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Architectural League features video report by Canadian firm Blouin Orzes
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Canadian architecture schools offer online summer kid’s camps
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Open Call: TSA Architecture Short Films
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TSA calls for virtual pride float submissions
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Events
Current Month
may
30apr(apr 30)11:00 am31may(may 31)5:00 pmScotiabank CONTACT Photography FestivalToronto, ON
Event Details
Over 1000 Canadian and international artists will participate in the Festival featuring over 250 exhibitions and programs throughout May in the greater Toronto area. The work of artists
Event Details
Over 1000 Canadian and international artists will participate in the Festival featuring over 250 exhibitions and programs throughout May in the greater Toronto area. The work of artists participating in the 2020 Festival expose physical, emotional, and environmental scars that reflect the fragility of our times. Among the artists showing at the Festival for the first time this year are:
- Laia Abril (Spanish) – exhibition at CONTACT Gallery
- Fatma Bucak (Turkish) – exhibition at MOCA Toronto
- Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács (Dutch) – exhibition at A Space Gallery
- Kim Hoeckele (American) – outdoor billboard installation
- Native Art Department International (NADI) featuring Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan (Anishinaabe & Chiricahua Apache-Indigenous Mexican) – exhibition at Mercer Union
- Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (both Swiss) – outdoor installation at Metro Hall
- Thirza Schaap (Dutch) – installation throughout Osgoode Subway Station
- Małgorzata Stankiewicz (Polish) – outdoor billboard installation
- Miao Ying (Chinese) – exhibition at Art Museum at the University of Toronto – Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
- Tereza Zelenkova (Czech)- exhibition at Campbell House Museum
Time
April 30 (Thursday) 11:00 am - May 31 (Sunday) 5:00 pm