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Enjoy an evening of glitz & glamour! Wine pulls, silent auctions, art & mystery boxes oh my! Experience the Rouge: #VirtualVarleyGala, live online from the Varley Art Gallery. Help keep the arts alive & thriving during #COVID19! #WeAreInThisTogether Tickets: $50 at the http://ow.ly/umQE50BIjOv For more information, visit https://bit.ly/2GbLvbH

We're inviting you to join us in attending the BMO 1st Art! 2020 Virtual Exhibition from September 15 October 16, 2020 at the Virtual Art Museum at the University of Toronto! BMO 1st Art! the creativity of art school students from over 100 post-secondary institutions across Canada. The distinguished selection committee reviews the submissions and chooses one winner from every province and territory to be 1st in their region. A national winner is also chosen. The BMO 1st Art! Virtual Exhibition runs from September 15 October 16, 2020, at the Virtual Art Museum at the University of Toronto! For more information, visit our link: https://bit.ly/2GpNSY1

Join us in (safely!) attending What Haven’t We Learnt Yet, Still? curated by Jaclyn Quaresma, a new solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist, Pamila Matharu, at The Durham Art Gallery! Comprised of seven constellations of over 40 works and collected objects, the artist explores how we reconsider familiar notions of our past to contemplate our worldview while existing on Turtle Island. Image | Invited To The Party, But Never Asked To Dance (Grrrls, Grrrls, Grrrls) 2019. Purpl...e coloured neon text, dimensions variable, A/P, edition of 3. For more about this exhibition, visit our link: http://ow.ly/6Zry50BHbAF

Call for Submissions Do you have any community events or exhibitions that you want to share with the world? Well, look no further! Myseum of Toronto has launched a call for submissions for their seventh annual Myseum Intersections festival Myseum Intersections is an annual festival that will take place during the month of April 2022. The festival explores intersectional perspectives of Toronto through collaborative exhibits, events, and experiences. Intersections presents... a wide array of programming intended to create dialogue on civic issues and inspire a deeper knowledge and appreciation of our city. FESTIVAL DATES: April 1 30, 2022 DEADLINE: Nov 2, 2020 at 11pm EDT For more information, visit our link: http://ow.ly/fnmR50BG1M9

Film season has been gracing us with new and exciting stories on the screen and the Goethe-Institut Toronto is giving us more of what we love featuring Sandra Hüller! The Goethe-Institut presents GOETHE FILMS: Lose My Self A Portrait of Sandra Hüller on October 20 + 22 + 26 at TIFF Bell Lightbox Whether in the Cannes hit comedy Toni Erdmann or the exorcism drama Requiem, the prolific Sandra Hüller (who was just named German Actress of the Year) commands the screen..., winning 3x best actress at the Berlinale, a European Film Award & Toronto Film Critics Association Award. At TIFF19 she shone in the French productions Proxima & Sibyl. GOETHE FILMS honours the versatile artist with a mid-career retrospective of many of her best features, including the Canadian premiere of Sundance and Berlinale 2020 hit Exile and Toronto premieres of In the Aisles & Finsterworld plus shorts, some known, some discoveries. Fore more information, please visit our link: http://ow.ly/mb1u50BFML6 Sandra Hüller courtesy Agentur Schneider C. Hüller

We invite you to attend Tanenbaum Lecture with Stephen Waddell at Ryerson Image Centre! Their online lecture via Zoom will be held on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 from 7 pm8:30 pm EDT! Vancouver-based artist Stephen Waddell, winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Photography Award, is known for his urban scenes made in Canada and Europe. Drawing on the tradition of 19th-century French Realist painting, the artist imbues his large-scale photographic tableauxprimarily depicting solit...ary individuals absorbed in their thoughts and daily activitieswith careful attention to scale and light. In this virtual talk, Waddell will discuss work created over two decades, presented in conjunction with this season’s Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition. Stephen Waddell, Asphalt Layer I, 2001, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Monte Clark Gallery To learn more about this lecture, check out our link: http://ow.ly/VobB50BEUCC

Virtual edition of Nuit Blanche program 2020 unveiled The City of Toronto (Nuit Blanche Toronto) released the complete program for Nuit Blanche Toronto’s 15th edition. The 15th annual Nuit Blanche Toronto will be reimagined on Saturday, October 3 starting at 7 p.m available online until October 12. This year, North America’s largest free contemporary art event, funded by the Ontario Government will be delivered in a special digital format to ensure the safety of attendees a...nd artists during the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual event will present five streams of programming that will include talks, podcasts, a release of the 14-year archive, livestream and augmented and virtual reality experiences. Launching the event’s two-year curatorial theme The Space Between Us, Artistic Director Dr. Julie Nagam has selected art installations and entertainment that will focus on the connections across urban, polar and pacific landscapes. These connections reveal the space between us as a potential site for sharing knowledge. For more information, visit our link: http://ow.ly/VD6d50BEFLD

We're excited to attend the Istituto Italiano di Cultura second of four key concepts: BODY | CORPO. The body gives us movement and mobility. It is also a locus of pleasure, pain, intimacy, strength, mortality and politics. The physical restrictions forced upon us by COVID-19 have made us rethink our relationships with our own bodies and those of others. Dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata Zab Maboungou and Professor of Aesthetics, Poeti...cs, and Rhetoric Chiara Cappelletto in conversation with moderator Sascha Hastings. Event Date: Wednesday, September 30 | 12:30pm EDT Visit our link for more information! http://ow.ly/QWjX50BEtGE

Our very own Kim Fullerton visited Contemporary Calgary over the weekend and witnessed the fabulous exhibition by Omar Ba titled Same Dream circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and curated by Nabila Abdel Nabi! Same Dream brings together several of Ba’s paintings depicting dictators and authority figures, who lead corrupt and violent regimes across the African continent and in other parts of the world, particularly where the legacies of colonialism persist.... At times represented as hybrid beastspart human, part animal these despotic warlords are typically enveloped in an abundance of lush flora and fauna. Indeed, nature becomes a recurring force across Ba’s oeuvre. The exhibition will be available until Sunday, January 31, 20215:00 PM so make sure to visit when you are able and it is safe <3 For more information: https://www.contemporarycalgary.com/what/omar-ba-same-dream

This Sunday we bring you a new #Cripsters! We present Embodying Contradiction: Sharona Franklin's Limeflower Heterodoxy by Jen Sebring. The Vancouver-based artist's quietly disruptive works push beyond embodied human difference to encompass the post-humanist idea of the body as a collection of matter that ebbs and flows between us and our environment. Sebring writes, "Sharona Franklin’s art invokes an otherworldliness. Her signature gelatin sculptures invite the viewer to be...come intimate with them. In this intimacy, the ethereal molds bordered with sprouts of flowers reveal another intimacy: that of living with illness and disability, and the foreign yet familiar objects of medicine. lic or plant-based medicine." Sharona Franklin, Limeflower Heterodoxy (detail) (photo: Peter Hagge) For the full review, visit our link: http://ow.ly/wB9s50BCy4n

Auction Alert Join the Waddington's Auctioneers & Appraisers in their Contemporary Art Auction which will be offered online September 26 October 1! Their first Contemporary Art auction of the fall features a mix of collecting categories and a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and ceramics. Highlights include works by Diana Thorneycroft, Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky, Lynne Cohen, Chris Cran, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Wanda Koop, Steve Dr...iscoll, Rodney Graham, Philip Iverson, Mara Korkola, Kevin Sonmor and James Laheyan excellent opportunity to collect work by Canadian powerhouses. Visit our link for more information: http://ow.ly/mcbh50BBcCq

This fall the Esker Foundation brings you three brand new shows for their fall exhibitions! From 26 September 19 December you can visit the following solo exhibitions: Liz Magor One Bedroom Apartment... Samuel Roy Bois Presences Jon Sasaki Killing One Bird With Half A Stone You can also attend their respective artist talks virtually: Liz Magor in Conversation with Naomi Potter: 29 October, 67pm Samuel Roy-Bois in Conversation with Charo Neville: 19 November, 67pm Talk with Jon Sasaki: 3 December, 67pm For registering and more information, please visit our link: http://ow.ly/RUR850BADNW

Make sure you check out So Close; So Far featuring Nima Arabi! Visit the show in person at 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education on Friday September 25th, from 4 9 pm or remotely on Eran Gallery until October 21! So Close; So Far is a drawing-based installation that explores the Persian mystical tradition of transforming the self through the process of reaching for the unreachable. This installation consists of: Muqarnas, a suspended sculptural c...onstruction referencing Persian architecture, and Self-portrait, a series of tableaux drawings reflecting my internal feelings and external appearance. Drawing upon Persian mysticism, So Close; So Far demonstrates the collaboration of the reachable, the external (zahir), and the unreachable, the internal (batin), to transform the exhibition, as well as the installation, the artist, the gallery space, and the viewer into one whole. You can view the online exhibition by visiting: http://ow.ly/qip450BAecG

We invite you to attend Tanenbaum Lecture with Stephen Waddell at Ryerson Image Centre Their online lecture via Zoom will be held on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 from 7 pm8:30 pm EDT! Vancouver-based artist Stephen Waddell, winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Photography Award, is known for his urban scenes made in Canada and Europe. Drawing on the tradition of 19th-century French Realist painting, the artist imbues his large-scale photographic tableauxprimarily depicting soli...tary individuals absorbed in their thoughts and daily activitieswith careful attention to scale and light. In this virtual talk, Waddell will discuss work created over two decades, presented in conjunction with this season’s Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition. To learn more about this lecture, check out our link: http://ow.ly/RbLE50Bzolc Stephen Waddell, Restorer, 2014, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Monte Clark Gallery

Open Studio is delighted to announce FUTURE PROOF, their first ever online fundraiser, launching on October 7, 2020! FUTURE PROOF is a virtual auction of stunning artwork to browse, bid on, and buy outright. The collection features prints by a selection of Canada’s best-known printmakers and contemporary artists as well as ‘Emerging Collector Picks’ by up and coming talent at an accessible price point. 1) Roula Partheniou: Blue Ribbon, 2) Jamasie Pitseolak: Midway, 3) Tom... Lecuyer: Two Shapes 2020, 4) Yael Brotman: Ribbon, 5) Jacob Robert Whibley: up-to-date and out of time (Grey One) For more information, please visit our link: http://ow.ly/mL1D50BytnD

Call for Proposals UMBRELLA PROJECTS is a collaborative venture of the Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre. It was initiated to facilitate new off-site programming during the pandemic and it seeks to support artists in reimagining their work outside the confines of the gallery. UMBRELLA PROJECTS will be accepting proposals for their Open Call till 1 November 2020 as well as proposals for their ARTIST BROADSIDE till 15 October 2020.... For the requirements of these calls, please visit our link: http://ow.ly/lenQ50Byf3T

Registration is now open for PostScript: A Series on Accessibility, Disability, and Digital Publishing! PostScript is a free online series on accessibility, disability, and digital publishing, hosted by Public: Art Culture Ideas. It will take place every Friday in October, connecting artists, researchers, writers, academics, students, publishers, and distributors from around the world who work in publishing and have a stake in, focus on, or interest in issues related to disability and accessibility. For more information, visit our link: https://akimbo.ca//postscript-a-series-on-accessibility-d/

Art Auction Peter Estey Fine Art is pleased to announce our online auction of Canadian and International Fine Art, open for bidding on http://ow.ly/QikT50BxbrU September 21-30, 2020 featuring Post-War, Inuit, Modernist, Folk and Contemporary art from multiple estates and collections. Highlights include works by Miller Brittain, Ladislav Guderna, William Perehudoff, Irene Avaalaaqiaq, Michael Snow, Jérôme Couëlle, Karel Appel, Dennis Burton, N.E. Thing Co., Carl Beam, and m...any others. For more information, visit http://ow.ly/iYnN50BxbrS

Call for Submissions Digital Mural is seeking forms of expression, from painting, to spoken word, to animations, to TikTok, and customary media from Indigenous creatives and youth (ages 0-29) for an upcoming digital group exhibition on the themes of community, care and resilience! Deadline for submissions: September 25th, 2020.... Visit our link for more information! http://ow.ly/2bCt50BuWbH

Auction Alert Waddington's Auctioneers & Appraisers presents its International Art Auction which will be offered online from September 19 24! This auction is composed of a superb collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures from Europe, the Americas, and South Asia. Highlights include an excellent still life by Edward Ladell, large works by Edward Seago, and an early portrait attributed to Jan de Bray from the collection of Toronto architect Henry Sproatt. Other lots... of interest include a marine by André Hambourg, a still life by Stuart Park, a landscape by Marnius Adrianus Koekkoek, and several military genre works. Also featured is a selection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture by artists such as Daniel Libeskind, Herbert Zangs, André Bauchant, Manmohan Samant, and M.F. Husain, as well as works from the Helen and Walter Zwig Foundation Collection including an oil by Karl Appel and bronzes by Käthe Kollwitz and Eduardo Oropeza. Check out our link for more information: http://ow.ly/e5wr50BuV2N

M:ST Performative Art and TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary present Untunnelling Vision, the newest and the fourth in a series of installations by artist Jin-me Yoon that explores the intersections of militarism, colonialism, and tourism. The exhibition is the result of three years of relationship building between the artist, M:ST, TRUCK, and Tsuut’ina and Mohkinstsis|Calgary-based artists, knowledge keepers, and historians. Exhibition dates: October 1 December 12, 2020 Visit our link: http://ow.ly/8GB050Bu9iV