Annie Wong

2024 Program Artist

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A photograph portrait of artist Annie Wong. She is an Asian woman with fair skin, dark hair tied into a bun, and dark rimmed glasses. She is wearing a black top and red fringed cardigan. She is looking into the camera. She is wearing red lipstick.

Annie Wong is an artist, writer, community organizer, and occasional curator. Wong’s practice is heavily collaborative and often engages communities through a collective form of carework as the basis for artistic production, allyship building, and spiritualism. She has widely exhibited across North America and has published poetry, art writing, and essays in various periodicals. She was formerly the inaugural Curator of Programming and Public Engagement at Gallery TPW; a member of Friends of Chinatown Toronto; and currently serves as on the board of Toronto Chinatown Land Trust.

Program

The self and the chaos

In this experimental choral workshop by artist Annie Wong, participants will be led through a series of contemplative and somatic exercises inspired by Audre Lorde’s essay, Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power. “The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.” — Audre […]

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date and time

September 28

1:00pm – 3:00pm

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.
A Choir of Demands and Desires of Repeat, Ada X with Suzanne Fernando, Rea Sweets, Ahreum Lee, Feliz Tupe, Yarijey Noomsson, Nadia Hammouda and Soukayna. Courtesy of Ada X (2019).
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