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
Guided Tour: The Use of ENCAUSTIC in the Collection
Presentation by Isabelle Hawkins
Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 3:30 PM
Free, in English
At the Gallery
Registration Required
On April 7, join Isabelle Hawkins, a first-year master’s student in Art History, for a presentation of research developed during her curatorial internship. Focusing on works in the collection by Marion Wagschal, Louis Comtois, Marc Garneau, and Tony Scherman, Hawkins examines the renewed use of wax in painting in Canada and the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on close visual and material analysis, she situates these works within a broader resurgence of encaustic practices, asking what this material makes possible and how each artist mobilizes it toward different formal and conceptual ends.
Limited spots. To register, email prakash.krishnan@concordia.ca
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CONVERSATION: LA TANYA S. AUTRY and INGRID JONES
Moderated by Lise Ragbir
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 6:00 PM
Free, in English
Online [Zoom]
Register here
Join us for a conversation between cultural worker and educator La Tanya S. Autry and curator Ingrid Jones as they reflect on verbal versus active institutional practices of care1 and the labour required to sit with discomfort.2 Framed through Autry’s work in cultural practice and education, the discussion will also explore the development of her manifesto and library installation Inclusion Ruse (2023–2024), currently featured in Labour, an exhibition curated by Jones at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. The conversation will be moderated by Lise Ragbir, CEO and co-founder of VERGE, a boutique talent agency serving art galleries and museums.
1 Ahmed, Sara. “Commitment as Non-performative.” On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 2012, pp. 113-140.
2 Campt, Tina M. “Adjacency and the Poethics of Care.” A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See, 2021, pp. 167-190.
From labour to rage to rest: How can rest be mobilized as a liberatory practice?
A public conversation with Kathleen Charles, Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush, Prakash Krishnan
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Free, in English
At daphne art centre, 5425 avenue Casgrain #103 (Rosemont metro)
This public conversation is organized in collaboration with the University of the Streets Café and echoes the themes of the current on-site exhibition Labour.
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PERFORMANCE: KATHY KENNEDY AND THE CONCORDIA CHAMBER CHOIR
Wednesday, April 8, at 2:15 PM
SIGHTINGS cube, ground floor, Hall Building
Free
Voices carry and embody presence, resonating through our ears, our minds, and our bodies in space. Bringing their voices together, sound artist Kathy Kennedy and the Concordia Chamber Choir will occupy the Hall Building’s atrium and the SIGHTINGS cube for an ambulatory concert and a participatory World Wide Tuning Meditation by composer and performer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016).
This event is the second in a series of performances presented in conjunction with the installation A PLACE TO SIT by Phillipe Battikha and Martín Rodríguez, as part of the SIGHTINGS 2026–2027 cycle, DECORUM.
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