Final Weeks to Visit the Toronto Biennial of Art 2024

Third Edition | On now until December 1, 2024

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

Upcoming Free Programming – November

The final weeks of the Toronto Biennial of Art are fast approaching!

Mark your calendars with exciting programming taking place throughout November, including artist talks and workshops that further flesh out the curatorial 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 | Fridays, 10am – 8pm; 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.

Artists and Curator in Conversation | Ikumagialiit – ᐃᑯᒪᒋᐊᓖᑦ (those that need fire): Aatooq (full of blood)
Online via Zoom | November 13, 6 – 7pm

Join us for an engaging discussion featuring TBA 2024 Curator Dominique Fontaine and members of the Ikumagialiit collective as they explore their groundbreaking exhibition, Aatooq. This conversation will offer deep insights into the creative process and thematic elements of the exhibition, showcasing the collective’s innovative approach.

This program is co-presented with The Image Centre.

Mossbelly: DanceAge Workshop with Kate Nankervis
Hart House | November 14, 5 – 7pm
Registration Required

This workshop invites a group of intergenerational adults to dance together, creating a space to embody questions: How do we dance through inevitable transitions of ageing, whatever age you are? What can the ageing body teach us between generations? What does it need from us, and how can it support us in the society we live in?

This program is presented in partnership with Hart House and the Institute for Dance Studies.

Workshop – The Ties That Bind Us, The Ties That Bond Us, led by Nickeshia Garrick
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery | November 16, 1 – 3:30pm
Registration Required – Join Waitlist

Led by Nickeshia Garrick, this workshop will be an embodied exploration of the bonds that physically and emotionally bind lived experiences. This workshop speaks to the relationships in proximity to Blackness, which have unfortunately been forcibly bound to colonization, enslavement, and scarcity mindsets. However, the relationships we choose to build with ourselves and each other (within the diaspora) — despite these shared ancestral traumas and lived experiences — bond us in resilience, empathy, awareness, and a deep desire/need for love.

Work by Winsom Winsom at TBA main exhibition hub at 32 Lisgar St & Park. 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.

Date Change – Curatorial Encounters 4: The West End Tour
Gallery TPW | November 30, 11am – 1:30pm
Registration recommended but not required

The Curatorial Encounters program series invites all members of the arts community and the general public to meet and converse with one of our 2024 exhibition curators, Dominique Fontaine. For this final edition of Curatorial Encounters, we celebrate the opening of the Biennial with the second of two public tours by TBA curators highlighting the impact that the Biennial artists have on Toronto, spanning from Gallery TPW to The Auto BLDG at 158 Sterling Ave in the West.

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.

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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