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Wednesday 1 May 2024 - The month-long exhibition showcases the work of artist Julya Hajnoczky titled “Aurora Arborealis." Meet the Artist Julya Hajnoczky on May 4. The Prefix Prize runs along this exhibition, created in Ontario's Point Pelee National Park and Newfoundland. It delves into questioning habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss, referencing Canadian landscapes and ecosystem's. The images are elegiac, dark, and mournful, representing not contemporary specimens but rather recontextualized relics from a fragmented world. They float in the void, evoking a sense of future nostalgia. - 1326 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON M4L 1Z1, Canada - Event Details

Wednesday 1 May 2024 - Join us for Diverse Dialogues: Stigma & Breaking Barriers. This FREE event explores how stigma impacts health on May 1, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the Isabel Bader Theatre at the University of Toronto. Hear from a diverse panel of speakers that includes Dr. Notisha Massaquoi, Michel Rodrigue and Amazing Race winner Dr. James Makokis, as they share their experiences and insights. Space is limited, get your FREE tickets now at toronto.ca/hastings. This event is a part of the Charles Hastings Lecture Series, hosted by Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa. - 93 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K6, Canada - Event Details

Wednesday 1 May 2024 - Join us for an informative session on our Ignite Ideation Funding capacity-building grant. This opportunity is for artists, creatives, artist collectives, grassroots and resident-led groups and small to midsized community organizations based in, or who may have been displaced from, living or working in Jane and Finch for any reason. We are offering up to $5,000 per successful proposal. 2024 applications open April 22. The deadline to apply is May 31 by 11:59 pm. During this session, participants will learn about the objectives and eligibility criteria of Ignite Ideation Funding; gain insights into the application process, including tips for crafting a competitive proposal; hear success stories from past grant recipients and learn from their experiences; engage in a Q&A session with the Cultural Hotspot team to clarify any doubts or queries; and network with fellow Jane and Finch artists, creatives and art administrators to foster collaboration and community building. - - Event Details

Wednesday 1 May 2024 - Don’t miss OCAD University’s 109th Annual Graduate Exhibition – Toronto’s largest free art and design exhibition. Be inspired by the work of more than 800 emerging artists and designers. The event features displays from graduating students in every discipline, sales of student work, an alumni lounge and a special exhibition of medal-winning student work in the Great Hall. A supplemental online exhibition will also launch on May 1. - 100 McCaul St, Toronto, ON M5T 2W7, Canada - Event Details

Wednesday 1 May 2024 - Join us for Diverse Dialogues: Stigma & Breaking Barriers. This FREE event explores how stigma impacts health on May 1, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the Isabel Bader Theatre at the University of Toronto. Hear from a diverse panel of speakers that includes Dr. Notisha Massaquoi, Michel Rodrigue and Amazing Race winner Dr. James Makokis, as they share their experiences and insights. Space is limited, get your FREE tickets now at toronto.ca/hastings. This event is a part of the Charles Hastings Lecture Series, hosted by Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa. - 93 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K6, Canada - Event Details

Wednesday 1 May 2024 - Three Toronto-based artists recover matrilineal histories of displacement and belonging through their contemporary textile practices. Par Nair, Julie Gladstone, and Carol Ann Apilado revitalize ancestral practices to reconnect with their families, genealogies, and homelands. They seek to reconcile with the loss, trauma, and grief tied to their histories in the South Indian, Sephardic, and Filipino diasporic communities respectively. The artists’ acts of weaving, embroidery, and knitting evoke how fabric has served as a material for survival, protection, and resilience. The works prompt a deeper understanding of the role and history of women’s cultural work as weavers, embroiderers, and knitters. - University College (Main Building), 15 King's College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7, Canada - Event Details

Wednesday 1 May 2024 - Indiscernible thresholds, escaped veillances explores opacity, illegibility, and invisibility as productive alternatives to contemporary trans hypervisibility, a circumstance wherein the realm of the representational risks becoming all that is offered to trans people. Featuring works by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Lucas LaRochelle, Joshua Schwebel, Chelsea Thompto, and Lan “Florence” Yee, this exhibition tests the potentials of opacity to subvert the extractive dimensions of knowing the other. Rather than approaching visibility as an issue to be resolved, these artists consider the potentials of retreating from view, framing opacity as a protective act and archival illegibility as an escape. - Hart House Building, 7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3, Canada - Event Details

Wednesday 1 May 2024 - Join us for a special planting event with Vivian Recollet, an Anishinaabe grandmother, who will lead a ceremony at the beginning of the event. The ceremony will be followed by planting trees and shrubs to enhance natural habitat along the Humber River. Event site conditions vary. Contact us for more information including accessibility. If you would like to request accessibility support, contact us as soon as possible. - 150 Hadrian Dr, Toronto, ON M9W 1V4, Canada - Event Details

Sunday 28 April 2024 - Sandeep Bhagwati’s How to Inhabit These Different Temporalities? with Śabdagatitāra: a musical journey with ten musicians that transcends time, connecting cultures through art and innovation. Visitors can dive into the various sound worlds of the soloists, stationed at five areas of the Aga Khan Museum’s Atrium as they relay music back and forth throughout the day. In this durational performance, the audience is free to wander throughout the space while interacting with the musicians. Śabdagatitāra is a Sanskrit term for the crossing over (tāra) of methods of making (gati) sound (śabda) - celebrating many musical roots and containing wonderfully unexpected sound worlds. - 77 Wynford Dr, Toronto, ON M3C 1K1, Canada - Event Details