Monday, October 27, 2008

The Grenada Story: 25 Years After the US Invasion

MEMORY AND RENEWAL

25 years After the US Invasion: The Grenada Story
A Series of Performances, Readings, reflections
October 30 – November 1, 2008

Pan-Caribbean Futures 25 years after Grenada

DATE: October 30, 12-2 p.m.
PLACE: History Seminar room, Room 2098, Sidney Smith Building,
University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street
Brian Meeks (Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona)
Silvio Torres-Saillant (Comparative Literature, Syracuse University)

Operation Urgent Memory: The Grenada Revolution and the US Invasion Twenty Five Years Later.
DATE: Thursday, October 30, 6pm
PLACE: Eaton Theatre, RCC204, in the Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson University, 80 Gould Street (at Church Street)
Speaker: Shalini Puri (English, University of Pittsburgh)

Memory and Renewal. The Grenada Story.
DATE: October 31, 7 p.m.
PLACE: William Doo Auditorium, New College, 45 Willcocks Street (1 block south of Harbord, off Spadina)
with Merle Collins, Dionne Brand, Shalini Puri, Jacob Ross, Caldwell Taylor, Roger Gibbs

Against Forgetting: Caribbean Futures 25 years after the Invasion of Grenada
DATE: November 1, 2008, 6pm
PLACE: Jamaican Canadian Association, 995 Arrow Road, Toronto,
Hosted by d’bi young. Music, dance and spoken word with Merle Collins, Jacob Ross, Brian Meeks, Mbala, ABS/Rated Inc Hip Hop and surprise performers.

SPONSORS:
University of Toronto: Caribbean Studies; New College Principal's Initiative
Fund; English; Political Science; Caribbean Continuities Series (History)
York University Community Arts Program of the Faculty of Environmental Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program of York University; Faculty of Humanities
Ryerson University: The English Department
Jamaica Canadian Association; A Different Booklist

For information contact: Alissa Trotz: da.trotz@utoronto.ca (416-978-8286)
Sandra Pierre (spierre50@hotmail.com)

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

African-American Artist, Wanda Ewing, Presents Talk on Satirizing Beauty

MorenaMedia and the Women & Gender Studies Institute (University of Toronto)
are proud to present

WANDA EWING
’DOs & DON’Ts
An Artist Talk on Popular Culture,
Beauty & the Black Female Image

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Women & Gender Studies Institute
University of Toronto
20 Willcocks Street, 2nd floor
7:00 p.m. / Reception to follow

Assistant Professor in Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska Omaha, Wanda Ewing is a rising mid-career artist specializing in printmaking. Recently featured in Bitch magazine and New American Painters, Ewing’s satirical and celebratory images serve as a catalyst for discussion among diverse communities.

Following in the tradition of self-portrait-based artists like Renee Cox, Ike Ude, and Cindy Sherman, Ewing's work highlights the everyday affects of media imagery on the self, which tends to focus on female insecurity rather than self-possession. She reasserts the idea of a strong, gendered identity by using humour to poke fun at the idea of recreating ourselves through style and consumption, while at the same time challenging mainstream beauty myths and their impact on black women specifically.

'DOs & DON'Ts is produced to support Wanda's exhibition with Anita Drieseberg, The Ladies Room, opening Friday, October 17 at Whipper Snapper Gallery. This is her first Toronto appearance.

Please view an excellent, three-minute interview with Wanda as posted on-line at: http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=8tHn6beGwQc.

To download more information about the artist or a poster of this event, please visit http://MorenaMedia.com.

Wanda Ewing: 'DOs & 'DON'Ts is co-presented with the Women & Gender Studies Institute and is produced in partnership with the Centre for Media and Culture in Education (CMCE), A is for Orange: Readings by Queer Caribbean Emerging Writers, AfroToronto.com, Leda Serene Films, Toronto Women's Bookstore, and Possession: All that is sacred in contemporary art.

CONTACT
Karen Miranda Augustine
MorenaMedia
T: (416) 263-9835
E: info@morenamedia.com
MORE INFO
http://MorenaMedia.com
http://www.WandaEwing.com
http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=8tHn6beGwQc