Neil LaPierre, Baby's Night 1/2 (one half). Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson
Thanks to all who came out to Truth be Told at the Revue Cinema! We were so pleased with our first event and excited to keep up the momentum with our first suite of exhibitions in Regent Park, opening this summer.
For those who weren't able to make the event, there are photos from the show available here, and you can download the program for the evening here.
Alvis Parsley, Alien in Residence: Parallel Life, 2014. Photo: Tony Wei-Han Chen.
YTB Gallery brings together a night of performances and screenings entitled Truth Be Told, June 11th at the Revue Cinema co-presented with Art For Eternity. A selection of six young, Toronto-based artists present film, video, and performance work telling histories, jokes, deep truths and canny untruths. Mingling performative disruptions and flowing narratives, these artists play with stories and their dual power— conjuring telling as an insistence on erased histories, or as a method of bending the truth to unsettle and delight. Somewhere in the act of telling, these artists build rich and sumptuous new worlds: cautionary, wish-fulfilling, or utopian.
Artists
Sharlene Bamboat
Jessica Kichoncho Karuhanga
Alvis Parsley
Christopher Lacroix and afallenhorse
Neil Lapierre
Rebecca Fin Simonetti
Curated by Alison Cooley and Humboldt Magnussen
Doors open at 9:00pm, event starts at 9:30pm.
This is a liscensed event; Beer/ Wine/ popcorn/ snacks will be available.
Tickets:
$8 - advanced , student, senior, or starcard
$11 - general night of
to purchase advance tickets
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/truth-be-told-live-performance-film-at-the-intersection-of-fact-fiction-tickets-16920531766
Art For Eternity
Revue Cinema's Art for Eternity program, 2nd Thursday of every month : Bringing classics and future classics to the big screen on Roncesvalles. presenting a mix of art house cinema, creative documentary, and performance : a variety of artistic subjects whose aesthetic and creative influences we believe will last the test of time.
art.for.eternity.cinema@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/575312722612492/
YTB Gallery
Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery is a nomadic artist run centre that will open its doors in Regent Park this summer. The mandate of the gallery is to support the professional practice of young artists by creating opportunities to exhibit artwork while engaging in the art community.
Download the Poster here.
As part of YTB's programming and beginnings, we are holding a roundtable discussion at UrbanArts on the theme of inclusivity and intersectionality in artist run centres.
We are inviting you to join the conversation moderated by curator and YTB Board Member Geneviève Wallen.
Speakers on the panel will be Robin Fraser, artist, activist and student advocate at OCAD University; Adrienne Crossman - artist, curator, educator and programming coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre; and Emily Gove, artist, educator and director at Xpace Cultural Centre; Rohan Ramsay, rapper, wardrobe stylist and gallery supervisor at MOCCA.
As we build a new kind of gallery space that differentiates itself from the current Toronto art scene, our goal is to learn more about what it means to have cultural representation in a multicultural environment such as Toronto, and what it means to be a good ally to different marginalized demographics.
Topics discussed will be:
• Strategies to foster inclusiveness in art spaces
• How to establish sustainable and fair partnerships with ethnocultural arts organizations
• Observations about the Toronto art scene and representation
Join us on the Thursday the 26th of March at 6:30 pm.
Co-directors Marjan Verstappen and Humboldt Magnussen will be there with the board of YTB Gallery
There will also be pizza!