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.
Online Queer Trivia Night: Will you be my (queer) valentine?
Online , CanadaJoin us on February 11, 2021, for Queer Trivia Night as we celebrate Valentine's Day. [...]
Online Queer Trivia: Trailblazers – Celebrating LGBTQ2S+ firsts
Ontario, CanadaJoin us for Online Queer Trivia: Trailblazers - Celebrating LGBTQ2S+ firsts!
Online Trivia Night: Fashion
Ontario, CanadaQUEER 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!!!!!!
The ArQuives’ Trans Collections Guide Launch
Ontario, CanadaThe LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory and The ArQuives invite you to celebrate the launch of The ArQuives' Trans Collections Guide on December 3rd, 2020 - 4-6 pm EST.
Historical Inequities Community Consultation
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaWe invite you to join us on November 25 at 7 pm for community consultation and discussion around The ArQuives Historical Inequities draft statement.
Tape Condition: degraded
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTape 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.
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.