Author: Fado Admin

Call for Expressions of Interest: Join FADO’s Board of Directors!

Your favourite small-but-mighty artist-run centre for performance art is looking for enthusiastic people to join our Board of Directors.

The performance art community in Toronto is pretty small. Sometimes it feels like we all know each other. FADO doesn’t usually seek expressions of interest to join our organization as a public call but this time we are hoping to toss the net farther than we have in the past. Instead of expanding our Board from the inside out, we want to grow from the outside in. If you are interested in working with FADO and joining our active and passionate Board of Directors, we want YOU to let US know!

You do not need to be a performance artist yourself to join our Board, but being passionate about performance art is key. Our priority is to find people to join the Board who live in Toronto; however, if you are based in Canada and would like to explore joining the Board as a member-at-large, please feel free to contact us. 

We are also looking for people who can contribute their skills and experience to the Board in the following categories:

Accounting, fundraising, finance
Event coordination
Marketing, communications
Strategic Planning

Expressions of interest will be accepted on a rolling basis. 

Please send us an email, detailing your relevant artistic and/or professional experience and why you would like to join FADO Performance Art Centre’s Board of Directors to info@performanceart.ca

Join us for another instalment in FADO’s Walk-And-Talk performance series.

Free, all welcome.

Clint Enns takes us on a cinematic Walk-And-Talk through the work of Karl Grune’s 1923 film, Die Strasse, narrating the film as a performative-intervention.

Enns’ Die Strasse [Back Alley Edit] re-imagines Karl Grune’s 1923 Die Strasse as a walking film. The film follows movements of a man who leaves his home and drifts through the city at night, each step carrying him deeper into the dangers of the street. Cinema as walk, narrative as restless wandering.

The artist’s reworking intervenes in this walk by adding a textual element and voice, shifting the film from “silent walkie” to “talkie.” A detour[nement] where new stories emerge in motion.

Clint Enns is a visual artist, writer, and curator living in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. His post-cinematic practice consists of reworking existing films, disrupting their conventional narratives and forms. His interventions destabilize the cinematic image, turning familiar works into sites of critical play and reinterpretation. By appropriating and manipulating filmic material, Enns challenges the permanence of cinema as a fixed cultural object, presenting it as malleable, thinking though the ways moving images persist, mutate, and circulate in a post-cinematic landscape shaped by digital technologies and remix culture.

© Karl Grune, Die Strasse, 1923. Film still.

Join us for a joyful day of video-art BINGE WATCHING. Two different screenings sandwich a guided movement practice for artists. Wear your jammies, drink ginger ale and eat popcorn ALL DAY!!!

FADO Performance Art Centre and V tape are thrilled to present Your New Normal: An Afternoon With Margaret Dragu, part of FADO’s on-going Walk-And-Talk performance series.

2:00PM: screening, NEW NORMAL: an embodied novel
3:00PM: supportTHEsupport (movement practice) with snacks & chats & PAJAMAS!
4:00PM: screening, TICK AND TALK OF COMMON TIME

PROGRAMME

2:00PM: NEW NORMAL: an embodied novel (video, 45:00)

“An embodied novel is a 13-part multi-modal project documenting Dragu’s experiences on public transit while waiting for/recovering from two hip replacement surgeries. This series of poetic-prose stories are articulated in the body as short videos produced by Dragu alongside her collaborators, Justine A. Chambers (choreography) and E. Kage (score), as well as in text in her publication by the same name.” (Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora, C.L.A.M.)

Choreographer: Justine A. Chambers
Composer & Musician: E. Kage
Novelist: Margaret Dragu
Dancers: Rob Abubo, Justine A. Chambers, Stephanie Cyr, Alison Denham, Kate Franklin, Bynh Ho, Mikiki, Claudia Moore

3:00PM: supportTHEsupport (TORONTO VERSION)

supportTHEsupport is an art experiment that began September 2019 during the LIVE! Biennale in Vancouver. supportTHEsupport appears to be dance/fitness classes (live-in-person and live-on-ZOOM ) with members in Vancouver, Montréal, Toronto, Berlin, Hanover and Copenhagen. But it is actually a living studio of amazing and creative artists who help each other make art happen.
***Feel free to bring your own yoga mat, towel, blocks.***

4:00PM: TICK AND TALK OF COMMON TIME (video, 33 min)

“An opus of five variations and five entr’actes. Playing with the idea of TikTok dance trends, the variations feature fifteen live Vancouver-based dancers, three Toronto-based performers and many more [of whom are] dancing over Zoom, as well as several TikTok dance videos. Each variation presents a new choreography set to compositions from five different Canadian composers. The videos of the dancers are often in split screen or overlapping one another in the mainframe. The entr’actes feature improvisational dance by Dragu and Justine A. Chambers set to the sounds of live improvised vocal transcription.” (Nathaniel Marchand, Western Front)

Composers: Mark Haney, Nikita Carter, E. Kage, Sarah Sheard, Brady Marks
Dancers: Justine A. Chambers, Kate Franklin, Vanessa (VK) Kwan, Johanna Householder, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Angelo Pedari, Stephanie Bokenfohr, Margaret Dragu

SILT: FRESHWATER
In Collaboration with FADO Performance Art Centre!
Saturday, November 29, 2025

The Commons @ 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
3:00PM start time
FREE | All welcome

ARTISTS
Jen Hum
public-universal-friends
Emily Duckett
Abbey Richens (of Spiral Eyedd & Meaningful Movement)

SILT: FRESHWATER is an evening of performance. Through a public open call, four artists are each provided with 15 minutes to present an action, event, performance. Silt was originally started for dance, movement, and performance artists; however, it is open to everyone regardless of artistic or personal identifications. The aim of SILT: FRESHWATER is to provide participants with an accessible low stakes stage for experimentation and expression.

Please RSVP at the link below.

MORE INFORMATION

Canada
https://clintenns.ca/

Clint Enns is a visual artist, writer, and curator living in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal.. His post-cinematic practice consists of reworking existing films, disrupting their conventional narratives and forms. His interventions destabilize the cinematic image, turning familiar works into sites of critical play and reinterpretation. By appropriating and manipulating filmic material, Enns challenges the permanence of cinema as a fixed cultural object, presenting it as malleable, thinking though the ways moving images persist, mutate, and circulate in a post-cinematic landscape shaped by digital technologies and remix culture.

His work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including solo shows such as Lo-fi Visions: The Selected Work of Clint Enns (Keiller Centre, Scotland, 2023), Internet Vernacular // Conspiracies in Isolation (PAVED Arts, Saskatoon 2021), Internet Vernacular (VU Photo, Québec, 2019), and The Lo-Fi Mixtape: A Selection of Works by Clint Enns (la lumière collective, Montréal, 2017). Earlier solo presentations include Visual Errata + Other Bent Forms (Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2013) and Prepare to Qualify (Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, 2010). His films nationally and internationally including: Anthology Film Archives (New York), Image Forum (Tokyo), Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Other Cinema (San Francisco), and Images Festival (Toronto). Enns is the editor of several volumes, including Scrapbook: From the Archives of Dave Barber (Winnipeg Film Group, 2025), Mike Hoolboom: Work (CONVERsalón / Canadian Film Institute, 2025), Imprints: The Films of Louise Bourque (Canadian Film Institute, 2021), and Shock, Fear, and Belief: The Films and Videos of Madi Piller (Pleasure Dome, 2016) and John Porter’s CineScenes: Documentary Portraits of Film Scenes, Toronto and Beyond, 1978–2015 (the8fest, 2015).