In this timely and poignant performance, director, playwright and scholar Jaye Austin Williams introduces a live stage adaptation of poet Dionne Brand’s renowned non-fiction book, “A Map to the Door of No Return.”

    Time

    7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Performance

    Location

    The Power Plant

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • October 17

    MOSSBELLY

    An intergenerational performance and choreographic meditation on our human connection to land, plant life, nature and time.

    Time

    6:00 PM – 7:15 PM

    Performance

    Location

    The Music Gallery

  • October 18

    Honouring Embodied Wisdom

    In this workshop facilitated by artist Shay Erlich, participants are invited to rediscover their bodies and experiences through the lens of disability justice and learning, particularly as sites of wisdom and information.

    Time

    6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    The Bentway Studio

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • Taken from above, the photo is of different coloured construction paper cut into different shapes laid out in a table. They are glued together to make different symbols and art. Hands reach into the frame of the image. Scissors and glue are on the table.

    October 20

    VIBE Arts Family Days: Mixed Media and Collage Making Inspired by the Toronto Biennial of Art

    VIBE Arts returns for the 2024 Biennial season to deliver fun, creative and interactive programming for intergenerational learners, families and caregivers in response to the exhibitions artists and artworks.

    Time

    11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • October 20

    MOSSBELLY

    An intergenerational performance and choreographic meditation on our human connection to land, plant life, nature and time.

    Time

    4:00 PM – 5:15 PM

    Performance

    Location

    The Music Gallery

  • October 22

    MOSSBELLY

    An intergenerational performance and choreographic meditation on our human connection to land, plant life, nature and time.

    Time

    5:00 PM – 6:15 PM

    Performance

    Location

    The Music Gallery

  • A photograph of a group of people walking together down a tree-lined dock. They are wearing winter jackets.

    October 25

    Curatorial Encounters 4 | Precarious Joys: The West End Tour

    For the last Curatorial Encounters, we celebrate the opening of the Biennial with a two-part public tour by TBA curators highlighting the impact that the Biennial artists have on Toronto.

    Time

    5:00 PM – 7:30 PM

    Talk

    Walk

    Location

    Gallery TPW

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • October 26

    Scent of Thunderbolts: Family Portrait Sessions

    Karen Tam and Toronto-based photographer May Truong invite members of Chinese-Canadian communities in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area to participate in a family photoshoot within Karen’s installation.

    Time

    1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Community Gathering

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • A photograph of Starlight Chinese Opera performing on a stage. There are thirteen performers, a majority of them children, dressed in bright costumes of white, red, and blue. Their faces are painted. Many of them are in the middle of dance or expressive motions. The backdrop is a painted illustration of the waters edge with many colourful plants in deep blue water.

    October 26

    Scent of Thunderbolts: A Cantonese Opera Experience & Workshop

    Experience the vivid history and enduring contemporary presence of Cantonese Opera in this workshop with Starlight Chinese Performing Arts Centre in conjunction with Karen Tam’s installation Scent of Thunderbolts.

    Time

    4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    Performance

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • October 27

    Scent of Thunderbolts: Family Portrait Sessions

    Karen Tam and Toronto-based photographer May Truong invite members of Chinese-Canadian communities in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area to participate in a family photoshoot within Karen’s installation.

    Time

    1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Community Gathering

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • November 2

    Container for a Vessel: resourcing nervous system healing

    In this workshop, artist Zahra Komeylian invites participants to engage with practices of listening and tuning for resetting nervous system dysregulation.

    Time

    10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • Taken from above, the photo is of different coloured construction paper cut into different shapes laid out in a table. They are glued together to make different symbols and art. Hands reach into the frame of the image. Scissors and glue are on the table.

    November 3

    VIBE Arts Family Days: Mini Monotype Printmaking

    VIBE Arts returns for the 2024 Biennial season to deliver fun, creative and interactive programming for intergenerational learners, families and caregivers in response to the exhibitions artists and artworks.

    Time

    11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

    Family Friendly

    Workshop

    Location

    32 Lisgar St and Park

  • November 6

    Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response

    For the duration of the exhibition Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, an invited dance artist will perform in the gallery, prompted by the sounds and visual elements of Boyce's installation.

    Time

    7:00 PM – 7:30 PM

    Performance

    Location

    Art Gallery of Ontario

  • November 7

    Six Turntables

    Presented at the end of an intensive workshop series, Six Turntables is an open rehearsal to witness processes and outcomes of deep listening, collective composing, and experimental turntablism.

    Time

    5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

    Community Gathering

    Performance

    Location

    Hart House

  • November 8

    Words echo and gather strength

    TBA and C Magazine present a series of workshops that lift language and ideas “off the page.” Participants will be invited to develop approaches to expressions of voice in multiple mediums.

    Time

    12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

  • November 14

    MOSSBELLY: DanceAge Workshop

    Led by Kate Nankervis, this workshop invites a group of intergenerational adults to dance together, creating a space to embody questions around movement and age.

    Time

    6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    Hart House

  • Two photographs, side by side, of a building in Toronto's Chinatown at two different moments in time. On the left, the building has signage for Rol Jul Restaurant. On the right, it is for Good Brother BBQ. The building is red brick and situated between two others.

    November 14

    In Conversation: Morris Lum & Arlene Chan | Chinatown In Photos

    2024 Biennial artist Morris Lum is joined by Chinese Canadian Historian Arlene Chan, and architect and professor Linda Zhang, for an intimate conversation that brings together the history of Toronto’s Chinatowns.

    Time

    7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

    Talk

    Location

    North York Central Library, Toronto Public Library

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • November 15

    Words echo and gather strength

    TBA and C Magazine present a series of workshops that lift language and ideas “off the page.” Participants will be invited to develop approaches to expressions of voice in multiple mediums.

    Time

    12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

  • November 16

    the ties that Bind Us, the ties that Bond Us

    Led by Nickeshia Garrick, this workshop will be an embodied exploration of the bonds that physically and emotionally bind our lived experiences by inviting participants to unearth their inner storyteller.

    Time

    1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    The Power Plant Art Gallery

    Ticket

    Tickets Required

  • November 21

    MOSSBELLY: DanceAge Workshop

    Led by Kate Nankervis, this workshop invites a group of intergenerational adults to dance together, creating a space to embody questions around movement and age.

    Time

    2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Workshop

    Location

    Hart House

  • November 22

    Words echo and gather strength

    TBA and C Magazine present a series of workshops that lift language and ideas “off the page.” Participants will be invited to develop approaches to expressions of voice in multiple mediums.

    Time

    12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

  • Justine A. Chambers, a mixed-race Black woman, and Laurie Young, an Asian woman, stand against a white curtain backdrop. Justine is wearing a white dress shirt and dark slacks. Laurie is wearing a sleeveless white dress shirt, suspenders, and blue slacks. Both of them have their arms raised, one arm reaching up over the other. Their gazes are wayward.

    November 28

    One Hundred More

    One Hundred More is a performance urgently informed by our current socio-political climate and is centred on an iconic gesture of resistance.

    Time

    8:00 PM – 9:00 PM

    Performance

  • Justine A. Chambers, a mixed-race Black woman, and Laurie Young, an Asian woman, stand against a white curtain backdrop. Justine is wearing a white dress shirt and dark slacks. Laurie is wearing a sleeveless white dress shirt, suspenders, and blue slacks. Both of them have their arms raised, one arm reaching up over the other. Their gazes are wayward.

    November 29

    One Hundred More (featuring a talkback moderated by Seika Boye)

    One Hundred More is a performance urgently informed by our current socio-political climate and is centred on an iconic gesture of resistance.

    Time

    8:00 PM – 9:30 PM

    Performance

  • November 30

    Love Songs to End Colonization

    Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the […]

    Time

    8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

    Community Gathering

    Performance

  • December 4

    Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response

    For the duration of the exhibition Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, an invited dance artist will perform in the gallery, prompted by the sounds and visual elements of Boyce's installation.

    Time

    7:00 PM – 7:30 PM

    Performance

    Location

    Art Gallery of Ontario

  • February 5

    Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response

    For the duration of the exhibition Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, an invited dance artist will perform in the gallery, prompted by the sounds and visual elements of Boyce's installation.

    Time

    7:00 PM – 7:30 PM

    Performance

    Location

    Art Gallery of Ontario

  • March 5

    Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response

    For the duration of the exhibition Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, an invited dance artist will perform in the gallery, prompted by the sounds and visual elements of Boyce's installation.

    Time

    7:00 PM – 7:30 PM

    Performance

    Location

    Art Gallery of Ontario