FADO E-BULLETIN
September 2024

1. FADO PERFORMANCE SERIES WALK-AND-TALK
   DATE SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER & ON-GOING
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

There’s a storytelling technique, originated in procedural TV and later adopted by narrative films and videogames, in which two or more characters have an important conversation while walking between places. The technique is generally used as a way of conveying large volumes of information in a dynamic way, while introducing the audience to the relative placement of various locations and communicating a sense of urgency. As a narrative device, it effectively functions as a way of combining two distinct vectors of a narrative (the visual and the aural) into a more compact and efficient whole.

This technique is referred to as Walk-and-Talk.

While there isn’t anything analogous in the realm of performance art, walking (to and from the site of a performance; as a component of the performance itself; as a stage of the creative process) and talking (as part of the performance or around it, like in the “artist talk”) are, for artists and audiences alike, such commonplace components of the experience of making and watching performances, that they tend to be taken for granted and disappear from view.

In this new, ongoing series, FADO highlights and investigates these foundational gestures of the performance art vocabulary—walking, talking—through performances and discursive interventions that explore their intrinsic mutual imbrication. After all, isn’t the stroll of the flâneur always also the articulation of an argument? Aren’t the verbal excesses of every character in a classic novel who pines for an unattainable elsewhere just another way of getting there?

Curated by Francesco Gagliardi and Julian Higuerey Núñez

SEPTEMBER: Cason Sharpe
NOVEMBER: Mark So (on-line)
DECEMBER: Mark So (in-person performance)

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2. FADO EVENT THE RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY BY CASON SHARPE
   DATE SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony: A Travelling Circus is part of FADO’s newest on-going series Walk-and-Talk, curated by Francesco Gagliardi and Julian Higuerey Núñez.

September 21 & 22, 2024
3:00pm & 7:00pm daily
FREE, no registration required
Rain and/or Shine

Join writer and artist Cason Sharpe for four public ribbon-cutting ceremonies to commemorate the partial unveiling of Alexandra Park, a neighbourhood that’s been under re-construction for the past decade. Each ceremony will occur live in four different locations around Alexandra Park, bordered by Dundas Street West, Augusta Avenue, Queen Street West, and Cameron Street in Toronto. Combining the civic rituals of the walking tour and the ribbon-cutting ceremony, this series of performances turns a neighbourhood stroll into a travelling circus, a spectacle through which we may catch a glimpse of an ever-changing city.

Four ceremonies. Four opportunities to witness. See you at the circus.

CEREMONY 1: Saturday, September 21 at 3:00pm
Meet at the foot of Kensington Avenue (one block west of Spadina Avenue), by the construction hoarding on the south side of Dundas Street West.

CEREMONY 2: Saturday, September 21 at 7:00pm
Meet outside the basketball courts on the corner of Cameron Street and Paul Ln Gardens.

CEREMONY 3: Sunday, September 22 at 3:00pm
Meet outside 75 Augusta Square, in front of the rose bushes across the street from Randy Padmore Park.

CEREMONY 4: Sunday, September 22 at 7:00pm
Meet on the corner of Augusta Avenue and Grange Avenue (one block south of Dundas Street West), by the construction debris next to the dumpsters.

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3. PERFORMANCE QALB: A JOURNEY OF THE EGO BY 1S1 THEATRE
   DATE SEPTEMBER 7–14, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE 1S1 / WHY NOT THEATRE

1s1 Theatre Production, co-presented by Why Not Theatre
Qalb – A Journey of the Ego

September 7–14, 2024
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto

Qalb, a word borrowed from Arabic, means heart in 13th-century poet Rumi’s native Persian language. Diving into his world of thoughts and poetry, 1s1 Theatre’s latest production Qalb – A Journey of the Ego is about heart and resilience. Inspired by Dawn Jani Birley’s life as a Deaf person facing audism, her struggle for equity is relatable to all dealing with oppression. Birley turns to the philosophy of Rumi to transform her isolation, anger, and frustration into a force of love in the world.

An original new work from 1S1 Theatre, Qalb creates a dynamic communication space for everyone, bringing ASL (along with spoken English) to the stage, celebrating the richness of this vivid, visual language. Following its 2023 ground-breaking debut production, Lady M, 1s1 Theatre continues to forge a new Deaf-led theatre movement in Canada. The company’s latest work offers Deaf audiences access to Rumi’s poetry in their native language and presents both Deaf and hearing audiences new ways of seeing and understanding the world. Together, through the wisdom of this beloved 13th-century poet, we work to become reflections of our true selves and create a world in which we all wish to live.

This long weekend only, use the code WHYNOT25 for $25 tickets. Please note that this code expires September 2 at 11:59 P.M.

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4. 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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5. EVENT RENCONTRE INTERNATIONALE D’ART PERFORMANCE (RIAP)
   DATE SEPTEMBER 12–22, 2024
   LOCATION QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
   SOURCE STVN GIRARD

Le Lieu presents
Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec 2024 (RiAP)
September 12–22, 2024

PERFORMANCES: Thursday to Saturday
CONFERENCES: Sunday

ARTISTS
Graciela Ovejero Postigo (AR/US)
Janusz Baldyga (PL)
Joseph Ravens (US)
Cindy Baker (CA)
Joakim Stampe (SE)
Shannon Cochrane (CA)
Alexandre St-Onge (QC,)
Gustavo Alvarez & Magda Riviera (MX)
Marilyn Arsem (US)
Danny Gaudreault (QC)
Sandra Johnston (IR)
Belinda Campbell (AR/QC)
Leena Kela (IS)
Terrance Houle (Kainai Nation/CA)
Alexis Bellavance (QC)
Sandra Ramírez & Roja Cuma (MX/CL)
Tomasz Szrama (PL/FI)

Writers-in-Residence: Virginie Fauve (QC)

Since its creation in 1984, the Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec has celebrated performance art and, more broadly, action art. The 2024 edition will highlight the notions of encounter, risk and theory-praxis, all in an attempt at disciplinary extension, offering a full-on dive into the world of artistic performance.

From September 12 to 22, the performance art community will come together to discuss the risks faced by local, national and international artists from nearly a dozen countries. Their ephemeral performances, their research-creation and their theoretical contribution invite us to reflect and experiment with the present. The Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec 2024 promises to be a dense and important event, spread over a period of two weeks, thus allowing us to fully take stock of current performance art practices.

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6. PERFORMANCE RIAP SATELLITE EVENTS
   DATE SEPTEMBER 11 & 18, 2024
   LOCATION QUEBEC, CANADA
   SOURCE LE LIEU

Satellite events of The Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec 2024 (RiAP)

September 11, 7:00PM
545 rue Legendre Ouest, Montréal
Presented by Gallerie Clark & Ateliers Belleville

PERFORMANCES
Shannon Cochrane
Danny Gaudreault
Sandra Johnston

September 18, 7:00PM
555 rue Collard, Alma

PERFORMANCES
Marilyn Arsem
Tomasz Szrama
Gustavo Alvarez & Magda Riviera
Janusz Baldyga

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7. EVENT ARCTIC ACTION VII
   DATE SEPTEMBER 12–22, 2024
   LOCATION SVALBARD, NORWAY
   SOURCE ARCTIC ACTION

ARCTIC ACTION VII: What Happened To Us?
September 12–22, 2024

ARTISTS
Yaryna Shumska
Aor Nopawan Sirivejkul
Mongkol Plienbangchang
Sigtryggur berg Sigmarsson
Franzisca Siegrist
Raeda Saadeh
Benedikte Esperi
Ina Otzko

The Arctic’s average temperature has already risen at a rate of almost three times the global average, warming faster than any other region on Earth, suffering from amplified climate crisis effects while also trying to cope with the impacts from a growing global rush for resources, new shipping routes, and opportunities.

What happens in the Arctic will influence the rest of our planet. Without urgent action to slash greenhouse gas emissions, the world will continue to feel the effects of a warming Arctic. For areas around the world this will mean rising sea levels, changing temperature and precipitation patterns, and more severe weather events.
In the Arctic, changes due to the climate crisis are already causing nature to break down, causing risks to the livelihoods, health and cultural identities of Indigenous and local communities. These changes, many of which are irreversible, will result in a very different Arctic than the one we have been used to.

Arctic Action VII is a platform for these topics. What happened to us…?
In which direction is the world moving…?

The 7th edition of Arctic Action will invite artists from the North, Ukraine, Palestine and Thailand.

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8. EVENT CENTRAL PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
   DATE SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER 2024
   LOCATION NEW YROK CITY, USA
   SOURCE GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE

Grace Exhibition Space presents
Central Performance Festival
September–November, 2024

Featuring 24 performances by artists whose work explores immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body, Central, the first Central American and Caribbean performance festival, will take place from September to November 2024 at Grace Exhibition Space.

Exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands, and New York City.

Curated by Pancho López

SEPTEMBER 13
Quintin Rivera Toro (Puerto Rico)
Alexia Miranda (El Savaldor)
Regina José Galindo (Guatemala)
Mauricio Esquivel (El Salvador)

SEPTEMBER 28
Leonardo González (Honduras)
Marton Robinson (Costa Rica)
Humberto Vélez (Panamá)
Carlos Manuel Rivera (Bronx/Puerto Rico)

OCTOBER 11
Blanca Van Hoorde (Panamá)
Eduardo Veláquez (República Dominicana)
Pável Aguilar (Honduras)
Paulina Velázquez (Costa Rica)

OCTOBER 25
Alejandro de la Guerra (Nicaragua)
Crack Rodríguez (El Salvador)
Valeria Cobos (Honduras)
Natalia Domínguez (El Salvador)

NOVEMBER 8
Mauel Tzoc (Guatemala)
Elía Arce (Costa Rica)
Vanessa Hernándex Gracia (Puerto Rico)
Nicolas Dumit Estévez (Bronx/Dominican Republic)

NOVEMBER 22
Susana Gonzalez-Revilla (Panamá)
Illimani de los Andes (Nicaragua)
Milko Delgado (Panamá)
Alicia Grullón (Bronx/Dominican Republic)

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9. ARTIST TALK NICKESHIA GARRICK & DANCEWORKS
   DATE SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE DEDRA MCDERMOTT

Danceworks presents
An Artist Talk with Nickeshia Garrick
With Co-Executive Artistic Producer and Fellowship Facilitator, Dedra McDermott

Saturday, September 14 at 1:00pm
The Commons @ 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Register HERE
FREE

Please join us as we kick-off our 2024–2025 Season with an Artist Talk featuring our inaugural Emerging to Mid-Career Fellow, Nickeshia Garrick!

Partnered by the Centre for The Study of Black Canadian Diaspora with support from FADO Performance Art Centre, Vtape, and ArQuives

The artist will be in discussion with Co-Executive Artistic Producer and Fellowship Facilitator, Dedra McDermott, to talk about the initial months of the Emerging to Mid-Career Fellowship, her archival research interest and recent discoveries supporting her developing research and choreographic project, the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us.

Nickeshia is currently exploring the socio-political, cultural and artistic influences on Black Performance Art from the 1960s to now across Turtle Island. the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us aims to excavate the context of the aforementioned influences and the role they potentially play(ed) in shaping Black performance art movements. Through this inquiry, Nickeshia is interested in locating any sites of disruption or a critical challenge of the traditional theatre milieu in Canada beginning in 1960.

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10. EXHIBITION + ARTIST TALK THE CLICHETTES: LIPS, WIGS, AND POLITICS
    DATE SEPTEMBER 19 & 20 , 2024
    LOCATION HAMILTON, CANADA
    SOURCE JOHANNA HOUSEHOLDER

Bridging theatre, lip-sync, dance, drag, costume, and comedy, the renowned Canadian artist trio The Clichettes developed a groundbreaking practice at the crossroads of performance art and feminist satire. This exhibition focuses on The Clichettes’ collaboration from 1978 to 1993, when Louise Garfield, Janice Hladki, and Johanna Householder performed to fervent audiences in Toronto and internationally, animating galleries, bars, cabarets, concert halls, festivals, benefits, rallies, and the streets. They produced four full-length plays, performing sold-out shows at theatres and alternative venues across Canada.

In the group’s first-ever retrospective, the McMaster Museum of Art celebrates The Clichettes’ many dynamic collaborations with artists, writers, designers, and directors. The exhibition brings together over 150 costumes, props, videos, photographs, drawings, scripts, and archival materials that attest to The Clichettes’ radical vision for a better world.

Exhibition dates: May 21 to November 22, 2024

Opening Reception & Publication Launch
September 19, 5:00pm–8:00pm
Remarks at 6:00pm

The opening reception will also include the launch of the new publication. Published on occasion of the group’s first retrospective, this fully-illustrated catalogue presents The Clichettes’ many dynamic collaborations with artists, writers, designers, and directors and celebrates their radical vision for a better world. Including essays by Ivana Dizdar, Marni Jackson, John Greyson, Alexandra Schwartz, Mark Kingwell, rl Goldberg, Lillian Allen, and Wanda Nanibush.

The Clichettes: Trending in the 2020s
In conversation with Maya Ben David & Syreeta Hector
September 20, 12:00–2:00PM

Please join us for a lunchtime film screening and panel talk featuring two contemporary video responses to the work of renowned Canadian artist trio The Clichettes. Following the screening, exhibition curator Ivana Dizdar will be joined by a member of The Clichettes, Johanna Householder, and video artists Syreeta Hector and Maya Ben David for a discussion about their work.

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11. EVENT ARTIKULATIONSPROZESSE
    DATE SEPTEMBER 20–22, 2024
    LOCATION COLOGNE, GERMANY
    SOURCE PAE AKTIONSLABOR E.V.

PAE Aktionslabor e.V. presents Artikulationsprozesse
September 20–22, 2024
Cologne, Germany

an alternative reading of inhabiting and behaving in our city

With the project “Artikulationsprozesse” Kelvin Atmadibrata, Tara Fatehi, Eunjung Kim, melissandre varin and local artists of the PAE Aktionslabor e.V. (formerly PAErsche Aktionslabor e.V.) in Cologne-Kalk create a series of encounters between language and movement through performance art.

On Friday, the artists and the Aktionslabor will introduce themselves and present their work in the Stadtteilbibliothek Kalk. On Saturday, site-specific solo performances will take place in often overlooked but easily accessible public spaces. On Sunday, the project will culminate in a group performance with artists from the PAE Aktionslabor in the Stadtgarten Kalk. All three days will conclude with a gathering at the Naturfreundehaus Köln-Kalk, where there will be the opportunity to engage in an open exchange with the audience.

Through the project, we seek to create connections to our shared vulnerabilities by exploring the processes that are connected to identities, roles and social expectations. We hope that this will open up conversations about openness, fluid and queer processes. Through performance art we learn to understand each other better in a non-verbal way. We invite everyone to attend the performances and to participate in the processes.

Funded by the Kulturamt Köln, NRW KULTURsekretariat Wuppertal and the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. In cooperation with the district library Kalk and the Naturfreundehaus Köln-Kalk.

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12. PERFORMANCE TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER
    DATE SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2024
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE TORONTO BIENNALE OF ART

With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held)
By Tanya Lukin Linklater

Colborne Lodge Coach House, High Park Toronto
1:00–4:00pm

With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held) is a series of site-specific open rehearsals by Tanya Lukin Linklater taking place over four afternoons in High Park leading up to and during the opening of the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Building upon her 2023 project presented with TBA, The sky held me and her sculptural work Held in the air I never fell, featured in the 2022 Biennial, the program extends recent research and conversations between Tanya and Anishnaabe and Cayuga knowledge holders around High Park’s Black Oak Savannah and thunderstorms’ physiologic and metaphoric meanings.

With invited dance artists, Tanya leads a choreographic process in relation to plant life, weather, and other structures in our lived environment that sustain us. Through sensory investigations grounded in place (the prairie ecosystem of the Black Oak Savannah nestled within the Great Lakes watershed), the rehearsals generate structured improvisational dances, deepening our understanding of and connection to our environment and the weather.

NOTE: This program is drop-in between 1:00 and 4:00pm. Registration is not required. Visitors are welcome to attend these performance-based open rehearsals to observe the processes that Tanya and dancers work through while in High Park.

This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

This program is generously supported by ĀNANDAM Dance Theatre.

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13. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CENTRE FOR SOUTH ASIAN CRITICAL HUMANITIES
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    DEADLINE DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
    SOURCE SAVAC

Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities
Artist in Residence Program
Winter 2025

This is a call for applications for a contemporary artist to come to the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) as an artist-in-residence at the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities (CSACH) for the winter semester (February-April 2025). Our community partner for this initiative is the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC).

We invite applications from contemporary practicing artists for developing and installing artistic projects, who will come to UTM to develop work that will be site-responsive or site-specific, culminating in an eventual installation on campus. The art can be digital or material or performative, in any medium.

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14. OPPORTUNITY WESTON COMMON CULTURAL HUB
    DEADLINE DATE OCTOBER 7, 2024
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE ERIKA HENNEBURY

Request for Expressions of Interest (REOI)
Weston Common Cultural Hub

The City of Toronto is seeking a qualified not-for-profit organization to lease and operate the Weston Common Cultural Hub, an 8,200 square foot community cultural hub located at 34 John Street, Toronto, M5V 3G6 (Ward 5, York South Weston). The City is seeking a Head Tenant who will engage the Weston-Mount Dennis community, partner with local artists and community groups and deliver year-round programming that closely aligns with community needs, and priorities.

Application Deadline: October 7, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

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15. EMPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 13, 2025
    LOCATION CHICAGO, USA
    SOURCE MARK JEFFERY

Performance School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Full Time Tenure Track Hire
Fall 2025

The Department of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position to begin August of 2025. Salary is competitive with peer institutions and commensurate with quality of practice, scholarship and current academic research, extent of teaching experience, and current professional standing.

The Department of Performance at SAIC is unique in the United States, bringing a performance and performance studies curriculum to both undergraduate and graduate students in an interdisciplinary art school setting. Building on a foundation of experimentation, the Department of Performance evolves in relation to new developments inside and outside the field of performance, and aims to be responsive to new ways of seeing and understanding the world in the 21st century.

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