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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">The Department of Fine Arts would like to invite you to join us for the fifth in our Visiting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Speakers
Series. Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>speaker<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will be artist, arts manager, arts advocate, Zainub Verjee.<span class="apple-converted-space"> Verjee is the Executive Director of Galleries Ontario,
the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts Recipient among her many other accomplishments. Please join us for her talk.
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">When</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday
March 23, 2021 at 1:00<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>pm (EDT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">Where</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> Register<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>ONLINE</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Webex
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<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">A prescient provocateur, persuasive champion of arts and advocate for artists rights,
<b>Zainub Verjee</b> has over four decades built a formidable reputation as an artist, writer, critic, cultural administrator and public intellectual in Canada and internationally. A firm believer of Art is a public good, she has contributed to international
instruments of culture such as Status of the Artist and Cultural Diversity. </span>
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<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">Deeply engaged with the UK’s British Black Arts,
<i>Third Cinema </i>and the post-Bandung decolonization, <i>Tactical Video Movement</i>, Zainub has been embedded in the early years of Vancouver’s photo-conceptualism movement as well as history of women’s labour in British Columbia. An internationalist, she
co-founded the critically acclaimed In Visible Colours: An International Film/Video Festival & Symposium for Third World Women and Women of Colour (1989), a widely and critically recognized as a foundational film festival in Canada. She received the National
Film Board Fellowship in 1992 following the critical success of In Visible Colours as part of New Initiatives in Film for women of colour and aboriginal women.
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<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">A trailblazer for her generation, her interventions, bold positions and organizing enabled valiantly forging a path for women, radicalized
artists in the form of access and institution building. For Zainub Vancouver presented a significantly different axis for art’s political imagination. In 1993, her work on the British Columbia Arts Board led to the formation of British Columbia Arts Council,
as well as she has contributed to the formation of many other institutions. An active member of civil society, she was a Vancouver Moderator of the Spicer Commission –
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:#E2AD07">The Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">.
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<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">As an internationalist, her work in video distribution/programming, curatorship, policy and administration has been consistent and
contiguous with what might be termed a critical transversal aesthetic. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">She continues with her practice as a multidisciplinary artist and as a programmer/ curator and her artworks have been shown at the
Venice Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland US, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, France, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México, D. F. (Mexico City, Mexico), India, Art Gallery of Alberta, Embassy Culture
House (London, ON), and resides in private and public collections (Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada).
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<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">She is engaged in a national campaign on issues of Artists’ labour and income. Following her co-authoring an open letter to the
Prime Minister of Canada on behalf of 75000 artists, initiating a national campaign, she was invited to Australia to speak on the issues of Artist labour and income. A prolific pubic speaker, in June this year she has been invited by the Paul Mellon Centre
for Studies in British Art in London to deliver a keynote on Cultural Diplomacy.
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<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">In 2020 she was honoured with the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for Outstanding contribution.
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">For more information on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>this talk or questions about the Webex platform,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>please<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>contact<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Bojana
Videkanic<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bojana.videkanic@uwaterloo">bojana.videkanic@uwaterloo</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sharon<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Dahmer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> <a href="mailto:Sharon.dahmer@uwaterloo.ca">Sharon.dahmer@uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">Mark your calendars for more upcoming Fine Arts Visiting</span></u></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><b><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black">Speakers
Series:</span></u></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/sessional-faculty/amin-alsaden">Dr. Amin Alsaden</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Wednesday
March 31, 2021<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>– 12:00 noon EST<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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