Get on the AGYU Performance Bus TOMORROW night with Syrus Marcus Ware
Artist and DJ Syrus Marcus Ware turns The Performance Bus into his memory of a circa 2001-2002 Friday night Vazaleen party that was hosted by Will Munro, Miss Barbrafisch, and Rawbrt at the El Mo (with a bear pit and all!). On Wednesday January 11, ride out there to the opening reception of Will Munro: History, Glamour, Magic on the free Performance Bus departing OCADU at 6 pm sharp. Bring your memories and your dancing shoes...
The Performance Bus returns downtown at 9 pm.
Syrus Marcus Ware is a visual artist, community activist, researcher, youth-advocate, and educator. He is Program Coordinator of the Teens Behind the Scenes program at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Through the mediums of painting, installation, and performance, Syrus challenges systemic oppression and explores the spaces between and around identities; acting as provocations to our understandings of gender, sexuality, and race. For the past 6 years, Syrus has worked with Blackness Yes to produce Blockorama (the black queer and trans stage at Pride), and is a founding member of the Prison Justice Action Committee of Toronto.
Will Munro: History, Glamour, Magic is on exhibition at AGYU from January 11 – March 11, 2012. The exhibition is generously sponsored by Salah Bachir and Jacob Yerex.
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People, Power, Magic - An AGYU "in-reach" project by John Caffery
Beginning next week, Toronto artist John Caffery kicks off People, Power, Magic, an interdisciplinary project that engages queer and trans youth through direct dialogue with Will Munro's ideas, artwork, and collaborators.
Wednesday, January 18 from 7 to 9 pm at AGYU: T-Shirt Relay event led by West Side Stitches Couture Club members Lorraine Hewitt (aka Coco La Crème), Luis Jacob, Jeremy Laing, and John Caffery.
Wednesday, February 1 from 6 to 9 pm at The Underground (York University Student Centre): Vogue, Runway, Commentary, and DJ Workshop with the Toronto Kiki Ballroom Alliance, DJ Cozmic Cat, and DJ John Caffery. For full event listings visit our website!
The Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, and our membership.
The AGYU is located in the Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto. Gallery hours are: Monday to Friday, 10 am–4 pm; Wednesday, 10am–8 pm; Sunday from noon–5 pm; and closed Saturday.
AGYU promotes LGBT positive spaces and experiences and all events out there are free and open to everyone.
AGYU is so out.
Do you have questions or require further information or images? Please contact Emelie Chhangur, Assistant Director/ Curator, AGYU, +1.416.736.5169 or emelie@yorku.ca
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