Fwd: Shifting Images (fwd)

[Julie Salverson (by way of Kathy Chung <kchung@chass.utoronto.ca>)]

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:12:27 -0500
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Please circulated to those interested

>Panel on the Arts and The Politics of Difference in Canadian Culture
>Tuesday, April 6, 1998, 5:30pm
>Leigha Lee Browne Theatre,
>University of Toronto at Scarborough.
>
>On April 6, 1998,  a dynamic group of scholars  and artists  will come
>together on a panel at The University of Toronto at Scarborough  to
>discuss issues and concerns related to a new field of study being built by
>the Arts Management Program  - that of Arts in a Pluralist Society.
>
>Drawing on their own cultural practice and/or research, panelists will
>examine what is at stake in creating and sustaining artistic work which
>challenges and transforms racism and which also represents and serves a
>racially and culturally diverse Canada.  The panel will be called
>“Shifting Images: Arts Practice, Institutional Change and the politics of
>difference in Canadian Culture”.
>
>Cultural institutions in Canada are faced with the challenge of responding
>to rapid social and technological change in a society characterized by
>global migration, diasporic communities  and increasing demands for the
>recognition of difference within the nation state.  The Arts in a
>Pluralist Society field of study aims to develop and sustain Canadian
>artistic diversity by providing a context for the study of issues of race
>and representation, cultural production and diasporic communities, culture
>and social change.
>
>By focusing on issues related to communities of colour, aboriginal
>communities and  other groups, the program aims to build an innovative
>field of study appropriate to re-imagining the cultural landscape.  Arts
>in a Pluralist Society will combine theory, policy, institutional reform
>and artistic practice.
>
>APS appointed its first lecturer in January.  She is Honor Ford-Smith who
>has a long history of work in theatre for social change and  whose current
>research is on post colonial Caribbean performance. She  is teaching an
>Introductory course in Arts in A Pluralist Society this term and will
>chair the panel on the 6th.
>
>The panel discussion is both a celebration of the progress made so far in
>developing the program and a means of sketching out some of the challenges
>involved in thinking about the field of study.  It is a means of
>continuing dialogue with the many communities and individuals who have
>supported the initiative and who have helped to develop the vision.
>
>ABOUT THE PANELISTS
>
>Sarindar Dhaliwal:
>
>Is a visual artist working primarily with mixed media on paper as well as
>large installations.  Recent themes  treat  family history and

>autobiography and chart a cartography of a 20th century diaspora and the
>colonial legacy which shaped it. She has exhibited extensively in Canada
>since 1983 and has had eleven solo shows.  Her most recent solo exhibition
>was in 1998 at the Edward Day Gallery and Koffler Gallery in Toronto.  She
>has served as a trustree of the Art Gallery of Ontario from 1991-97 and
>currently sits on the board of the Toronto Arts Council and that of “Fuse”
>magazine.
>
>Sharon Fernandez
>
>Is currently Equity Coordinator at the Canada Council. She is a visual
>Artist, previously based in Toronto, and she has worked in community
>contexts as well as in arts organizations.   She has extensive
>experience in organizational change work both at the Toronto Arts Council
>and the Toronto Women’s Bookstore.
>
>Sherene Razack
>
>Is Associate Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at
>OISE/UT.   Her most recent book “Looking White People in the
>Eye: Race, Gender and Culture in Classroom and Courtroom “ takes up the
>question of how racialized representations affect ways of seeing and
>hearing in social situations such as the courtroom and the classroom.
>Sherene has also been instrumental in the setting up of the Centre for
>Anti Racism and Equity Studies at OISE/UT
>
>Rinaldo Walcott
>
>Is Assistant Professor of Humanities at York University. His particular
>area of work is Black Cultural Studies.  His book “ Black like Who?
>Writing Black Canada” is a critical study of representations of
>blackness in the Canadian nation.  Currently he is writing on problems of
>developing a critical tradition around black cultural production.
>
>The panel will take place in the the Leigha Lee Browne Theatre at 5:30pm on
>April 6, 1999
>A Reception will follow.
>
>
>Greg Baeker
>ph. 922-1744
>fax. 929-7234
>