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Please visit the CAGE website at http://www.cageart.ca for registration and agenda information. 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.
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
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 – 6:00pm 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)
TBC – Visits to local galleries in South Granville.
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