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Dr Fiona Blaikie CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW. NEW DATE: April 19th 6.30-8.30pm Room 5-250 OISE, 252 Bloor St West This is a visual and poetic inquiry into scholarly clothing as re/presented and lived through the clothed, disciplined/ and/or transgressing bodies of scholars. Through artworks and poetry situated meanings of scholarship and visual identity are revealed and presented. Theoretically, the study resides in the arenas of arts-informed research, social theory on the body, and the social theory of clothing as expressed through gendered clothing choices. Fiona Blaikie has a Ph.D. from the Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Education at the University of British Columbia. She is a Professor of Curriculum Studies and visual art education. Fiona is an internationally recognized scholar in arts education, with a record of numerous publications and conference presentations, including her recent book Canadian Art/Works: A Resource for Primary, Junior, Intermediate and Senior Teache

Dr. Marusya Bociurkiw Review of event: http://mediumonline.ca/2010/10/25/retro-media-activism/ In the years 1972 to 1990, across Canada and around the world, media collectives with utopian names like Reelfeelings, Groupe Intervention Video and Women Alive tried to realize a McLuhanesque vision of a global feminist village. In Canada, they/we created dozens of social issue documentaries and television series’ via community cable TV, producing an ephemeral archive of a vibrant era of political and social change. In this auto-ethnographic project which combines scholarly research and a video essay, I critique the standard Habermassian public sphere formulation of this era and attempt to account for affect. What are the passionate sites feeling that accompanied the enactment of the work and which surely surround its forgetting? Thirty-five years since the forming of the first women’s video collective in Canada, the primary record of this work – the videos themselves – is rapidly disintegr

WIAprojects and U of T Scarborough present: Spy Dénommé-Welch & Catherine McGowan.... public artist talk on their collaboration as An Indie(n) Rights Reserve and in composing and presenting the opera Giiwedin. Thurs. Oct 28th, 1-3pm FREE. At the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Military Trail, Scarborough Talk is open to anyone in AA-209 - 2nd floor of the Arts & Administration Building, the light yellow brick building just behind the Student Centre at that front of the campus. Workshop is open to U of T Scarborough performance students. For info call: Arts & Events Programming at 416.208.4769

Performing Feminist Culture (Nov 5/6 at XPACE Cultural Centre, 55 Ossington Ave., Toronto) as symposium seeks to perform feminist culture in the postmodern. The misinformed clarity of the modernist feminist agenda has been splintered into a myriad of practices, concerns and communities. Such a shift has unquestionably created a more inclusive feminisms in which intersecting oppressions, privileges and needs speak across communities of difference. “Feminist artist” has been replaced by “cultural practitioner”, who in dialogue with curators, historians, critics, theorists, viewers, educators, galleries help create a space in which artifact becomes a site that acquires multiple meanings. But, what are those meanings? Is feminist production still alive and well? How can we perform (or re-perform) these newer configurations? Intention: WIA projects with OCADU Faculty of Art and Equity & Diversity is facilitating an active two-day symposium at XPACE, Nov 5 & 6, 2010. Our intention

Call for Submissions: Mail Art Love Letters to Feminism Create art and write the words that explore your personal relationship with feminism. We want to know what kind of relationship you have with feminism: Are you in a long-term relationship? Is it unrequited love? A love triangle? Do you have a crush on feminism? Perhaps you are having a lovers’ quarrel? Submissions to the exhibition should include: An artwork/letter that has a maximum size of 8.5x11 inches. Your name, mailing address, email address, and a short bio on a separate page. *Please include the appropriate extra postage inside your envelope if you want your work returned. Maximum 3 works per person. Deadline: 15 October 2010 Work will be exhibited at WIAprojects Symposium, Performing Feminist Culture at the XPACE Cultural Centre opening Nov 5th 2010 and will join the Love Letters Collection for future and online exhibitions (unless you indicate otherwise) Mail your love notes to: Love Letters to Feminism c/o Carolyn Jervi

Lezli Rubin-Kunda, a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Israel is presenting her book-based performance works in several related events in Toronto in September - a live collaborative performance, a screening of book-based performance videos, an exhibition of books and book performances and an artist’s talk. In different settings and contexts the artist explores the relation of written text to lived experience; she sets up a dialogue between book and performer, intervening through drawing, everyday materials and direct action. At the University of Toronto: Curated by Pam Patterson & Leena Raudvee with curatorial assistant Sevan Injejikian Realms of Knowing: Book-based site-specific performance / collaboration with Lezli Rubin-Kunda and sound artist Ellen Moffat. The artists revisit the classic philosophic texts and locale of their university days. Saturday, Sept. 25, 12:30-2:30 pm, Bickersteth Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto. Realms of Know

WW 2011 aspires to be a powerful celebration of voices and diversity. As Canada is host to this important event, the meaningful participation of Aboriginal women and the prominence of Indigenous women's issues are essential. WW 2011 participants should come away with a deeper understanding of Aboriginal women and Indigenous women, and with a recognition of their immense knowledge and leadership as inspiration for a better world. This is why we identified the value of creating an Aboriginal Women's Leadership Circle, a volunteer advisory body comprised of Aboriginal [First Nations, Inuit, Métis] women. Just as the event's content and program should challenge colonialism and neo-colonialism in its various forms, the internal organizing process should, too. We believe the non-tokenistic involvement of Aboriginal/Indigenous women is vital to feminist organizing and convening. MEET THE CIRCLE Working within an Aboriginal worldview, we will collaborate within WW 2011 to be respec

Feminist Research Performance Project For more information contact: LRaudvee@wiaprojects.com “I know what I used to think of it as, which is looking at women in a society that is defined by a patriarchy and finding a place for women to fight against that patriarchy…” Leena Raudvee How does one define Feminism? What is a Feminist? What does a Feminist do? How do you become a Feminist? These are just a few of the questions that we asked each other when presented with the challenge of performing Feminist culture. As self-proclaimed Feminists we have our individual narratives to answer our initial questions. As Feminists of different generations and varied cultures we’re interested in answering these questions with specific reference to the ‘now’. Since the inception of a Feminist culture many theories have circulated, many discussions have been had, and we now feel that it is time for a re-defining and/or re-culturing of our understanding of Feminist culture as it exists today. As perform

Along with the Feminist History Society recently formed in Central Canada and out to British Columbia, it is thrilling to see Feminism moving beyond the F word. Check out http://kootenayfeminism.com WKWA has just received a small mentoring grant to get some help to get some of the wonderful audio and video material they have onto their website. The West Kootenay Women’s Association presents: IMAGES – Kootenay Women’s Paper: A Primer on Feminism (1973-1991) Edited by Dr. Marcia Braundy - Format: CD Nineteen years of IMAGES - Kootenay Women’s Newspaper represents the early writings of many of British Columbia’s prize-winning women authors and artists as they struggled to develop their personal and political perspectives on Second Wave Feminism. It documents the struggles for effective and satisfying economic, social and political lives for women in rural BC, and links arms and words with women from around the world, telling their stories along with our own. Theme issues address the major