Explore the Toronto Biennial of Art 2024 this November

Third Edition | On now until December 1, 2024

TBA Opening Weekend at The Auto BLDG at 158 Sterling Rd, 9th Floor. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Upcoming Free Programming – November

As the Toronto Biennial of Art moves into its second half, TBA is thrilled to share some upcoming programming that includes a dynamic mix of performances, guided tours, and workshops that will bring fresh perspectives to the narrative of Precarious Joys.

Visit the TBA website to explore the full artist list, free programming schedule, and venue hours/locations.

Storytelling Sessions:
Storytellers: Jingshu Yao and Siki Soberetonar
32 Lisgar St | Saturdays/Sundays, 10am – 6pm
Storyteller: Laura Carvalho
The Auto BLDG at 158 Sterling Rd | Fridays from 12 – 4pm; Saturdays/Sundays from 10am – 6pm

TBA’s Storytelling Program offers visitors of all ages new ways of engaging with the artworks presented in the Biennial by offering artist-led participatory sessions in the exhibition spaces.

Storytelling: Drop-in Writing Circle
32 Lisgar St | Sundays, 12:30 – 2:30pm

Join Storyteller Jingshu Yao for a drop-in writing circle that will spark your creativity! Everyone is welcome and no prior creative writing experience is required. This program does not require registration and those interested are free to drop in at any time. Writing materials will be provided.

VIBE Arts Family Days
32 Lisgar St | November 3, 11am – 4pm

VIBE Arts returns for the 2024 Biennial season to deliver fun, creative and interactive programming for intergenerational learners, families and caregivers in response to the exhibition artists and artworks.

Workshop – The Question
32 Lisgar St | November 8, 6 – 8:30pm
Registration required

How do we try to ask more and deeper questions? Let’s generate and be with some unanswerable or difficult questions and allow what’s latent or nascent in us to surface. Let’s invite the guidance of our not-knowing.
This program is co-produced in partnership with C Magazine.

Curatorial Encounters: East End Tour ft. Rajni Perera at Collision Gallery. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Workshop – Memex Room: Reindexing the Archive
32 Lisgar St | November 16, 7 – 9pm
Registration required

In this multidimensional workshop, participants are invited to annotate photographs of subjects in an archive, responding to the prompt “What do you see?” through the web-based platform Archive Reindex Archive (ARA) (2022–2024).

This program is co-produced in partnership with C Magazine. The project has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Artists.

Workshop – Visual Language for Social Change: Lino-Cut Printmaking
32 Lisgar St | November 23, 12 – 3pm
Registration required

In this skill-building workshop, participants will explore how art and impactful visual language amplify social movements.

This program is co-produced in partnership with C Magazine.

Ness Lee: Performances with Toronto Dance Theatre
32 Lisgar St | November 23, 2 – 5pm; November 29, 5 – 8pm; December 1, 12 – 3pm

Visual artist Ness Lee and Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) come together to imagine a performance that will gently move through the Biennial’s exhibition space at 32 Lisgar, with seven performers interacting with Ness’ distinctive sculptures and objects.

Love Songs to End Colonization
The Theatre Centre | November 30, 8 – 11pm
Registration required

Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing.

Brian Jungen, Hookups in Pickups, 2021. Ink on paper, 26.5 x 39.75 in.

Announcing the Toronto Biennial of Art Benefit Auction 2024
In collaboration with Artsy, the Toronto Biennial of Art is hosting an online art auction featuring works from leading artists featured in current and past Biennial editions, such as Raven Chacon, Rajni Perera, Judy Chicago, Citra Sasmita, Nicholas Galanin, Caroline Monnet, Luis Jacob, Curtis Santiago, Hangama Amiri, Morris Lum, Jessie Oonark, Dana Claxton, Suzanne Kite, Brian Jungen, Eric-Paul Riege, and supporter Stephen Shore.

The auction is available exclusively online now until November 12, 2024. Proceeds from this auction will support the Biennial’s mission to make contemporary art accessible to everyone through free access to our art exhibitions, public programs, performances, and learning experiences.

Auction powered by Artsy

Opening Day of Toronto Biennial of Art, 2024 at 32 Lisgar Ave. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Explore the Biennial

Toronto West-End TBA Locations:
32 Lisgar St and Park
The Auto BLDG at 158 Sterling, 9th Floor
Billboard at Abell St and Queen St W
Gallery TPW
Toronto Pearson Airport

Toronto Downtown TBA Locations:
AGO
Collision Gallery
The Image Centre (TMU)
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Toronto Sculpture Garden
Toronto Union Station

About the Toronto Biennial of Art
The Toronto Biennial of Art’s mission is to make contemporary art accessible to everyone. A ten-week event every two years, the Biennial commissions artists to create new works for a city-wide exhibition in dialogue with Toronto’s diverse local contexts. Year-round public and learning programs bridge Biennials and invite intergenerational audiences to explore the ideas that inspire our events. Building upon past editions and offering new ways of seeing and listening, each Biennial connects people to spark meaningful dialogues and imagine new futures.

For more information visit torontobiennial.org or follow us @torontobiennial.

Media Contacts:
Deanne Moser at DMPUBLIC: +1 647-888-9388; deanne@dmpublic.com
Michael Usling at DMPUBLIC: +1 647-657-8269; michael@dmpublic.com
Megan Irwin at the Toronto Biennial of Art; mirwin@torontobiennial.org

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