MANIFEST!
Choreographing Social Movements in the Americas
June 21 – 28, 2014
Opening
Saturday June 21, 5:30 to 7 pm
Open everyday from 11 am to 6 pm
Closed on Tuesday, June 24, for the Fête nationale
The Gallery is participating in the 2014 Encuentro by presenting three installations and performative projects. Encuentro is a conference, workshop and performance festival dedicated to connecting performance with visual arts, activists and scholars throughout the Americas. Organized by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University and Concordia University, it is being held for the first time in Canada.
Activities and performances accompany each project. Check out the Events section.
MANIFESTROOM by Zavé Martohardjono and Lilian Mengesha
THE LIBRARY OF PERFORMING RIGHTS created by Lois Weaver in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency and presented in Montreal with the collaboration of Jo Palmer, designer and Joanna Donehower, dramaturg
ZAPANTERA NEGRA with Emory Douglas, once Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, Caleb Duarte, Mia Eve Rollow, Saul Kak and EDELO (Where the United Nations Used to Be)