Master Class with Hanna Khoury – March 30, 2012

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Friday, March 30 – 10am to 12noon

Beit Zatoun (612 Markham St / Bathurst)

Master Class with Hanna Khoury
Violin virtuoso with Intercultural Journeys

Preceding his performance with Intercultural Journeys at Koerner Hall on Saturday, March 31, violin virtuoso, Hanna Khoury will lead a public master class at Beit Zatoun.

About Hanna Khoury

Hanna Khoury is trained in both Western classical and Arabic classical music styles. As the music director of the Arabesque Music Ensemble, he has led nationwide tours performing traditional Arabic music in major venues and universities. Mr. Khoury has recently toured with Lebanese superstar Fairuz, and played lead violin with Iraqi singer Kazem Al-Saher and Grammy winner Youssou N’Dour.
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Canadian Art Gallery Educators (CAGE) Symposium May 5-8 in Toronto

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Canadian Art Gallery Educators (CAGE) present:

(Out)Reach: Striking the Balance between Reaching Out and Reaching In
A symposium at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 5 – 8, 2012

Join your fellow Canadian Art Gallery Educators as we explore issues of community engagement, increased accessibility, new technologies and relevance – now and into the future. Head home with new contacts and informed ideas of how you can strike the balance in your organization and community.

Keynote speaker Lois Silverman, author of The Social Work of Museums, will discuss how galleries can initiate inspired community practice. Scott Sayre (Sandbox Studios, Minneapolis) will lead a workshop on using new technologies such as iPads in gallery spaces. Special sessions about huge public events such as Nuit Blanche will be rounded out by case studies highlighting best practices around the country. Continue reading →

Gendai: Screening Hashima, Japan 2002 and Public Discussion, Mar 28

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Image credit: Hashima, Japan 2002, Film still ©CM von Hausswolff/T Nordanstad, 2002
 

Film Screening and Public Discussion
 Wednesday, March 28th
Gendai Workstation
 1265 Bloor St. West
$5 – 10 suggested donation
Door opens at 7:30pm
 Screening starts at 8pm

Join us on Wednesday March 28th at the Gendai Workstation, for a film screening of Hashima, Japan 2002 by Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad and a discussion with artist Mitchell Akiyama and scholar Eric Cazdyn, moderated by film programmer Aliza Ma. The screening event will offer a critical point of intersection between the sound installation Seismology as metaphor for empathy by artist Mitchell Akiyama recently on exhibit at the Gendai Workstation, Eric Cazdyn’s essay Semi-ology of a Disaster or, Toward a Non-Moralizing Materialism in Scapegoat journal issue 02 Materialism and a premier of Hashima, Japan 2002.


Hashima, Japan 2002
The world’s most densely populated civilization in history, and a full society of 5000 people living on an island 140 meters wide and 400 meters long existed for nearly 80 years until Mitsubishi suddenly closed the coal mining down. In the crazy ruins of a 20th century madness, walks one of the men who grew up, and was forced to leave in 1970. He tells his story among the almost untouched buildings, where remnants of daily life remains as symbols for a sociey much like our own. The man wants to make it into a museum, but painfully realizes that decay cannot be frozen, and even less restored. (from http://nordanstad.tripod.com/)
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