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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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SUMMARY:Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983 and TAG TEAM: Gay Premises
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nFriday\, June 14\, 2013 to Wednesday\, September 4\, 2013\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nFriday\, June 14\, 7;30PM\n\n\n\n\nAn 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.\n\n\n\n\nDescription:\n\n\nClick here for full statement on: Censorship\, Accident and Intervention at Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983 + 2013.\n\nGay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983 looks at the ways in which The Body Politic (TBP)\, a Toronto-based gay newspaper (1971-1987)\, became a dominant voice in the body politics of the LGBTQ+ communities in Canada. On the 40th anniversary of the founding of The ArQuives (The ArQuives)\, the exhibition has been envisioned as a way to think about the significance of the radical politics that shaped the archive’s origin and affects its future. In providing ways to engage with the political bodies that participated in the ‘gay’ liberation movement\, the project seeks to broaden and complicate the record by retrieving traces of the diverse queer populations that were active across Canada. The premise of the exhibition is that a diversity of men and women participated in the Gay Liberation Front\, Women’s lib\, feminists\, Socialists\, activists and writers came together\, argued\, raised collective consciousness and chose separate paths. Their writing\, photographs\, songs and protest rallies were the many voices of collective action. Sometimes fierce\, other times collaborative\, these young people radicalized their peers and effected generational change.\n\nThe focus of the project is on the period from 1973 to 1983\, which begins with the formation of the archives and ends with application of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (passed 1982). The documents and images are drawn largely from their complete holdings of TBP(established 1971) and the wide collection of radical press periodicals held by The ArQuives. A gay premises\, the archives was vulnerable to raids and repressive laws. Broadening the understanding of the topics discussed and the forms of consensus and decision making about what to print and when\, the project reveals the fabric of the everyday in a visual and tactile fashion.\n\nThe curated display features original submissions\, photographs\, posters\, cartoons and news items from activists who contributed to TBP and to other radical gay publications that formed the core of the early collection of The ArQuives.\n\nThis exhibition closes on  Wednesday\, September 4\, 2013 at 10:00 pm.\n\nTAG TEAM: Gay Premises\, is a collaborative and intergenerational art project that invites artists to contribute\, intervene\, and question the critical exploration of Canada’s gay liberation history and the way that GLBTQ+ histories have been promoted and preserved in the archives. Click here for details.\n\nTORNADO TAG TEAM: Artistic\, Cultural\, and Archivist Responses to Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983 and TAG TEAM: Gay Premises\, a special event on Wednesday\, August 28\, 2013. Click here for details.\n\n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\nCURATOR (Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archive\, 1973-1983)\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 19th-century 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\nCURATOR (TAG TEAM:Gay Premises)\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.\n\nBIOGRAPHIES OF ARTISTS (TAG TEAM: Gay Premises / TORNADO TAG TEAM)\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 (TORNADO TAG TEAM)\n\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/csus/). 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\n\nBIOGRAPHIES OF REFEREES (TORNADO TAG TEAM)\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\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:Pride Show: Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983
DESCRIPTION:Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983 \n\nExhibit opening June 14\, 2013 at The ArQuives\n\nGay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives\, 1973-1983 looks at the ways in which The Body Politic (TBP)\, a Toronto-based gay newspaper (1971-1987)\, became a dominant voice in the body politics of the LGBTQ+ communities in Canada. On the 40th anniversary of the founding of The ArQuives (The ArQuives)\, the exhibition has been envisioned as a way to think about the significance of the radical politics that shaped the archive’s origin and affects its future. In providing ways to engage with the political bodies that participated in the ‘gay’ liberation movement\, the project seeks to broaden and complicate the record by retrieving traces of the diverse queer populations that were active across Canada. The premise of the exhibition is that a diversity of men and women participated in the Gay Liberation Front\, Women’s lib\, feminists\, Socialists\, activists and writers came together\, argued\, raised collective consciousness and chose separate paths. Their writing\, photographs\, songs and protest rallies were the many voices of collective action. Sometimes fierce\, other times collaborative\, these young people radicalized their peers and effected generational change.\n\nThe focus of the project is on the period from 1973 to 1983\, which begins with the formation of the archives and ends with application of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (passed 1982). The documents and images are drawn largely from their complete holdings of TBP (established 1971) and the wide collection of radical press periodicals held by The ArQuives. A gay premises\, the archives was vulnerable to raids and repressive laws. Broadening the understanding of the topics discussed and the forms of consensus and decision making about what to print and when\, the project reveals the fabric of the everyday in a visual and tactile fashion.\n\nThe curated display features original submissions\, photographs\, posters\, cartoons and news items from activists who contributed to TBP and to other radical gay publications that formed the core of the early collection of The ArQuives. TAG TEAM: Gay Premises\, is a collaborative and intergenerational art project that invites artists to contribute\, intervene\, and question the critical exploration of Canada’s gay liberation history and the way that GLBTQ+ histories have been promoted and preserved in the archives.
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SUMMARY:The Practice of Everyday Freedom: Richard Hudler and Rupert Raj
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nFriday\, May 3\, 2013 to Wednesday\, June 5\, 2013\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nFriday\, May 3\, 7.30pm\n\n\n\n\nThe ArQuives are proud to welcome Richard Hudler & Rupert Raj into the NPC.\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nThe practice of everyday freedom is “the means by which people deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” – Pablo Friere \nThe ArQuives are proud to welcome Richard Hudler and Rupert Raj into the National Portrait Collection. \nHudler and Raj live rich lives in which their everyday actions can be understood a liberatory. Both are trailblazers who have improved the life chances for LGBTQ+ Canadians. \nThrough artistic interpretations of archival material from The ArQuives and the Pride Library from the University of Western Ontario\, The Practice of Everyday Freedom celebrates and explores key contributions\, moments\, and accomplishments in the lives of Hudler and Raj. \nThe exhibition features newly commissioned portraits of the inductees by Maya Suess and Matthew Tarini. \nABOUT THE INDUCTEES \nRICHARD HUDLER\nBorn in the United States in 1942\, Richard Hudler is a social worker and an activist who has been working tirelessly to advocate for gay and lesbian rights since immigrating to Canada in 1971. \nWorking for 5 years in Goderich as a counsellor for the Ontario ministry of Community and Social Services\, Hudler moved to London Ontario where he pursued a career as a social worker\, entering private practice in 1985. \nIn 1980 Hudler joined the board of HALO\, and starting in 1981\, became the long serving board president. He represented HALO through the Project Guardian scandal with the local police\, and in 1995 Hudler filed an official complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission against London Mayor Diane Haskett when she refused to issue a Gay Pride Proclamation. \nAn early member of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario\, Hudler continues his activism through Queer Ontario\, a provincial network of individuals — and their allies committed to questioning\, challenging\, and reforming the laws\, institutional practices\, and social norms that regulate queer people. \nHe has a BA (Roosevelt University\, 1965) and a Master in Social Work (Wilfred Laurier University\, 1978). \nRUPERT RAJ\nBorn in 1952\, Rupert Raj is a Eurasian counsellor/psychotherapist\, clinical researcher\, educator\, lecturer\, writer\, editor\, activist and Gender Specialist. He is a trailblazing activist who has been paving the way to improve life chances for trans people across Canada and around the world since 1971\, the year before his own transition. \nDuring the ‘70s and ‘80s\, Mr. Raj established and operated three transsexual organizations: Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals (FACT)\, Metamorphosis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF)\, and GenderWorker. Concurrently\, he also edited and published three TS periodicals: Gender Review\, Metamorphosis Newsletter/Metamorphosis Magazine and GenderNetworker. \nIn 1999\, Rupert co-founded a peer-support group for transmen and female-to-males (part of the Meal-Trans Program at the 519 Community Centre)\, as well as a support group for transpeople who use or have used alcohol and/or drugs. \nHe has Bachelors in Psychology (Carleton University\, 1975)\, and a Masters in Counseling Psychology (Adler School of Professional Psychology\, 2001). \nCurrently Mr. Raj works at the Sherbourne Health Centre as an LGBT Mental Health Counsellor and maintains his own private practice\, RR CONSULTING. \n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nMatthew Tarini is realist painter living in Toronto\, particularly interested in portraiture. He is actively building a body of work in this genre. \nMaya Suess’ work uses playful aesthetics to explore identity\, sexuality and practical magic. She holds a BFA in Media Arts from Emily Carr Institute\, and an MFA in contemporary performance from Simon Fraser University. Born on a small island off the coast of western Canada\, today she lives and works in Brooklyn\, New York. \nABOUT THE CURATORS \nCanadian born Ted Kerr is currently living in New York City where he is attending the Writing and Democracy program at the New School and working with Visual AIDS. Kerr was a founding member of Exposure: Edmonton’s Queer Arts and Culture Festival. \nAidan Cowling is a Toronto based artist\, curator and educator. He has worked closely with the Seoul Museum of Art\, The Cheongju International Craft Biennale\, and has led various youth art programs across Canada\, South Korea and Cambodia. Cowling is currently working as the Communications Coordinator for the Toronto Images Festival. His artistic practice investigates notions of queer space through the use of installation.
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LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:The Reason and The Ride
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nTuesday\, March 12\, 2013 to Thursday\, April 11\, 2013 \nReception date & time:\nThursday\, March 14\, 7.30 pm \n15 years of the Friends For Life Bike Rally \nDescription:\nIn 1999 two men\, Danny Nashman and David Linton\, decided to ride their bicycles from Toronto to Montreal to raise funds for charity. At the time\, theToronto People With Aids Foundation (PWA) was facing a revenue shortfall and without an immediate cash infusion it would have to diminish the services it provided to its clients. The two men created the Friends For Life Bike Rally to meet this critical need. That first year a total of twenty-seven individuals set out to ride their bicycles over 600 km. That first year\, they raised $44\,498 for PWA. Since 1999\, over $10 million has been raised by the Bike Rally for PWA. \nThis year the Bike Rally is celebrating its 15th anniversary.  This exhibit is a look back\, not just on the previous fourteen Bike Rallies\, but also on the parallel growth of PWA and the incredible support it has given to people living with HIV and AIDS since 1999. The Reason and the Ride has been made possible through cooperation with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (The ArQuives) as a part of their 40th anniversary celebration. Just like The ArQuives\, the Bike Rally has grown to become an institution within Toronto’s queer community. In partnering together\, we have created an opportunity to explore the personal histories\, the triumphs\, and even the losses in the Bike Rally’s history. Here at The ArQuives we invite you to explore this commemoration of the journey that the Friends For Life Bike Rally has made\, and will continue to make to support PWA.\nPWA is the largest direct support service agency for people living with HIV/AIDS in Canada. There are more than 15\,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto; this represents approximately one quarter of Canada’s HIV-positive population. Last year alone\, PWA provided over 62\,000 unique services to more than 2\,000 individuals. \nBiographies:\nCurated By: \n\nTom Spence\n\nContributing Artists: \n\nJames Forrester\nBrian Lawrence\nAndrew Glenn\nMark Fisher\n\nProduced With: \n\nMith Das\nAbraham Grigaitis\nDaniela Mason\nTim Ledger\nAndrew McDonald\nMark Scheibmayr\nMike Smith\nKevin Wolfley
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LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:In the Image of
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\n\nFriday\, February 8\, 2013 to Sunday\, March 3\, 2013\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nFriday\, February 8\, 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nTwelve young artists come together in this exhibition that surveys varied ways in which the human being is perceived\, deconstructed\, fantasized\, documented\, and expressed through visualizations of the human form.\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nTwelve young artists come together in this exhibition that surveys varied ways in which the human being is perceived\, deconstructed\, fantasized\, documented\, and expressed through visualizations of the human form. Painting\, photography\, and drawing explore both queer and broad identity performances in a range of roles\, from political actor to biophysical specimen\, and fantasy figure to musing mind. Artworks will be engaged in dialogue with images and artifacts from within the holdings of the Archives. \nImage Credit:\nAlfie Lam\, Facial (Self Portrait)\, 2007. Acrylic on canvas\, 40 x 30. \nCurated by:\nWilliam Craddock \n\n\n\n\nArtists:\n\nWilliam Craddock\nAdrienne Crossman\nFranco Deleo\nSholem Krishtalka\nRicky Kruger\nAlfred Lam\nScooter McCreight\nMatthew Ratcliffe\nLogan Salter\nNeil Silverman\nCraig Skinner\nMichael Smith
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LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130122
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SUMMARY:words\, wit\, wisdom and wool
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:  \n\n\nFriday\, December 7\, 2012 to Monday\, January 21\, 2013\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nFriday\, December 7\,2012\n\n\n\n\na series of textile pieces that take words of wit and words of wisdom – all from a gay male perspective – and translates them into visual documents.\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nWords\, Wit\, Wisdom and Wool is a series of textile pieces that take words of wit and words of wisdom – all from a gay male perspective – and translates them into visual documents. Gould states\, “I have been rather catholic in my choice of sources\, from the internet – Squirt.Org (enough said!) to poetry and prose – Walt Whitman and Thomas Glave – song lyrics and personal musings from my 90 year old mother. Some of the texts are bawdy\, some loving and some perhaps slightly out there\, but they all represent a grab bag of sentences and paragraphs that I have found inspiring and interesting and funny enough to lose blood over!” \nPress Release \n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\nMatt Gould was born and raised on the prairies\, lived in Toronto\, France\, Vancouver and on-board cruise ships plying the seas of Alaska\, the Caribbean and New York to Bermuda. His work is found in public\, corporate and private collections in Canada\, the US and Europe. Gould has worked as an industrial\, residential and commercial designer\, a playwright\, a singer and a theatre director\, all of which feed his rapacious appetite for self-expression. He currently lives in Red Deer Alberta with his partner\, where he walks the fine line between the solitary pursuit of a visual artist and the wildly communal existence of an Artistic Director for a theatre company.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/words-wit-wisdom-and-wool/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121204
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SUMMARY:Libraries
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nFriday\, October 26\, 2012 to Monday\, December 3\, 2012\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nFriday\, October 26\, 7:30-10 pm\n\n\n\n\nWorks concerned with classification and normalization of the body\, and of beauty in unexpected places.\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n‘Libraries‘ is built from three installation artworks: ‘Library of Depth and Gender‘\, ‘Library of a Traveling Dandy‘\, and ‘Delineate‘. Each of these works is concerned with classification and normalization of the body\, and of beauty in unexpected places. The work functions as an axis where knowledge\, nature\, and gender intersect to investigate how we classify and order the world around us\, what the process of selection reveals\, and questions who makes those decisions. \nIn ‘Library of Depth and Gender‘\, McPhee creates a library containing natural history books\, Foucault and queer theory\, as well as monster movies\, Darwin-jellyfish footstools and miscellany of her drag persona Cosimo. ‘Library of a Traveling Dandy‘ posits an early 1900s science writer dandy who travels across North America with nothing but books and a wardrobe. The 65 drawings of cephalopods (squid\, octopus\, nautilus) of ‘Delineation‘ function as an illustration of an Other body\, existing in a realm beyond our access. \nAdmission to the Archives Gallery is free. \nFully accessible. \n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\nNancy Anne McPhee is a textile installation artist originally from Alberta and now based in Montréal\, Québec. McPhee works with themes of knowledge\, gender and biological bodies\, in large-scale drawings\, silk trapunto quilt installations and theatrical performances as a collective member of the Drag King troupe Dukes of Drag. She has shown across Canada in commercial galleries\, artist run centres and public theatres\, recently including a solo exhibition at Galerie FOFA\, Montréal\, and as a performer in Dukes Up! at the historic Café Cleopatra Drag Bar in Montréal. \nPress Release: http://embracedisruption.com/2012/10/15/client-news-libraries-exhibit-merges-monster-movies-with-a-drag-persona/
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LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121023
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SUMMARY:Pushing Buttons
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nFriday\, September 28\, 2012 to Monday\, October 22\, 2012\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nFriday\, September 28\, 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\nIn Pushing Buttons\, the online is brought into the physical – space and content are reimagined\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nPushing Buttons reimagines the space of The Pin Button Project\, (In Pushing Buttons\, the online is brought into the physical – space and content are reimagined. The spectator becomes a witness to the historical and present roles of pin buttons. \n\n\n\n\nBiographies: \n\n\nArtist/curator\, Wil Craddock\, presents an archive of virtual chat about pin buttons
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/pushing-buttons/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120810
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120925
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SUMMARY:At the Same Time
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates:\nFriday\, August 10\, 2012 to Monday\, September 24\, 2012 \nReception date & time:\nFriday\, August 10\, 7:30-10:00\nThree takes on living as couples\, here\, there\, and there. \nDescription:\nThree takes on living as couples\, here\, there\, and there. \nBiographies:\nArtist/curators: Steven Beckly & Dylan MacNeil (Toronto)\, Zachary Ayotte & Ted Kerr (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Colin Quinn & Oisín Share (Manchester\, UK)
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/at-the-same-time/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120622
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SUMMARY:Public Sins / Private Desires: Tracing Lesbian Lives in the Archives\, 1950 - 1980
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \nFriday\, June 22\, 2012 to Monday\, August 6\, 2012\nReception date & time:\nFriday\, June 22\, 7:00pm\n\n\nDescription: \nPublic Sins/Private Desires\, celebrates the 20th anniversary of Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman’s 1992 documentary\, Forbidden Love: Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Livesand examines the contradictions\, tensions and victories in the daily lives of lesbians during the period from 1950 to 1980. The culmination of several activities seeking the participation of older lesbians in Toronto\, the exhibition includes the presentation of the film Forbidden Love and display of related artifacts. Lesbian pulp fiction of the period is used to provoke conversation about the apparently simple dichotomies of femme/butch identities. The installation seeks to document and trouble the records of public and private lives of lesbians in the 1950s\, 60s and 70s – and their forbidden loves. Thematic enquiries about love – play – work surface in interviews and prompt questions about degrees of visibility in daily lives. Often the last place to be ‘out’\, the work environment rarely supported anything other than a strict heterosexuality. In querying the complexity of lived experience that could shift from hidden to out within minutes\, the exhibition seeks to draw attention to the women’s voices that linger in the archives. Audio recordings allow the anonymous and unknown to acquire a certain presence – stories of trauma\, relief and laughter inhabit the exhibition\, bringing life to the bits and pieces of ephemera that serve to document these lives.\n\n\nCurated by Karen Stanworth\, with the assistance of curatorial intern\, Talia Linz\, the exhibition is produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council\, and supporting partner\, Special Collections\, York University. Karen also receive a Minor Research grant from the Faculty of Fine Arts\, York University. \nSee also: The lesbian pulp fiction virtual exhibition drawn from the Dworin Collection at Special Collections\, York University \n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\nLynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman are interdisciplinary artists and award-winning filmmakers\, who co-directed the Genie and internationally award-winning documentaries Forbidden Love: Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992) and Fiction and Other Truths: a Film about Jane Rule (1995). \nKaren Stanworth\, the curator\, is an historian of visual culture at York University and has published on visual culture and feminist cultural history. \nTalia Linz\, co-curator\,and curatorial intern has just completed a collaborative Masters in Curating and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition is produced with the support of the Toronto Arts Council\, and with supporting partners\, Special Collections\, York University.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/public-sins-private-desires-tracing-lesbian-lives-in-the-archives-1950-1980/
LOCATION:Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120612
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SUMMARY:Looking Forward/Looking Back:25 Lives 14 years later
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nFriday\, May 11\, 2012 to Monday\, June 11\, 2012\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nFriday\, May 11\, 7.30 PM\n\n\nDescription: \nA retrospective with a twist\, Looking Back / Looking Forward looks back to the first exhibition of The ArQuives national portrait collection (npc) in 1998\, on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the cLGA.  kd lang\, Richard Fung\, Gloria Eshkibok\, Svend Robinson\, Douglas Stewart and Jane Rule were among the first 25 men and women whose portraits were commissioned for inclusion in the npc. Focusing on the first 25 inductees to the npc\, we now ask: where are they today\, 14 years later? And we ask of the npc: how can this portrait collection continue to contribute to queer identity formation? How do practices of commemoration function to create knowledge? What responsibility should we take in authorizing a history in portraiture?\n\n\nThe exhibition features recent images\, stories\, and memories of and about the sitters. some of the original inductees will be present at the opening\, as well as one of the original co-curators\, Bruce Jones.\n\nThe exhibition is sponsored in part through anonymous donations\, including support for the curatorial internship held by co-curator\, Jessica Parker.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/looking-forward-looking-back25-lives-14-years-later/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120411
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SUMMARY:Lez Con: An exhibition by Onya Hogan-Finlay
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nFriday\, January 20\, 2012 to Tuesday\, April 10\, 2012\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nFriday\, January 20. 7.30 PM\n\n\n\n\nWhere is the lesbian content? Artist\, Onya Hogan-Finlay\, presents an explorative and humorous exhibition that unearths lesbian representation in The ArQuives.\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nWhere is the lesbian content? Artist\, Onya Hogan-Finlay\, presents an explorative and humorous exhibition that unearths lesbian representation in The ArQuives. Groupings of lesbian books\, periodicals\, journals\, photos\, buttons\, paintings from The ArQuives National Portrait Collection and ephemera appear along side Onya’s limited edition artist multiples\, screen prints\, photo collages\, ink drawings and videos. \nWhile Canadian Content (Can Con) regulations shape the fabric of Canada culture\, Lez Con exposes the often overlooked indexical record of the political\, aesthetic and sex lives of lesbians. Much like the museum\, LGBTQ archives often reproduce institutional sites of hegemonic masculinity that enjoy the same pervasive conditions of white male privilege that underpin Western historical canons. The works in Lez Con represent a platform for lesbians and the artist-curator to image and represent their own eroticisms\, lifestyles\, desires\, and fantasies through a lesbian-to-lesbian gaze which actively challenges the potential misogynist and conventional heteronormative male consumption of women’s bodies. \nA display of the late artist\, activist and promoter\, Will Munro’s series Lezbro is also included in the exhibition. A selection from Munro’s recent donation to The ArQuives will be on view\, including his vinyl records\, posters and a limited edition hand stitched plaid lezbro jacket\, all of which asserts his unwavering support of lesbian culture in a gender segregated LGBTQ community that is too often invisible in gay communities. This vitrine emerges alongside and in relationship to the celebration of Munro’s prolific art practice and relentless investment in the creation of queer spaces in Toronto at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) in the WILL MUNRO: HISTORY\, GLAMOUR\, MAGIC and its extensive off-site programming 11 January – 11 March 2012. \nOn Dec. 10\, 2011\, Onya orchestrated a staged tableau vivant at The ArQuives on Dec. 10. Friends of The ArQuives posed the question: “where’s the lesbian content?” A poster featuring the image was available to the participants and to those who attended the opening on Jan 20\, 2012. \nLez Con appears as a satellite exhibition in conjunction with Coming After\, an international group exhibition on queer time\, curated by Jon Davies at The Power Plant\, (10 December\, 2011 – 4 March\, 2012). \n235 Queens Quay West Harbourfront Centre\, Toronto\, ON \nDirectly responding to The ArQuives’s mission to recover and preserve our histories and give public access to archival materials by and about LGBTQ people\, Lez Con offers a glimpse into a relatively under exposed genres and esthetics of lesbian culture and aims to inspire more lesbians to donate their own records\, collections\, stories and papers to The ArQuives. \n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\nOnya Hogan-Finlay’s projects activate\, re-present and re-imagine historical narratives\, feminist iconographies and expressions of gender through multi-disciplinary installations\, drawing\, social and curatorial interventions. Based in Los Angeles\, Onya Hogan-Finlay is a Canadian born interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited throughout North America. She earned her BFA at Concordia University and her MFA at the University of Southern California. Hogan-Finlay co-founded the projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project\, an exhibition of artist books\, zines\, and independent publications that toured North America in a retrofitted Airstream trailer. Recent collaborations include Ulrike M?ller’s Herstory Inventory\, Lesbians on Ecstasy\, The Third Leg collective and others. Onya’s drawings have appeared in zines and publications including trans-feminist journal LTTR\, Randy\, C Magazine\, Documenta Magazine No.\, 2 2007 LIFE! and in The New Museum’s The Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory. Onya was a recent panelist for Pacific Standard Time’s Doin’ It in Public Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building. Her MFA thesis work\, My Taste in Men\, is the subject of Jack/Judith Halberstam’s essay in Cruising the Archives: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles\, 1945-1980\, published by ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles\, 2011.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/lez-con-an-exhibition-by-onya-hogan-finlay/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Switch
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nThursday\, January 13\, 2011 to Thursday\, February 24\, 2011\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nThursday\, January 13 7:30pm-10pm\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nA Solo Exhibition by JJ Levine \nSwitch is a series of large-scale photo diptychs that present pairs of seemingly different “heterosexual couples” in a portrait studio setting. Upon close inspection\, the viewer will recognize that these couples are comprised not of four models\, but of two\, each portraying a man in one image and a woman in the next. This clever parody of prom-style photographs is intended to challenge the foundations of gender through masquerade and drag. The identified gender of each model is never disclosed. \nOpening Reception for Switch \nThank you to all those who attended the Opening Reception for Switch last Thurday. \nWe had an overwhelming turn out for the launch of our first exhibition to come out of the Call for Exhibitions which is a very good start to our year of exhibitions!
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/switch/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Sexy SmART
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nThursday\, December 9\, 2010 to Friday\, January 7\, 2011\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nThursday\, December 9\, 2010\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThe ArQuives Gallery is proud to present Sexy SmART: Women of Beauty and Substance\, an exhibition of the photography series behind the Heterosexuals for Same Sex Equality’s (HSSE) 2011 Calendar. \nSexy Smart 2011 is an empowering fundraising calendar that promotes the strength and beauty of Toronto women.  Sixty-four models from different walks of life have been captured by local photographers demonstrating their support for same-sex rights and reminding us that beauty can be found everywhere. \nHSSE strives to promote understanding by correcting the misinformation and cultural myths that have hampered the struggle for same-sex civil rights. The organization enables all people to develop and demonstrate their support for same-sex equality through a variety of means. For more information about HSSE or to purchase a calendar\, visit www.straightnotnarrow.ca. Calendars will also be available for purchase at the Archives Gallery during the Opening Reception. \nSexy SmART will run from December 9th\, 2010 to January 7th\, 2011.  Opening Reception December 9th\, 7:30pm- 10pm\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto. \n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\nThe ArQuives Gallery is proud to present Sexy SmART: Women of Beauty and Substance\, an exhibition of the photography series behind the Heterosexuals for Same Sex Equality’s (HSSE) 2011 Calendar.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/sexy-smart/
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CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Vintage Blue for Nuit Blanche
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nSaturday\, October 2\, 2010\n\n\n\nReception date & time: \n\nSaturday\, October 2\, 2010\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nThe night has always been a time for those outside the mainstream to communicate themselves more freely. After all\, it was by the cover of night that provided many queers the opportunity to mingle\, explore their sexuality and reveal their truest selves. For Nuit Blanche\, the Archives has dug into its vintage collection of moving pictures to create an exhibition that examines what happens behind closed doors through a historical context.  As you engage with the work you becomes the voyeur into The ArQuives’s house\, taking pleasure in the desires and fantasies of others.  Consider the range of representations and effects of erotic imagery\, its power as a representational form and how it has influenced our sexual desires\, identities and behaviours. \nCome to “Vintage Bleu for Nuit Blanche” Saturday\, October 2 from 7:00pm to midnight. Come see an outdoor projection at the Archives in celebration of Nuit Blanche! We’ll be sharing works from our extensive moving image collection transforming our beautiful home.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/vintage-blue-for-nuit-blanche/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:CENSORED LIVES: Suppression\, resistance and free speech
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nWednesday\, June 30\, 2010 to Wednesday\, September 1\, 2010\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\nThis exhibition opens Wednesday\, June 30 and runs until September 1st on the 3rd floor\, community space of 34 Isabella Street. \nThis will be the first archival exhibition to be installed in The ArQuives’s new home\, and it focuses on the moments of tension between what has been defined as obscene and the right to offend or the right to free speech.  Inspired by recent controversy\, this show is meant to provide the context for the larger debate about censorship and free speech in the queer community. \nThe show features a film installation by filmmaker William Craddock. \nA few pictures from the show\, the contents are materials that have been censored or relating to the efforts of the LGBTQ communities to reverse censorship
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/censored-lives-suppression-resistance-and-free-speech/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibits
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SUMMARY:National Portrait Collection
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit dates: \n\nWednesday\, September 9\, 2009 to Tuesday\, November 30\, 2010\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThe National Portrait Collection (NPC) is a central part of our archival holdings at the Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives (The ArQuives). We commission portraits to honour individuals who have made significant contributions to the growth of diverse\, out and proud lesbian\, gay\, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities in Canada. \nThe collection was established in 1998 with 25 original portraits\, and coincided with our 25th anniversary. Since then\, the collection has grown to 70 portraits of various mediums that include photography\, oil and watercolour. The collection is regularly exhibited in our home in Toronto as well as at other venues across Canada\, in celebration of all LGBT communities. We are committed to continuous expansion of the collection\, thereby actively engaging in the creation of our own historical record.
URL:https://arquives.ca/event/national-portrait-collection/
LOCATION:The ArQuives\, 34 Isabella Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4Y 1N1\, Canada
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