At The ArQuives, we believe in the importance of acting as an educational resource to the community.
Our main avenues for providing educational support are through presentations about our LGBTQ2+ Inclusive Education resources for high schools, presentations about our collections, tours of our Jared Sessions House, where we hold public programming and our collections reside, and walking tours of Toronto’s LGBTQ2+ historical neighbourhoods.
We Could Be Heroes (Just For One Day)
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaLGBTQ+ communities and community-based archives have long searched for ‘gay heroes’ to showcase both queer existence and accomplishment across time and space.
Traces
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaFor 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.
Dissident Family
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"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.
Queering Space
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPresented 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.
Marked: Tattoos & Queer Identity
Ontario, CanadaExhibit dates: Thursday, April 9, 2015 to Friday, May 29, 2015 Reception date & time: [...]
Code, Read: Hollywood’s Hays Code and the Queer Stereotypes of the Silver Screen
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaFrom 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.
Butch: Not Like the Other Girls
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaButch: Not Like the Other Girls is a photographic exploration of the liminal spaces occupied by female masculinity in contemporary communities by photographer SD Holman.
Imaging Home: Resistance, Migration, Contradiction
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 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.
TAG TEAM: Gay Premises
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTaken 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.
Sex Lives and Videotape
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSex Lives and Videotape is the latest in a series of interactive community events exploring the diverse materiality of artifacts within The ArQuives.
Rocking the Boat: Celebrating Queer Content in Canadian Concert Dance
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPerformance art, cabaret and burlesque are accepted arenas for expression of queer themes through movement; but what about the more conventional world of dance performance?
Colour Coded: queer abstraction meets fruity frosting
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaIan 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.
TORNADO TAG TEAM Artistic, Cultural, and Activist Responses to TAG TEAM: Gay Premises and Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archive, 1973-1983
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaArtistic, Cultural, and Activist Responses to TAG TEAM: Gay Premises and Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archive, 1973-1983
No Looking After the Internet
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaExhibit dates: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 Description: Co-facilitated with Erin Silver and Karen Stanworth Coordinated [...]
Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives, 1973-1983 and TAG TEAM: Gay Premises
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAn exhibit that looks at the ways in which The Body Politic, a Toronto-based gay newspaper (1971-1987), became a dominant voice in the body politics of the LGBTQ+ communities in Canada.