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We hope you can join us in Vancouver in April!
CANADIAN ART GALLERY EDUCATORS 2008 SYMPOSIUM
Connections: Art and Communities
Saturday, April 12 - Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
Communities...geographical, social, cultural, political, and even virtual, can collectively define who we are and how we see the world. More and more, a multiplicity of communities is reflected in the exhibitions and collections of art galleries and museums. What does this mean for educational programming and interpretation?
This symposium will look at ways in which gallery educators can make connections with and within communities through art. Presentations will focus on innovative approaches for community engagement including First Nations collaborations, issues of cultural diversity, school program initiatives and programming at artist-run centres. Bring your own community experiences in programming to this timely and relevant symposium.
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
SATURDAY, APRIL 12
6:00 - 9:00 pm Dinner…Discovery…Discussion
Saturday Evening Dinner – Meet and Greet
Location: SalaThai Thai Restaurant, 102-888 Burrard Street (at Robson), Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1X9
Please bring with you a maximum of 3 images (photographs, prints – no slides please) that reflect your ideas on the arts & community. Be ready to share these informally with colleagues.
SUNDAY, APRIL 13
Location: Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2H7
8:15 – 8:45 am Registration, Coffee and Tea
8:45 – 9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 – 10:30 am Keynote session: Changing Conversations
Speakers:
Nika Collison, Curator, Haida Gwaii Museum
Jill Baird, Curator of Education and Public Programmes, UBC Museum of Anthropology
Nika Collison, Curator, Haida Gwaii Museum and Jill Baird, Curator of Education and Public Programmes, UBC Museum of Anthropology will speak to the challenges of sharing and interpreting different ways of knowing by drawing on their experiences of working within arts and cultural institutions and across cultures. By offering different points of view they will tackle questions such as: Who is community? How should we respond? What are the limits? What changes can be made to make space for other ways of knowing?
The speakers will address both internal and external communities, the role of the curator and the educator, the role of communities in institutions, and the role of institutions in communities. The goal will be to identify some of the issues and challenges and offer potential options for changing relationships.
10:30 – 10:50 am Break
10:50 – 12:00 pm Discussion Groups and Feedback on Keynote Session
Facilitators:
Nika Collison, Curator, Haida Gwaii Museum
Jill Baird, Curator of Education and Public Programmes, UBC Museum of Anthropology
Ingrid Kolt, Curator, Education & Public Programs, Surrey Art Gallery
12:00 – 1:15 pm Lunch at the Vancouver Art Gallery Cafe
1:15 – 2:45 pm and 3:00 – 4:30 pm Alternating Breakout Sessions
Session A: Public Programs: Reconfiguring Community
M. Simon Levin, Artist/Educator
M. Simon Levin will lead a participatory workshop that explores how our notions of community are social constructions. Using the video installations, Paradise and Kuba, of Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman whose work is currently on exhibit at The Vancouver Art Gallery, Levin will introduce CAGE participants to a modified public program that has been developed for senior secondary students. Questioning how we see ourselves coming together, both Ataman and Levin demonstrate how new media offers new possibilities to rethink an old paradigm.
Session B: A Place of Rest: Working in Diversity
Sadira Rodrigues, Adult Programs Coordinator, Vancouver Art Gallery
Amir Ali Alibhai, Arts Programmer, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
As educators one of our tasks is find a balance between conceptualizing diversity and practicing it. How do we take the theory and conceptualization of notions of community and diversity and begin programming in a meaningful way?
4:30 – 6:00 pm A facilitated debrief of afternoon sessions over wine and hors d’oeuvres.
Join fellow CAGE delegates for an informal dinner at a local restaurant or have dinner on your own.
MONDAY, APRIL 14
Location: Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2H7
8:45 – 9:00 am Coffee and Tea
9:00 – 9:45 am CAGE Annual General Meeting
10:00 – 11:00 am CASE Study 1 and discussion
11:00 – 12:00 pm CASE Study 2 and discussion
12:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch on your own at local restaurants
2:00 – 3:15 pm Site visit to ArtStarts in Schools and presentation by Wendy Newman, Executive Director
Location: ArtStarts, 808 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3A7
3:15 – 4:45 pm Site visit to Centre A – Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art to view the current exhibition Orientalism and Ephemera, curated by Jamelie Hassan
Location: Centre A, 2 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 1G8
Join fellow CAGE delegates for an informal dinner at a local restaurant or have dinner on your own.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15 (optional)
Visits to local galleries in South Granville. Locations to be announced.
Presenter Bios
Nika Collison (Jisgang) is a member of Ts'aahl Eagle Clan. She is curator at the Haida Gwaii Museum at Kaay Llanagaay and co-chair of the Haida Repatriation Committee. Nika has travelled to a number of museums around the world, collecting inventories of ancient Haida material and helping to build relationships between these institutions and the Haida Nation. Nika is a traditional singer and drummer and a beginning cedar bark weaver.
Jill Baird is Curator of Education and Public Programmes at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. She is currently working on a PhD in Museum Education working in collaboration with the Haida Gwaii Museum at Kaay Llnagaay. She has been a museum educator for over fifteen years and has worked in collaboration with a range of artists, cultural workers and communities.
M. Simon Levin has been creating site-specific projects that explore relational aesthetics using a variety of custom designed tools for the past 15 years. These projects investigate the often-blurred boundaries between the private and the public resulting in poetic interventions into space and place. His teaching and inter-disciplinary art practice has led him to create numerous site-specific art projects for public and private spaces in Canada, USA, Mexico and Australia. Simon co-founded collective echoes, a non-profit arts organization committed to producing collaborative public works. Within a model of co-mentorship, this collective teams up young emerging and established artists with a community to explore and to create art that is relevant to the concerns of that community. These projects fused pedagogy, community development and public art to explore innovative approaches to contemporary culture making.
Amir Ali Alibhai is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and cultural worker. He has been arts programmer at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver since it opened its doors in 1997. Previously, he worked as a gallery educator and guest curator at the Richmond Art Gallery and was later Assistant and Guest Curator at the Surrey Art Gallery. He was one of the founders and past president of the Rungh Cultural Society, which published the magazine of Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Culture (1992-1997). Amir earned a bachelor's degree in microbiology (1985), a bachelor's degree in fine arts (1989), as well as a master's degree in curriculum studies (2000); his master's thesis was on cross-cultural collaboration. His current artistic practice focuses on ephemeral works and ritual. He is currently a Member of the Board of the Canada Council for the Arts, appointed for a three-year term in May 2005.
Sadira Rodrigues is an independent curator and arts administrator based in Vancouver. She has curated a number of exhibitions by local, national, and international artists. She was the Assistant Curator of the 2004 Shanghai Biennale. She has been a sessional Instructor at Emily Carr Institute since 2001 and has a Masters in Art History from the University of British Columbia. She has written for books, journals and catalogues, including Vancouver Art and Economies, Thirdspace, and Yishu—Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and co-organized symposiums such as Locating Asia and InFest: International Artist Run Culture. Formerly the Manager of Arts Programs for 2010 Legacies Now, she is currently involved in a range of projects including public programming at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and diversity facilitator with the Equity Office at the Canada Council for the Arts.
Media Contact:
Dale Sheppard, Senior Chair
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
1723 Hollis Street, PO Box 2262
Halifax, NS B3J 3C8
(902) 424-2197
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