Events

The Faculty Curriculum & Development Centre (FCDC) and the Office of Diversity, Equity & Sustainability Initiatives (ODESI) at OCAD University (OCAD U) are pleased to invite you to Sustainability (as) Pedagogy, a research talk with OCAD U’s Sustainable Futures Faculty Fellowship (SF3) program.

Design Abroad Nepal 2024 

Design Abroad is an exciting course at OCAD University offering students a unique opportunity to work internationally with a local community to co-design solutions that have a meaningful impact.

Submission deadline: Sunday November 12th by 11:59pm 

<p>In partnership with<strong> Inuit Art Foundation</strong>, join us for an artist talk with Glenn Gear at Onsite Gallery.</p>

Animation Histories: Cultural Bridge between the Philippines and Canada   

In this experimental animation studio course, students will work collaboratively with animation students from iAcademy in Manila on a research project and exhibition looking at how the Philippines and Canada have been connected throughout their respective animation histories. 

Submission deadline: Sunday November 12th by 11:59pm   

Experiential Photography – International Collaboration 

Experiential Photography taught by Ursula Handleigh and partnered with Professor Jay Javier from De La Salle-College of St Benilde in Manila, explores expanded and alternative photographic processes within the Philippine landscape. 

Submission deadline: Sunday November 12th by 11:59pm   

Preservation and perseverance: Cultural heritage and contemporary practice in Thailand 

Using the historical and contemporary context of Chiang Mai, Thailand, this course examines how expressions of cultural heritage are transmitted, revitalized, and expanded in contemporary practice. 

Submission deadline: Sunday November 12th by 11:59pm  

<p>This event offers registered participants the opportunity to embark on an enchanting journey through the neighbourhoods of Toronto where&nbsp;Rocky Dobey's&nbsp;public artworks can be found, all while being guided by <em>power </em>exhibition artist, Rocky Dobey.</p>

<p><em>Building Beyond: An Instructional LEGO® Workshop w/&nbsp;Ekow&nbsp;Nimako </em>a three-hour workshop that delves into the realms of forward-looking storytelling, creativity and cultural reflection, intertwining Lego artistry with Afrofuturism and speculative reclamation of African legacies and dynasties. Spaces are limited with priority given to self-identifying Black and African OCAD U students and alumni.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Ignite Gallery is thrilled to announce Lauren Porter’s Submersion performed Live at GradEx 109. 

OCAD University’s 109th Annual Graduate Exhibition, Toronto’s largest free art and design exhibition, takes place May 1 to 5, 2024, featuring the work of more than 800 emerging artists and designers.

In partnership with the Inuit Art Foundation (IAF), Onsite Gallery presents Up Front, a series of commissioned digital murals by Inuit artists. 

Selected through a call for submissions, the Ignite Gallery Sculpture Installation Award exhibition highlights works chosen for their grand contemporary scale and exemplary representations of installation.

OCAD University Senate Meeting

<p style="layout-grid-mode:char;line-height:115%;"><em><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Are You Calling Me a Racist? Book launch and conversation</strong></span></em><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US"><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></span></p><p style="layout-grid-mode:char;line-height:115%;"><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US">Join OCAD University and Another Story Bookshop for the launch of the new book, </span><em><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US">Are You Calling Me a Racist?</span></em><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US"> by <strong>Dr. Sarita Srivastava</strong>, OCAD U’s Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science.</span></p><p style="layout-grid-mode:char;line-height:115%;"><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US">She’ll talk about her new book in a conversation with&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#212121;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;"><strong>D</strong></span><span style="background-color:white;color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;"><strong>r. Rinaldo Walcott</strong>,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:white;color:#202122;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;">Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University of Buffalo, moderated by&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:white;color:#222222;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;"><strong>Dr. Minelle Mahtani</strong>, Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.</span></p><p style="layout-grid-mode:char;line-height:115%;"><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US"><strong>DATE/TIME/LOCATION</strong></span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US">Thursday, April 25, 1 to 3 p.m.</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;" lang="EN-US">Onsite Gallery, 199 Richmond St. W., Toronto, Ont.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color:white;color:#222222;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p>Crossing Fonds will explore trends in digital archival practice, including the Crossing Fonds platform for collaboration between archives; critical digital archives practices including an ethics of care; Indigenous data sovereignty; collaborative tools and methods, community-centered collections created for and with equity-deserving communities; media arts conservation and archives.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau <a class="Hyperlink SCXW124832866 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:inherit;cursor:text;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web&quot;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi-o…; target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">used</a> Kay tout moune (pronounced KAI TOOT MOON) to describe a world without walls that embraces movement, difference, and change. We use it here as a speculative effect of looking at today's societies from a postmigrant perspective, one <a class="Hyperlink SCXW124832866 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:inherit;cursor:text;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web&quot;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.b…; target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"that presents and highlights the voice of migration.”</a> Postmigration is a conceptual intervention in current discourses on migration&nbsp;and will frame our activities for that week.&nbsp;</p><p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" style="font-size:inherit;" dir="ltr">Registration required. C</span><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr">lick on each event to register in Eventbrite</span></p>

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<p>In partnership with Native Women in the Arts, join us for an exclusive&nbsp;<em>Artist / Curator Talk</em> with&nbsp;<strong>Taqralik Partridge</strong>&nbsp;and <strong>Linda Grussani</strong>, as they share their experience recognizing the resilience of human connections they developed during a global pandemic and the richness of Indigenous wisdom bridging physical and virtual spaces. &nbsp;</p>

<p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr">Join us for the upcoming Design for Health Exhibition: De/Re Construct.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" style="font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, system-ui, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap;" dir="ltr">Graduating exhibition by Afifa Bari, "A Broken Palace"&nbsp;</span></p>

The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) is excited to announce the return of the Parks Canada Career Launcher for technically savvy students with photography and videography skills. Students are invited to apply for this opportunity.

<p>Join us for the book launch of <em>Fable for Tomorrow Wendy Coburn</em>. This full colour, hard cover, 96-page catalogue eloquently translates Coburn’s survey exhibition into book form ensuring this significant artist is written into Canadian art history.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0cm;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0cm;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;">In this online workshop, Peter Kingstone (Visual/Media Arts Officer, Toronto Arts Council), will review available grants, discuss the application process, give tips on writing a successful grant, in addition to answering any questions you may have about TAC! Special focus will be given to the Visual Artist Program: Creation grant. *RSVP to receive event link!<strong><o:p></o:p></strong></p>

<p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr">راجعين" Rajieen, IAMD graduating exhibition by Razan Obaid</span></p>

<p><span style="--tw-backdrop-blur:;--tw-backdrop-brightness:;--tw-backdrop-contrast:;--tw-backdrop-grayscale:;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate:;--tw-backdrop-invert:;--tw-backdrop-opacity:;--tw-backdrop-saturate:;--tw-backdrop-sepia:;--tw-blur:;--tw-border-spacing-x:0;--tw-border-spacing-y:0;--tw-brightness:;--tw-contrast:;--tw-drop-shadow:;--tw-gradient-from-position:;--tw-gradient-to-position:;--tw-gradient-via-position:;--tw-grayscale:;--tw-hue-rotate:;--tw-invert:;--tw-numeric-figure:;--tw-numeric-fraction:;--tw-numeric-spacing:;--tw-ordinal:;--tw-pan-x:;--tw-pan-y:;--tw-pinch-zoom:;--tw-ring-color:rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5);--tw-ring-inset:;--tw-ring-offset-color:#fff;--tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 #0000;--tw-ring-offset-width:0px;--tw-ring-shadow:0 0 #0000;--tw-rotate:0;--tw-saturate:;--tw-scale-x:1;--tw-scale-y:1;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness:proximity;--tw-sepia:;--tw-shadow-colored:0 0 #0000;--tw-shadow:0 0 #0000;--tw-skew-x:0;--tw-skew-y:0;--tw-slashed-zero:;--tw-translate-x:0;--tw-translate-y:0;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;border-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-optical-sizing:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-stretch:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-position:inherit;font-variation-settings:inherit;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20.925px;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">2nd&nbsp;and 3rd&nbsp;Year SCIN Student Exhibitions&nbsp;</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Cultural Community Expo brings together the people and places that make up Toronto’s art and cultural sector to prepare students and recent alumni for building a career in the arts after graduation. Through a series of engagements with exemplary OCAD U alum, professional guests, art studios, cultural organizations and production centres, the Cultural Community Expo highlights potential career paths and presentation venues for emerging artists.</p>

<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">SWC is hosting a free Suicide Prevention workshop for students in collaboration with SafeTALK and KeepmeSAFE on Wednesday, April 10th 2024, 10am-1pm at 100 McCaul St. (Rm 460).&nbsp;</span></p>