We have prepared many great events for you this Fall and Winter, from theatre shows to baking workshops to lectures. Make sure to check our event calendar HERE for latest updates on program offerings.
CLOSED on Friday, November 30
We will be closed on Friday, November 30. Please join us when we reopen on Saturday, December 1, 12 pm – 4:30 pm.
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 September Edition
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, September 24th and engage with the works of poets Kateri Lanthier, Aaron Tucker, and Zak Jones who will all be reading from their recent works.
Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 8 pm and runs until 9:15 pm.
Pay-What-You-Can
KATERI LANTHIER holds a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto. Her poems have been published in many journals, including The Fiddlehead, Leveler, Event, Hazlitt, Green Mountains Review, Arc, Halibut Haiku, the Literary Review of Canada, and Best Canadian Poetry 2014. She won the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize and was profiled in Portraits of Canadian Writers (Porcupine’s Quill, 2016). She is an Adjunct Professor, MA in Creative Writing, University of Toronto. Her first collection is Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011). Her second is Siren(Véhicule Press, 2017). Siren was longlisted for the 2018 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Poems from Siren have been included in four anthologies.
AARON TUCKER is the author of the novel Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos (Coach House Books) as well as two books of poetry, Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp (Bookthug Press) and punchlines (Mansfield Press), and two scholarly cinema studies monographs, Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films and Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema (both published by Palgrave Macmillan).His current collaborative project, Loss Sets, translates poems into sculptures which are then 3D printed (http://aarontucker.ca/3-d-poems/); he is also the co-creator of The ChessBard, an app that transforms chess games into poems (http://chesspoetry.com). Currently, he is a guest on the Dish with One Spoon Territory, where he is a lecturer in the English department at Ryerson University (Toronto), teaching creative and academic writing. He began his doctorate as an Elia Scholar in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at York University in Fall 2018.
ZAK JONES is an American expatriate living and writing in Toronto. Zak borrows his delivery style from revival-tent preachers and factory chaplains but his material is concerned more with the waking dream of loss, the double exposure of memory, the circus of family and the burning smell of sentimentality. His poems have appeared in The Hart House Review, Milkweed Zine, and other various rags and is forthcoming in Palimpsest: Yale’s Graduate and Literary Arts Magazine. Zak is a graduate student at University of Toronto where he has completed a manuscript of poetry and is working on a novel about isolation in southern Appalachia.
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.
Common Readings: The August Edition
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, August 27th at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Jessie Jones, Marc di Saverio, and Emilia Nielsen 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
JESSIE JONES grew up in the prairies, spent a decade on Vancouver Island, and now lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared in CV2, Lemonhound, PRISM International, The Puritan and Arc among others. She has been shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award, selected as Editor’s Choice in Arc’s Poem of the Year, and been first-runner up in PRISM International’s Poetry Prize. She is the founder of Literistic and is currently at work on a new poetry manuscript.
MARC DI SAVERIO hails from Hamilton, Canada. His poems and translations have appeared in such outfits as Maisonneuve, CNQ, and Hazlitt. In Issue 92 of Canadian Notes and Queries Magazine, poet and critic Shane Neilson called Di Saverio’s Sanatorium Songs (2013), “the greatest poetry debut from the past 25 years.” In 2016 he received the City of Hamilton Arts Award for Best Emerging Writer. In 2017, his work was broadcasted on BBC Radio 3, his debut became a best seller in both Canada and the United States, and he published his first book of translations: Ship of Gold: The Essential Poems of Emile Nelligan (Vehicule Press). Forthcoming in Spring 2019 is his epic poem, Crito Di Volta (Biblioasis). He is currently writing his first novel, the Daymaker, and his second book of translations, L’Infinito: The Selected Poems of Giacomo Leopardi.
EMILIA NIELSEN’s debut book, Surge Narrows (Leaf Press, 2013), was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Body Work, her second collection of poetry, was published by Signature Editions in spring 2018. She is the author of the scholarly text Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair, forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press in spring 2019. In 2017-2018 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta. She recently joined York University’s Department of Social Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Health & Society Program.
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.