Think ahead!!!Toronto Biennial of Art Sept. 21-Dec, 1

Save The Date: TBA 2024

After welcoming 160,000+ visitors to our 9+ sites over 10 weeks in 2022, the TBA team is thrilled to announce that the third iteration of the Biennial will be taking place September 21 – December 1, 2024. Follow us on social at @torontobiennial, and stay tuned via our newsletters for more exciting announcements in the months to come!

TBA Online Learning Resources

TBA continues to promote land-based learning and our kinship with one another through contemporary art. Engage with our Mobile Arts Curriculum learning tools on our website and download and print them for free! These 7 learning tools are Ontario Curriculum supportive and created in close collaboration with artists, educators, and contributors including Dr. Carolyn King, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Ange Loft.  Go on listening, learning, walking and creating discoveries with these MAC tools in hand!

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Upcoming Fall Events

‘The sky held me’ by Tanya Lukin Linklater Date: Saturday October 15, 2022 | 3–4pm Location: Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 2H5 Program Description: In the context of her commission for the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art, artist Tanya Lukin Linklater generated projects in relation to water, weather and embodiment. As part of this ongoing work, Lukin Linklater will undertake a performative lecture at the Textile Museum of Canada to coincide with the release of her publication of written scores for dancers working with her from a distance during the pandemic; these scores were used for her 2022 TBA video work, 'Sensation is a circuit of experience, a circuit of the felt travelling in and adjacent to the body,' which will also be screened at this event.  This program is a part of the Creatives in Residence series by Ontario Culture Days, in partnership with Toronto Biennial of Art and the Textile Museum of Canada.

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Stay tuned for an invitation to our next Educators’ Event, hosted by the Textile Museum of Canada (TMC). You'll get an inside look at the TBA and TMC partner exhibition ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ Double Vision, on now through March 2023, and a taste of our school programs and workshops, offered both in person and virtually! We will also be hosting upcoming Professional Development Days for teachers, so please check our website regularly for details.

TBA Publications

Edited by Tairone Bastien, Candice Hopkins, and Katie Lawson Co-published by the Toronto Biennial of Art and Art Metropole Publication date: April 2022. Spanning the 2019 Biennial, entitled The Shoreline Dilemma, as well as our 2022 edition, What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, this book is a “third” site, a place where the continuities, resonances, and dissonances between editions are made evident. Water, Kinship, Belief is a means to bring together the artists, artworks, collaborators, and ideas that have informed the exhibitions and programs.

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Created by the Talking Treaties Collective: Ange Loft, Victoria Freeman, Martha Stiegman, and Jill Carter Published by: Jumblies Press and Toronto Biennial of Art, in partnership with Art Metropole A Treaty Guide for Torontonians is an activity-based publication by the Talking Treaties Collective, that examines the complex intercultural roots of treaty relationships in the place we now call Toronto.  The first edition of the Treaty Guide is now sold out. Please stay tuned for details on the second edition, to be released later this year!

About TBA The Toronto Biennial of Art is Canada’s leading visual arts event focused exclusively on contemporary art from around the world. For 10 weeks every two years, local, national, and international Biennial artists transform Toronto and its partner regions with free exhibitions, performances, and learning opportunities. Grounded in diverse local contexts, the Biennial’s city-wide programming aims to inspire individuals, engage communities, and contribute to global conversations. This event has been financially assisted by the City of Toronto, the Government of Ontario, and the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, administered by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund Corporation.

Image Captions: 1. Ange Loft with Jumblies Theatre & Arts, Dish Dances Movement Workshop, a Talking Treaties movement education initiative, May 21, 2022. Program held at Fort York National Historic Site as part of Toronto Biennial of Art 2022. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias. 2. Tanya Lukin Linklater, Sensation is a circuit of experience, a circuit of the felt traveling in and adjacent to the body, 2022. Installation view at 72 Perth Ave, Toronto Biennial of Art 2022. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. 3. Image of the Toronto Biennial of Art Publication Water, Kinship, Belief. Photo: Art Metropole. 4. Image of A Treaty Guide for Torontonians cover, 2022. Image courtesy of Art Metropole.

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Toronto Biennial of Art Programming series continues: May 12-18. Catch the fun Story telling!

Upcoming Programming: May 12–18

Fri, May 13 Weekly Storytelling Sessions* 72 Perth Ave | 11am–12pm, 2–3pm, and 6:30–7:30pm Small Arms Inspection Building | 11am–12pm, 2–3pm, and 4–5pm Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto | 11am-12pm Following the Afronautic Trail Participant: Camille Turner Fri, May 13 + Sat, May 14 | 12–2pm Art Museum at the University of Toronto, 15 King's College Circle. To join the waitlist, email progammingandlearning@torontobiennial.org. In Following the Afronautic Trail, artist Camille Turner invites participants on a two-day, multisensory exploration and interrogation of sites and monuments within the vicinity of the University of Toronto’s downtown campus. A part of the durational narratives explored within Turner’s body of work, including her 2022 Biennial works Nave and the Black Historical Navigational Toolkit co-authored with Yaniya Lee, this program brings often forgotten histories to the forefront—specifically, the evidence of Canada’s colonial linkages between the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans and its ongoing legacies. This two-part program will take place May 13 and 14, 2022 from 12–2pm each day. Co-presented with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. This program is supported by the Toronto Arts Council and TBA’s Women Leading Initiative. ASL Interpreted Storytelling at 72 Perth Storyteller: Jeffrey Canton Fri, May 13 | 6–7pm  Registration is recommended Join us at 72 Perth Avenue in Toronto for a special Storytelling session led by Jeffrey Canton and accompanied by an American Sign Language English interpreter. Presented in partnership with Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Service (TSLIS).

Sat, May 14 Weekly Storytelling Sessions* 72 Perth Ave | 11am–12pm and 4–5pm Small Arms Inspection Building | 11am–12pm and 4–5pm Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto | 11am-12pm and 2–3pm

Sun, May 15 A Conversation About Being in Place Participant: Toronto Landscape Observatory Sun, May 15 | 2–4pm 72 Perth Ave In Person Talk – Registration is required. In this talk, researcher and media producer, Jennifer Wemigwans and Grandmother Jacque Lavallée introduce Wendigo – The Dirty Talker, an Augmented Reality teaching. For Grandmother Lavallée, being Anishnaabe is to be kind and to always carry sacred tobacco: it is these two things that keep us connected to everything. Through the Wendigo, Grandmother Lavallée asks participants to look back to the north of this land and remember the ice. Part of a weekly programming series in partnership between Toronto Landscape Observatory and the Toronto Biennial of Art. Yaliyat Cocahq Participant: Ivanie Aubin-Malo Sun, May 15 | 2–3:30pm Small Arms Inspection Building In Person Workshop – Registration is required. Quebecoise and Wolastoq (Maliseet) artist Ivanie Aubin-Malo presents a dance workshop drawn from her experiences in powwow circles and in connecting with other wolastoqiyik communities. Together with Aubin-Malo, participants will take part in a warm-up routine incorporating techniques from powwow dance, followed by various movement exercises inspired by Wolastoqey language and cultural elements. This workshop promotes the revitalisation of Wolastoqey culture and offers participants the opportunity to learn about the richness and vitality of Indigenous cultures while on the territory that gave birth to them. Co-presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art and Oakville Galleries.

Post-Capitalist Architecture-TV: Ravine Screenings Participants: Joar Nango and Ken Are Bongo Sun, May 15 | 8:30pm 72 Perth Ave Outdoor Film Screening On Sunday, May 15, the Biennial will host an outdoor screening of 3 episodes of Post-Capitalist Architecture-TV in the outdoor courtyard of 72 Perth Ave, beginning just before dusk. Toronto’s ravine system is both location and subject for Joar Nango and Ken Are Bongo’s new artwork jointly commissioned and presented by AGYU, Evergreen, and TBA. Note: We suggest program attendants bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on outside. If inclement weather occurs, the screening will take place inside 72 Perth. Presented in collaboration with the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) and Evergreen Brick Works (Evergreen). Weekly Storytelling Sessions* 72 Perth Ave | 11am–12pm and 4–5pm Small Arms Inspection Building | 11am–12pm and 4–5pm 5 Lower Jarvis | 11am–12pm and 2–3pm

Coming Up:  The sky held me (rainfall on hands hair lips) Participants: Tanya Lukin Linklater with dancers Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, and composer/musician Laura Ortman Wed, May 18 – Sun, May 22 | 10am–4pm Colborne Lodge In Person Performances The sky held me (rainfall on hands hair lips) is a series of springtime site-specific performance investigations taking place at High Park over the course of five days. Building upon the interdisciplinary practice of artist Tanya Lukin Linklater and her work in the Biennial, Held in the air I never fell (spring lightning sweetgrass song), these process-based open rehearsals bring Linklater together with invited dancers Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, and composer/musician Laura Ortman to generate resonant embodied inquiries.

*Note: Storytelling sessions are free and available on a drop-in basis. Groups can book a session in advance by emailing programmingandlearning@torontobiennial.org. #torontobiennial#fineartmagazine#artisticstorytelling#artfun

Toronto Biennial of Art, through June 5, 2022 features for the week: Water, Kinship, Belief,

TBA launches its first ever publication! This week, TBA launched the publication Water, Kinship, Belief, co-published by the Toronto Biennial of Art and Art Metropole. Spanning the 2019 Biennial, entitled The Shoreline Dilemma, as well as our 2022 edition, What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, this book is a “third” site, a place where the continuities, resonances, and dissonances between editions are made evident. Water, Kinship, Belief is a means to bring together the artists, artworks, collaborators, and ideas that have informed the exhibitions and programs. Couldn’t join us for the launch? Catch up on what you missed here. Water, Kinship, Belief will be available to purchase at select TBA sites soon, but you can purchase your copy anytime when you click here.

Upcoming Programming  For our events calendar click here.

The Cafe at the End of the Future:  a crip performance extravaganza Participants: Syrus Marcus Ware with performers Aeshna Ware-Huff, Janice Lee, Jaz Fairy J, Troy Jackson, and LAL Sat, May 7 | 1–3pm Small Arms Inspection Building This program will have ASL-English Interpretation provided by Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Service (TSLIS).

ASL Interpreted Storytelling at Arsenal Contemporary Storyteller: Emily DiCarlo Sat, May 7 | 11am–12pm Registration is suggested. This program is presented in partnership with Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Service (TSLIS). An Observing Walk Participant: Toronto Landscape Observatory Sun, May 8 | 2–4pm 72 Perth Ave Registration is required.

Yaliyat Cocahq Participant: Ivanie Aubin-Malo Sun, May 15 | 2–3:30pm Small Arms Inspection Building In Person | Workshop Registration is required. Yaliyat cocahq is co-presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art and Oakville Galleries. Quebecoise and Wolastoq (Maliseet) artist Ivanie Aubin-Malo presents a dance workshop drawn from her experiences in powwow circles and in connecting with other wolastoqiyik communities.

TBA Curatorial Fellowship Highlight The Curatorial Fellowship Program, made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment, was conceived of as an experimental and collaborative process through which emerging curators can cultivate personal curatorial methodologies, and realize a substantial curatorial project within the framework of the Toronto Biennial of Art. The inaugural fellows are Sebastian De Line (Haudenosaunee-Métis-Cantonese/Canada) and Chiedza Pasipanodya (Zimbabwe/Canada). "Ngozi: We Might Listen for the Shimmerings" by Chiedza Pasipanodya Ngozi: We Might Listen for the Shimmerings is an ongoing curatorial project surrounding belief, death, and embodied listening. Following a series of familial roadside deaths surrounded by myth and uncertainty, this exhibition embarks along tributaries of thought exploring the unfinished nature of death with three artists – Timothy Yanick Hunter, Anne Zanele Mutema, and  Buhlebezwe Siwani. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art, Ngozi: We Might Listen for the Shimmerings is made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment, and with support from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.  "The Shape of Sound" by Sebastian De Line Comprising over fifty multimedia artists, musicians, designers and curators, Jatiwangi art Factory’s (JaF) artistic practices emphasize local rural life in relation to land and the terracotta industry in Jatiwangi District. Clay is central to all of their artistic and cultural activities in the spirit of community empowerment. As April 2nd, 2022 marked the beginning of the month of Ramadan in Canada, JaF rings in the opening of the Biennial while calling forth a time of fasting, introspection, and prayer observed by many community members of Toronto. The material remnants of this performance remain at the Small Arms Inspection Building for the duration of the exhibition. The Shape of Sound is made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment, and in partnership with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Gardiner Museum. Accommodations generously provided by The Drake Hotel.

In The Press Hyperallergic (May 1, 2022): Indigenous Artists Take Center Stage at the Toronto Biennial of Art BlogTO (April 27, 2022): A billowing smoke sculpture will soon overtake Toronto's waterfront

About TBA The Toronto Biennial of Art is Canada’s leading visual arts event focused exclusively on contemporary art from around the world. For 10 weeks every two years, local, national, and international Biennial artists transform Toronto and its partner regions with free exhibitions, performances, and learning opportunities. Grounded in diverse local contexts, the Biennial’s city-wide programming aims to inspire individuals, engage communities, and contribute to global conversations. This event has been financially assisted by the City of Toronto, the Government of Ontario, and the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, administered by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund Corporation.

Image Captions: 1. TBA Curators Katie Lawson and Tairone Bastien reading from Water, Kinship, Belief at 72 Perth Ave. Photo: Roxanne Fernandes. 2. LAL Performing. Photo: Syrus Marcus Ware.⁠ 3. Program image for Yaliyat cocahq featuring Ivanie Aubin-Malo. Photo: Magdalena Marszalek.

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