Art Spin July 23rd - Shoreline Speaker Spin
Garrison Commons
100 Garrison Rd.
ON
43.638380350548125
-79.40589001342815
Description
A new approach for Art Spin, we are proud to host the Shoreline Speaker Spin on Sunday July 23rd, and tickets are now on sale! Unlike a regular Art Spin tour, this upcoming tour features engaging speakers, addressing us from unique sites to talk about urban planning, public art, architecture, history, and geography.
Since our July 16th event on the islands had to be cancelled due to high water levels, we’ve decided instead to explore Toronto's original shoreline downtown, now filled-in, but once the meeting point of Lake Ontario and the mainland.
SPEAKERS:
Julian Sleath - CEO of the Bentway
For more than 35 years, Julian has worked in the performing arts in both Britain and Canada. His portfolio of work covers touring, permanent venues, festivals to major institutions and even being under canvas with circus performers. He has enjoyed working with architects on designing new theatres and concert halls including the highly regarded Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto – the performance home of Canadian Opera Company and National Ballet of Canada. After nearly two years working for Banff Centre in Western Canada, Julian returns to the city that has had so much importance in his working life. He looks forward to leading such a unique project for Toronto - The Bentway Conservancy.
Daniel Rotsztain - Artist & Urban Geographer
Daniel Rotsztain is the Urban Geographer, an artist, writer and cartographer whose work examines our relationship to the places we inhabit. The author and illustrator of All the Libraries Toronto, a colouring book featuring every branch of Toronto Public Library, his follow up project to illustrate Toronto's historic site is culminating in an exhibit at Todmorden Mills' Papermill Gallery and the forthcoming book A Colourful History Toronto, published by Dundurn Press in October 2017. Currently the artist-in-residence for this season's Art Spin, he is also the map-animator for Art Starts Cartography17 project, where he is facilitating mapping workshops in neighbourhoods across Toronto in the creation of a 10' x 20' decolonized map of Toronto that will be displayed at City Hall, the Toronto Reference Library and Downsview Park subway station. Daniel’s work has also appeared in Spacing Magazine, the Globe and Mail and Now Magazine.
Rebecca Carbin - Public Art Program Manager for Waterfront Toronto
Rebecca Carbin holds a Masters in Curating Contemporary Art from Goldsmith’s College, University of London, UK. While working as an independent curator and art consultant in London she worked with a variety of clients and agencies including Artangel, Public Art Development Trust, British Broadcasting Corporation, the Corporation of London, West Ham United Football Club and the Saatchi Gallery. As Public Art Officer for the City of Toronto, Rebecca grew the City’s percent for art program and opened up commissioning opportunities to artists working in a variety of media and at all stages in their careers. Currently, Rebecca Carbin is Public Art Program Manager for Waterfront Toronto where she is responsible for all aspects of planning and commissioning art within the public realm of the designated Waterfront area. Rebecca is also Founder of I Heart Your Work Art Futures, an artwork production concept that brings a kick-starter approach to contemporary art patronage.
Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins - Artists
Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have been making large-format sculpture, mixed media, installation and electronic art since 2000. Jennifer Marman is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. Daniel Borins is a graduate of McGill University. Both Marman and Borins graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2001 - where they first met and began collaborating together. Recent exhibitions of their work includes a second solo show with Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York, and the final instalment of a solo touring exhibition entitled "The Collaborationists" this past spring. Produced by the art Gallery of Hamilton and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, the exhibition also toured to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Art Gallery of Windsor. Marman and Borins' work is in public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada; the Art Gallery of Ontario; The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and is reflected in several public art projects. Some of their recent public projects include a pedestrian bridge in Toronto's Southcore Financial Centre, an animated video sculpture on Toronto's John Street, as well as commission for the West Don Lands village. Marman and Borins have lectured at galleries and institutions both nationally and internationally, including recent engagements at Concordia University, the Tulane School of Architecture, New Orleans, and SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico.
Madeleine McDowell - Artist & Educator (programmed by Myseum of Toronto)
Madeleine McDowell is an artist, educator and advocate for Heritage – built, natural, and cultural. She has had extensive involvement in preservation in the former City of York, Toronto, and the Humber River area, including the designation of the Humber as a Canadian Heritage River For over two decades she has been contributing to public education as a researcher and speaker about heritage as well as through walking tours, while providing a strong advocacy for Heritage infrastructure. She has a particular interest in the cultivation of public understanding of and enthusiasm for natural heritage preservation where it meets urban culture.
John Wilson - Co-Chair of the Don Lands Committee (programmed by Myseum of Toronto)
John Wilson is an independent, Toronto-based community engagement specialist. John is a co-chair of the West Don Lands Committee and is active with the Toronto Green Community’s Lost Rivers project. For eleven years, to 2011, John served as Chair of the Task Force to Bring Back the Don, a citizens’ advisory committee of Toronto City Council with a mandate to restore a clean, green, accessible Don River. Professionally, John has consulted on programs to animate urban parks and open spaces with the City, Toronto & Region Conservation and Evergreen. He worked in fundraising and marketing for Pollution Probe, an environmental advocacy organization, and Carswell, a leading Canadian professional publisher. John holds the M.B.A. from Schulich School of Business, York University (Toronto), with specialization in Business and the Environment and Non-Profit Management. At York John received several academic awards, including the Nestlé’s Distinguished Scholar Award in Business and the Environment.
We're excited to be partnering again with Myseum of Toronto to present a conversation between Madeleine McDowell and John Wilson, moderated and joined by Myseum's Executive Director, Karen Carter.
ABOUT THIS TOUR:
Our meeting point will be at Garrison Common (near Fort York, access it with your bike via Garrison Rd. at Fleet St.) at 2:30pm to check-in, the tour leaves at 3pm sharp. Be sure to bring your bike and a helmet, and keep in mind the tour will end around 5:30pm at a beautiful patio where food, drink, and conversation will be available.
TICKETS:
Tickets for this speakers tour are only $5.. Given the more intimate nature of this event, tickets will be limited to 100 so be sure to get yours while they last!
If you are one of our Seasons Passholder your pass most certainly counts for this event (replacing the cancelled July 16th Toronto Islands event). We have e-mailed you directly about the change in July programming. If you have not received a message, please check your junk mail folder, as it will come from 'Universe' not from Art Spin.
RAIN DATE:
For the safety and enjoyment of our audience, Art Spin is a fairweather event. The rain date for this event is Sunday July 30th. If the event must be postponed due to rain your ticket is valid for the rain date and a refund will not be issued. Ticketholders will be notified by e-mail on the day of the event of any changes.
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2017-07-23T14:30:00-04:00
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2017-07-23T17:30:00-04:00
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