December 16 Public Engagement FADO Performance: Academy with Cindy Baker
Event Information
Description
In conjunction with Home : Body series, Tangled Art + Disability partners with FADO Performance Art Centre to present Cindy Baker. On Saturday December 16, Baker will be part of FADO's Performance: Academy. This newest recurring series for FADO Performance Art Centre takes on the abstract form of a school, a university, a workshop, a class or a course, depending on the artist. Performance: Academy is not a workshop and it’s not a school either. It's best understood as a public engagement opportunity with an artist who is invested in inverting notions of authority in practice, research, and pedagogy. All are welcome to join Cindy Baker as she explores her version of an “academy”.
Saturday, December 16, 2017
2:00–4:00pm
Location:
The Commons @ 401
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 440 (fourth floor), Toronto
INFORMATION:
Cindy Baker’s Performance Academy will occur on the fourth floor of the 401 Richmond Street West building, in The Commons. ASL interpretation, accessible seating and personal attendants will be available.
service animals are welcome. We ask for everyone to support a scent-free environment. The closest accessible subway station is Union Station, the closest accessible streetcar stops are the 510 Spadina Queen Street stop southbound and, Richmond Street stop going northbound.
This academy is open to all participants of all levels of study and/or experience, including the just plain curious.
Food and refreshments will be provided.
For more information about the event or for accessibility concerns, please email t: info@performanceart.ca
ABOUT TANGLED ART + DISABILITY
Tangled Art + Disability is boldly redefining how the world experiences art and those who create it. We are a not for profit art + disability organization dedicated to connecting professional and emerging artists, the arts community and a diverse public through creative passion and artistic excellence. Our mandate is to support Deaf, Mad and disability-identified artists, to cultivate Deaf, Mad and disability arts in Canada, and to enhance access to the arts for artists and audiences of all abilities.
Tangled Art Gallery is our newest platform for advancing the conversation on Deaf, Mad and disability aesthetics, and Canada’s first fully accessible disability arts gallery dedicated to accessible programming and curatorial practices. http://tangledarts.org
ABOUT Performance: Academy
Performance: Academy is a platform in which artists constitute their own school of learning–performing pedagogy–for an audience in the form of peer-to-peer academia, where self-organizing and personal experience as knowledge is valued over institutionalized frameworks. Artists, writers and creative thinkers from the performance art milieu as well as adjacent practices such as curation, social practice, film/video and more, develop and offer mini-courses (of 3 or more sessions dissmeinted over several weeks) presenting ideas and covering a range of topics and that each facilitator is already an expert in (however one might define "expert"). A workshop in the form of a performance; a performance in the form of a school. Through a commitment to collective learning, Performance: Academy transforms the concept of a course into a group performance.
ABOUT FADO PERFORMANCE ART CENTRE
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Art Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre based in Toronto, Canada. FADO provides a stage and on-going forum in support of the research and development of contemporary performance art practices in Canada and internationally. As a year-round presentation platform, FADO exists nomadically, working with partner organizations and presenters, and utilizing venues and sites that are appropriate to individual projects. FADO presents the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and perspectives. FADO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
