Contemporary Teens: The Self-Portrait Workshop
January 7, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM
For youth ages 12-18.
Our free onsite Contemporary Teens programs help inspire young people through the exploration of contemporary art, connecting them to communal, global, and social issues that affect all of our lives.
Taking cues from Souvenirs of the Self, 1991 by Jin-me Yoon, the youth will be prompted to think about appearances and create a self-portrait that communicates how they would see themselves represented. The portrait need not be a face, and there is freedom to explore words, symbols, images, gifs and memes.
Maximum group of 30 youth.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.
Saturday, January 7th
12 – 2pm
About the facilitator,
Amany Awad (she/her)
Amany grew up in Ottawa, Ontario and has resided in Calgary for over six years. She is currently enrolled in Child and Youth Care Counselling with a minor in Psychology at Mount Royal University and is ambitious to use her degree to either become a counsellor or pursue social work with a focus towards newcomers to Canada.
Amany uses her knowledge in the field of child and youth care and experience working with low-income families and minority youth to facilitate leadership and community programs. Her previous work experience with Aspen and current role with the City of Calgary and Antyx allows her to create enriching programs and lessons that are fun and creative!
Working with a focus on diversity programming and child and youth development, she has always had a passion for art and art expression. In her free time, you can find Amany spending time with loved ones, bike riding or reading a book.
About Antyx
Antyx works in communities across Calgary. Antyx community arts projects can have a neighbourhood focus or they may be focused on addressing community-identified issues. Arts are used in development processes to build community capacity and to creatively and critically engage people in processes that address important community issues.
Their work has a focus on engaging youth in their communities, school and neighbourhoods.
Antyx uses the arts to engage youth and spark their curiosity and commitment. Community arts projects provide opportunities for youth to make tangible contributions to their community and be recognized for those contributions. The arts open the door to self-reflection and self-expression, allowing youth to explore who they are and their place in the world.
About the artist,
Jin-me Yoon (she/her)
Jin-me Yoon is a Korea-born, Vancouver-based artist whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism. Since the early ’90s, she has used photography, video, and performance to situate her personal experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political, and ecological conditions. Through experimental cinematography and the performative gestures of family, friends, and community members, Yoon reconnects repressed pasts with damaged presents, creating the conditions for different futures. Staging her work in charged landscapes, Yoon finds specific points of reference across multiple geopolitical contexts. In so doing, she brings worlds together, affirming the value of difference.
Over the last three decades, Jin-me Yoon’s work has been presented internationally in hundreds of exhibitions, and she has mentored many students over the years while teaching at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. In 2018, she was elected as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada in 2018; and in 2022, she won the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award.
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