FADO E-BULLETIN
August 2024

1. EVENT SUMMERWORKS
   DATE AUGUST 1–11, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE SUMMERWORKS

Welcome to the 34th SummerWorks Performance Festival!

In response to the current zeitgeist, the 2024 SummerWorks Performance Festival presents 11 days of bold creative expressions from a diversity of perspectives and lived experiences, that engage with the idea of survival, in both subtle and blunt ways, with nuanced complexity.

With over 40+ events and activities, all curated and designed around the idea of gathering together, this year’s Festival offers you a moment to pause and reflect, to dive into the energy and chaos, and to witness dynamic live performances by independent artists from across Canada, and around the world.

We invite you to join us this summer, for an inspiring, thought-provoking, and magical SummerWorks experience.

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2. MICROWORKSHOPS VIVARIUM!
   DATE STARTING AUGUST 6, 2024
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE VIVA! ART ACTION

VIVArium!
A summer program of micro-workshops

Centre des arts actuels Skol
Belgo Building, 314–372 Ste-Catherine Ou., Montréal

In partnership with Skol, VIVA! presents a peer-based program of training activities offered by artists working in the discipline of action art. At the intersection of skills sharing and professional development, this initiative aims to foster the development of the personal practice of participating artists and, more broadly, of the performance art community. Taking place on the first three Tuesdays and Thursdays in August, VIVArium’s program of micro-workshops is a multifaceted learning experience!

PROGRAM OF MICROWORKSHOPS

Pilar Escobar: Speaking and singing like breathing
August 6, 2024
9am–12pm (workshop in French)

Fanny Aboulker: Blurring Language: how can we use the strategy of vagueness to thwart gender binaries in (French) language and imagine a post-gender world?
August 8, 2024
10am–2pm (workshop in French)

Sébastien Goyette Cournoyer: Humour in action
August 13, 2024
9am–12pm (workshop in French)

Marcela Szwarc: Using poetry and manifesto in collective performance
Thursday August 15, 2024
10am–1pm (workshop in English)

Steve Giasson: Back to the ABC
August 20, 2024
9am–1pm (workshop in French)

Thomas Duret: Squad for the transformation of reality
August 22, 2024
1pm–4pm (workshop in French)

While individual workshops will be given in French or English, activities will nurture a bilingual and collaborative environment. Whispered translation support is available upon request.

All workshops are free to attend, but can only accommodate a limited number of participants. As such, registration is required and participation will be confirmed on a first come, first served basis.

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3. EVENT MONUMENTAL INTERVENTIONS WALKING TOUR
   DATE AUGUST 10, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE VANESSA GODDEN

Monumental Interventions Walking Tour with Andrew Lochhead

August 10, 2024
3:00pm–4:30pm

Start Point: Northwest Corner of Nathan Phillips Square, South of Chestnut and Armoury Sts.
End Point: Queen’s Park, North Side of Wellesley near Queen’s Park Crescent West

Cost: $9.85 ($8.00 ticket + $1.85 Eventbrite transaction fee)
Registration: Pre-registration is required

On this walking tour, explore a half century of artist-led engagements with, and creative resistance to, public forms of memory in Toronto.

This tour looks at a half century of artist-led engagements with, and creative resistance to, public forms of memory in Toronto. From painting statues, to floating them down the Don River, to celebrating Indigenous languages and presence in the urban environment, participants will hear how these artistic interventions represent significant forms of cultural production, storytelling, and acts of care for all people who call this land home.

ABOUT ANDREW LOCHHEAD
Andrew is a multidisciplinary artist and PhD Candidate at Toronto Metropolitan University. His dissertation project focuses on the role of walking in telling stories about the often complex and contested relationships that are celebrated and obscured by Toronto’s street names—particularly as they relate to systemic and structural racism, injustice, and ongoing colonial violence. Andrew’s research and advocacy work around public memory practices have been featured in a number of documentary films including CityTV’s What’s in a Name? and BBC Scotland’s Scotland, Slavery, and Statues.

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4. WORKSHOP EXPLORATION OF TIME IN PERFORMANCE ART | MARILYN ARSEM
   DEADLINE DATE AUGUST 15, 2024
   LOCATION QUÉBEC CITY, CANADA
   SOURCE LE LIEU

Exploration of Time in Performance Art with Marilyn Arsem
September 4–8, 2024
12pm–5pm

Presented by Le Lieu as part of the Rencontre internationale d’art performance, this workshop led by Marilyn Arsem examines the importance of time in performance art. Through various exercises, participants will explore different ways in which time can operate as an active element in their practice. The workshop will culminate in a public presentation some time in 2025.

Marilyn Arsem has been creating and producing public events for over 40 years and has presented her work in some thirty countries. A resident of Boston, Massachusetts (USA), she taught for 27 years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she established an extensive performance art programme. Many of her works are long duration, contain few actions and materials, and have been created with specific locations in mind, based on interactions with the landscape and the immediate materiality of the place and its history.

Deadline for applications: 15 August 2024

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5. CALL FOR PROPOSALS PASSEPORT 2024
   DEADLINE DATE AUGUST 15, 2024
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE DARE-DARE

PASSEPORT 2024
With the means at hand – Love and candlelight

It’s with great enthusiasm that we’re launching this appeal for your support, and inviting you to join a wonderful line-up of a dozen artists by participating in the next edition of PASSEPORT DARE-DARE with one of your interventions. The event will be presented as part of the Journées de la culture and will take place on September 28, between noon and 6:00 pm, in the Little Burgundy district.

This art rally consists of an itinerary in which a hundred or so participants (often returning fans), holders of a PASSPORT (acquired at the start of the itinerary), are invited to collect various graphic interventions (prints, collages, decals, drawings, etc.) created by artists who are members and friends of DARE-DARE. This unique treasure hunt allows visitors to complete a booklet of original and exclusive works in just a few hours, at the end of a journey unveiled on the same day.

Deadline: AUGUST 15, 2024

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6. PERFORMANCE FORUM WITH JUSTINE A. CHAMBERS
   DATE AUGUST 17, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE MERCER UNION

Join us for our next fORUM program, a performance by Justine A. Chambers!

Saturday, August 17
1:00PM
Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto

The movement-based practice of Justine A. Chambers explores collaborative creation, close observation, and the idea of choreography as a living archive. Her interest in the choreography of the everyday often informs the performances she develops through periods of gestation and iteration. Responding to artist Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill’s reflections on berry picking as an intergenerational and familial activity, Chambers’ will activate the transmission, traceability, and transformation of such rituals as embodied forms of knowledge and record keeping.

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7. OPEN CALL RHUBARB FESTIVAL
   DEADLINE DATE AUGUST 23, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE

The open call for the 46th annual Rhubarb Festival is now LIVE. That means we’re inviting you to share your expressions of interest to participate as an artist. Submissions are accepted through an on-line form. The form is open until August 23, 11:59 pm EST.

We invite ideas from all time-based art that demand to exist in relation to an audience, including (non-exclusively!) dance, theatre, performance art, experimental concerts, durational pieces, interactive pieces, burlesque, clown, interdisciplinary works, and so on.

The Rhubarb Festival is Canada’s longest-running festival or new and experimental performance works, happening every February at Buddies in Toronto, Canada. This year we’re welcoming our new incoming Rhubarb Festival Director, Ludmylla Reis.

MORE INFORMATION & OPEN CALL FORM

8. TO READ DROP EVERYTHING AND READ (DEAR) AT DARE-DARE
   DATE NOW
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE DARE-DARE

Drop Everything and Read! (D.E.A.R. at DARE-DARE)

La HALTE
Parc Sainte-Cunégonde, Montréal

La HALTE, Pavillon de référence et de réflexion sur l’art dans l’espace public, opens its doors for the summer! Come and discover our collection of publications covering art in the public space, art and politics, action art, architecture, design, urban planning, decolonization of the arts, citizen and participatory approaches, zines, artists’ books and micro-publishing…and much more!

We invite you to come and stroll around, choose a book and read it on site, around the park, or on our comfortable chairs to take a moment to breathe, rest and reflect.

The opening of La HALTE also means welcoming a new cultural mediator to our team! During the summer, Mayra Morales will welcome you, advise you on your readings and offer mediation at La HALTE.

Mayra Morales is a non-disciplinary and infra-disciplinary Montréal based Mexican artist, process philosopher, writer, performer, choreographer, and pedagogue navigating the layers of art, dance, choreography, and performance from her dual bases in Montréal and Cholula. Mayra holds a BFA in Dance (México 2002), an MA in Dance Theatre (Laban, London 2005) and a PhD in Humanities (Concordia University 2023) with a forthcoming thesis titled ‘A Philosophy of Movement: Choreography of the Event’. She delves into the relation of thought and practice. Mayra has been a University Professor for more than 12 years teaching art history, dance, performance, sculpture and choreography amongst other topics. She co-directed and co-founded the Performatica Festival in Mexico.

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9. TO WATCH ONLINE EXHIBITION 7a*mgr8
   DATE ONGOING
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE TORONTO PERFORMANCE ART COLLECTIVE

7a*mgr8 [migrate]
New projects launched between May and July 2024

Digital residencies featuring Sean Lee, Tanya Lukin Linklater and Abedar Kamgari
Curated by Paul Couillard for Toronto Performance Art Collective

7a*mgr8 is a creative residency project that invites artists to create new digital performance works in dialogue with works from Toronto Performance Art Collective’s public web archive, an unparalleled free resource of performance art documents: recordings of performances, contextualizing panels, artist interviews, eyewitness accounts and critical writing.

New projects include Sean Lee’s Almost audio described (in dialogue with Lee Wen’s Almost Untitield: End of the World Stories), Tanya Lukin Linklater’s Stone, stick, star (in dialogue with Rebecca Belmore’s For Dudley), and Abedar Kamgari’s Cavity (in dialogue with Bojana Videnakic’s Skin). Included alongside the projects are in-depth interviews with each of the artists talking about their process, the works they developed, and the challenges of engaging with archival records of past performances.

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10. TO READ 8 ACTS OF LOVE BY OUT OF SITE CHICAGO
    DATE UNSPECIFIED
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE CARRON LITTLE

8 Acts of Love (catalog)

8 Acts of Love includes an introductory text by Dr. Alice Bell and Carron Little called Charter of Liberty that expands on the concepts of public performance art as an act of freedom at a time when agency in public space is being increasingly restricted. It also includes two scholarly texts by Tricia Van Eck and Joanna Matuszak, two interviews with artists Jeff Huckleberry and the collaborative duo Mothergirl and an artist text by Vanessa Dion Fletcher about the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt.

The catalog also shares a diverse range of photos from the outofsite_chi archive over the twelve years of our history. The texts are interspersed with reflections and memories of public performances created in Lincoln as part of the exhibition along with documentation.

The publication was published by University of Lincoln, UK and the $35 US cost includes shipping fee.

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11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS CHOREOGRAPHIC MARATHON @ STUDIO 303
    DEADLINE DATE SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE STUDIO 303

Studio 303 hosts The Choreographic Marathon

The Choreographic Marathon (taking place on October 19, 2024) is a DIY style opportunity to take an early professional step in contemporary performance. The event is open to all short forms of choreographic practice and performance art that integrate body and/or movement. Studio 303 will provide a lo-fi set up, a general lighting plan with a technical director who is able to offer simple lighting and sound cue support, along with general technical coordination, and running of the show. The choreographers/collectives will be chosen from a simple application process. The work must be relatively new, and no longer than 5 minutes. It can be an excerpt from a longer piece, or a short piece in and of itself.

Who Is the Open Call For?
• The candidate must be in the early stages of their professional career (4 years of working outside of school or less)
• Dance, performance, and visual arts students must have already graduated from their program
• Works created and/or presented in an academic context will be accepted (e.g. Boomerang, Passerelle 840, Studio 7), although we think this is a great opportunity to try something new

We will accept 25 pieces for this first edition of the marathon. If you are not accepted it is not a judgement of your work, we are mainly looking to program pieces that function well in this very particular lo-tech/lo-prod context. We will not accept propositions from artists who have been in the field more than 4 years, as this first initiative is meant to highlight the work of early-career artists.

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12. CALL FOR PROPOSALS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
    DEADLINE DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Performance Research NEW Call for Proposals

Vol. 30, No. 3: On State Violence (September 2025)
Deadline: September 9, 2024

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