Saturday May 28
A recording of this event is available here.
(10am to 5:30pm at OCAD* auditorium, room 190)
Reserve your spot here: Eventbrite
Morning
* Arrival at 10am *
Keynote address (10:30am-11am): Barb Byers, Secretary Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress, and board member for the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre.
Panel 1 (11:15am-12:45pm): Condé + Beveridge’s collaborative art-activism
Dot Tuer (theorist and historian, OCAD University, Toronto);
Loraine Leeson (art & community, Middlesex Univeristy, London, UK)
Leaf Watson & Sanjit Dhillon (curators of the contemporary response to Beveridge & Condé's It's Still Privileged Art 1976, OCAD University, Toronto)
Moderator: Don Bouzek (activist video/ theatre director, Groundzero Productions, Edmonton).
Read morning presenter bios here.
LUNCH: We will try our best to accommodate a number of different food restrictions, and will have some delicious vegan and gluten-free options. It is also FREE (though we would not turn away donations if you are able to contribute to some of the costs).
Afternoon
Panel 2 (1:30pm-3pm:) Art Workers Organize
Greig De Peuter and Nicole Cohen - moderators
Lise Soskolne (WAGE, New York)
Sally Lee (CARFAC Ontario)
Joshua Schwebel (Joshua Schwebel is a conceptual artist based in Berlin, working through site and situation-responsive interventions.)
Panel 3 (3:15pm-4:45pm): Art & Migrant Labour
Min Sook Lee – moderator (filmmaker, OCAD University, Toronto)
Tings Chak (Hong Kong-born and Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and migrant justice organizer).
Alvis Choi (Artist and Co-facilitator of Butterfly Voices, an ongoing arts-based project with migrants working in massage parlours and the sex industry)
Kwentong Bayan (Sharing and documenting the lives of caregivers in a positive way, how they resist the exploitative structure of the Live-in Caregiver Program, and also how they create community while all of these struggles are going on)
-- Due to unforeseen circumstances, Greg Sholette and Favianna Rodriguez will not be participating --
Final Response/Summation (5pm-5:30pm)
Read afternoon presenter bios here.
Evening
7pm-8pm Reception (Lambert Lounge, adjacent to the auditorium)
8pm screening (OCAD U auditorium):
“Portrait of Resistance: the art & activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge”
(followed by a Q&A with Condé & Beveridge and the filmmakers Roz Owen & Jim Miller)
Reserve your spot here: Eventbrite
* OCAD = The Ontario College of Art and Design
100 McCaul Street (Near Dundas and University Avenue)
Transit options: Accessible from the 505 Dundas streetcar and from St. Patrick Subway Station
(10am to 5:30pm at OCAD* auditorium, room 190)
Reserve your spot here: Eventbrite
Morning
* Arrival at 10am *
Keynote address (10:30am-11am): Barb Byers, Secretary Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress, and board member for the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre.
Panel 1 (11:15am-12:45pm): Condé + Beveridge’s collaborative art-activism
Dot Tuer (theorist and historian, OCAD University, Toronto);
Loraine Leeson (art & community, Middlesex Univeristy, London, UK)
Leaf Watson & Sanjit Dhillon (curators of the contemporary response to Beveridge & Condé's It's Still Privileged Art 1976, OCAD University, Toronto)
Moderator: Don Bouzek (activist video/ theatre director, Groundzero Productions, Edmonton).
Read morning presenter bios here.
LUNCH: We will try our best to accommodate a number of different food restrictions, and will have some delicious vegan and gluten-free options. It is also FREE (though we would not turn away donations if you are able to contribute to some of the costs).
Afternoon
Panel 2 (1:30pm-3pm:) Art Workers Organize
Greig De Peuter and Nicole Cohen - moderators
Lise Soskolne (WAGE, New York)
Sally Lee (CARFAC Ontario)
Joshua Schwebel (Joshua Schwebel is a conceptual artist based in Berlin, working through site and situation-responsive interventions.)
Panel 3 (3:15pm-4:45pm): Art & Migrant Labour
Min Sook Lee – moderator (filmmaker, OCAD University, Toronto)
Tings Chak (Hong Kong-born and Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and migrant justice organizer).
Alvis Choi (Artist and Co-facilitator of Butterfly Voices, an ongoing arts-based project with migrants working in massage parlours and the sex industry)
Kwentong Bayan (Sharing and documenting the lives of caregivers in a positive way, how they resist the exploitative structure of the Live-in Caregiver Program, and also how they create community while all of these struggles are going on)
-- Due to unforeseen circumstances, Greg Sholette and Favianna Rodriguez will not be participating --
Final Response/Summation (5pm-5:30pm)
Read afternoon presenter bios here.
Evening
7pm-8pm Reception (Lambert Lounge, adjacent to the auditorium)
8pm screening (OCAD U auditorium):
“Portrait of Resistance: the art & activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge”
(followed by a Q&A with Condé & Beveridge and the filmmakers Roz Owen & Jim Miller)
Reserve your spot here: Eventbrite
* OCAD = The Ontario College of Art and Design
100 McCaul Street (Near Dundas and University Avenue)
Transit options: Accessible from the 505 Dundas streetcar and from St. Patrick Subway Station