Wednesday, March 31, 2010 / 7-9pm
The Gardiner Museum, Terrace Room (111 Queen’s Park, Toronto)
FREE
Descant is excited to announce that our outreach program, NOW HEAR THIS!, will be launching it’s newest anthology, The Barracuda! This 2-colour, book-length anthology contains the best student writing from NHT!’s 2009 S.W.A.T. (Students, Writers & Teachers) creative writing workshops, which partner professional Toronto writers with youth around the city. The Barracuda showcases student written stories, poems and personal essays, along with creative pieces from S.W.A.T. Writers-in-Residence Andrew Daley, Desi Di Nardo, Larry Frolick, Rebecca Rosenblum, Jenny Sampirisi, Julia Tausch and Aaron Tucker. Gorgeous illustrations therein are provided by Toronto artist/cartoonist Marc Ngui.
This launch promises to be NHT!‘s biggest event of the year, featuring readings by students and S.W.A.T. Writers-in-Residence, food, and friends. Be sure you don’t miss it!
RSVP to the Facebook event HERE!
Descant’s Managing Editor is in this group show, which opens in Toronto on March 05. Go check it out!
Here’s a link to the Facebook Event
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Toronto School of Art Guest Artists Lecture Series presents Kent Monkman
Wed, March 3, 2010 / 6:30-8:30pm
Toronto School of Art, 3rd Floor, Studio 1 (410 Adelaide St. W)
PWYC
Kent Monkman is the next speaker in the Toronto School of Art’s Guest Artists Lecture Series this coming Wednesday. DESCANT featured Monkman’s work this past year in D146: Immanence/Transcendence. He is a remarkable Canadian Cree artist who works in multiple mediums ranging from film and paint to performance and installation. Solo exhibitions of his work have appeared across Canada in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, and he has participated in group exhibitions including The American West, at Compton Verney, in Warwickshire, England.
Monkman is also known for his site specific performances in such places as The Royal Ontario Museum and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. He created super 8 versions of these performances and titled them “Colonial Art Space Interventions.” His short films and videos have won distinguished awards and have been screened at numerous national and international film festivals. Several museums possess public and private collections of his work, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
Visit his official website, www.kentmonkman.com
