Author: Fado Admin

FADO Performance Art Centre invites proposals for curatorial projects for our 2026–2027 programming season.

FADO is seeking to support and cultivate curatorial projects created by/in/for the Canadian Performance Art ecology. We want to fund and support the production and presentation of innovative and experimental curatorial projects, to be presented in Toronto during our 2026–2027 season, of varying sizes—from small-scale projects focused on a single artist/theme to larger project concepts/series presenting the work of multiple artists.

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WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Curatorial projects focused on performance art/artists/processes/form including but not limited to:

• Gallery/presentational works
• Projects in site-specific contexts or public space
• Durational works
• multi-disciplinary or performance-adjacent
• research projects with a public-facing or audience engagement element
• performance for podcast, camera or on-line platforms
• Projects that work within specific audience or community
• Series within a series or one-off event
• and anything else you can think of

Projects will be chosen based on their inventiveness and experimental character AND FOR their attention to the practicalities of execution/feasibility within FADO’s presentation capacities and resources.

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BUDGET & SCALE

Overall project budgets will be set by FADO, including artist fees and curator honorariums. Budgets can range from $2,500 (small, one artist) to $10,000 (2–3 artists) to $20,000 (multiple artists/projects).  

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WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

THIS IS NOT a call for personal projects. You can be an artist that curates, but you cannot curate your own work. Please do not submit your own work for consideration.

This is a call for Toronto-based and Canadian curators. Projects are to be realized and presented in Toronto. FADO cannot support projects from international curators who wish to present international artists in Toronto. However, a Canadian curator may propose a project that includes an artist/project from outside of Canada. Project proposals that are designed for dissemination online / virtual platforms will be considered from international and Canadian curators.

You can propose an in-progress project that requires more research and development (including finding the artists you want to work with) before being presented at a later time. Alternatively, you can propose a project that is ready to go.

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YOUR PROPOSAL INCLUDES:

• Contact information (name, email, links to websites/previous projects etc.)
• Curatorial statement, information on who you are, why you want to curate a project for FADO
• Curatorial project description, statement, vision
• Artist project descriptions, bios, other information (to the extent they are known)
• Project timeline, curatorial/artistic needs, production needs (to the extent they are known)

Please use this GOOGLE SUBMISSION FORM.

Call for proposals open until March 1, 2026.

If you have any questions while preparing your submission or would prefer to submit your proposal a different way, please contact us: info@performanceart.ca

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

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

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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.)

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)

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
Jen HumAbbey 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).