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.
Libraries
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada'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.
Pushing Buttons
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPushing 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.
At the Same Time
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThree takes on living as couples, here, there, and there.
Public Sins / Private Desires: Tracing Lesbian Lives in the Archives, 1950 – 1980
Ontario, CanadaPublic 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.
Looking Forward/Looking Back:25 Lives 14 years later
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaA retrospective with a twist, Looking Back / Looking Forward looks back to the first exhibition of the cLGA national portrait collection (npc) in 1998, on the 25th anniversary of the founding of The ArQuives.
Lez Con: An exhibition by Onya Hogan-Finlay
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaWhere is the lesbian content? Artist, Onya Hogan-Finlay, presents an explorative and humorous exhibition that unearths lesbian representation in The ArQuives.
Switch
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSwitch is a series of large-scale photo diptychs that present pairs of seemingly different “heterosexual couples” in a portrait studio setting.
Sexy SmART
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 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.
Vintage Blue for Nuit Blanche
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 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.
CENSORED LIVES: Suppression, resistance and free speech
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThis 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.
National Portrait Collection
The ArQuives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe National Portrait Collection (NPC) is a central part of our archival holdings at the Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives (The ArQuives).