Events – Page 2 – Campbell House Museum

Textile, Memory & Storytelling

Next week, take a FINAL look at Bluebird Dress Factory and join us for an exciting conversation about the role of textiles in artistic practice: how can textiles be used in storytelling and preservation of memory? Can textiles help us heal?The panel discussion features:

Susan Fohr, maker, Curator of Education, Textile Museum of Canada (moderator)
Michèle Karch-Ackerman, the artist behind the Bluebird Dress Factory, currently on view at Campbell House
Sage Paul, artist, designer and leader of Indigenous fashion, craft and textiles and Artistic Director of Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto
Dorie Millerson, artist, Associate Professor in Textiles, Chair of Material Art & Design Program at OCAD University

Tickets: $15

The ticket includes access to the exhibit. Get your ticket HERE.

Artist-led tour of the exhibit will be a prelude to the panel discussion.

Artist-led tour: 6:30 pm
Panel discussion: 7 pm

BIOS:

SUSAN FOHR is the Curator of Education at the Textile Museum of Canada. She started her museum career as a historic interpreter, and while working at Black Creek Pioneer Village she first developed an interest in textiles, learning how to spin and dye wool with natural materials. She holds an Honours BA with a specialist in art history from the University of Toronto.

MICHÈLE KARCH-ACKERMAN is a nationally recognized contemporary artist whose work is known for its provocative and touching mining of the “smaller” and often tragic histories of Canada’s past. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, her installations have been shown in over forty solo exhibitions at public galleries across Canada, including a recent retrospective at the Tom Thomson Gallery and participation in the Fashionality exhibition at The McMichael Gallery.

SAGE PAUL is an Urban Dene woman and a member of English River First Nation. Based in Toronto, Sage is an artist, designer and innovative leader for Indigenous fashion, craft and textiles, championing family, sovereignty and resistance for balance. Her work has been presented at Art Gallery of Ontario First Thursday’s, Festival Mode et Design (Montreal), a curated program by Ociciwan Contemporary Arts Collective at Western Canada Fashion Week and the Centre for Craft, Creativity and Design (South Carolina). She is the founding collective member and Artistic Director of Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto, sits on the Ryerson School of Fashion’s advisory board and designed/is delivering George Brown College’s first Contemporary Indigenous Fashion elective course. Sage is a recognized Woman of Influence (2018) and change maker (Toronto Star, 2018) and received the Design Exchange RBC Emerging Designer Award in the fashion category (2017). sagepaul.com

DORIE MILLERSON is an artist and academic based in Toronto. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Material Art & Design at OCAD University. Exhibiting for over twenty years nationally and internationally, her textiles and installations explore themes of memory, distance and attachments. She received an MFA in textiles from NSCAD University in 2003 and graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art & Design in 2000. www.doriemillerson.com

Bluebird Dress Factory explores the intersection of time and death, humanity and ornithology. For over twenty-five years, Michèle Karch-Ackerman’s artistic practice has involved the act of making of clothing – for ghosts, the dead, the forgotten, and the hurting.

Last day to see the exhibit is November 29.

Common Readings, the July Edition: Come for the Words and the Wine!

Events, Literature

Common Readings is an exciting literary reading series hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.

Join us on Monday, July 23rd at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Al Moritz, Nyla Matuk, Jeff Latosik who will all be reading from their recent works.

Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm and runs until 9 pm.

Pay-What-You-Can

AL F. MORITZ has written more than twenty books of poetry, and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection The Sentinel won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 of the Year. His most recent collection is Sequence. He lives in Toronto. www.afmortiz.com

NYLA MATUK is the author of two collections: Sumptuary Laws (2012) and Stranger (2016), and a chapbook, Oneiric (2009). Her poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., including The New Yorker, Poetry, PN Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Walrus, Canadian Notes and Queries, and The Literary Review of Canada. This winter she was the 2018 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence at McGill University. Her work has been nominated for the Walrus Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. www.nylamatuk.ca

JEFF LATOSIK’s third full-length collection of poetry, Dreampad, was released in Spring of 2018. He is also the author of Helium Ear, a chapbook from Anstruther Press. He’s the former poetry editor of the Humber Literary Review and is a current Collective Member of InkWell Workshops.

Common Readings aims to create an environment that supports all aspects of diversity within the Toronto literary community and beyond. This literary reading series creates a forum where both emerging and established writers can be exposed to new work from those at differing stages of their career. Every Common Readings is an opportunity for a variety of voices to interact in order to establish artistic and community dialogue.

For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.

Common Readings Literary Reading Series runs at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday.

The 6th Degree: Interactive Theatre Show at Campbell House

Events, News, Theatre

Thursday, May 9th / 2002; The body of 30-year-old Chloe Traeger was found brutally murdered in the basement of her own home through what appeared to be some kind of sinister sacrificial ceremony. The Hastings County Police Department believe of the 6 suspects they have rounded up so far, they are definitely harbouring the guilty party.

The Police Chief has them contained in an unused witness protection house somewhere outside of Marmora, Ontario; they are each in their own locked, guarded room waiting to be questioned. Youll have to scan through the case files of the suspects, look over photographs taken at the scene of the crime, and examine physical evidence found on the night of to aid in this disturbing investigation.

As an officer of the Hastings County Police, it is up to you and your partner to talk to, question, and interrogate these suspects in order to decipher not only the truth of this complex and harrowing crime, but determine who exactly is the most culpable of the murder of Chloe Traeger.

Be warned, this investigation contains content involving crimes of a sexual and religious nature, explicit images of the results of this crime, interacting directly with those that may be involved in said crime, walking around the house for an extended period of time, climbing stairs to multiple levels of the house, and potentially working with a friend to solve a case the likes of which this precinct has never seen before.

Also be warned, once the interrogation period starts, you will NOT be allowed to join in late; please arrive early or on time if you expect to be a part of this investigation.

The max number of investigators taking part in this process is 16, and everyone will be split into pairs of 2. If you arrive with another partner, you may work together. If you arrive with 2 others (Making 3 of you), expect to get split up; the outlier will either have to work with a stranger or figure things out on their own.

This is a two-and-a-half hour process. Drink a strong coffee, wear comfy shoes & roll up your sleeves; its going to be a long night.

Show dates and times:
May 23, 6 pm & 9 pm
May 24, 6 pm ONLY
May 25, 6 pm ONLY
May 26, 9 pm ONLY
May 30, 6 pm & 9 pm
May 31, 6 pm ONLY
June 1, 6 pm & 9 pm
June 2, 6 pm & 9 pm

Get your tickets here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3396243
www.thelighthousetroupe.com
www.facebook.com/TheLighthouseTroupe/
www.instagram.com/thelighthousetroupe/

Common Readings, the April Edition: Come for the Words and the Wine!

Events, Literature, News

Come for the Words and the Wine is an exciting literary reading series organized by Common Readings.

Join us on Monday, April 23rd at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Ben Gallagher, Laura Ritland, and Michelle Brown who will all be reading from newly published books available for purchase at the event.

Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm and runs until 9 pm.

Pay-What-You-Can

BEN GALLAGHER is a poet and essayist, who divides his time between Toronto, ON and Scotch Village, NS, where he helps to organize a co-operative farm. He is currently in a PhD program at OISE, studying poetry curriculum and pedagogy, alternative arts education, and land. He is also a co-host of semi-regular Listening Parties. Recent writing can be found in The Maynard, The Puritan, Sewer Lid, Arc, (parenthetical), and Lion’s Roar.

LAURA RITLAND’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada, including The Fiddlehead, CNQ, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Arc Poetry Magazine, and The Malahat Review. She is the author of the chapbook Marine Science (Anstruther 2016), a graduate of the Masters in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto, and recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award. Born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver, she currently divides her time along the west coast between Vancouver and the California Bay Area, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley and a current Simpson Fellow with the Simpson Family Literary Project. Her debut collection East and West launches with Véhicule Press this April.

Originally from Victoria, BC, MICHELLE BROWN lives in Toronto with her husband and three-legged dog Bo. Previously shortlisted for CV2’s Young Buck poetry prize and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, Safe Words (Palimpsest Press, 2018) is her first full-length collection.

Hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.

For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.

Common Readings Literary Reading Series will run at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday until June 25.

Dance the Upper Room: Art Workshop

Art, Dance, Events, Fashion, History, News

Sunday, June 10

3 pm – 6 pm

Spend your Sunday afternoon dancing your way through time in a Virtual Time Capsule’s “Square in the Round” and go back to 1822 when Sunday nights were spent dancing a Quadrille and not watching Netflix!

Move your body like the Georgians would have in this simple walking partner dance traditionally performed in a square or circle. We will teach you the dance and then film it in Virtual Reality/ 360 video.

The afternoon will have a history tour, fun games to meet your dancing partners, a lesson from Laura Harris from Atelier School of Ballet, and some celebration nibbles at the end of your performance!

To learn more, please visit the Facebook event page.

To get your tickets on Eventbrite, click here.