Spring Symposium May 9, 10, 11, 2008
New work launched May 3 through May 11
Mentoring Artists for Women's Art
and The University
of Winnipeg Institute for Women's and Gender Studies invite
you to join us for a weekend of socially engaged art and dialogue. This
interdisciplinary symposium will consist of participatory and critical
discussions, screenings, installations, interventions and performances.
We will create a dynamic space for artists, activists, curators and cultural
workers to gather to share new work and to discuss the ways in which art
can be, and is being mobilized to build various kinds of communities.
We will explore the range of socially engaged art practices and the different
kinds of communities that art builds. Is community art subversive? How
does art engage with some of the most pressing issues of our times, such
as poverty, the impacts of colonization, gender and racial inequalities,
and the need to develop compassionate and caring communities of belonging?
How does art engage the public in community issues and civic responsibilities?
What can art build?
The Winnipeg Foundation and the Winnipeg Arts Council have joined this
project by funding new work by nine Winnipeg artists. The work of Pat
Aylesworth, Liz Garlicki,
Cheyenne Henry,
Kristin Nelson, Suzie
Smith, Kathryn MacKenzie,
Kerri-Lynn Reeves, Nicole
Shimonek and Becky Thiessen
will be launched during the week of May 3. These artists will create work
representing a range of community, interventionist, cultural animation
and new public genre art practices. The critically acclaimed, dynamic
performance duo, Shawna Dempsey
and Lorri Millan, will be performing their new work, "Unruly"
on Saturday night. Toronto artist, writer and activist Robin
Pacific will be addressing the complications
and challenges of community art practices throughout the weekend. Her
work includes community art, cultural animation and mapping, painting,
multimedia, public art and installation. Joining us from Mexico City is
internationally recognized artist Minerva
Cuevas. In search of an interface to activate social change,
Minerva Cuevas's work is based on interventions and political action linked
to creative and artistic fields. Minerva Cuevas will be joining us at
the symposium as well as creating new work while she is in Winnipeg. We
will launch her new work on Saturday at MAWA.
This project is curated by Roewan Crowe,
Academic Director of The University of Winnipeg's Institute For Women's
and Gender Studies. The symposium is being generously supported by the
Winnipeg Arts Council, The Winnipeg Foundation and sponsored by the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA) through a partnership with the
University of Winnipeg's Institute for Women's and Gender Studies of the
Global College.
Join us in Winnipeg this spring!
University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue
Registration fee $65.00 for the weekend.
Includes all meals and Saturday night performance.
Full and partial bursaries are available - Contact [email protected]
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