Inviting the public into dialogue with artists, theorists, researchers, critics, educators, and cultural workers, the Gallery’s events position exhibition making as a lens through which to examine today’s issues and debates. Recognizing the public’s sense for inquiry and experimentation, these workshops, lectures, screenings, tours and other interventions ask us to reflect critically upon the ways we look and the forces inflecting our experience. Welcoming and supporting different modes of public participation, the Gallery’s programming aims to make and hold space for new vectors of interpretation and inclusion.
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Produced with the support of the Frederick and Mary Kay Lowy Art Education Fund
HOW TO…
Summer Celebration
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
At the Gallery
Free
Join us at the Gallery for an evening celebrating the closing of IGNITION 21: HOW TO…, and a chance to see how the exhibition’s ongoing activations have transformed the works on view. The evening will also be an opportunity to mark the departure of outgoing Max Stern Curator Julia Eilers Smith (2019–2026) and to welcome incoming the incoming Curator Ronald Rose-Antoinette!
We invite you to gather for a convivial summer reception with some light bites and refreshments as we celebrate the close of the exhibition, a transition in curatorial mandates, and the beginning of a new programming year.
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Performance / Opening Reception / Karaoke
In the FOFA Gallery’s Outdoor Courtyard
1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
From 7:00 PM – 9 PM
Free
Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization / Kanorónhkhwa’tshera Karenna’shón:’a Taká:taste ne Aionkhiia’tó:rarake, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change. Listeners are invited to perform a song, sing-along, clap, dance, or simply witness and soak in love and music to dismantle colonialism, one love song at a time.
This performance opens the exhibition Love Songs to End Colonization in the Gallery’s indoor vitrine from June 19, through August 9, 2026.
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