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FLOURISHING:

SOMEHOW WE STAY ATTUNED

FLOURISHING: SOMEHOW WE STAY ATTUNED evokes new dynamics of the disabled experience in its attempts to re-world the narratives of non-normative futures of embodiment.
September 7 - October 19, 2018

THREE WINDOWS:

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Aislinn Thomas’ THREE WINDOWS seeks to playfully reclaim domestic space as a site of imagination and possibility. For this exhibition, she creates a video installation from footage taken of three windows in her apartment.
October 11 - October 21, 2018

FLOURISHING:

SOMEWHERE WE STAY AUTHENTIC

SOMEWHERE WE STAY AUTHENTIC offers the audience glimpses into the artists’ efforts to navigate potentially overwhelming terrain, negotiating their own versions of landscapes in which they are able to thrive.
November 2 - December 19, 2018

MAD ONES:

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MAD ONES explores the difficult choices that mad folk, particularly mad woman, have faced throughout our lineage of medicalizing anomalous experience.
November, 2018

A large square image filled with pixelated colours ranging in colour. The colours are randomly placed, making each stand out next to the following image. The colours of the pixels are red, pink, orange, blue and white. The blues range in shades, starting with a dark blue and moving down into an almost white.

FLOURISHING: SOMEHOW WE STAY AUTHENTIC

September 7 – October 19, 2018

As our understandings of disability shift, we must consider how our definitions of the surrounding world must also shift. FLOURISHING: SOMEHOW WE STAY ATTUNED evokes new dynamics of the disabled experience in its attempts to re-world the narratives of non-normative futures of embodiment.

OCTOBER 11 – OCTOBER 21, 2018

A painting of 9 eyes arranged in a grid.

FLOURISHING: SOMEWHERE WE STAY AUTHENTIC

November 2 – December 19, 2018

SOMEWHERE WE STAY AUTHENTIC offers glimpses into efforts to navigate potentially overwhelming terrain, negotiating versions of landscapes in which we are able to thrive. We can never truly escape our past, but perhaps in looking honestly at who and where we are, we open ourselves up to the potential of creating of what will be.

A square image of a silhouetted figure on a peach coloured background. The figure sits in the center of the peach coloured circle reaching up with their left hand. They look off into the upper left corner of the image, standing with their back strait. The circle behind them is divided up with the silhouette of branches growing from the bottom of the image and cutting up through the piece.

MAD ONES: FLOURISHING

November 2018

MAD ONES is a new theatrical script written by writer/actor/poet Laura Burke. Burke was awarded creation and dramaturgy funding from Arts Nova Scotia for the development of a piece under the same name in 2016.