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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 […]
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Family Friendly
Talk
Workshop
Collective Space
September 18
Sonia Boyce In Conversation
Join British artist Sonia Boyce and the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) Curator Dominique Fontaine for a conversation about Boyce's work to mark the opening of the exhibition, Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way.
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Talk
Art Gallery of Ontario
September 19
Preview: 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.
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Performance
The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor
September 19
Preview: 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.
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Performance
High Park - Colborne Lodge Coach House
September 19
Preview: Exhibition Activation with Elina Waage Mikalsen
Join us as TBA 2024 artist Elina Waage Mikalsen activates her exhibition artwork.
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Performance
The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor
September 20
Preview: 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.
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Performance
High Park - Colborne Lodge Coach House
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.
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Family Friendly
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
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.
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Talk
32 Lisgar St and Park
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.
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Performance
High Park - Colborne Lodge Coach House
September 21 – September 22
Storytelling Session with Melly Davidson: We are with. With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds
Due to an incident at High Park beyond our control the session taking place on Sunday, September 22 at High Park was cancelled. Join artist, educator, and TBA 2022 Storyteller Melly Davidson for listening and learning activities in High Park. Occurring simultaneously with Tanya Lukin Linklater’s open rehearsal program entitled With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. […]
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Family Friendly
Storytelling
Talk
Walk
Workshop
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, […]
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Community Gathering
Family Friendly
32 Lisgar St and Park
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.
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Performance
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).
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Performance
32 Lisgar St and Park
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.
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Performance
High Park - Colborne Lodge Coach House
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.
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Performance
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.
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Performance
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.
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Talk
Gallery TPW
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".
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
September 29
Panel Discussion: Release: Towards an unburdening
TBA 2024 Program artist Tanya Lukin Linklater will join panelists La Tanya S. Autry and Chantal Gibson for a conversation delving into the powerful themes and artists showcased in Labour, an exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Talk
Innis Town Hall, Innis College
Tickets Required
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.
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Workshop
Hart House
Tickets Required
October 4
Curatorial Encounters 4 | Precarious Joys: The East End Tour
For this edition of Curatorial Encounters, we celebrate the opening of the Biennial with the first of two public tours by TBA curators, highlighting the impact that the Biennial artists have on Toronto.
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Talk
Walk
Toronto Sculpture Garden
Tickets Required
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.
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
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.
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Family Friendly
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
October 6
Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
Join Storyteller Jingshu every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity.
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Storytelling
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
October 6
Carrying Patterns: Sound and Gesture
Ange Loft and Olivia Shortt invite participants to take part in an interdisciplinary workshop that investigates patterns found in pottery shards unearthed from archaeological sites across the city.
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
October 9
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.
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Talk
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
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.
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Workshop
Hart House
Tickets Required
October 10
a landscape hosts something
Led by poet, artist and facilitator Darian Razdar, a landscape hosts something is a workshop to experiment with place-based practices and poetic landscapes.
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Workshop
Toronto Sculpture Garden
Tickets Required
October 12
Joyful Still Lives
In this workshop with artist Laura Dawe, participants will paint still lifes, grounding themselves in the present moment together.
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
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 adaptation of poet Dionne Brand’s renowned non-fiction book, “A Map to the Door of No Return.”
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Performance
The Power Plant
Tickets Required
October 13
Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
Join Storyteller Jingshu every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity.
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Storytelling
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
October 17
MOSSBELLY
An intergenerational performance and choreographic meditation on our human connection to land, plant life, nature and time.
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Performance
The Music Gallery
Tickets Required
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.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Workshop
The Bentway Studio
Tickets Required
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.
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Family Friendly
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
October 20
Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
Join Storyteller Jingshu every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity.
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Storytelling
Workshop
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.
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Performance
The Music Gallery
Tickets Required
October 22
MOSSBELLY
An intergenerational performance and choreographic meditation on our human connection to land, plant life, nature and time.
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Performance
The Music Gallery
Tickets Required
October 23
The Fabulous: A Panel Discussion
Accompanying artist Maria Hupfield’s installation for TBA 2024, The Supernatural Powers of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan), this panel discussion features Mikinaak Migwans, Karen Pheasant Neganigwane, and Pablo de Ocampo.
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Community Gathering
Talk
Hart House
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.
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Community Gathering
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
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.
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Performance
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
October 27
Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
Join Storyteller Jingshu every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity.
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Storytelling
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
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.
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Community Gathering
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
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.
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
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.
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Family Friendly
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
November 3
Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
Join Storyteller Jingshu every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity.
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Storytelling
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
November 3
Eating the Archive: flatbreads as embodied histories
Artist Sameer Farooq and food writer Naomi Duguid share food and stories inside Sameer’s TBA 2024 installation, Flatbread Library.
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Community Gathering
Talk
The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor
Tickets Required
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.
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Performance
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.
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Community Gathering
Performance
Hart House
November 8
The Question
In this workshop co-produced by C Magazine, Aisha Sasha John invites participants to work through “How do we try to ask more and deeper questions?”
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
November 10
Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
Join Storyteller Jingshu every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity.
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Storytelling
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
November 13
Artists and Curator in Conversation | Ikumagialiit – ᐃᑯᒪᒋᐊᓖᑦ (those that need fire): Aatooq (full of blood)
In this engaging discussion with TBA 2024 Curator Dominique Fontaine, members of the Ikumagialiit collective explore their groundbreaking exhibition, Aatooq.
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Online Event
Talk
Tickets Required
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.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Workshop
Hart House
Tickets Required
November 14
In Conversation: Morris Lum, Arlene Chan, and Linda Zhang (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.
7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Talk
North York Central Library, Toronto Public Library
Tickets Required
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.
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Workshop
The Power Plant Art Gallery
Tickets Required
November 16
Memex Room: Reindexing the Archive
In this multidimensional performance workshop led by Ivetta Sunyoung Kang and Kii (Wonki) Kang, 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).
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
November 17
Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
Join Storyteller Jingshu every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity.
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Storytelling
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
November 17
Sounding Time: An Introduction to Tap Dance and Jazz Culture
In this workshop, Travis Knights will share his passion of jazz culture, and its history as a language that transcends the spoken word and rhythm.
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Workshop
Roncesvalles United Church
Tickets Required
November 20
TIFF Next Wave Presents: Kuessipan
Join us for a screening of Myriam Verreault’s debut narrative feature Kuessipan, followed by an onstage conversation about creative collaboration, self-representation, and intercultural relationships.
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Screening
Talk
Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson Family Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Tickets Required
November 22
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.
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Workshop
Hart House
Tickets Required
November 23
Visual Language for Social Change: Lino-Cut Printmaking
In this skill-building workshop, participants will explore how art and impactful visual language amplify social movements through making their own media.
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
Tickets Required
November 23
Ness Lee: Performances with Toronto Dance Theatre
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 […]
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Performance
32 Lisgar St and Park
November 24
Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
Join Storyteller Jingshu every Sunday at 32 Lisgar St for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity.
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Storytelling
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
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.
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Performance
The Theatre Centre
Tickets Required
November 29
Storytelling at the Auto BLDG
Occurring each Friday, 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.
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Family Friendly
Storytelling
Talk
Walk
Workshop
The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor
November 29
Ness Lee: Performances with Toronto Dance Theatre
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 […]
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Performance
32 Lisgar St and Park
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.
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Performance
The Theatre Centre
Tickets Required
November 30 – December 1
Storytelling at 32 Lisgar
Occurring each Saturday and Sunday, 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.
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Family Friendly
Storytelling
Talk
Walk
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
November 30 – December 1
Storytelling at the Auto BLDG
Occurring each Saturday and Sunday, 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.
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Family Friendly
Storytelling
Talk
Walk
Workshop
The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor
November 30
Curatorial Encounters 4 | Precarious Joys: The West End Tour
For this final edition of Curatorial Encounters, we celebrate the opening of the Biennial with the second of two public tours highlighting the impact that the Biennial artists have on Toronto.
11:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Talk
Walk
Gallery TPW
Tickets Required
November 30
Closing Celebration: 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 […]
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Community Gathering
Performance
The Theatre Centre
Tickets Required
December 1
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.
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Family Friendly
Workshop
32 Lisgar St and Park
December 1
Ness Lee: Performances with Toronto Dance Theatre
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 […]
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Performance
32 Lisgar St and Park
December 1
some kind of hope: envisioning collective futures
In this conversation, cultural leaders and arts practitioners reflect on how they approach their work and art, balancing personal values with organizational mandates, while centering collective joy.
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Family Friendly
Talk
32 Lisgar St and Park
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.
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Performance
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.
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Performance
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.
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Performance
Art Gallery of Ontario
April 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.
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Performance
Art Gallery of Ontario