Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures edited by Julie Nagam and Janine Marchessault

BOOK LAUNCH Commemorating the 15-year history of Nuit Blanche, Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures is an edited collection by artists, scholars, curators and contributors that considers Nuit Blanche in Canada and abroad. Through personal reflections, dia logues, and projects, the essays and images in this full-colour volume generate a multi-perspectival view of Nuit […]

Celebrating Christina: Christina Petrowska Quilico in Recital

A virtuoso and versatile pianist whose repertoire ranges from Bach to countless present-day premieres, a passionate advocate for new music, and an artist whose performances and more than 50 recordings (four of them JUNO-nominated) have been lauded internationally, Christina  Petrowska Quilico has been showered with honours over her 60 years of performing and 40 years […]

FilipiNEXT presents Topline: Filipinx Diaspora and Sonic Aspirations in the City

Screening, Q & A, and live performances by creator, Romeo Candido, and lead actor, Cyrena Fiel. Special performance from Alexis Estropia and Gregory Dy Sun (Filipino Student’s Association at York) Topline: Filipinx Diaspora and Sonic Aspirations in the City July 13, 2022 7-9 p.m. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto TICKETS More information: https://filipinext.ca/schedule

X Marks the Spot: Filipinx Futurities

Curated by Dr. Marissa Largo, scholar of Asian diasporic contemporary art, X Marks the Spot takes the X in “Filipinx” as a theoretical and methodological intervention in curation. The X signals an intergenerational relationality – a sort of “call and response” – between recognized and rising practitioners working on Turtle Island that speaks to the […]

FilipiNEXT

FilipiNEXT is a transdisciplinary workshop that engages in creative and generative discussions around Filipinx Studies emerging from the Canadian context. Bringing together scholars, artists, activists and community members from all over Canada, the workshop explores the following questions: What tensions, aspirations, and lines of inquiry can emerge when we think critically about the history and […]

Indexing Resistance: The Blood and Guts of Queer Protest Symposium

A two-day symposium on protest, queer history in Canada and the archive.Indexing Resistance is an interdisciplinary two-day symposium at Lula Lounge with an accompanying month-long exhibition at the plumb. By reflecting on relationships between the visual, the scholarly, and preservation, Indexing Resistance presents papers and artwork exploring the diversity of resistance and protest in queer […]

The (Un)Common Cabaret, Directed by Stephen Lawson

Public Events Program Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial storytelling, transgressive visual techniques emerging from new media platforms, and new activisms engaging with theories of homonationalism, pinkwashing and a global queer (un)commons, the QSI offers students immersion in the debates, voices, ideas and images of the current queer/trans digital moment. The […]

Second Eulogy: Mind the Gap screening with filmmaker Billy Frank, Q&A Moderated by Warren Critchlow

Public Events Program Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial storytelling, transgressive visual techniques emerging from new media platforms, and new activisms engaging with theories of homonationalism, pinkwashing and a global queer (un)commons, the QSI offers students immersion in the debates, voices, ideas and images of the current queer/trans digital moment. The […]

COLOMBIANIZACIÓN Cabaret: Nadia Granados

Public Events Program Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial storytelling, transgressive visual techniques emerging from new media platforms, and new activisms engaging with theories of homonationalism, pinkwashing and a global queer (un)commons, the QSI offers students immersion in the debates, voices, ideas and images of the current queer/trans digital moment. The […]

Interior Decor – Installation/Media/Performance Hybrids Andil Gosine, Allyson Mitchell & Moynan King

Public Events Program Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial storytelling, transgressive visual techniques emerging from new media platforms, and new activisms engaging with theories of homonationalism, pinkwashing and a global queer (un)commons, the QSI offers students immersion in the debates, voices, ideas and images of the current queer/trans digital moment. The […]