Events

[caption id="attachment_101471" align="alignleft" width="550"] Title: Silaup Putunga (Laakkuluk WIlliamson Bathory) ©Jamie Griffiths 2018[/caption]

When the exhibit Tunirrusiangit:Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak opened in the Sam & Ayala Pavilion it was one of the largest showcases of Inuit artwork at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). it could be seen as a singular sound that started a continuing harmony and one that echoes here within these walls of the Joan Goldfarb Study Centre.

The exhibition runs Mondays through Thursdays 12:30-4:30 until April 25.

Curated by Jocelyn Piirainen, echoes features “Silaup Putunga” and “Inuit in the Media” that relate to the idea of an echo and to ‘nipi’ – the Inuktitut word that best describes sounds as understood in the English language.  Commissioned within the context of Tunirrusiangit, they were created by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory & Jamie Griffiths and Taqralik Partridge as responses to the artwork of Inuit artists Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak.

The Goldfarb Study Centre exhibition ECHOES and the screening of THE 5^th REGION  documentary are presented at York University by MOBILIZING INUIT CULTURAL HERITAGE (MICH), a six-year SSHRC Partnership Grant focusing on the contribution of Inuit visual culture, art, and performance to Inuit language preservation, social well-being, and cultural identity. MICH is based at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and Anna Hudson, Professor/AMPD is the Principal Investigator

York University’s World Music Festival is a cross-cultural celebration spotlighting musical traditions of five continents.

Produced by Professor Sherry Johnson, this global sonic tour presents a sampling of the 20+ international cultures represented in York’s world music program.

The festival packs ten free concerts into two days: March 14-15

On March 14, performances take place in two locations:

• Martin Family Lounge (MFL), 219 Accolade East Building
• Tribute Communities Recital Hall (TCRH), 112 Accolade East Building

Free admission.
Maps and Directions

York University’s World Music Festival is a cross-cultural celebration spotlighting musical traditions of five continents.

Produced by Professor Sherry Johnson this global sonic tour presents a sampling of the 20+ international cultures represented in York’s world music program.

The festival packs ten free concerts into two days: March 14-15

On March 15, performances take place in two locations:

• Tribute Communities Recital Hall (TCRH), 112 Accolade East Building
• Martin Family Lounge (MFL), 219 Accolade East Building

Free admission.

Maps and Directions

The York University Jazz Festival, running March 18-21, showcases rising young talent directed by leading lights of the Canadian jazz scene.

Catch the next generation of outstanding jazz artists, right here on campus – and with no cover charge!

Monday, March 18

12:30 pm – Vocal ensembles directed by Frank Falco
Martin Family Lounge, 219 Accolade East Building

7:30 pm – Small ensembles directed by Roy Patterson, Lorne Lofsky and Mark Eisenman.
Martin Family Lounge, 219 Accolade East Building

Aqua the singer, songwriter, storyteller, artist, and activist is a strong Anishinaabe Kwe~Indigenous Woman, also known as Nibii Waawaaskone~Water Flower. She originates from North Bay where she was raised by her single Mom Waabishkaasin Kwe~White Stone Woman. Aqua is a two-spirit woman of mixed Ancestry; Ojibwe Métis with French and Scottish
heritage.

Aqua has created a life filled with her love of creation. She is a hand drummer and hand drum maker and has shared her joy for drumming with the community in circles all over the country. During her tour of western Canada visiting many remote reserve communities and sharing her passion for storytelling, Aqua began writing her own stories and turned them into songs with the
help of her hand drum. She then self-produced and released her EP Spirit Music with four tracks to honour the four directions and all aspects of creation encompassed on the medicine wheel. Soon she was signed to Tribal Spirit Music where she co-produced her album Hand Drum Stories with thirteen tracks to honour the thirteen grandmother moons.

Aqua is committed to sharing Indigenous stories through theatre and is grateful to have had the opportunity to study Theatre Arts at Algonquin and Film at Humber where she received the Board of Governors Award for her dedication to her community and the performing arts . She understands the importance of gathering as a community to share stories and has learned that
a beautiful way to bring people together is through live performance. Aqua co-created and collaborated with Cow Over The Moon and other gifted Indigenous artists on a children’s theatre piece to share the creation story of Turtle Island~North America. She composed original music to score the teachings and bring to life our traditions as Indigenous People.

Aqua is currently working on her next album while collaborating with other like-minded artists who want to share their story, their struggle, their truth. She is an advocate for anyone who has endured violence and adversity. She provides a safe space in her sacred circles so the community can grow together, stronger, forever as a whole.

Admission is free.

Photo by: Denise Grant

Department of Visual Art and Art History Guest Speaker Series 2018-19

“ART HISTORY PRESENTS”  RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Canadian art historians share their current projects.

Jane Wark: Conceptual Art and the Back-to-the-Land Movement in Nova Scotia

In the early 1970s, two seemingly disparate cultural phenomena took hold in Nova Scotia: Conceptual art and the back-to-the-land movement. The first aimed to be rigourously intellectual and strip sentiment and expressiveness out of art, while the second was driven by a deeply sentimental urge to establish an alternative and utopian way of life. And yet there are unexpected links between these two movements in that same time and place. Each was part of larger international developments and yet geographically isolated, relied on networked connections to the wider world, took shape under the shadow of the Vietnam war and was largely populated by Americans drawn to Canada to enact resistance and find escape. This presentation examines how these two communities, despite their very different means and strategies, ultimately shared the goal of making critiques–both implicit and explicit–of the cultural status quo.

Jayne Wark is Professor in Art History and Contemporary Culture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. She is the author of Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance in North America (2006) and co-curator of Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 (2012). Her most recent publication is “Queering Abjection: A Lesbian, Feminist and Canadian Perspective” in Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada (2017).

The Department of Dance presents TIP – The Incubator Project, exploring interdisciplinary, experimental and interactive performance works.

Artistic Director William Mackwood

Works by:

Susan Cash and Wesley McKenzie with dancers Nikolaos Markakis and Syreeta Hector

Susan Lee and David Han with students in the York Dance Ensemble

William Mackwood

Freya Björg Olafson

TICKETS: Pay-What-You-Can or bring a non-perishable item for the student food bank.

The York University Jazz Festival, running March 18-21, showcases rising young talent directed by leading lights of the Canadian jazz scene.

Catch the next generation of outstanding jazz artists, right here on campus – and with no cover charge!

Wednesday, March 20
7:30-10:00pm
Small ensembles directed by Kevin Turcotte, Jim Vivian and Frank Falco

York University’s Peripheral Vision Speaker Series & The New College Disability Studies Speaker Series present

Crip Technoscience for Disabled Cyborgs: Access, Community, Politics

Kelly Fritsch engages with the emerging field of crip technoscience, exploring what it means for disability politics, community, and access. Taking up Alison Kafer’s provocation that disabled people are cyborgs because of their politics rather than their impairments, Fritsch explores the ways in which disabled community forms out of frictional and ambivalent relations to technoscience, marking out the implications of these relations for social justice practices.

For accessibility and to RSVP please  contact pvl@yorku.ca

Dr. Fritsch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in unceded Algonquin territory. Her research broadly engages crip, queer, and feminist theory to explore the relations of disability, health, technology, risk, and accessibility. She is co-editor of Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle (AK Press, 2016 with Clare O’Connor and AK Thompson), and has co-edited special issues of Somatechnics (on “Sexuality in Canada” with reese simpkins, 2017), Feminist Formations (on “The Biosocial Politics of Queer/Crip Contagions” with AnneMcGuire, 2018), and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (on “Crip Technoscience” with Aimi Hamraie, Mara Mills, and David Serlin, forthcoming March 2019). Fritsch was a 2015-2018 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto.

Crip Commitments: Disability, Theory, Politics A Lecture by Prof. Kelly Fritsch (Carleton)

Thursday March 21st 2019, 6-8pm
OISE Library
252 Bloor St. West
(Above St. George Subway)

All Welcome – Free, Wheelchair accessible, ASL, Refreshments

For accessibility or additional information, please contact uoftdisabilitylistserve@gmail.com

Engaging the frictions of crip and disability theory, Kelly Fritsch non-innocently considers the possibilities of radical social change that emerge through knowing and making disability differently.

Event sponsors:  The Peripheral Visions Speakers Series is sponsored by Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, VISTA: Vision Science to Application, The Departments of Theatre and Cinema and Media Arts, the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series, the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies, the Canada Research Excellence Fund and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The series is curated by Mary Bunch, Laura Levin and Lauren Sergio. The New College Disability Studies Speaker Series thanks U of T’s Equity Studies Program, the New College Innovation Fund and the Department for Social Justice Education at OISE for their continued support of the Disability Studies Speaker Series.