Contemporary Kids: The Self-Portrait Workshop

April 2, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For youth ages 4-12.

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

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 children, with one guardian per child.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her)

Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey. 

She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building.  She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.

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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Contemporary Teens: Collage Workshop

April 1, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For youth ages 12-18.

Our free onsite Contemporary Youth programs help inspire young people through the exploration of contemporary art, connecting them to community, global, and social issues that affect all of our lives.

This workshop involves the making of a collective sculpture/ installation from found objects, papers and pieces of fabric, and is an exercise in working together towards a common goal. The youth will learn to be resourceful as well as cognizant of the needs and desires of others within the group. 

Maximum group of 30 youth.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her)

Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey. 

She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building.  She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.

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,
Shellie Zhang

Shellie Zhang (b. 1991, Beijing, China) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. By uniting both past and present iconography with the techniques of mass communication, language and sign, Zhang explores the contexts and construction of a multicultural society by disassembling approaches to tradition, gender, history, migration and popular culture. She creates images, objects and projects in a wide range of media to explore how integration, diversity and assimilation is implemented and negotiated, and how manifestations of these ideas relate to lived experiences. Zhang is interested in how culture is learned and sustained, and how the objects and iconographies of culture are remembered and preserved. 

Zhang has exhibited at venues including WORKJAM (Beijing), Asian Art Initiative (Philadelphia) and Gallery 44 (Toronto). She is a recipient of grants such as the Toronto Arts Council’s Visual Projects grant, the Ontario Arts Council’s Visual Artists Creation Grant and the Canada Council’s Project Grant to Visual Artists. She is a member of EMILIA-AMALIA, an intergenerational feminist reading and writing group, and Long Time No See, a collective of artists, filmmakers, and educators in Toronto’s Chinatown. In 2017, She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Award. Her work has been published in Canadian Art, the Toronto Star, Blackflash Magazine, CBC Arts, and C Magazine. Recent and upcoming projects include exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto), Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver), and the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego. Zhang works with Patel Brown Gallery.

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Contemporary Conversations Presents:

Marigold Santos in conversation with Haema Sivanesan

Wednesday, March 29, 2022

Join us on a journey through Calgary-based artist Marigold Santos’ work as she talks to curator Haema Sivanesan about the intent, the stories, and the processes behind her work.

This conversation is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Human Capital, on view until April 16, 2023.

About the Speakers

Marigold Santos
ARTIST

Marigold Santos pursues an interdisciplinary art practice involving drawn, painted, and printed works, sculpture, tattooing, and sound. Her work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. As a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, she continues to exhibit widely across Canada. Marigold Santos lives and works in Mohkinstsis/Calgary

Haema Sivanesan
CURATOR

Haema Sivanesan is a curator, researcher and art writer with extensive experience across a range of sectors in the visual arts in Canada and abroad.  She has held leadership and curatorial positions in public art galleries, artist-run centres and festivals, most recently as a Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2015-2021); and Consulting Curator at the Bengal Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2014-2018). Before immigrating to Canada from Australia in 2005, she was a curator in the Asian art department at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (1996-2004). Her research typically focuses on Asian and Asian diasporic transnational and transcultural art histories. In 2018, she was the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (New York) Curatorial Research Fellowship; and in 2016, the recipient of a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation (Hong Kong) multi-year research and exhibition development grant for the project In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice (2022). She is the newly appointed Director, Leighton Studios and Program Partnerships at the Banff Centre.

Human Capital is presented in partnership with the Mackenzie Art Gallery

Contemporary Kids: String Workshop

Sunday, March 19, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For children ages 4-12.

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

Children are encouraged to use string or yarn to make figures and compositions that tell stories of connectedness. While thinking about the pulls and pushes that make us feel happy, or sad, or grumpy or excited, the workshop offers prompts that convey the comforts and discomforts that we all encounter in our lives. 

Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her) 

Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey. 

She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building.  She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.

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,
Darija S. Radaković 

Darija is a Bosnian-born, Canada-based, internationally recognized artist whose work is predominantly conceptual, whether it is a performance, ready-made, sculpture, textual work, assemblage, or a large-scale installation. The common denominator of her artistic practice is her honest confrontation with the issues that trigger her attention and exposing that confrontation to the audience.

As she experienced being a refugee in the ’90s, then being an immigrant two decades later, her art is questioning issues of identity, equality, social conflict, and freedom of expression.

She earned her BFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

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Contemporary Teens: Note To My Future Self

March 18, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For youth ages 12-18.

Our free onsite Contemporary Youth programs help inspire young people through the exploration of contemporary art, connecting them to community, global, and social issues that affect all of our lives.

Taking cue from the way artist Nura Ali uses language, teens are encouraged to write a note to their future self. Letters and words can be overlaid and rearranged to build new meanings. 

Maximum group of 30 youth.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her)

Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey. 

She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building.  She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.

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

About the artist,
Nura Ali

Nura Ali is a visual artist, writer and curator, living and working in Calgary, Alberta. She received a BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, a BA in English Literature, Art History and Italian from the University of Leicester and a BA in History from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her wide-ranging practice investigates the linguistic scaffolding upholding the assumptions we bring to the act of reading and writing. Alongside her visual arts practice, Nura is also a prolific writer, a lifelong learner and has participated in various national and international residencies. Her work has been shown nationally and received numerous awards and grants; most recently from the Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. When she is not curled up with a book or pottering around her garden, Nura is dreaming up ways to dismantle oppressive structures and for this reason, became one of the founding members of the Vancouver Artists Labour Union; a unionized workers cooperative whose mission it is to transform labour practices in the arts sector and create fair, equitable and sustainable working conditions for artists and cultural workers.

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Contemporary Kids: Home & Me!

Sunday, March 12, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For children ages 4-12.

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

Children are invited to represent the many ways they see and experience their home, a place of comfort and shelter. The finished pieces are placed together as a way of connecting the individual to the collective. 

Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her) 

Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey. 

She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building.  She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.

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,
Jeannie Mah (she/her)

Jeannie Mah was born in 1952 in Regina, Saskatchewan. She attended the University of Regina, receiving a Bachelor of Education in 1976, and in 1979 she studied ceramics at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Other studies took Mah to the Banff Centre (1984, 1988), to France's Université de Perpignan (1988) and Université de la Sorbonne (1989). Eventually, Mah returned to the University of Regina, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. Mah credits Regina artist and instructor Jack Sures with inspiring her practice: "I learned my heavy-duty work ethic from him.’ 

Mah's ceramic work emphasizes vessels, particularly cups, and she creates these delicate porcelain objects by hand. Mah explains her approach: "Balanced on the cusp of a fine arts education, I insist on working in a medium which is considered to belong to a decorative art. While seeking out the vestiges of art in our daily lives, I plunder the history of this decorative art, and usurp the cup as pulling it into a fine arts practice...While an "upstairs/downstairs" split reveals a classicist gap in our societal/domestic consciousness. the mug and the teacup meet on this domestic front, as the utilitarian and the decorative merge to fulfill aesthetic and bodily needs."

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Contemporary Teens: Self Discovery With Tea

March 11, 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 community, global, and social issues that affect all of our lives.

This workshop is aimed to empower the youth through an exercise of self-exploration. Inspired by the photographic series Prefix, 2016 by Farihah Shah, the youth are asked to use tea stains to express instances of feeling unwelcome or left out. Through the process of painting with tea bags, we address common cultural misconceptions and stereotypes in order to heal and uplift.

Maximum group of 30 youth.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her)

Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey. 

She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building.  She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.

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

About the artist,
Farihah Shah (she/her)

Farihah Aliyah Shah is a lens-based artist based in Bradford, Ontario. She holds a BFA in Photography with a minor in Integrated Media from OCAD University. Using photography, video and sound installation, her practice engages photographic history and explores identity formation through the colonial gaze, race, connectivity to land, and collective memory. Shah was the 2019 recipient of the John Hartman Award. She currently is a member at Gallery 44 - Centre for Contemporary Photography and Women Photograph an organization that advocates for Female Identified and Non-Binary photojournalists. Shah has exhibited internationally in Asia, Europe, and North America.

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Contemporary Kids: Let’s Make Clay Stick Sculptures!

Sunday, March 5, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For children ages 4-12.

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

This workshop involves making clay stick sculptures based on sensory prompts. Learning from the artwork In A New Land … Be Longing, 2017 by Nurgul Rodriguez, children think of how to physically shape words, sounds and emotions. Shapes are promoted by words (coat, apple); textures are prompted by sounds (rain, waves) and colour is prompted by emotions (happy, sad). 

Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her) 

Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey. 

She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building.  She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.

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,
Nurgül Rodriguez (she/her) 

Nurgül Rodriguez is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice and a PhD student at Werklund School of Education. She has an active individual practice of disciplines and media including porcelain, installation, handmade paper, printmaking, three-dimensional pieces, and more recently socially engaged and collaborative projects. Her work is social, political and personal with a focus on issues of immigration, diasporas, borders and cultures. She explores becoming a diasporic individual during identity formation within a new culture. Nurgul settled in Calgary in 2009 after many nomadic years of living in Turkey, the United States and Spain with her family. She currently lives in Calgary making, writing, teaching, collaborating and always learning.

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Contemporary Teens: The Self-Portrait Workshop

March 4, 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.

About the facilitator,
Makayla Krause (she/her)

Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey. 

She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building.  She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.

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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Clay Workshop with Nurgül Rodriguez

Saturday, February 25th | 4:00-5:30 PM

Clay tablets are one of the most ancient writing mediums, serving as the earliest historical documents. In this workshop, Nurgül Rodriguez prompts us to think about immigration documents in general and the ‘Landing Paper’ that is issued to new immigrants in particular. 

The workshop will involve making one’s own clay tablet, with each participant choosing a word or collection of words that resonate most with their sense of identity. 

This workshop has been developed as an extension of Rodriguez’s installation- In a New Land… Be Longing, which is currently on view in the exhibition Human Capital. 

Materials will be provided. 

This workshop is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Human Capital, on view until April 16, 2023.

About the artist,
Nurgül Rodriguez (she/her) 

Nurgül Rodriguez is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice and a PhD student at Werklund School of Education. She has an active individual practice of disciplines and media including porcelain, installation, handmade paper, printmaking, three-dimensional pieces, and more recently socially engaged and collaborative projects. Her work is social, political and personal with a focus on issues of immigration, diasporas, borders and cultures. She explores becoming a diasporic individual during identity formation within a new culture. Nurgul settled in Calgary in 2009 after many nomadic years of living in Turkey, the United States and Spain with her family. She currently lives in Calgary making, writing, teaching, collaborating and always learning.

Telling Our Family Stories Through Art - 55+ ZINE Workshop

Thursdays, January 26 - February 23

Participants will share their family stories through Zines that incorporate collage, photography and drawing.  (Zines are self-published magazines that are usually reproduced with a photocopier). Contemporary Calgary exhibitions Human Capital and Astral Dance will be used as resources to support generating ideas and approaches to using the materials. This program will be held at Contemporary Calgary, across the street from the Kerby Centre.

For adults age 55+

Facilitated by: Gail Hinchliffe, MFA candidate, UCalgary
Location: Contemporary Calgary
Registration Fee: $60 + tax

Agenda:

January 26: Orientation & Introduction / 2-4 PM

• Getting to know each other, an introduction to the project: Zines, and an introduction to the Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance & Human Capital Exhibitions.

February 2: Collage / 2-4 PM

• Participants will create backgrounds for Zine pages, using Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance as a reference for approaches. In this session, you will plan the composition of your Zine, including photos, drawn elements and text.

• Please bring: textured/patterned papers, magazine pics, etc that you might want to use to develop the backgrounds of your Zine’s pages. Instructor will bring additional papers, etc. to supplement materials that participants are able to bring.

February 9: Photography / 2-4 PM

• In this session, participants will take photos of original pictures that they would like to use in their zines (e.g. pictures of parents/grandparents, recipes in their original form, artworks in the home, pictures of their childhood home, pictures of their first home in a new country, etc.). 

• Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to edit these pictures on their phones. Final images will then be submitted to the instructor via email. 

February 16: Drawing / 2-4 PM

• In this session, participants will add photos from the previous session to their Zine and begin to include drawn elements and text. Upon completion, they will learn how to connect the pages together.

February 23: Exhibition Opening / 2-4 PM

• Participants are invited to bring guests to the Exhibition Opening where they can view Zines completed during this workshop.

• There will be light refreshments provided by the Kerby Centre café.

This program is part of the YYC/LRT: Community-Based Art as Community Development study. Those attending this event may choose to participate in a study exploring the role of art in community development. This would involve completing a questionnaire and including your art as data in the study. The Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board has approved this study (REB22-1227). For more information please email jreiserm@ucalgary.ca.

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Contemporary Kids: The Process Behind Painting

Sunday, Jan 22, 2022 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For children ages 4-12.

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

Beginning with looking at the painting re-grounding, 2011 by Marigold Santos, children are encouraged to explore painting with different tools and techniques. This will allow them to explore textures and patterns like scraping, repetitive mark-making, sponge art, fork art etc.

Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

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,
Marigold Santos

Marigold Santos pursues an interdisciplinary art practice involving drawn, painted, and printed works, sculpture, tattooing, and sound. Her work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. As a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, she continues to exhibit widely across Canada. Marigold Santos lives and works in Mohkinstsis/Calgary.

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Contemporary Kids: Let’s Make Clay Stick Sculptures!

Sunday, January 15, 2022 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For children ages 4-12.

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

This workshop involves making clay stick sculptures based on sensory prompts. Learning from the artwork In A New Land … Be Longing, 2017 by Nurgul Rodriguez, children think of how to physically shape words, sounds and emotions. Shapes are promoted by words (coat, apple); textures are prompted by sounds (rain, waves) and colour is prompted by emotions (happy, sad).

Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

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,
Nurgül Rodriguez

Nurgül Rodriguez is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice and a PhD student at Werklund School of Education. She has an active individual practice of disciplines and media including porcelain, installation, handmade paper, printmaking, three-dimensional pieces, and more recently socially engaged and collaborative projects. Her work is social, political and personal with a focus on issues of immigration, diasporas, borders and cultures. She explores becoming a diasporic individual during identity formation within a new culture. Nurgul settled in Calgary in 2009 after many nomadic years of living in Turkey, the United States and Spain with her family. She currently lives in Calgary making, writing, teaching, collaborating and always learning.

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Contemporary Teens: Self Discovery With Tea

January 14, 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 community, global, and social issues that affect all of our lives.

This workshop is aimed to empower the youth through an exercise of self-exploration. Inspired by the photographic series Prefix, 2016 by Farihah Shah, the youth are asked to use tea stains to express instances of feeling unwelcome or left out. Through the process of painting with tea bags, we address common cultural misconceptions and stereotypes in order to heal and uplift.

Maximum group of 30 youth.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

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

About the artist,
Farihah Shah (she/her)

Farihah Aliyah Shah is a lens-based artist based in Bradford, Ontario. She holds a BFA in Photography with a minor in Integrated Media from OCAD University. Using photography, video and sound installation, her practice engages photographic history and explores identity formation through the colonial gaze, race, connectivity to land, and collective memory. Shah was the 2019 recipient of the John Hartman Award. She currently is a member at Gallery 44 - Centre for Contemporary Photography and Women Photograph an organization that advocates for Female Identified and Non-Binary photojournalists. Shah has exhibited internationally in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Presented By

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.

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.

Presented By

Contemporary Kids: The Process Behind Painting

Sunday, Dec 18, 2022 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For children ages 4-12.

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

Beginning with looking at the painting re-grounding, 2011 by Marigold Santos, children are encouraged to explore painting with different tools and techniques. This will allow them to explore textures and patterns like scraping, repetitive mark making, sponge art, fork art etc.

Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

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,
Marigold Santos (she/her) 

Marigold Santos pursues an interdisciplinary art practice involving drawn, painted, and printed works, sculpture, tattooing, and sound. Her work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. As a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, she continues to exhibit widely across Canada. Marigold Santos lives and works in Mohkinstsis/Calgary.

Presented By

Contemporary Kids: Let’s Make Clay Stick Sculptures!

Sunday, Dec 11, 2022 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For children ages 4-12.

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

This workshop involves making clay stick sculptures based on sensory prompts. Learning from the artwork In A New Land … Be Longing, 2017 by Nurgul Rodriguez, children think of how to physically shape words, sounds and emotions. Shapes are prompted by words (coat, apple); textures are prompted by sounds (rain, waves) and colour is prompted by emotions (happy, sad).

Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

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,
Nurgül Rodriguez (she/her) 

Nurgül Rodriguez is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice and a PhD student at Werklund School of Education. She has an active individual practice of disciplines and media including porcelain, installation, handmade paper, printmaking, three-dimensional pieces, and more recently socially engaged and collaborative projects. Her work is social, political and personal with a focus on issues of immigration, diasporas, borders and cultures. She explores becoming a diasporic individual during identity formation within a new culture. Nurgul settled in Calgary in 2009 after many nomadic years of living in Turkey, the United States and Spain with her family. She currently lives in Calgary making, writing, teaching, collaborating and always learning.

Presented By

Human Capital Tour & Ballet Performance

December 9, 2022
Tour: 5:00 PM / Performance: 5:45 PM

Join us for an exhibition tour and special performance with Yukichi Hattori, co-founder of the H/W School of Ballet, along with dancers from Calgary and H/W students as they respond to the themes addressed in the exhibition Human Capital. Through their own personal stories of immigration and assimilation, the dancers move through rhythms of confrontation and harmony in a collective dance piece that celebrates diversity.

“A story of rocks grinding themselves to spheres through the river of time. A process that is harsh, exhausting and dramatic. I happen to find those moments oddly entertaining. I wish to share them with you”. - Yukichi Hattori

Concept and Direction; Yukichi Hattori
Music; "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel

Performers

Yukichi Hattori / Galien Johnston / Sabina Zhetpissova

Jolie Che / Annalise Grammacione / Allison Hardee / Allysan Lui / J. R. McNeil / Justine Park / Lan Tran / Paige Wichers / Claire Winther

Valentina Calderon / Hilit Heitman / Megan Kanashiro / Carlin Khu / Leah Flaschner / Sophie Kimber / Hailey Mah  

Solange Ansell / Ryan Brignall / Abigael George / Mae Hattori / Tobey Kanashiro / Hannah Kohn / Harper Marshall

Yukichi Hattori (he/him)

Yukichi started dancing in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 13, he moved to Hamburg, Germany to attend the Hamburg ballet school. He joined the Hamburg ballet in 1999, where he was praised as the "audience's favourite dancer". He was promoted to soloist in 2004. He then moved to the Alberta Ballet in 2006, where he danced until 2016. He not only danced throughout his career, he choreographs all over the world as well.

He now opened H/W school of Ballet here in Calgary along with his partners, Galien Johnston Hattori and Tara Williamson to raise dancers and performing arts supporters.

Human Capital is presented in partnership with:

Contemporary Teens:
Human Capital Photo Identity Collage

Sunday, November 13th | 12:00-2:00 PM

Ages: 12-18

Join Contemporary Calgary as we partner with Antyx Community Arts to bring engaging art experiences to youth with our Contemporary Teens programming. Our free onsite Contemporary Teen programs aim to inspire young people through the exploration of contemporary art, connecting them to community, global, and current social issues. Each program will include a tour of the exhibition followed by a facilitated workshop that teaches an artistic skill while encouraging participants to interact with art in new ways!

Drawing from the work in the current exhibition Human Capital, teens will be using photos of themselves to create an identity collage art piece. The intention of this workshop is to explore notions of belonging, and find meaningful ways to represent and reflect different aspects of the self.

Maximum group of 30 teens. 
Workshop supplies will be provided.

About the Facilitator

Amany 

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.

Presented By

Contemporary Teens:
Human Capital Altered Photo Montage

Sunday, November 6th | 12:00-2:00 PM

Ages: 12-18

Join Contemporary Calgary as we partner with Antyx Community Arts to bring engaging art experiences to youth with our Contemporary Teens programming. Our free onsite Contemporary Teen programs aim to inspire young people through the exploration of contemporary art, connecting them to community, global, and current social issues. Each program will include a tour of the exhibition followed by a facilitated workshop that teaches an artistic skill while encouraging participants to interact with art in new ways!

Inspired by Marigold Santos’ work titled Re-Grounding, 2011 this workshop will expand on the subject of empowerment and the connections we form between ourselves and our environment. Introspecting on connections between people and their environments, teens will use magazine cutouts, textiles, and imagery that teens alter by overlapping and painting over with acrylic paint, pastels, and chalk.

Maximum group of 30 teens. 
Workshop supplies will be provided.

About the Facilitator

Amany 

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.

Presented By

SOLD OUT!

Nura Ali: Gel Transfer Printing Workshop

Working with the concept of Dreaming

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Join us on Thursday, November 3rd for a hands-on art experience with Nura Ali during our all-ages, family-focused FREE First Thursdays! This print transfer workshop utilizes ink and language as participants explore how we make meaning, with a focus on how our brain works to make meaning out of language.

This Workshop is FREE and appropriate for all ages. It can be messy, so please dress appropriately.

Drop in during FREE First Thursdays November 3rd between 6-8 pm for an opportunity to sit in on this SOLD-OUT Workshop. Pre-registration is currently full.

About the Artist

Nura Ali aims to create an awareness of how we are not users of language but shapers of it. This is done by thinking of translation as a way to understand that meaning is not fixed, but a reflection of the relationship between sensory input and ourselves as interpreters About Nura Nura Ali is a visual artist, writer and curator, living and working in Calgary, Alberta. She received a BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, a BA in English Literature, Art History and Italian from the University of Leicester and a BA in History from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her wide-ranging practice investigates the linguistic scaffolding upholding the assumptions we bring to the act of reading and writing. Alongside her visual arts practice, Nura is also a prolific writer, a lifelong learner and has participated in various national and international residencies. Her work has been shown nationally and received numerous awards and grants; most recently from the Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. When she is not curled up with a book or puttering around her garden, Nura is dreaming up ways to dismantle oppressive structures and for this reason, became one of the founding members of the Vancouver Artists Labour Union; a unionised workers cooperative whose mission it is to transform labour practises in the arts sector and create fair, equitable and sustainable working conditions for artists and cultural workers.

Contemporary Teens:
Human Capital Group Magazine Collage

Sunday, October 30th | 12:00-2:00 PM

Ages: 12-18

Join Contemporary Calgary as we partner with Antyx Community Arts to bring engaging art experiences to youth with our Contemporary Teens programming. Our free onsite Contemporary Teen programs aim to inspire young people through the exploration of contemporary art, connecting them to community, global, and current social issues. Each program will include a tour of the exhibition followed by a facilitated workshop that teaches an artistic skill while encouraging participants to interact with art in new ways!

Drawing from the work in the current exhibition Human Capital, teens will use a combination of imagery, text, newspapers, textile and other materials to create a Group Magazine Collage. The workshop will consider and explore personal histories as they relate to collective identities and individualities.

Maximum group of 30 teens. 
Workshop supplies will be provided.

About the Facilitator

Amany 

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.

Presented By

Opening Reception

Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance & Human Capital

Please join Contemporary Calgary on October 13, 2022, for a series of events in celebration of the opening of our fall exhibitions, Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance & Human Capital.

FREE with registration. Artists in attendance.

Contemporary Conversations Presents:
Chitra Ganesh & Human Capital

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Extended as public programs of Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance & Human Capital, please join Contemporary Calgary for a series of Contemporary Conversations in celebration of the opening of our fall exhibitions.

About the Speakers

Chitra Ganesh

ARTIST

Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975 Brooklyn, New York, USA) received a BA in Art-Semiotics and Comparative Literature from Brown University, Providence, RI in 1996. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2001 and received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, NY in 2002. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Across a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings, collages, computer generated imagery, video, and sculpture. Through studies in literature, semiotics, social theory, science fiction, and historical and mythic texts, Ganesh attempts to reconcile representations of femininity, sexuality, and power absent from the artistic and literary canons. She often draws on Hindu and Buddhist iconography and South Asian forms such as Kalighat and Madhubani, and is currently negotiating her relationship to these images with the rise of right wing fundamentalism in India.

Tak Pham

CURATOR

Tak Pham is Associate Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina. He holds an M.F.A in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. He has curated exhibitions for the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (2019-present); Varley Art Gallery, Markham (2020); Nuit Blanche Toronto, Toronto (2017); Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto (2017); Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto (2017); and Y+ Contemporary, Scarborough (2016), among others. His writings and reviews have appeared in Canadian Art, ESPACE art actuel, esse arts + opinions, GalleriesWest, Studio Magazine, ArtAsiaPacific and Hyperallergic.

Nurgül Rodriguez

ARTIST

Nurgül Rodriguez is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice and a PhD student at Werklund School of Education. She has an active individual practice of disciplines and media including porcelain, installation, handmade paper, printmaking, three-dimensional pieces, and more recently socially engaged and collaborative projects. Her work is social, political and personal with a focus on issues of immigration, diasporas, borders and cultures. She explores becoming a diasporic individual during identity formation within a new culture. Nurgul settled in Calgary in 2009 after many nomadic years of living in Turkey, the United States and Spain with her family. She currently lives in Calgary making, writing, teaching, collaborating and always learning.

Nura Ali

ARTIST

Nura Ali is a visual artist, writer and curator, living and working in Calgary, Alberta. She received a BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, a BA in English Literature, Art History and Italian from the University of Leicester and a BA in History from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her wide-ranging practice investigates the linguistic scaffolding upholding the assumptions we bring to the act of reading and writing. Alongside her visual arts practice, Nura is also a prolific writer, a lifelong learner and has participated in various national and international residencies. Her work has been shown nationally and received numerous awards and grants; most recently from the Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. When she is not curled up with a book or pottering around her garden, Nura is dreaming up ways to dismantle oppressive structures and for this reason, became one of the founding members of the Vancouver Artists Labour Union; a unionized workers cooperative whose mission it is to transform labour practices in the arts sector and create fair, equitable and sustainable working conditions for artists and cultural workers.

Marigold Santos

ARTIST

Marigold Santos pursues an interdisciplinary art practice involving drawn, painted, and printed works, sculpture, tattooing, and sound. Her work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. As a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, she continues to exhibit widely across Canada. Marigold Santos lives and works in Mohkinstsis/Calgary