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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
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.

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