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nov02Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

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At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov02Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

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Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov02Container for a Vessel: resourcing nervous system healing10:30 am - 12:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:andbothwith_lively adjacencies + proximal intimaciesType:Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

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Event Details

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

Our bodies record resonances of collective pain as exhaustion and trauma in the nervous system. In the face of global catastrophe and ongoing grief, building capacity in the body opens space to sustain collective action, empathy, and relationality, rather than collapse. Participants will play with polyvagal exercises, deep listening, movement, and explore resourcing practices for building felt somatic safety.

Note:

  • This program has a limited capacity. Register via Eventbrite.
  • Participants are encouraged to arrive and settle at 10am, wear comfortable clothing, and bring water to drink. Water will also be provided on site.

This Program is part of andbothwith_lively adjacencies + proximal intimacies a series of Public Programs taking place in and around Pamila Matharu’s installation tere naal | with you:

In the spirit of community-engaged place-making and liberatory practices that centre relational healing, artists and thinkers are invited to invoke, inspire and conjure solidarity-building through conversations, activations, and workshops. Pamila offers this series as an śaradhān̄jalī (homage) to her mentor, artist Winsom Winsom, honouring their on-going relationship with each other as artists and teachers.

Organizer

Zahra Komeylian

nov03Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov03Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov03VIBE Arts Family Days: Mini Monotype Printmaking11:00 am - 4:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Type:Family Friendly,Workshop

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.

Time

(Sunday) 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

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Event Details

VIBE Arts returns for the 2024 Biennial season for fun, creative and interactive programming for intergenerational learners, families and caregivers in response to the exhibitions artists and artworks at TBA’s 32 Lisgar Street location. VIBE artists will deliver free, drop-in, public art-making programs to visitors throughout our VIBE Family Days. All programs will be led by an Arts Educator to facilitate a platform to engage in creativity and express shared lived experiences.

VIBE will be present at our opening day festivities on September 21 at Lisgar Park (32 Lisgar Street), and every other Sunday at the same location (weather permitting) ongoing to November 3rd. In inclement weather, Family Days will occur indoors at 32 Lisgar Street. To view these additional Programs, please visit the What’s On page or “Related Programming” below.

This program is drop-in between 11:00am and 4:00pm.

This program is presented in partnership with VIBE Arts.

VIBE Arts is a charity providing arts education and professional artistic mentorship to the next generation of creatives. Established in 1995, VIBE seeks to increase access and equity to the arts to encourage wellness, resilience and a sense of belonging.

Image credit: VIBE Arts Family Days at 72 Perth Avenue. Toronto Biennial of Art, 2022. Photography: Kesang Nanglu.

Organizer

Astrid Ho

nov03Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle12:30 pm - 2:30 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Type:Storytelling,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

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Event Details

Join Storytellers Jingshu and Siki every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity!

Schedule:

  • 12:30pm: Meet inside Pamila Matharu’s installation, tere naal _ with you (2024), where Jingshu and Siki will start their tour of the exhibition, highlighting a selection of artworks and artists to inspire the following writing session.
  • 1:30-2:30pm: Following the tour, Jingshu and Siki will facilitate a drop-in writing session. After some quiet time for writing, participants will be encouraged to share in a casual discussion, depending on their comfort level.

Everyone is welcome and no prior creative writing experience is required. This program does not require registration and those interested are free to drop in at any time. Writing materials will be provided.

Image credit: Storytelling in Pamila Matharu’s installation tere naal _ with you (2024) at 32 Lisgar St, 2024. Photography: Jingshu Yao.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov03Eating the Archive: flatbreads as embodied histories3:00 pm - 5:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Type:Community Gathering,Talk

Time

(Sunday) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

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Event Details

Artist Sameer Farooq and food writer, researcher, and photographer Naomi Duguid invite you to participate in a collective conversation to share stories, food, and experiences at the site of Sameer’s artwork for TBA 2024, Flatbread Library.

Participants will be able to listen and share stories grounded in the history, resiliency and transgressive nature of flatbreads while sampling a wide selection of flatbreads from diasporic bakeries across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The Flatbread Library is a continuation of Sameer’s practice exploring reciprocal relationships between a viewer’s body and an object as a site for alternative archives. The library creates a sculptural map of the city through its flatbreads produced in a number of bakeries across the GTA. Considered a deep metaphor for migration by Sameer, flatbread—in their multiplicities—allow for us to take a closer look at “a world heritage that is defined by conviviality, invention, and creation rather than regionalism and nationalism.”

Please join us for this very special program. Capacity is limited. Register via Eventbrite.

Image credit: Photography: Viara Mileva. Courtesy of the artist.

Organizer

Naomi Duguid

nov06FEELING HER WAY: DANCER RESPONSE7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4Stream:Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of InquiryType:Performance

Time

(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

Art Gallery of Ontario

317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4

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Event Details

The series Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response begins on November 6, 2024.

On each of the First Wednesday Night Free programs 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.

Performances are improvised and approximately 30 minutes in duration.
Register through the Art Gallery of Ontario.

This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

 

This program is presented in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario during the exhibition of Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way. The Canadian presentation of Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way is initiated and organized by the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art.

Organizer

Andrea Nann

nov07Six Turntables5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Hart House, 7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3Type:Community Gathering,Performance

Time

(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Hart House

7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3

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Event Details

This program takes place in the Hart House Debates Room, located on the main floor of the building, near the building’s west entrance (located on Tower Road).

Six Turntables is a series of experimental music/sound workshops with youth participants that has been organized by Christopher Willes, in collaboration with Akash Bansal, in various neighbourhoods in Toronto since 2017. In each session, a group of young artists is brought together to listen to, reflect on and remix recordings of 1970s “Canadian” avant-garde music found in the vinyl record collections of the Toronto Reference Library, the Music Gallery Editions, and the Canadian Music Centre. Using turntables, amplifiers, and custom-made vinyl records participants develop techniques for physically transforming fragments of the archive into new sonic compositions together. Through a facilitated process that blends somatic practice, sound-making and listening exercises, writing and dialog, the workshops explore practices of collective listening that treat records not as commodity objects but as shared experiences.

This iteration is a three day workshop with students from the University of Toronto. The workshops will conclude with an open rehearsal event in which members of the public are invited to witness elements of processes and outcomes, durationally and experimentally, with the facilitators and workshop participants. We invite visitors to witness this ongoing outcome and turntablism in effect.

Note: This program is drop-in. Registration is not required.

Six Turntables presented in partnership with Hart House and developed with support from Public Recordings, the Canadian Music Centre, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Toronto Arts Council – Artists in the Library Program (2017-23) on the occasion of TBA 2024.

Project by Christopher Willes
Created in collaboration with Akash Bansal (dramaturge and co-facilitator)
Special thank you to past participants/performers: Aliyah Aziz, Jada Fleming, Julianna Angheloni, Ky Gray, Nikki Gilani, Will Carriere, Gian Caracciolo, Gianluca Occhipinti, James Wells, Jason Li, Lucas McCarten, Maria Patricia Abuel, Taggart Quinn, Ximuna Diego, and Nanthini Namasti
Custom vinyl records fabricated by Jackson Darby (Personal Touch Vinyl)

Organizer

Akash Bansal

nov08Storytelling at the Auto BLDG12:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Friday) 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

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Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov08The Question6:00 pm - 8:30 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:Words echo and gather strengthType:Workshop

Time

(Friday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

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Event Details

How do we try to ask more and deeper questions? Let’s generate and be with some unanswerable or difficult questions and allow what’s latent or nascent in us to surface. Let’s invite the guidance of our not-knowing.

The workshop, led by Aisha Sasha John, will invite participants to gather in four parts:
a) an intensive question-writing period;
b) question selection and exchange;
c) being with questions; and
d) discussion

Note: Capacity is limited. Please Register to secure your spot.

This series of artist-led workshops consider how expressions of voice operate “off the page” to explore the world-shaping power of narrative, which continues to be urgent amidst ongoing colonial violences. Participants will experiment with the influence of language, media, and art on how stories and knowledge are acted upon, shaped, and recorded. Through a lens of embodied and collective critical practices, these workshops ask: How do we seek the difficult questions? How do we recuperate images from the gazes of their uncomfortable archives? How can visual print media and protest intervene in everyday life, through web-like ways? How does your voice influence your surroundings?

This program is co-produced in partnership with C Magazine.

Organizer

Aisha Sasha John

nov09Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov09Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov10Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov10Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov10Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle12:30 pm - 2:30 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Type:Storytelling,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

Join Storytellers Jingshu and Siki every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity!

Schedule:

  • 12:30pm: Meet inside Pamila Matharu’s installation, tere naal _ with you (2024), where Jingshu and Siki will start their tour of the exhibition, highlighting a selection of artworks and artists to inspire the following writing session.
  • 1:30-2:30pm: Following the tour, Jingshu and Siki will facilitate a drop-in writing session. After some quiet time for writing, participants will be encouraged to share in a casual discussion, depending on their comfort level.

Everyone is welcome and no prior creative writing experience is required. This program does not require registration and those interested are free to drop in at any time. Writing materials will be provided.

Image credit: Storytelling in Pamila Matharu’s installation tere naal _ with you (2024) at 32 Lisgar St, 2024. Photography: Jingshu Yao.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov13Artists and Curator in Conversation | Ikumagialiit – ᐃᑯᒪᒋᐊᓖᑦ (those that need fire): Aatooq (full of blood)6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Type:Online Event,Talk

Time

(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Event Details

Join us for an engaging discussion featuring TBA 2024 Curator Dominique Fontaine and members of the Ikumagialiit collective as they explore their groundbreaking exhibition, Aatooq. This conversation will offer deep insights into the creative process and thematic elements of the exhibition, showcasing the collective’s innovative approach.

This program is co-presented with The Image Centre.

Note: This program will take place online via Zoom. Register for the program via the link to the right.

Image credit: AATOOQ (Full of Blood), film still. A film by Ikumagialiit Performance Art Band: Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Cris Derksen, Jamie Griffiths, Christine Tootoo.

Organizer

Ikumagialiit

nov14MOSSBELLY: DanceAge Workshop6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Hart House, 7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3Stream:Keeping TimeType:Workshop

Time

(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Hart House

7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3

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Event Details

The workshop on Thursday, November 14 will take place in the Music Room (located on the second floor) and the workshop on Friday, November 22 will take place in the East Common Room (located on the first floor).

This workshop invites a group of intergenerational adults to dance together, creating a space to embody questions: How do we dance through inevitable transitions of ageing, whatever age you are? What can the ageing body teach us between generations? What does it need from us, and how can it support us in the society we live in?

Intergenerational spaces are among the oldest forms of learning and development across cultures. This workshop honours this tradition, beginning with meditation, grounding stretches and gentle breathing exercises to foster ease and mobility. Through creative movement guidance, participants will Dance while practicing intergenerational empathy, fostering understanding, connection and joy.

This inclusive workshop is open to individuals of all backgrounds, including participants with disabilities and those using mobility aids such as walkers, canes, and wheelchairs. No prior dance experience is needed. Join us in a supportive environment where we can explore and celebrate the wisdom and vitality of the ageing body together.

Note: Participants are not required, but are encouraged, to attend both workshops. See “Related Programming” below for more information.

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

This program is part of Keeping Time, a workshop series that centres embodied learning by inviting intergenerational audiences of all abilities to pay special attention to time, space and movement through somatic learning and unlearning.

This program is presented in partnership with Hart House and the Institute for Dance Studies.

Organizer

Kate Nankervis

nov14In Conversation: Morris Lum & Arlene Chan | Chinatown In Photos7:00 pm - 8:15 pm North York Central Library, Toronto Public Library, 5120 Yonge StreetType:Talk

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.

Time

(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Location

North York Central Library, Toronto Public Library

5120 Yonge Street

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Event Details

2024 Biennial artist Morris Lum is joined by Chinese Canadian Historian Arlene Chan, and architect and professor Linda Zhang, for an intimate conversation tracing the history of Toronto’s first Chinatown (located near present day City Hall) and the transition to its current location at Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West. This discussion will utilize storytelling and photographs to expand on Lum’s and Chan’s respective practices as stewards of Chinese immigration history in Canada through an intimate look at Chinatown(s) in Toronto and Canada.

Note: This Program will be located in the Concourse Event Space at the North York Central Library and has a limited capacity. Register via Eventbrite.

This program is presented in partnership with the Toronto Public Library and is a part of their signature Salon Series, where they host local and international authors, artists and thinkers in conversation about their new books and big ideas. It is also part of TPL’s Asian Heritage series, generously supported by TD Bank Group, through the TD Ready Commitment. This program is made possible through the generous support of Eleanor & Francis Shen and Partners in Art.

Image credit: Rol Jul Restaurant, 2019 and Four Brothers BBQ, 2024. Photography: Morris Lum.

Organizer

nov15Storytelling at the Auto BLDG12:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Friday) 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov16Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov16Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov16the ties that Bind Us, the ties that Bond Us1:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Power Plant Art Gallery, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON M5J 2B8Stream:Keeping TimeType:Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location

The Power Plant Art Gallery

231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON M5J 2B8

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Event Details

Led by Nickeshia Garrick, this workshop will be an embodied exploration of the bonds that physically and emotionally bind lived experiences. This workshop speaks to the relationships in proximity to Blackness, which have unfortunately been forcibly bound to colonization, enslavement, and scarcity mindsets. However, the relationships we choose to build with ourselves and each other (within the diaspora) — despite these shared ancestral traumas and lived experiences — bond us in resilience, empathy, awareness, and a deep desire/need for love.

Participants are invited to explore these experiences and perceptions of the world through shared pasts and present connectivities or crossings. Together, participants will unearth their inner storyteller through embodied memories surrounding the five senses (touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound) by utilizing voice, body, pen, paper, and rope. Participants who have a movement-based practice or are looking to explore the use of movement and voice are encouraged to attend. However, no experience is necessary to attend this open workshop.

Note:

  • This program has a limited capacity. Register via Eventbrite.
  • Drop-in participants are welcomed to participate.

This program is part of Keeping Time, a workshop series that centres embodied learning by inviting intergenerational audiences of all abilities to pay special attention to time, space and movement through somatic learning and unlearning.

This program is co-produced with DanceWorks, as part of the DanceWorks Emerging-to-Mid-Career Fellowship, and dance Immersion. This program is made possible through the generous support of the Lindy Green Family Foundation.

Image credit: Nickeshia Garrick, To My Past, Present and Future hosted by Jamii Esplanade, 2023. Photography: Jae Yang.

Organizer

Nickeshia Garrick

nov16Memex Room: Reindexing the Archive7:00 pm - 9:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:Words echo and gather strengthType:Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

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Event Details

In this multidimensional performance workshop, participants are invited to annotate photographs of subjects in an archive, responding to the prompt “What do you see?” through the web-based platform Archive Reindex Archive (ARA) (2022–2024). ARA is only accessible to participants of Memex Room, a workshop series where annotations are collected in real time. By becoming active annotators, participants crash, merge, and congregate language within/around images. This is the second iteration of Memex Room. Past participants can also annotate from afar during the course of the performance workshop.

Created by the artists, ARA presents photographs from post-WWII (1945–1955) issues of National Geographic Magazine on an interactive world map. Images are further obscured by dark fungus-like layers—these form inversed saliency maps of machine vision, which deliberately omit “common objects” on which the AI is trained. ARA unearths archived remnants of the aftermath of WWII—“expeditious” human movements of colonization and imperialization, as well as the global disparities between raw materials, human resources, and capital.

These contemporary annotations strive to correct, question, and confront the uncomfortable gazes and the given semiotic relationships in the archive to bring a collective means of slow, gentle recuperation to those subject to alterity. The performance workshop will be accompanied by a live prosodic sonic performance comprising “artificial” voices who utter a hypo-text assembled from the archive and collected annotations.

Note:

  • Participants are required to bring their own laptop.
  • A second option for the Memex Room (Studio Edition) will be hosted by the artists on November 17 and is also available for registration via the Registration Button (please choose one date).

 

Additional credits:
Created by Ivetta Sunyoung Kang and Kii Kang
Conceived by Ivetta Sunyoung Kang
Web Design and Development by Kii Kang
PREDATOR by Günen
Project Assistant by Kyeonglin Park
Live sound performance by Kii Kang
Hypo-text by Ivetta Sunyoung Kang and Günen
Special thanks to Siri Lee Lindskrog and Minhwan Kim

This series of artist-led workshops consider how expressions of voice operate “off the page” to explore the world-shaping power of narrative, which continues to be urgent amidst ongoing colonial violences. Participants will experiment with the influence of language, media, and art on how stories and knowledge are acted upon, shaped, and recorded. Through a lens of embodied and collective critical practices, these workshops ask: How do we seek the difficult questions? How do we recuperate images from the gazes of their uncomfortable archives? How can visual print media and protest intervene in everyday life, through web-like ways? How does your voice influence your surroundings?

This program is co-produced in partnership with C Magazine. The project has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Artists. The artists would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Organizer

Ivetta Sunyoung Kang

nov17Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov17Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov17Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle12:30 pm - 2:30 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Type:Storytelling,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

Join Storytellers Jingshu and Siki every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity!

Schedule:

  • 12:30pm: Meet inside Pamila Matharu’s installation, tere naal _ with you (2024), where Jingshu and Siki will start their tour of the exhibition, highlighting a selection of artworks and artists to inspire the following writing session.
  • 1:30-2:30pm: Following the tour, Jingshu and Siki will facilitate a drop-in writing session. After some quiet time for writing, participants will be encouraged to share in a casual discussion, depending on their comfort level.

Everyone is welcome and no prior creative writing experience is required. This program does not require registration and those interested are free to drop in at any time. Writing materials will be provided.

Image credit: Storytelling in Pamila Matharu’s installation tere naal _ with you (2024) at 32 Lisgar St, 2024. Photography: Jingshu Yao.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov17Sounding Time: An Introduction to Tap Dance and Jazz Culture2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Roncesvalles United Church, 214 Wright AveStream:Keeping TimeType:Workshop

A photograph of Travis Knights performing on stage. He is a Black man with dark skin, bald, with light facial hair. He is wearing a black suit and tap shoes. He is smiling, with his head back, fingers snapping, and legs crossed in motion. A white man, bald and wearing a black suit, is playing a double bass in the background. Also in the background is a Black man, with short dreads and wearing a black suit, sitting on a stool and playing a trumpet.

Time

(Sunday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Roncesvalles United Church

214 Wright Ave

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Event Details

This program will take place in the Middle Room of the Roncesvalles United Church.

Internationally recognized and award winning Tap Dance artist, Travis Knights will share his passion of jazz culture, and its history as a language that transcends the spoken word and rhythm.

Through the lens of jazz history from the Harlem Renaissance, Travis will connect participants to themselves and each other through the language of music, movement, and rhythm. This workshop will feature live musical accompaniment. All are welcome. If you like to clap your hands, tap your toes, or create rhythm with your body, this workshop is for you. No prior experience is necessary. Comfortable clothing and footwear is encouraged.

Note: Capacity is limited. Please register to secure your spot.

This program is part of Keeping Time, a workshop series that centres embodied learning by inviting intergenerational audiences of all abilities to pay special attention to time, space and movement through somatic learning and unlearning.

This program is co-produced with dance Immersion.

 

Image credit: Travis Knights performing. Photography: ES Cheah.

Organizer

Travis Knights

nov20TIFF Next Wave Presents: Kuessipan6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson Family Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St WType:Screening,Talk

Time

(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson Family Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox

350 King St W

more

Event Details

November is Indigenous Education Month at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). To commemorate this month, TBA is thrilled to co-present Myriam Verreault’s debut narrative feature Kuessipan with TIFF Next Wave and TIFF Community Impact, in collaboration with TDSB Arts Co-op and the Urban Indigenous Education Centre. Following the screening, join us for an onstage conversation about creative collaboration, self-representation, and intercultural relationships with Arts Co-op educators, mentors, and students.

Arts Co-op has a visual and media arts focus and is run by the TDSB Arts Department in partnership with the Urban Indigenous Education Centre. Indigenous and non-Indigenous students from across the board come together to create artwork that reflects their own lived experiences and contribute to the reconciliation process.

The Urban Indigenous Education Centre at the Toronto District School Board is dedicated to enhancing First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students’ well-being and achievement and creating opportunities for Indigenous Education.

This program is co-presented with TIFFin collaboration with TDSB Arts Co-op and the Urban Indigenous Education Centre. With special thanks to POV Film.

Image credit: Myriam Verreault, Kuessipan (still). Courtesy of TIFF.

nov22Storytelling at the Auto BLDG12:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Friday) 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov22MOSSBELLY: DanceAge Workshop2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Hart House, 7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3Stream:Keeping TimeType:Workshop

Time

(Friday) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Hart House

7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3

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Event Details

The workshop on Thursday, November 14 will take place in the Music Room (located on the second floor) and the workshop on Friday, November 22 will take place in the East Common Room (located on the first floor).

This workshop invites a group of intergenerational adults to dance together, creating a space to embody questions: How do we dance through inevitable transitions of ageing, whatever age you are? What can the ageing body teach us between generations? What does it need from us, and how can it support us in the society we live in?

Intergenerational spaces are among the oldest forms of learning and development across cultures. This workshop honours this tradition, beginning with meditation, grounding stretches and gentle breathing exercises to foster ease and mobility. Through creative movement guidance, participants will Dance while practicing intergenerational empathy, fostering understanding, connection and joy.

This inclusive workshop is open to individuals of all backgrounds, including participants with disabilities and those using mobility aids such as walkers, canes, and wheelchairs. No prior dance experience is needed. Join us in a supportive environment where we can explore and celebrate the wisdom and vitality of the ageing body together.

Note: Participants are not required, but are encouraged, to attend both workshops. See “Related Programming” below for more information.

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

This program is part of Keeping Time, a workshop series that centres embodied learning by inviting intergenerational audiences of all abilities to pay special attention to time, space and movement through somatic learning and unlearning.

This program is presented in partnership with Hart House and the Institute for Dance Studies.

Organizer

Kate Nankervis

nov23Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov23Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov23Visual Language for Social Change: Lino-Cut Printmaking12:00 pm - 3:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:Words echo and gather strengthType:Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

In this skill-building workshop, participants will explore how art and impactful visual language amplify social movements. Participants will make their own media, inspired by the history of: zines, wheatpasting, and related democratic multiples produced in the context of queer, trans, Black, and Indigenous liberation movements, and their intersections with local and international struggles against imperialist, settler colonial, ableist, and capitalist violence.

Over the course of the workshop, participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of relief printmaking, including carving techniques, positive and negative space, and inking. Participants will work in groups to brainstorm visual imagery used for social movements of their choosing. They will then carve their own stamps and share their created visual symbols with each other to make posters. Participants can take their stamps home, so that they can make prints and intervene in public space in perpetuity.

Note: Capacity is limited. Please Register to secure your spot.

This series of artist-led workshops consider how expressions of voice operate “off the page” to explore the world-shaping power of narrative, which continues to be urgent amidst ongoing colonial violences. Participants will experiment with the influence of language, media, and art on how stories and knowledge are acted upon, shaped, and recorded. Through a lens of embodied and collective critical practices, these workshops ask: How do we seek the difficult questions? How do we recuperate images from the gazes of their uncomfortable archives? How can visual print media and protest intervene in everyday life, through web-like ways? How does your voice influence your surroundings?

This program is co-produced in partnership with C Magazine.

 

Organizer

Pardis Pahlavanlu

nov23Ness Lee: Performances with Toronto Dance Theatre2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of InquiryType:Performance

Time

(Saturday) 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

Visual artist Ness Lee and Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) come together to imagine a performance that will gently move through the Biennial’s exhibition space at 32 Lisgar, with seven performers interacting with Ness’ distinctive sculptures and objects. Finding moments of intimacy between their bodies and the plush characters Ness creates, the dancers will animate the gallery through a tender parade, embodying the breath of space as a momentary feeling of one another.

Note: This performance is drop-in. Registration is not required.

This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

This program is presented in partnership with the Toronto Dance Theatre and is made possible through the generous support of the Lindy Green Family Foundation.

Toronto Dance Theatre is the legendary artistic home, where since 1968, curious creators, ensemble performers, and audiences inspire each other through forward thinking choreography and embodied experiences. Under the Artistic Direction of Andrew Tay, the company plays a pivotal role as an incubator for boundary-pushing contemporary dance and performance, supporting the development of local artists and connecting the Toronto dance scene to national and international communities. Interested in sparking important conversations around dance and performance in society, TDT is unique as one of the rare companies in Canada supporting a full time ensemble of dancers.

Organizer

Ness Lee

nov24Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov24Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov24Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle12:30 pm - 2:30 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Type:Storytelling,Workshop

Time

(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

Join Storytellers Jingshu and Siki every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity!

Schedule:

  • 12:30pm: Meet inside Pamila Matharu’s installation, tere naal _ with you (2024), where Jingshu and Siki will start their tour of the exhibition, highlighting a selection of artworks and artists to inspire the following writing session.
  • 1:30-2:30pm: Following the tour, Jingshu and Siki will facilitate a drop-in writing session. After some quiet time for writing, participants will be encouraged to share in a casual discussion, depending on their comfort level.

Everyone is welcome and no prior creative writing experience is required. This program does not require registration and those interested are free to drop in at any time. Writing materials will be provided.

Image credit: Storytelling in Pamila Matharu’s installation tere naal _ with you (2024) at 32 Lisgar St, 2024. Photography: Jingshu Yao.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov28One Hundred More8:00 pm - 9:00 pm The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1J1Stream:Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of InquiryType: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.

Time

(Thursday) 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

The Theatre Centre

1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1J1

more

Event Details

One Hundred More is a performance urgently informed by our current socio-political climate which has produced an ever-greater groundswell of bodies resisting, moving in collective anger, revolt and counter-resistance, captured and replayed in an endless torrent of images. Centered on an iconic gesture of resistance, the work is an incremental choreography of personal physical strategies the artists deploy as women of colour and mothers.

Chambers and Young acknowledge their personal stories of resistance are both individual and part of a shared autobiography: an accumulation of gesture, rhythm, grief, and joy deeply inscribed in their flesh. Drawing from their subjectively held memory bank of protest images, they investigate the possible incremental micro-movements leading up to a recognizable expression of resistance. This work creates a steadily mounting tension of rhythm through archival and emergent movements. Set to a pulsating score, this performance is a physical declaration of resistance and friendship.

Note:

  • This program has limited capacity. Check back here for registration!
  • This program will have a Rush Line. One hour before the program, visitors are welcomed to wait in the Rush Line for available seating in the venue. The seats will not become available earlier than 15 minutes before showtime. Once the total number of available seats has been determined, those waiting in the rush line will be ushered into the venue.

Created in collaboration with Emese Csornai, Neda Sanai, Sarah Doucet and Victoria Cheong. This program is co-presented with Dancemakers and presented in partnership with The Theatre Centre, with rehearsal space generously supplied by The Bentway. This program is made possible through the generous support of the Lindy Green Family Foundation.

This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring both its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

Image credit: One Hundred More, Justine A. Chambers & Laurie Young, 2019. Sophiensaele Berlin. Photography: Oliver Look.

Organizer

Justine A. Chambers

nov29Storytelling at the Auto BLDG12:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Friday) 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov29Ness Lee: Performances with Toronto Dance Theatre5:00 pm - 8:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of InquiryType:Performance

Time

(Friday) 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

Visual artist Ness Lee and Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) come together to imagine a performance that will gently move through the Biennial’s exhibition space at 32 Lisgar, with seven performers interacting with Ness’ distinctive sculptures and objects. Finding moments of intimacy between their bodies and the plush characters Ness creates, the dancers will animate the gallery through a tender parade, embodying the breath of space as a momentary feeling of one another.

Note: This performance is drop-in. Registration is not required.

This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

This program is presented in partnership with the Toronto Dance Theatre and is made possible through the generous support of the Lindy Green Family Foundation.

Toronto Dance Theatre is the legendary artistic home, where since 1968, curious creators, ensemble performers, and audiences inspire each other through forward thinking choreography and embodied experiences. Under the Artistic Direction of Andrew Tay, the company plays a pivotal role as an incubator for boundary-pushing contemporary dance and performance, supporting the development of local artists and connecting the Toronto dance scene to national and international communities. Interested in sparking important conversations around dance and performance in society, TDT is unique as one of the rare companies in Canada supporting a full time ensemble of dancers.

Organizer

Ness Lee

nov29One Hundred More (featuring a talkback moderated by Seika Boye)8:00 pm - 9:30 pm The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1J1Stream:Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of InquiryType: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.

Time

(Friday) 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Location

The Theatre Centre

1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1J1

more

Event Details

One Hundred More is a performance urgently informed by our current socio-political climate which has produced an ever-greater groundswell of bodies resisting, moving in collective anger, revolt and counter-resistance, captured and replayed in an endless torrent of images. Centred on an iconic gesture of resistance, the work is an incremental choreography of personal physical strategies the artists deploy as women of colour and mothers.

Chambers and Young acknowledge their personal stories of resistance are both individual and part of a shared autobiography: an accumulation of gesture, rhythm, grief, and joy deeply inscribed in their flesh. Drawing from their subjectively held memory bank of protest images, they investigate the possible incremental micro-movements leading up to a recognizable expression of resistance. This work creates a steadily mounting tension of rhythm through archival and emergent movements. Set to a pulsating score, this performance is a physical declaration of resistance and friendship.

Following this performance of One Hundred More, a talkback with Justine A. Chambers and Laurie Young will be moderated by Seika Boye.

Note:

  • This program has limited capacity. Check back here for registration!
  • This program will have a Rush Line. One hour before the program, visitors are welcomed to wait in the Rush Line for available seating in the venue. The seats will not become available earlier than 15 minutes before showtime. Once the total number of available seats has been determined, those waiting in the rush line will be ushered into the venue.

Created in collaboration with Emese Csornai, Neda Sanai, Sarah Doucet and Victoria Cheong. This program is co-presented with Dancemakers and presented in partnership with The Theatre Centre, with rehearsal space generously supplied by The Bentway. This program is made possible through the generous support of the Lindy Green Family Foundation.

This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring both its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

Image credit: One Hundred More, Justine A. Chambers & Laurie Young, 2019. Sophiensaele Berlin. Photography: Oliver Look.

Organizer

Justine A. Chambers

nov30Storytelling at 32 Lisgar10:00 am - 6:00 pm 32 Lisgar St and Park, 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7

more

Event Details

At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Jingshu Yao leading a Storytelling Session at 32 Lisgar Ave for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Jingshu Yao: Storyteller

nov30Storytelling at the Auto BLDG10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor, 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7Stream:StorytellingType:Family Friendly,Storytelling,Talk,Walk,Workshop

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7

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At our third Biennial, local multidisciplinary artists have been commissioned as Storytellers to develop participatory sessions informed by their personal insights and experiences of the city and will lead visitors through the exhibition artists’ installations, research, and perspectives. They will offer both booked and drop-in walks and conversations to intergenerational audiences regularly throughout the duration of the Biennial.

Contact us at learning@torontobiennial.org to book a free group Storytelling tour for your school, organization, or community space.

Image Caption: Opening day at the Auto BLDG, 9th floor as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Organizer

Laura Carvalho: Storyteller

nov30DATE CHANGE: Curatorial Encounters 4 | Precarious Joys: The West End Tour11:00 am - 1:30 pm Gallery TPW, 170 St. Helens Avenue, Toronto, ON M6H 4A1Type:Talk,Walk

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

Time

(Saturday) 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

Location

Gallery TPW

170 St. Helens Avenue, Toronto, ON M6H 4A1

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The Curatorial Encounters program series invites all members of the arts community and the general public to meet and converse with our 2024 exhibition curators, Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López.

For the first three Curatorial Encounters, Dominique and Miguel – in dialogue with artists, collaborators, and other TBA staff – hosted iterative conversations focused on the curatorial process and building of the 2024 Biennial.

For this final edition of Curatorial Encounters, we celebrate the opening of the Biennial with the second of two public tours by TBA curators highlighting the impact that the Biennial artists have on Toronto, spanning from The Auto BLDG at 158 Sterling Ave in the West to the Toronto Sculpture Garden in the East.

West End Tour Schedule:

  • 11am: Tour at Gallery TPW, featuring the works of Abraham O. Oghobase, Manuel Mathieu, Nicholas Galanin
  • 12-12:30pm: Walking to The Auto BLDG at 158 Sterling Ave
  • 12:30-1:30pm: Tour of The Auto BLDG at 158 Sterling Ave, featuring the works of Angelica Serech, Cristina Flores Pescorán, Elina Waage Mikalsen, Gaëlle Choisne, Hangama Amiri, Rudy Loewe, Sameer Farooq, Santiago Yahuarcani, Sandra Brewster, Stina Baudin

Note: Registration is not required to attend, but is strongly recommended and will allow registrants to receive important updates about the Program. Register via Eventbrite.

For information about Precarious Joys: The East End Tour, taking place on Saturday, October 4, please visit the What’s On page or “Related Programming” below.

This program is co-presented with Gallery TPW.

Image credit: A Walk Across Space and Time, Toronto Biennial of Art, 2019. Photography: Yuula Benivolski.

nov30Love Songs to End Colonization8:00 pm - 11:00 pm The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1J1Stream:Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of InquiryType:Community Gathering,Performance

Time

(Saturday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Location

The Theatre Centre

1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1J1

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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 historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change. Listeners are invited to perform a song, sing-along, clap, dance, or simply witness and soak in love and music to dismantle colonialism, one love song at a time.

For those three minutes you are a star, and you feel like a star. And the people watching realize that they are watching a star. This performance is guided by those three minutes, and in those minutes we offer the singer a chance to reframe their relationship to colonization and the act of decolonizing in Canada.” — Peter Morin & Jimmie Kilpatrick

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Presented in partnership with The Theatre Centre.

Image credit: Love Songs to End Colonization, Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick. Presented at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, 2022. Photography: Matt Horseman.

Organizer

Jimmie Kilpatrick

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