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Art and Ecological Citizenship: Performance Artist Colette Urban

Together with the Department of Cultural Studies, Queen’s University Fine Art Program, The Ban Righ Centre for Continuing University Education, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Corridor Culture, Union Gallery and the Screening Room, The Colette Urban Committee presents artist Colette Urban, visiting Queen’s from February 6-9, 2012. Please see the Press Release for more information.

The GREB workshop, previously scheduled for December 7, is to be postponed until January 11, 2012.

Wednesday, November 30 at 11:30-1:30 in Ellis 224

This panel will discuss HIV/AIDS Activism and Community Projects. Speakers will focus on the local impacts of HIV/AIDS and community activism, as well as how it has changed over the last 20 years.

Panelists include John Greyson, Joseph Babcock, and Colin Hastings. Dr. Mary Louise Adams will moderate the panel.

John Greyson in an Associate Professor in York University’s Department of Film, and is active in various anti-censorship, AIDS, peace and queer activist media projects, including The Olive Project, Deep Dish TV, Blah Blah Blah and AIDS Action Now.

Joseph Babcock is an artist, activist, HIV positive gay man. He is a small town boy that divides his time between urban social justice work and rural artistic exploration. He uses art as a tool to start dialogue, promote healthy conversation and instill ongoing self-care practices.

Colin Hastings is a graduate student in Cultural Studies, who will speak about his experience working at HIV/AIDS Regional Services (HARS) in Kingston as an Educator.

Dr. Mary Louise Adams is a Professor in the Departments of Kinesiology and Health Studies, cross-appointed in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Cultural Studies. Her research interests include the cultural studies of sport, the body and health, sexuality and gender, and feminist theory.

All events are open to the Queen's and Kingston public.

FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact: Jessica Jacobson-Konefall

The Department of Art in collaboration with Film and Media Studies, the graduate program in Cultural Studies and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre @ Queen’s University present:

Three days READING
art and activism
With guest artists Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge + Filmmakers, Roz Owen and Jim Miller November 21-23, 2011

Day 1 -Art History Art & Activism Seminar 
Monday, November 21st
9.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m..
Ontario Hall, Rm 210
(Limited seating) Showing other examples of their work, Condé and Beveridge will discuss the critical and political aspects of art and activism, and their experiences with artist and other community organizations.

Day 2 - Film screening and post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers and artists
Tuesday, November 22nd
7.00 p.m.
Ellis Auditorium, Queen’s University

PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE – THE ART AND ACTIVISMS OF CAROLE CONDÉ & KARL BEVERIDGE (2011)
Director/producer: Roz Owen. Editor/producer: Jim Miller. Anti-amnesiac Productions.
72 min. documentary. Featuring music of Oreka TX, Billy Bragg, Afro Celt Sound System, Cheryl Ockrant with original music composed by John Sheard.

“As young artists living in the women’s movement of the 1970s, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge faced a dilemma – they were in competition with each other. Instead of breaking them apart their conflict politicized them – sparking a pioneering collaboration that continues today. Portrait of Resistance witnesses Condé & Beveridge in action as they create provocative staged photographs about the environment, the rights of workers and the current global financial crisis. An intimate view of subjects who shun celebrity, PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE is about two artists who challenge the way we see our world.” (www.anti-amnesiac.net)

Day 3 - Cultural Studies Speaks Series
Wednesday, November 23rd
11.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
Ellis, Rm 224
Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge Join us in this popular and exciting seminar series to discuss the artists’ research methodologies and the praxis of defining and working for a social base. Film Trailer is here: http://vimeo.com/29422693  More info: Clive Robertson

Portrait of Resistance
Filmakers:

ROZ OWEN is an award winning director and writer who works in both drama and documentary. In 2006, Roz received the Kodak New Vision Award for her feature script CLOSE BEFORE STRIKING. All three of her dramatic scripts have been optioned. YOU LOVE ME I HATE YOU received both Genie and Golden Sheath nominations for best short drama. It had its world premiere at The Locarno International Festival in Switzerland and its Canadian premiere at TIFF. Presently Roz is working towards production of her Canadian British feature co-production LOOK BOTH WAYS.

JIM MILLER is the creator of award-winning documentary work in diverse media. His 1986 art installation, Poison Pen: A Story of Wrongful Dismissal toured Canada and the UK. In the 1990’s he garnered extensive national press for his HARRISEES political satire. In 2005 Jim was co-recipient of the “Pl@tform award” for GLOBAL KITCHENS— an interactive documentary. Over the last 10 years Jim’s focus has been editing and producing new-media and film.

In 2006, partners Roz and Jim formed anti-amnesiac productions. They both produce and write. In September 2008 their short doc, COMMUNITY MATTERS (commissioned by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre) won the OAAG Visual Art Film Award. In October 2011 their film, PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE: The Art & Activism of Carolé Conde & Karl Beveridge had its world premiere at the Planet in Focus film festival in Toronto. Jim and Roz both are responsible for the new web site, rightbiter.ca - “Canada’s satirical news digest of hard-to-swallow right-wing fact and folly.”

Portrait of Resistance
Featured Artists: 

CAROLE CONDÉ & KARL BEVERIDGE live and work in Toronto. They have collaborated with various trade union and community organizations in the production of their staged photographic work over the past 30 years. Their work has researched and represented the politics and culture of industrial and public sector labour via histories that foreground contemporary participant stories. Their major projects have concerned migrant farm work, women as union organizers, auto manufacturing, hydro and nuclear power, forestry, Atlantic cod fisheries, health care in the U.S. and Canada, anti-poverty and the unemployed, systemic racism and state violence, the global economy and free trade, the environment and green work.

Their work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in both the trade union movement and art galleries and museums. Recently their work has been included in exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, a survey exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, and the Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Holland. Carole and Karl have been active in numerous labour arts initiatives including the first of many labour arts festivals held in Canadian cities known as Mayworks beginning in 1985, and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre museum in Hamilton, Ontario. They are the authors of five books and served as editorial collective members of The Fox (NYC) and FUSE (Toronto). A survey anthology, Condé and Beveridge: Class Works edited by Bruce Barber was published by NSCAD University Press in association with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 2008. Condé and Beveridge received the first Ontario Federation of Labour Cultural Award in 1998, an Honourary Doctorate from OCAD University in 2010, and, this year,the César Chavez Black Eagle Cultural Award from the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Canada.

To those taking CUST 800*

Every year during the fall Convocation, it is necessary to relocate classes, labs and tutorials that are needed for Convocation purposes.  CUST 800 is normally scheduled in Kingston Hall and will be moving for the November 15th class.

Here is info as to where CUST 800 will be located on November 15th:

CUST 800, Nov 15, 2:30-5:30, Walter Light Hall room 212