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SUMMARY:Online Queer Trivia Night: Queer Establishments
DESCRIPTION:Join us on July 15\, 2021\, @ 8 pm EST for Queer Trivia Night. \nThe ArQuives is thrilled to present the latest trivia night in our monthly queer trivia series! This month\, the theme is Queer Establishments. \n\nMany have closed\, many are still open –  can you identify the bar from the matchbook? Where did that establishment get its name? Can you name the first Canadian queer bar?\n\nThis FREE event will be hosted over Zoom and requires pre-registration. Signup to get the Zoom link by clicking Purchase Tickets. \n  \n 
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/online-queer-trivia-queer-establishments/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210623T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210623T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20210527T181807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210758Z
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SUMMARY:Three Old Queers - A Queers in Your Ears Event
DESCRIPTION:When the Toronto-based storytelling collective Queers in Your Ears (QIYE) was founded in 1997\, telling personal stories about the varied experiences of being LGBTQ2S wasn’t anywhere near as common as it is today. In the 25 years since this innovative group of storytellers first came together\, there have been sweeping changes to the landscape of what it means to be queer but QIYE knows how important it is to preserve our experiences – good and bad – and to keep telling our stories.\n\nTo mark our 25th anniversary\, QIYE is collaborating with the ArQuives to create a virtual exhibition of memorabilia associated with our performance history that will be launched in October 2021 but we hope you’ll join us on Wednesday\, June 23rd from 7:30-9:30 pm for the first of a series of concerts that QIYE will be presenting this year.\n\n\n\n“Three Old Queers” will showcase the stories of Rico Rodriguez\, founder of QIYE\, long-time member Jeffrey Canton\, and educator and activist Tim McCaskell.\n\n\n\nThe event is free but registration is required. Register HERE.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/three-old-queers/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20210323T144700Z
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SUMMARY:Online Queer Trivia Night: Pride History
DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 23\, 2021\, @ 5 pm EST for Queer Trivia Night. \nThe ArQuives is thrilled to present the latest trivia night in our monthly queer trivia series! This month\, the theme is Pride. \nCome show off your trivia knowledge of all things Pride. Who was that Grand Marshall? How many floats are there in the parade? What was “circle the jerks?”.\nThis FREE event will be hosted over Zoom and requires pre-registration. Sign up to get the Zoom link by clicking Purchase Tickets. \n  \n 
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/online-queer-trivia-night-pride/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210616T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210616T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20210527T181016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210713Z
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SUMMARY:Online Queer Trivia Night: International Pride
DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 16\, 2021\, @ 5 pm EST for Queer Trivia Night. \nThe ArQuives is thrilled to present the latest trivia night in our monthly queer trivia series! This month\, the theme is International Pride. \nCome show off your trivia knowledge of all things Pride!\nThis FREE event will be hosted over Zoom and requires pre-registration. Sign up to get the Zoom link by clicking Purchase Tickets.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/online-queer-trivia-night-international-pride/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210520T210000
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CREATED:20210323T144207Z
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SUMMARY:Online Queer Trivia Night: Movies & TV
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 20\, 2021\, @ 8 pm EST for Queer Trivia Night. \nThe ArQuives is thrilled to present the latest trivia night in our monthly queer trivia series! This month\, the theme is Movies & TV. \nWhen was the first lesbian kiss on tv? How many queer characters are on tv at the moment? Your hottest screen kiss? Come for a night of fun trivia about queer in movies and tv. \nThis FREE event will be hosted over Zoom and requires pre-registration. Signup to get the Zoom link by clicking Purchase Tickets. \n  \n 
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/online-queer-trivia-night-movies-tv/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210510T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20210308T130048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210713Z
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SUMMARY:2020 Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives invites you to our 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) Monday\, May 10\, 2021\, at 6:00 pm EST via Zoom. \nAny member of the public is invited to attend. Members will be eligible to participate fully in AGM business. \nRegistration is open to all by clicking on purchase tickets. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nMembership \nMembers are those individuals who have contributed more than 15 hours of volunteer service to the organization in 2020; supported the archives with a financial donation of $15.00 or more; and/or made a significant contribution of materials to The ArQuives collection. A full membership list will be made available no less than 10 days prior to the AGM. \n For more information\, please see our news feed.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/notice-of-2020-agm/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210506T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210506T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
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SUMMARY:El Satario: Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto are excited to co-sponsor a screening and discussion of El satario on Thursday\, May 6 at 4PM Eastern Time on Zoom. Please note that registration is required\, and space is limited. We anticipate a large audience. This event will be recorded. \nEl satario is widely considered the oldest extant pornographic film. It is rumored to have been produced in Argentina between 1907 and 1912 – though its exact date and place of production are unknown. For the first time\, three different prints of El satariohave surfaced in a single location: Toronto\, Canada. Until now\, none of these prints have been available for scholarship. Last year\, The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives discovered a previously unknown print in its collection. Meanwhile\, two prints\, previously known to collectors\, have been donated to the Mark S. Bonham Centre’s Sexual Representation Collection at the University of Toronto. Sponsored by The ArQuives and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto\, this event will screen The ArQuives’ print of El satario and bring together three scholars of early Latin American cinema and visual culture to examine the film’s social\, cultural\, and technical context\, and the mysterious circumstances of its production\, circulation\, and reception. \nDiscussants: \nCarolina Cappa is an audiovisual archivist and media professor. She has just published “Nitrato argentino\, una historia del cine de los primeros tiempos” (Argentine nitrate\, an early cinema history)\, a book and an open access website for the preservation and research about early Argentinian film. She worked as a film preservation specialist at the Museo del Cine “Pablo Ducrós Hicken” (Argentina) for over a decade and was head of the film archive at Cinemateca Boliviana (Bolivia). She has worked on several film restoration projects\, including “El Bolillo Fatal“\, a previously lost 1927 Bolivian film. As a professor\, she has taught courses on audiovisual creation and technology within the programs of Image and Sound Design and Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires. She collaborates as researcher at the media archaeology project IDIS and teaches the workshop “Pequeños archivos audiovisuales” (Small Audiovisual Archives) towards the creation of decentralized and community audiovisual archives. Currently\, she is a professor and Master’s thesis supervisor at the Film Preservation program of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (Donostia\, Spain). \nAndrea Cuarterolo\, PhD\, is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)\, where she specializes in the study of Argentine and Latin American precinema and early cinema. She is the author of De la foto al fotograma: Relaciones entre cine y fotografía en la argentina 1840–1933 and the co-editor of the volumes Pantallas transnacionales. El cine argentino y mexicano del período clásico and Diez miradas sobre el cine y audiovisual. Since 2015\, she directs with Georgina Torello the journal Vivomatografías. Revista de estudios sobre precine y cine silente en Latinomérica\, an annual\, peer-reviewed and open-access publication focused on precinema and silent cinema in Latin America.  She currently co-directs the Centro de Investigación y Nuevos Estudios sobre cine (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires) and the Asociación de Estudios sobre Precine y Cine Silente Latinoamericano (PRECILA). \nLeonardo Gomes is a recent graduate of Ryerson University’s Master’s program in Film and Photography Preservation. His thesis\, entitled “Afternoon of El satario: Expanding on the Finding of an Unidentified Print\,” examined his path to uncover the social\, cultural\, and technical context behind the film’s production\, circulation\, and reception. While volunteering at The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives\, he discovered the previously unknown print of El satario that inspired this event. He is currently a research assistant with the Archive/Counter-Archive project\, where he is part of the CFMDC case study. His main research interests are Latin American cinema\, stag films\, and early erotic and pornographic gay cinema. He also has a passion for precinema\, early\, and silent film\, and hopes to make a career as a film archivist and researcher.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/el-satario/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Exhibits
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20210322T182635Z
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SUMMARY:Online Queer Trivia Night: April Fools\, Queer Comedy
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 15\, 2021\, @ 8 pm EST for Queer Trivia Night. \nThe ArQuives is thrilled to present the latest trivia night in our monthly queer trivia series! This month\, the theme is April Fools\, Queer Comedy. \nDo you know your stand-ups\, comics\, jesters\, jokesters and comedy shows? Share your queer trivia knowledge and learn exciting tidbits about funny queer culture. Our online trivia events are just for fun – we don’t keep score and beginners are always welcome! \nThis FREE event will be hosted over Zoom and requires pre-registration. Signup to get the Zoom link by clicking Purchase Tickets. \n  \n 
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/online-queer-trivia-night-april-fools-queer-comedy-2/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20210121T150626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210713Z
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SUMMARY:Online Queer Trivia Night: Queering women's history month
DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 18\, 2021\, @ 8 pm EST for Queer Trivia Night. \nThe ArQuives is thrilled to present the latest trivia night in our monthly queer trivia series! This month\, the theme is Queering Women’s History Month – come celebrate trans\, lesbian\, bisexual\, and queer women with us through trivia! \nHow many different versions of the lesbian pride flag exist? Who was the first trans woman to go to court and fight for her rights? What slang terms were used in the 1950s queer women’s bar scene? Who was the first woman in Canada to be appointed as a judge to a superior court? \nTune in on Thursday\, March 18th\, 2021 at 8 pm EST for a fun night of queer trivia! Show off your queer trivia knowledge and learn exciting tidbits about queer history and contemporary queer culture. Our online trivia events are just for fun – we don’t keep score and beginners are always welcome! \nThis FREE event will be hosted over Zoom and requires pre-registration. Signup to get the Zoom link by clicking Purchase Tickets. \n  \n 
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/march-online-queer-trivia-night/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210225T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210225T223000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20210211T142309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210713Z
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SUMMARY:QueerAsian Launch - February 25\, 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Historic Joy Kogawa House (Vancouver) and The ArQuives (Toronto) invite you for an evening of writing and other creative works! The event will be hosted by author C.E. Gatchalian and emerges from a series of workshops for LGBTQI+ Asians\, focused on anti-Asian racism during the pandemic. \n\nJoin us as we share the ways the pandemic\, the racism unleashed by the pandemic\, and world events (Black Lives Matter) have directly affected us.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/queerasian-launch-february-25-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210211T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20210121T145702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210714Z
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SUMMARY:Online Queer Trivia Night: Will you be my (queer) valentine?
DESCRIPTION:Join us on  February 11\, 2021\, for Queer Trivia Night as we celebrate Valentine’s Day. \nWill you be my (queer) valentine? LGBTQ2S+ romance through the ages \n  \nSignup to get the Zoom link by clicking Purchase Tickets.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/february-queer-trivia-night/
LOCATION:Online\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210121T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210121T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20201123T210949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210714Z
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SUMMARY:Online Queer Trivia: Trailblazers - Celebrating LGBTQ2S+ firsts
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Online Queer Trivia: Trailblazers – Celebrating LGBTQ2S+ firsts! \nWho was that first out leader of state\, that first Olympian\, that first Oscar nominee? Identify first kisses on tv\, and where was the first Dyke March? Sign up to receive the link\, and see you for an hour of Trivia fun!!!! \nSignup to get the Zoom link by clicking Purchase Tickets.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/online-queer-trivia-trailblazers/
LOCATION:Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201203T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201203T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20201123T183346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210714Z
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SUMMARY:Online Trivia Night: Fashion
DESCRIPTION:QUEER TRIVIA: Come learn cool queer fashion tidbits at the next queer trivia night. Jeans\, ruby slippers\, YSL\, Birkenstocks…. It’s going to be Absolutely Fabulous!!!!!!\nDec 3rd\, 8 pm. Signup here to get the zoom link:  https://forms.gle/vrzxUCvY5vdVbw9n6
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/trivia-night-fashion/
LOCATION:Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20201123T204341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210714Z
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SUMMARY:The ArQuives' Trans Collections Guide Launch
DESCRIPTION:The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory and The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archive \ninvite you to celebrate the launch of The ArQuives’ Trans Collections Guide \nDecember 3rd\, 2020 – 4-6 pm EST \nJoin us for a roundtable discussion on the trans holdings of The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archive\, and the histories and futures of trans archival practices. \n \nTo access a PDF of the Collections Guide\, please click here. \nIf you require a hard copy\, please send your name and mailing address by December 15\, 2020\, to be mailed out in late December 2020.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/the-arquives-trans-collections-guide-launch/
LOCATION:Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T074601
CREATED:20201119T194029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T210714Z
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SUMMARY:Historical Inequities Community Consultation
DESCRIPTION:Historical Inequities Community Consultation \nWe invite you to join us on November 25 at 7 pm for community consultation and discussion around The ArQuives Historical Inequities draft statement. \nYou can register in advance for this event by going to https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcu6upzMsHNYqgOsn20eq3pFx7lr_OWPw \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/historical-inequities-community-consultation/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Tape Condition: degraded
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \nThursday\, June 16\, 2016 to Friday\, September 23\, 2016 \nReception date & time: \nThursday\, June 16\, 7:00pm \nVHS\, queer porn and digital histories at The ArQuives \n Description:\nTape Condition: degraded is an immersive installation and community digitization station that engages with The ArQuives’s collection of more than 3\,000 VHS tapes\, about one-third of which are porn. From commercially produced movies\, to homemade tapes and hand-dubbed compilations\, these cassettes are vital records of the archives’ role in preserving and protecting queer desires\, sexual subcultures\, and the pleasures of collecting.  As VHS tapes age and degrade\, what kinds of digital strategies might bring the histories they record into the present? How might digital interventions broaden\, diversify\, or queer the kinds of bodies\, pleasures\, and identities the archives collects? \nThroughout the summer\, a working digital transfer station will be situated in an immersive installation designed to evoke The ArQuives of the 1980’s—the heyday of both VHS and Canadian police censorship of queer porn. Hidden behind a “false wall” that references the archives’ attempts to protect the porn collection from police raids in the 1980s\, this station will be staffed by a technician and available for community-use on select days throughout the summer. New video work by Aidan Cowling titled Landscapes of Infinities will screen on a loop within the installation. \nA publication with essay\, drawings by Hazel Meyer\, comic by Morgan Sea\, and “Dream Tape” archival interventions written by 11 queer and trans artists and activists available online and in print. Publication Designed by Cecilia BerKovic. Dream Tape Contributors: Anthea Black\, Derek McCormack\, Ginger Brooks Takahashi\, Guillermina Buzio\, jes sachse\, Jessica Karuhanga\, Kiley May\, Morgan M Page\, Nica Ross\, Nick Matte\, Syrus Marcus Ware. \nA series of public programs throughout the summer will invite artists\, activists\, porn makers and scholars to think about VHS\, porn collecting\, and digital histories at the archives: \nDigitize your Tape\nDigitize your VHS tape (free) at The ArQuives. Make an appointment by completing this form: http://goo.gl/forms/cFXvB4EH68. Email mckinneycait@gmail.com for questions. \nJune 16\, 7pm\nOpening Party at The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, 2nd Floor\nRemarks and Digitization Demo at 8pm \nJuly 8\, 2016\, 7:30pm – Midnight\nArtist Talk and Party at Buddies in Bad Times\, 12 Alexander Street \n7:30pm: Performance Lecture by Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer \n9pm: VJ Party with tapes from The ArQuives collection\, Nica Ross and Ginger Brooks Takahashi \nAccessibility Note: The second-floor gallery space of The ArQuives building at 34 Isabella is unfortunately not currently wheelchair accessible; the building’s elevator broke this year and is being rebuilt. All public programming events for this show will be held either on the first floor of The ArQuives (accessible by ramp at back of building) or in off-site accessible venues. Documentation and a take-away publication are also available. \nBiographies:\nHazel Meyer is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation\, performance\, and textiles to investigate the relationships between sport\, sexuality\, feminism\, and material culture. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie) and a public art commission for Cambridge Gallery’s Idea Exchange. In 2015 she was Scrap Metal Gallery’s (Toronto) inaugural artist in residence. She is currently at work on an iteration of her ongoing project Muscle Panic (2014– ) for the CAG in Vancouver. Hazel holds an MFA from OCAD University (Toronto) and a BFA from Concordia University (Montréal). http://hazelmeyer.com \nCait McKinney’s research examines the media practices of feminist and LGBTQ social movements\, emphasizing the late-20th century adoption of digital and online tools. Recent writing appears in Feminist Theory and the Radical History Review’s special issue on queer archives. Cait is the 2015/16 Media@McGill postdoctoral fellow at McGill University\, where she has also taught at the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies. http://caitmckinney.com \nHazel and Cait’s collaborations explore their shared attachments to queer histories through research\, writing\, and archival interventions. Past projects include an essay in Little Joe: Queers and Cinema (2015)\, the Muscle Panic Handbook (2014)\, In the Equipment Room\, a performance workshop for art)work(sport)work(sex)work by YES! Association/Föreningen JA! (The Power Plant\, Toronto 2015)\, and a forthcoming feminist tool catalog to be published in No More Potlucks. \nAidan Cowling is a Toronto-based artist who works in a variety of media exploring the intersection of queerness and materiality on the web.  He is a part of various collectives and has exhibited at Yogiga Gallery\, Gallery 44\, Visual Aids\, YYZ\, Xpace\, The Hangram Design Museum and The Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives.  Aidan has aslo worked for many festivals such as Tiff and The Images Festival and currently works as the Head of communications and development at Gallery 44.
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LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:We Could Be Heroes (Just For One Day)
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nThursday\, March 24\, 2016 to Sunday\, May 22\, 2016 \nReception date & time: \nThursday\, March 24\, 7:00pm \nDescription: \n“We could be heroes\, just for one day. We could be us\, just for one day.”\n– David Bowie \nLGBTQ+ communities and community-based archives have long searched for ‘gay heroes’ to showcase both queer existence and accomplishment across time and space. In “We Could be Heroes (Just for One Day)\,” Toronto photographer Tania Anderson turns this traditional search for heroes on its head. Through a series of fourteen portraits\, she highlights diverse Toronto-based artists and activists who are rarely celebrated for their contributions to queer communities. Tania says of the exhibit that she wishes to honour queer activists who have done the hard work and are not always visible or well-recognized. Not typical documentary portraits\, the lush and aesthetic images are intimate and vulnerable\, revealing Tania’s ongoing connections and relationships with the people she photographs. In the exhibit\, the photographs are accompanied by four audio visual pieces that speak in detail to these connections and relationships\, as well as to the image making process. \nFar from attempting to create a definitive collection of images of heroes for the Toronto queer community\, Tania recognizes that the concept of who gets to be a ‘hero’ at any given time is constantly changing. This body of work recognizes the shifting and contingent concepts of heroism that adapt to the social\, political\, and representational needs of the moment in ever-evolving queer communities and social movements.
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LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Traces
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit Dates\nThursday\, January 7\, 2016 to Sunday\, March 6\, 2016 \nReception date & time\nThursday\, January 7\, 7:00pm \nDescription\nFor the solo exhibition Traces\, Ottawa-based multidisciplinary artist Christos Pantieras brings together five of his existing series\, all of which explore\, appropriate\, and recontextualize the remnants of everyday human practices. \nPantieras’ work seamlessly combines contemporary cultural obsessions with preservation methods of the past. Carbon paper\, analogue photography\, molded cement as a surrogate for carved stone; traditional materials are reanimated by Pantieras’ hand to channel comparatively recent conversations with friends and lovers\, with family\, and sometimes with the self. Not only intimate\, these are also inherently ephemeral dialogues that would otherwise be lost to the march of time and to the fundamental impossibility of archiving everything we do. \nWithin the context of The ArQuives –a repository for both the monumental and mundane narratives that trace Canadian queer history– Pantieras’ dual focus on the past and present\, the forgotten and the remembered\, the intangible and the tangible\, is especially meaningful. By concretizing queer narratives both literally and figuratively\, and by monumentalizing the seemingly small and insignificant\, Christos Pantieras’ work implores us not to forget. It asks us to view the past and the present as a continuum\, and to reconnect our meaningful human actions to the traces they leave behind. \nBiographies:\nChristos Pantieras is a multidisciplinary artist who works in sculpture\, installation\, photography\, and mixed media. His practice explores the frailty of personal connections and the humanism that is lost when interacting online. He received a BFA from the University of Ottawa (1996) and an MFA from York University (2015). Pantieras has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa. Select exhibitions include The Ottawa Art Gallery\, Modern Fuel ARC\, White Water Gallery\, and the Luminato Festival.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/traces/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Dissident Family
DESCRIPTION:DURATION\nThursday\, October 15\, 2015 to Sunday\, December 13\, 2015 \nOPENING RECEPTION\nThursday\, October 15\, 7:00pm \nDESCRIPTION\n“Dissident Family” brings together artworks that speak to the biological family that the artist grew up in\, and to the family she has created and nurtured. It speaks to the central place of dissidence in her spiritual\, political and familial life. \nGottlieb grew up in the middle of dissent. Her parents’ apartment served as a gathering spot for their Communist comrades and was alive with heated debates and energetic resistance. This exhibit explores the images and tales that Gottlieb has created about her parents in a world that seems ready to bury their histories and deeds. \nSince the mid 1980s Gottlieb’s family has been intentional\, queer\, non-biological\, feminist and activist. The newer works in this exhibit speak to her contemporary journeys: her queer families\, the thrill of adoption\, the challenge of parenting\, and recognition of the butch lesbian. \nThis exhibit speaks to different kinds of dissidence:  political views that butt up against the status quo and challenge power and privilege\, identities that overthrow gender and sexual norms\, and families that are based on solidarity more than on blood. ‘Dissident Family’ embraces these delicious moments of dissidence. \nBIOGRAPHIES\nAmy Gottlieb is a Toronto-based artist and educator. Born and raised in New York City\, she moved to Canada in 1972. Her work explores family histories\, the intersection of personal and historical memory\, and the relationship between cognitive and body memories. Gottlieb identifies as a butch lesbian and is a social justice activist who teaches photography and art in a Toronto high school. More info and artwork can be found on her website: www.amygottlieb.ca
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LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Queering Space
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nSaturday\, June 20\, 2015 to Sunday\, September 13\, 2015 \nReception date & time:\nSaturday\, June 20th 7:00 pm \nDescription: \nPresented by The ArQuives in partnership with Nuit Rose\, Queering Space invites celebrated Canadian queer artists to create contemporary multidisciplinary responses to The ArQuives’s historical collection\, reigniting its relevance while exploring the evolution of queer sites across space and time. \nThe transformation of queer spaces throughout history from fugitive\, protective interiors like dimly lit bathhouses and bars to publicly visible sites of resistance\, protest and pride mimics the trajectory of architecture as a whole. The ever-increasing transparency and reflectivity of contemporary construction materials like glass and chrome facilitate visibility\, openness and self-awareness\, eliminating the necessary opacity of yesterday’s brick and mortar barriers and dismantling the threshold between the “inside” and the “outside”. \nEmploying tools for the navigation of space and place –including maps\, floor plans\, street signage\, door keys\, postcards\, scale models\, and architectural elements– Queering Space encourages viewers to enter in and explore the spaces –at once private and public\, local and global\, indoor and outdoor\, physical and digital– where LGBTQ+ histories continue to unfold. \nFeatured artists include:\nJoey Bruni\nPaul Dotey\nMargaret Flood\nGrant Heaps\nRaymond Helkio & Rolyn Chambers\nApril Hickox\nKean OBrien\nDimitri Papatheodorou\nJade Rude\nFlavio Trevisan\nPearl Van Geest\nYshia Wallace\nJohannes Zits \n  \nCurated by James Fowler and Sarah Munro \n 
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/queering-space/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Marked: Tattoos & Queer Identity
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nThursday\, April 9\, 2015 to Friday\, May 29\, 2015 \nReception date & time:\nThursday\, April 9\, 7:30 pm \nDescription:\nMarked: Tattoos and Queer Identity focuses on how tattoos mark a person’s body\, but also mark an important moment in their life.\nThroughout history visual signifiers have been used to identify people. These identifiers can be subtle and blatant\, by choice or forced upon. When in the form of a tattoo\, they are a distinctly unique and personal queer identifier. \nTattoos\, forms of art in their own right\, are also vehicles for story telling. But tattoos cannot speak for themselves and are often hidden under clothing. This exhibition asks what stories lie hidden underneath these clothes\, just below the skin? \nMore on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkedExhibition \nBiographies:\nChristian Hernandez is a museum professional specializing in fashion and textiles\, collections\, and social media. Combining a love of history with talents in new media and graphic design\, he works to make museum collections accessible\, engaging\, and fun! He is the New Acquisitions Cataloger at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21\, founder of the facebook group I Heart Museums\, and Guest Curator for the exhibition Marked: Tattoos and Queer Identity at The ArQuives. In his spare time he is a textile artist\, watches documentaries\, and thinks about his next tattoo(s). You can find him at linkedin.com/in/hernandezchristian/
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LOCATION:Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Code\, Read: Hollywood’s Hays Code and the Queer Stereotypes of the Silver Screen
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nThursday\, February 5\, 2015 to Friday\, March 13\, 2015 \nReception date & time:\nN/A [Screening schedule below] \nDescription:\nFrom the first appearance of subversive same-sex interaction on film\, in William K.L. Dickson’s motion picture The Dickson Experimental Sound Film/The Gay Brothers (1895)\, the representation of LGBTQ characters and themes in popular cinema has been largely stereotypical. \nThe flamboyant\, effeminate\, and often comedic caricature of the “sissy” became prominent in early silent cinema\, wherein theatricality was necessary to convey a film’s plot. The sissy transitioned easily from silent cinema into talkies\, where his unconventional voice and mannerisms secured his role as a comedic staple. \nAs films of the 1920s and 30s grew more sophisticated\, and as Depression-era audiences dwindled\, there was increasing demand for more controversial characters. The hitherto harmless sissy was offset both by more complex queer figures and by more scandalous stereotypes. Debates subsequently arose about the negative effect that Hollywood cinema\, and its questionable morals\, might have upon society as a whole. \nIn response\, the Motion Picture Production Code\, or “Hays Code”\, put in place a series of censorship guidelines by which the production of indecent or immoral filmic content would be restricted. The institution of the Hayes Code heralded the end of the sissy –and his more complex counterparts– in popular cinema\, and the beginning of more reserved queer characters whose true nature was necessarily buried by subtext and innuendo. Between 1930 and 1968\, a span that encompassed Hollywood’s Golden Age of film production\, queer characters were either obscured through ambiguity or else written out entirely from Hollywood films. Alternatively\, since the Hays Code was willing to allow “sexual perversion” if depicted in a negative light\, queer characters who remained in the picture were presented as a series of unflattering stereotypes: murderous villains\, suicidal misfits\, farcical fairies\, or sexual rebels in need of reform. \n120 years after The Gay Brothers\, it is debatable whether the depiction of queer characters in popular cinema is any more nuanced than it once was. What is clear is the effect that artistic censorship had\, and continues to have\, on depictions of LGBTQ culture in North American film. Code\, Read invites the viewer to revisit a selection of lesser-seen pre-Code pictures and Golden Age cinematic classics\, decoding their dialogue\, plot development\, characters and themes from a queer perspective. In the process\, it asks viewers to consider how films both reflect and shape social attitudes towards non-normative gender roles and sexualities. \nRecommended Viewing\nA chronological listing of select pre-Code and Code-era Hollywood films that incorporate queer characters\, themes\, plotlines\, actors and directors\, and queer subtexts. \n\n\n\nThe Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895)\n\n\nAlgie the Miner (1912)\n\n\nA Florida Enchantment (1914) Screened at The ArQuives February 22\, 2015\n\n\nBehind the Screen (1916)\n\n\nSalomé (1923) Screened at The ArQuives February 8\, 2015\n\n\nA Wanderer of the West (1927)\n\n\nWings (1927)\n\n\nSex in Chains (1928) Screened at The ArQuives March 8\, 2015\n\n\nMorocco (1930)\n\n\nTheir First Mistake (1932)\n\n\nLadies They Talk About (1933)\n\n\nQueen Christina (1933)\n\n\nThe Gay Divorcee (1934)\n\n\nWonder Bar (1934)\n\n\nBride of Frankenstein (1935)\n\n\nSylvia Scarlett (1935)\n\n\nDracula’s Daughter (1936) Screened at The ArQuives March 1\, 2015\n\n\nRebecca (1940)\n\n\nThe Maltese Falcon (1941)\n\n\nCrossfire (1947)\n\n\nRed River (1948)\n\n\nRope (1948) Screened at The ArQuives March 1\, 2015\n\n\nCaged (1950)\n\n\nCalamity Jane (1953)\n\n\nGlen or Glenda (1953) Screened at The ArQuives March 8\, 2015\n\n\nJohnny Guitar (1954)\n\n\nRebel Without a Cause (1955)\n\n\nTea and Sympathy (1956) Screened at The ArQuives February 8\, 2015\n\n\nCat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)\n\n\nBen-Hur (1959)\n\n\nPillow Talk (1959)\n\n\nSome Like It Hot (1959) Screened at The ArQuives February 22\, 2015\n\n\nSuddenly\, Last Summer (1959)\n\n\nSpartacus (1960)\n\n\nThe Children’s Hour (1961)\n\n\nVictim (1961)\n\n\nAdvise and Consent (1962)\n\n\nA View From the Bridge (1962)\n\n\nWalk on the Wild Side (1962)\n\n\nThe Fox (1967)\n\n\nThe Detective (1968)\n\n\nThe Killing of Sister George (1968)\n\n\nThe Sergeant (1968)
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/code-read-hollywoods-hays-code-and-the-queer-stereotypes-of-the-silver-screen/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Butch: Not Like the Other Girls
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nThursday\, November 6\, 2014 to Friday\, January 23\, 2015 \nReception date & time:\nNovember 6\, 2014\, 7:30 p.m. \nDescription:\nButch: Not Like the Other Girls is a photographic exploration of the liminal spaces occupied by female masculinity in contemporary communities by photographer SD Holman. \nThe show’s first incarnation exhibited as a public art project in transit shelters around Vancouver in March-April 2013\, with a simultaneous gallery show at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (the Cultch). According to Cultch administrators\, the opening night (which attracted well over 400 attendees and spilled out into the street for half a block) was the largest visual art opening in their 35-year history. The project caused an internet sensation\, generating thousands of posts and shares on social media sites\, blog posts as far away as Germany and Denmark\, and interest for further exhibitions across Canada and the United States. \nThis project delineates Butch as an inclusive site of resistance to limitations on the way women\, gender\, and sexuality are still defined. The images honour the beauty\, power and diversity of women who transgress the gender binary\, interspersed with text written by the photographic subjects themselves. The transversal dialectic of female masculinity is celebrated here — unapologetic and undiluted.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/butch-not-like-the-other-girls/
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SUMMARY:Imaging Home: Resistance\, Migration\, Contradiction
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nTuesday\, June 24\, 2014 to Wednesday\, October 22\, 2014 \nReception date & time:\nTuesday\, June 24\, 5:00-8:00pm \nDescription:\nOpening 5:00 to 8:00 on Tuesday\, June 24\, 2014 \nGuest speakers:  \nNamela Baynes-Henry of Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)\, Guyana; Richard Lusimbo\, Research and Document Manager at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG); Singer/performer: Brayo Bryans\, Executive Director\, Icebreakers Uganda. \nThe ArQuives’s 2014 WorldPride exhibition\, Imaging Home: Resistance\, Migration\, and Contradiction\, brings together documentary video and photographic work that raises significant questions about the meaning of “home” in a world that keeps refining homophobic and racist oppression. Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights video portraits of LGBT activists in Uganda\, Kenya\, Botswana\, Jamaica\, Guyana\, Belize\, Saint Lucia and India speak directly to what it means to work to continue the struggle to advance LGBT rights at home and internationally\, despite violence and risk. Guyanese photographer\, Ulelli Vrebeke\, offers lyrical photo/text images of migrants from Guyana and the Caribbean to Toronto whose sense of home shifts and unfolds in complex and unexpected ways. Archival documentary videos by Anton Wagner and Edimburgo Cabrera trace the tenuous lives of Latino and black drag queens in millennial Toronto (1998-2007). Video and photographic evidence of ‘home’ brought to Toronto by members of the queer diaspora are woven together as visual testaments to the possibilities of home\, here and away. The exhibition is a joint project of The ArQuives and the international project: Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights. \nAlso opening on June 24\, is a satellite exhibition by Samra Habib\, Queer and Muslim: Finding Peace Within Islam (see details below). \nAbove photo credit: Ulelli Verbeke. A. and H. are lesbians both from Jamaica. They have been together for 3 years. Over these past years\, they have been targets of robbery\, housing discrimination\, rape and police harassment in Jamaica. They are seeking asylum in Canada. \nNote on Envisioning and the guest speakers: \nEnvisioning Global LGBT Human Rights is a partnership of mutual learning\, bringing together 31 partners based in Africa\, India\, the Caribbean and Canada to undertake a project of research\, participatory video and documentary\, capacity enhancement and knowledge mobilization\, working together to make the vision of LGBT rights a reality. Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, based at the Centre for Feminist Research\, York University. \nEnvisioning speakers: \nNancy Nicol\, Professor\, York University. Documentary Film Director\nPrinciple Investigator: Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights\nNamela Baynes-Henry\, Co-chairperson Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)\, Guyana. Researcher\, Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights (Will speak on the Caribbean research and participatory video work… and some of the Caribbean portraits)\nRichard Lusimbo Research and Document Manager at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). Chair: Africa Research Team\, Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights (Will speak on the Africa research and participatory video work.. and some of the Africa portraits)\nSinger/performer: Brayo Bryans\, Executive Director\, Icebreakers Uganda; Production Manager\, Talented Ugandan Kuchus (TUK) (a group of LGBT Ugandans using different types of arts to entertain\, economically empower\, sensitize\, and advocate for equality for all).\nVideographer: Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights\nwww.envisioninglgbt.blogspot.com \nIn India\, Envisioning\, in partnership with Naz Foundation India Trust created a documentary\, No Easy Walk To Freedom\, (May 2014\, 92 min.) on the history of the struggle against section 377 of the Indian penal code\, which criminalizes ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature.’ www.noeasywalktofreedom.com
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/imaging-home-resistance-migration-contradiction/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:TAG TEAM: Gay Premises
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nFriday\, June 14\, 2013 to Friday\, September 6\, 2013\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nTAG TEAM: Gay Premises\nArtists and Art Workers respond to Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983\n\n\nTaken in tandem with the recent surge in interest\, among younger and increasingly diverse generations of queer academic\, activist\, and artistic communities\, in mining queer archives\, Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983\, timely in its confluence with The ArQuives’s 40th anniversary\, operates at the threshold between Canada’s gay liberation past as a complex and contested foundation for the queer present and its potential futures.\n\nPart of the process of broadening and complicating the record of gay liberation histories across Canada involves reinterpretation and rearticulation via artistic interventions at The ArQuives. Promoting intergenerational dialogue and calling on an emerging generation of queer artists\, activists\, curators\, and historians to engage in processes of “activating” the archive towards its continued preservation\, the idea of archives “passing the torch” here is transformed into a playful\, experimental\, and collaborative endeavour\, conceived along the lines of tag: “tag\, you’re it\,” tag teams\, as well as “tag” and “tagging” as references to digital processes for organizing and archiving information. TAG TEAM: Gay Premises provides an artistic vantage point for thinking about Canada’s gay liberation history and the 40-year history of The ArQuives.\n\nAs a collaborative\, intergenerational\, and interdisciplinary project\, artists are tagged in for short residencies throughout the exhibition\, working with the material\, ideological\, and textual traces left by previous artist participants and producing interventions\, performances\, and objects that contribute to a critical exploration of Canada’s gay liberation history\, The ArQuives\, and the way that GLBTQ+ histories are promoted and preserved. TAG TEAM: Gay Premises emphasizes process and performative relationships to the archive\, as well as a perception of contemporary queer artist communities working across networks\, in collaboration\, and through dialogue. The curatorial premise of TAG TEAM: Gay Premises as a whole might be read as an artistic intervention into a reading of the archive as static and relegated to the past\, the structure of the project expanding and changing as new artists are tagged in. The projects are located at The ArQuives\, as well as at other sites in Toronto that are relevant to the history of The Body Politic\, Canada’s gay liberation history\, and The ArQuives.\n\nA four-artist tag team will undertake curatorial and artistic interventions throughout the course of Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983. Sharlene Bamboat & Dina Georgis\, Anthea Black\, Eugenio Salas\, and Robert Waters have been tagged in because their practices address issues that are of critical importance to the enduring promotion\, preservation\, and legitimacy of GLBTQ+ archives\, including racial and gender exclusion in GLBTQ+ histories\, the oft-silenced experiences of queer refugees\, the historical possibilities afforded by intergenerational relationships\, and the reappropriation of gay liberation imagery and iconography towards queer ends. The simple act of calling on each artist to tag in their successor poses a challenge to any pre-determined historical narrative of The ArQuives and promotes the development of a “living archive” that can effectively adapt to the needs\, desires\, and political urgencies of each new generation wishing to see itself reflected in the archive’s holdings.\n\nTAG TEAM CURATOR:  Erin Silver\n\n\nTAG TEAM ARTISTS: Sharlene Bamboat & Dina Georgis\, Anthea Black\, Eugenio Salas\, and Robert Waters \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\nSharlene Bamboat is a mixed media artist\, working predominantly in film\, video and performance. Through a re-examination of history\, Bamboat elicits tongue-in-cheek videos and performances to question our contemporary moment marked by colonialism and neoliberalism. Bamboat works largely in collaboration\, most notably as part of Bambitchell with artist Alexis Mitchell. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She is on the programming committee of the Pleasure Dome Film & Video Collective\, and works as the Artistic Director for SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto.\n\n\n\n\nAnthea Black is a Canadian artist\, writer\, and cultural worker. Her work in print\, textiles\, performance and video sets a stage for collaborative encounters and inserts intimate gestures into public spaces. She has exhibited throughout Canada and the United States and has circulated collaborative print editions in cities across North America through her ongoing artist-curatorial project\, looking for love in all the wrong places. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications and her collaborative writing with Nicole Burisch is included in The Craft Reader (BERG\, 2010) and Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke University Press\, 2011). Her most recent curatorial project\, No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen\, considers the spatial politics of queer film and video.\n\nDina Georgis teaches at University of Toronto at the Institute of Women and Gender Studies. She writes on postcolonial\, diasporic and queer losses. Interested in the affective residues of trauma in narrative and aesthetic production\, her book\, The Better Story: Queer affects from the Middle East (SUNY\, 2013)\, considers the emotional dynamics of political conflict and the histories and futures made from them.\n\n\nGabrielle Moser is a writer and independent curator. She is currently curator in residence as part of Gallery TPW R&D. She regularly contributes to Artforum.com\, and her writing has appeared in venues including ARTnews\, Canadian Art\, Fillip\, n paradoxa\, and Photography & Culture. She has curated exhibitions for Access Gallery\, Gallery TPW\, the Leona Drive Project and Vtape. She is a PhD candidate in art history and visual culture at York University\, where she also teaches.\n\n\nEugenio Salas (Mexico City\, 1976) is a Toronto-based artist. His practice seeks to disrupt social roles and dynamics\, exploring the symbolic spaces that unfold. He carries out collaborative site-specific and process-based performances\, employing intervention\, video\, film\, animation\, photography\, artist books and installation mediums.\n\nRobert Waters (London\, Ontario 1974) is a Canadian artist currently living in the Basque Country\, Spain. His multi-disciplinary practice explores social and epistemological transformations that enlighten processes of human domestication and constraint. Presenting the human body and art as sources of political action\, his work provokes a questioning of self-knowledge and social control\, with the aim of finding and demonstrating possibilities for emancipation and freedom. He has exhibited on five different continents and is represented in Toronto by pm Gallery. (www.robertwaters.ca)\n\nErin Silver (Curator\, TAG TEAM: Gay Premises) completed a PhD in Art History and Gender & Women’s Studies at McGill University in 2013. Her dissertation provided a queer feminist historiographical analysis of histories of North American feminist and queer art production\, as framed by feminist and queer alternative art institutions and spaces from 1970 to 2012. Silver has curated several exhibitions\, including Coming through the Fog: les rencontres de Matthieu Brouillard et de Donigan Cumming\, at the FOFA Gallery in 2012\, and is currently working on an exhibition on affect\, immersion\, and synesthesia in contemporary queer intermedia practices\, to open in 2014. Silver has taught Art History at Concordia University\, OCAD University\, and the University of Guelph. Her writing has been published in C Magazine\, Ciel Variable\, Fuse Magazine\, and No More Potlucks.
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SUMMARY:Sex Lives and Videotape
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nThursday\, May 8\, 2014 to Friday\, June 6\, 2014 \nReception date & time:\nThursday\, May 8\, 6:00pm \nDescription:\nSex Lives and Videotape is the latest in a series of interactive community events exploring the diverse materiality of artifacts within The ArQuives. As a collector of objects\, The ArQuives acknowledges that it is not only the content of those objects that is significant to the history of LGBTQ+ culture in Canada\, but also their form. The ArQuives was founded in 1973. As it has grown and evolved over time\, so has the technology by which queer communities documented their progress. Many of these earlier technologies\, pioneered within the 70s and 80s\, are presently nearing obsolescence\, making now the perfect time to reflect on the relationship between an object’s “medium” and its “message”. \nIn advance of The ArQuives’s WorldPride 2014 exhibition\, Imaging Home: Resistance\, Migration and Contradiction\, which employs the home video as one means of representing the queer Diaspora\, Sex Lives and Videotape takes a broad look at the medium of VHS and the role it played in furthering the LGBTQ+ agenda. It offers the viewer the opportunity to experience footage within The ArQuives’s substantial VHS collection\, while contemplating the role that home and independent video played in recording and disseminating Canadian queer history. It also creates a link between the contemporary viewer and the pre-YouTube era of personal video production\, by allowing the visitor to record their commentary to VHS tape. \nBiographies:\nCurator: Sarah Munro is a Toronto-based archivist\, arts administrator\, writer and curator. She holds a BFA in photography from Ryerson University as well as an MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management. Sarah Munro acts as Outreach Coordinator for the Ontario Jewish Archives\, as well as Book Reviews Editor for the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art’s biannual publication\, Prefix Photo magazine. She also plays an advisory role within the Genocide Archive of Rwanda.
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SUMMARY:Rocking the Boat: Celebrating Queer Content in Canadian Concert Dance
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nFriday\, November 22\, 2013 to Tuesday\, April 1\, 2014 \nReception date & time:\nFriday\, November 22\, 2013\, 7:30pm \nDescription:\nPerformance art\, cabaret and burlesque are accepted arenas for expression of queer themes through movement; but what about the more conventional world of dance performance? Illustrating examples from the past 30 years\, Rocking the Boat\, curated by Pamela Grundy\, celebrates overtly themed dances along with their trailblazing creators. Culled from public and private archives\, this rare collection of video\, posters\, photos\, programs\, choreographic notes\, sets and costumes serves to illuminate an under-documented segment of Canadian dance. Photo: William Douglas in Anima (1990) photographed by Cylla Von Tiedemann.\nDance Collection Danse  Founded in 1986 and based in Toronto\, Dance Collection Danse (DCD) is Canada’s only organization dedicated to collecting and disseminating Canada’s dance history. As a dance resource centre\, archives and publisher\, DCD shares its collection through public and virtual exhibits\, online programming\, workshops and publications. http://www.dcd.ca/ \nUPCOMING EVENTS:\nCurator Tour\nTuesday\, March 18\, 2014\n8:00 p.m.\nThe ArQuives\, 34 Isabella St.\, Toronto\nPamela Grundy\, curator\, walks participants through the exhibit\, illustrating approaches to queer expression by Canadian choreographers. \nPanel Discussion\nWednesday\, March 26\, 2014\n8:00 p.m.\nThe ArQuives\, 34 Isabella St.\, Toronto\nJoin James Kudelka\, Danny Grossman and other panelists for a lively discussion about the dance profession ‒ both past and present ‒ as an environment for queer expression. Moderated by Graham Jackson\, author and Jungian analyst. \nNote both events are pay what you can.
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SUMMARY:Colour Coded: queer abstraction meets fruity frosting
DESCRIPTION:Ian Phillips is a visual artist and publisher whose small literary and art press\, Pas de chance\, has been active for over twenty-five years. In a chance pairing\, the artists’ unique bodies of work come together not only through a common interest in illustration\, but also through the transformative and queer—potential of colour\, shape\, and form. \nExhibit dates:\nFriday\, September 13\, 2013 to Friday\, November 1\, 2013 \nReception date & time:\nFriday\, September 13\, 2013 7:30pm \nDescription:\nNOTE: Exhibition closes November 1\, 2013. Tours can be arranged for November 2 and 3 by contacting The ArQuives\, no later than one week in advance. \nWhat makes an object queer? Using this question as a guide\, genderqueer artist Jamie Q explores how identity informs their abstract artwork. A series of paintings inspired by Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology proposes answers to this question\, queering our reading of the artist’s playful\, colour coated sculptures. Ian Phillips unearths a vibrant queer history by painting his hometown pink\, the colour of the icing on Thunder Bay’s iconic pastry. In doing so\, he discovers his own conflict in dealing with the community’s homophobia\, past and present. Through lighthearted postcard-like images he responds to letters collected from Thunder Bay media. This work is a celebration of Thunder Bay and the struggle its lesbian\, gay\, and trans* communities face. \nThis exhibition is co–curated by Jamie Q and Ian Phillips. \nJoin the Facebook event page for the opening reception:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/381940325265348/ \nBiographies: \nJamie Q works in a variety of media including painting\, drawing\, zine-making\, printmaking\, and sculpture.
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SUMMARY:TORNADO TAG TEAM Artistic\, Cultural\, and Activist Responses to TAG TEAM: Gay Premises and Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archive\, 1973-1983
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \nWednesday\, August 28\, 2013\nReception date & time: \n\n\nAugust 28\, 2013\, 7:00-9:00 pm\n\n\nDescription:\nTORNADO TAG TEAM\n\n\n\n\n\nArtistic\, Cultural\, and Activist Responses to TAG TEAM: Gay Premises and Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archive\, 1973-1983\nArtist/Curator Tour\, Video Screening\, and a Public Conversation\n\nWednesday\, August 28\, 2013\, 7:00-9:00 pm\nCanadian Lesbian and Gay Archives\n34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\n\n\nARTIST PARTICIPANTS:\nSharlene Bamboat & Dina Georgis\, Anthea Black\, Eugenio Salas\, and Robert Waters\n\nCOMMENTATORS:\nElspeth Brown\, Richard Fung\, Sara Matthews\, Cait McKinney\, Alexis Mitchell\, Trish Salah\, and Rinaldo Walcott\n\nREFEREES:\nDina Georgis and Erin Silver\n\nThe term “tornado tag team” refers to a style of tag team wrestling in which all participants are allowed to be in the ring at once. TORNADO TAG TEAM\, part of TAG TEAM: Gay Premises\, is the culmination of projects and interventions created and enacted by artists Sharlene Bamboat & Dina Georgis\, Anthea Black\, Eugenio Salas\, and Robert Waters at The ArQuives during the 2013 Pride exhibition Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983. Having accepted an invitation to reflect on and respond to not only Gay Premises\, but also broader histories of The Body Politic\, The ArQuives\, and gay liberation\, the artists that form TAG TEAM now reveal the outcome\, both anticipated and unanticipated\, of their archival excavations and creations and share their reflections on interpreting the archive through the privilege of the queer present.\n\nJoining Bamboat & Georgis\, Black\, Salas\, and Waters for this final intervention at The ArQuives\, a group of Toronto-based artists\, academics\, cultural workers\, and activists will respond to both Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983 and TAG TEAM: Gay Premises in the form of a tag team conversation. This conversation will include short commentaries on the artists’ works\, the curatorial premise\, the exhibition to which TAG TEAM responds\, and the politics\, problems\, and potential of mutability in queer archiving from a variety of generational perspectives and positionalities. The format of the conversation will be a playful\, experimental form of knowledge-sharing that encourages both interruption and flow.\n\nImage: Still image from In Queer Corners (Sharlene Bamboat & Dina Georgis). Image courtesy of The ArQuives.\n\nVIDEO: Watch Sharlene Bamboat and Dina Georgis’ video collaboration\, In Queer Corners (2013)\, here: https://vimeo.com/73004779 \n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\nBIOGRAPHIES OF ARTISTS\n\nSharlene Bamboat is a mixed media artist\, working predominantly in film\, video and performance. Through a re-examination of history\, Bamboat elicits tongue-in-cheek videos and performances to question our contemporary moment marked by colonialism and neoliberalism. Bamboat works largely in collaboration\, most notably as part of Bambitchell with artist Alexis Mitchell. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She is on the programming committee of the Pleasure Dome Film & Video Collective\, and works as the Artistic Director for SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto.\n\nAnthea Black is a Canadian artist\, writer\, and cultural worker. Her work in print\, textiles\, performance and video sets a stage for collaborative encounters and inserts intimate gestures into public spaces. She has exhibited throughout Canada and the United States and has circulated collaborative print editions in cities across North America through her ongoing artist-curatorial project\, looking for love in all the wrong places. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications and her collaborative writing with Nicole Burisch is included in The Craft Reader (BERG\, 2010) and Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke University Press\, 2011). Her most recent curatorial project\, No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen\, considers the spatial politics of queer film and video.\n\nEugenio Salas (Mexico City\, 1976) is a Toronto-based artist. His practice seeks to disrupt social roles and dynamics\, exploring the symbolic spaces that unfold. He carries out collaborative site-specific and process-based performances\, employing intervention\, video\, film\, animation\, photography\, artist books and installation mediums.\n\nRobert Waters (London\, Ontario 1974) is a Canadian artist currently living in the Basque Country\, Spain. His multi-disciplinary practice explores social and epistemological transformations that enlighten processes of human domestication and constraint. Presenting the human body and art as sources of political action\, his work provokes a questioning of self-knowledge and social control\, with the aim of finding and demonstrating possibilities for emancipation and freedom. He has exhibited on five different continents and is represented in Toronto by pm Gallery. (www.robertwaters.ca)\n\n\nBIOGRAPHIES OF COMMENTATORS\nElspeth H. Brown is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States and the American Studies Program\, University of Toronto (http://www.utoronto.ca/). Her research focuses on U.S. social and cultural history from the Gilded Age through the 1980s. Professor Brown’s work has focused on the rationalization of the body under advanced capitalism\, with a specific interest in the historical relationship between visuality and subject formation\, including racial\, class\, gender and sexual difference.  She has received fellowships from the Getty Research Institute; the National Museum of American History; the American Council of Learned Societies; the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the Library of Congress Kluge Center; the American Philosophical Society\, and others. She is the author of The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture\, 1884-1929 (Johns Hopkins\, 2005) and co-editor of Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business Culture\, 1877-1960 (Palgrave\, 2006).\n\nRichard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist\, writer and activist. His tapes include Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians (1985)\, My Mother’s Place (1990)\, Dirty Laundry (1996)\, Sea in the Blood (2000) and Dal Puri Diaspora (2012). He is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of 13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics and his essays include the much anthologized “Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn.” Richard is a winner of the Bell Canada and Toronto Arts Awards\, among other honours. He teaches in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University.\n\nSara Matthews is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her interdisciplinary work brings aesthetic and cultural theory to the study of violence and the dynamics of social conflict. Her current research considers how contemporary Canadian War Artists are responding to Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. In addition to her academic work\, Sara curates aesthetic projects that archive visual encounters with legacies of war and social trauma. Her critical writing has appeared in PUBLIC\, FUSE Magazine and in exhibition essays for the Art Gallery of Bishops University and YYZ.\n\nCait McKinney is a PhD candidate in the Communication and Culture Program at York University. Her dissertation research examines the cultural politics of online media in queer and feminist archival contexts. Her writing has been published through Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual Culture\, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies\, the Sewall Belmont House Museum and Library\, and the Visible Cities Project and Archive.\n\nAlexis Mitchell is a Toronto-based media artist and scholar whose work utilizes architecture and the built environment to explore notions of memory\, queerness\, performance\, and contemporary formations of Jewish identity and politics. She received her MFA in Film and Video Production from York University in 2010 where her thesis video CAMP won the award for Best Upcoming Director at the World Film Festival. Other works include: Queeropolis: 1972-2008 in collaboration with Tori Foster and The Break which was awarded a Special Jury Mention at Inside Out Film Festival in Toronto. Mitchell often works in collaboration with artist Sharlene Bamboat under the name Bambitchell. Together their works include a performance-based sound installation entitled Border Sounds and a video series called Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts. Mitchell is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography at the University of Toronto and is a member of Pleasure Dome’s Programming Collective.\n\nTrish Salah is a writer and a lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her writing appears in recent issues of The Volta\, Feminist Studies\, and The Cordite Poetry Review\, and in the collections\, Troubling the Line\, Selling Sex\, and Féminismes électriques. Her current research is on the emergence of transsexual and transgender literatures. She sits on the editorial board of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly\, and is co-editing the journal’s fourth issue\, focused on Trans Cultural Production. She is the author of Wanting in Arabic (TSAR 2002)\, and recently completed a new poetry manuscript\, Lyric Sexology.\n\nRinaldo Walcott is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. His research and teaching is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities\, masculinity and cultural politics. A secondary research area is multicultural and transnational debates with an emphasis on nation\, citizenship and coloniality. As an interdisciplinary scholar Rinaldo has published on music\, literature\, film and theater among other topics. All of Rinaldo’s research is founded in a philosophical orientation that is concerned with the ways in which coloniality shapes human relations across social and cultural time. Rinaldo is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada (Insonmiac Press\, 1997 with a second revised edition in 2003); he is also the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Insomniac\, 2000); and the Co-editor with Roy Moodley of Counselling Across and Beyond Cultures: Exploring the Work of Clemment Vontress in Clinical Practice (University of Toronto Press\, 2010).\n\nBIOGRAPHIES OF REFEREES\nDina Georgis teaches at University of Toronto at the Institute of Women and Gender Studies. She writes on postcolonial\, diasporic and queer losses. Interested in the affective residues of trauma in narrative and aesthetic production\, her book\, The Better Story: Queer affects from the Middle East (SUNY\, 2013)\, considers the emotional dynamics of political conflict and the histories and futures made from them.\n\nErin Silver completed a PhD in Art History and Gender & Women’s Studies at McGill University in 2013. Her dissertation provided a queer feminist historiographical analysis of histories of North American feminist and queer art production\, as framed by feminist and queer alternative art institutions and spaces from 1970 to 2012. Silver has curated several exhibitions\, including Coming through the Fog: les rencontres de Matthieu Brouillard et de Donigan Cumming\, at the FOFA Gallery in 2012\, and is currently working on an exhibition on affect\, immersion\, and synesthesia in contemporary queer intermedia practices\, to open in 2014. Silver has taught Art History at Concordia University\, OCAD University\, and the University of Guelph. Her writing has been published in C Magazine\, Ciel Variable\, FUSE Magazine\, and No More Potlucks.
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SUMMARY:No Looking After the Internet
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nTuesday\, July 23\, 2013\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nCo-facilitated with Erin Silver and Karen Stanworth\nCoordinated by Gabrielle Moser\nTuesday\, July 23\, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.\nCanadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (34 Isabella St.)\n\nJoin the Facebook event here: No Looking Afer the Internet\n\nNo Looking After the Internet is a monthly “looking group” that invites participants to look at a photograph (or series of photographs) they are unfamiliar with\, and “read” the image out-loud together. Chosen in relation to an exhibition\, an artist’s body of work\, or an ongoing research project\, the looking group will focus on difficult images that present a challenge to practices of looking. If these images ask the viewer to occupy the position of the witness\, No Looking offers the space and time to look at these photographs in detail: to return to these difficult scenes in another context where we can look at them slowly and unpack our responses to the image.Premised on the idea that we don’t always trust our interpretive abilities as viewers\, the aim of\n\nNo Looking is to examine the differences between witnessing and looking. How does a slower  form of looking allow us to be self-reflexive about our role as spectators? How do we look at  these images differently when we interpret them with a community of others? No Looking takes its inspiration and name from No Reading After the Internet\, an out-loud reading and discussion group facilitated by cheyanne turions and Alexander Muir that meets regularly in Toronto and Vancouver (http://noreadingaftertheinternet.wordpress.com/). Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983\n\nIn dialogue with the exhibition Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983 at The ArQuives\, and its critical counterpart of collaborative interventions\, TAG TEAM\, this month’s looking group will examine images included in the Photograph Wall: a key component of the exhibition. Incorporating photographs from the thousands of images in The ArQuives that were produced for The Body Politic\, a Toronto-based gay newspaper that was a dominant voice in the body politics of the LGBTQ+ communities in Canada in the 1970s\, the Photograph Wall mimics a photo editor’s wall and encourages viewers to respond to\, label and narrativize the archives’ photographic holdings. While The ArQuives has made significant efforts to identify the individuals\, places\, and events depicted in these images\, the Photograph Wall hopes to further identify elements in the unknown photographs by asking gallery visitors to “write” on the wall or to contribute their own text or images.\n\nFocusing on the images included in the Photo Wall\, the July meeting of No Looking aims to interrogate what we—as viewers—want from photographs of the past and to question the kinds of narratives we try to make from them when they withhold easy answers. How does the anonymity of the subjects of these photographs\, and their “out-of-placeness” in the archives\, trouble our viewing experience? What are the difficulties and pleasures we encounter by “not knowing” about the context in which these photographs were produced? And how might  the space of the gallery exhibition open up new interpretive possibilities for these archival documents?\n\nThis edition of No Looking is organized in collaboration with Erin Silver’s project\, TAG TEAM: Gay Premises.\n\nBiographies:\nErin Silver completed a PhD in Art History and Gender & Women’s Studies at McGill University in 2013\, focusing on histories of North American feminist and queer art production\, as framed by feminist and queer alternative art institutions and spaces from 1970 to 2012. Silver has curated several exhibitions\, including Coming through the Fog: les rencontres de Matthieu Brouillard et de Donigan Cumming\, at the FOFA Gallery\, in 2012\, and is currently working on an exhibition of queer immersive and intermedia practices\, to open in 2014. Silver has taught Art History at Concordia University\, OCAD University\, and the University of Guelph. Her writing has been published in C Magazine\, Ciel Variable\, Fuse Magazine\, and No More Potlucks.\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Stanworth is an associate professor\, joint-appointed to the faculties of Fine Arts and Education at York University in Toronto\, Canada. She has just completed a manuscript on visual culture in Canada\, entitled Visibly Canadian: Imagining Identities in Canada\, 1820-1910\, which examines the imaging and imagining of social identities through art and popular visual practices in Ontario. Karen has recently returned to curatorial work with her project: Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983\, at the Canadian and Lesbian Gay Archives\, June – Sept 2013. This is the second of a three-part curatorial exploration of the archives. Last year\, she curated Public Sins/Private Desires: Tracing lesbian lives in the archives\, 1950-1980\, summer 2012. Next year’s exhibition focuses on queer migration to Canada in the 1980 and 90s\, and videos of “home.”\n\nGabrielle Moser is a writer and independent curator. She is currently curator in residence as part of Gallery TPW R&D. She regularly contributes to Artforum.com\, and her writing has appeared in venues including ARTnews\, Canadian Art\, Fillip\, n paradoxa\, and Photography & Culture. She has curated exhibitions for Access Gallery\, Gallery TPW\, the Leona Drive Project and Vtape. She is a PhD candidate in art history and visual culture at York University\, where she also teaches.
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LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
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