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Hôtel de Ville / City Hall
275 Notre-Dame Street East

BLACK HISTORY MONTH OFFCIAL LAUNCH 




12-2pm, 4th SPACE

PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP 

Textual and Visual Representation in the Sir George Williams affair 1969

With Charmaine Lurch

This two-hour printmaking workshop uses paper cut out shapes to create stencils that are then screen printed using a number of inks. Incorporating words and images, this form of art making can be used to create visual narratives that re-construct events in representational and abstracts forms.

Printmaking as an artivist tool in this workshop, can help us recollect an event, learn about a community’s experience and make visible the participants, students supporters, artists, activist, and others who were present at the time. 



4-6pm, 4th SPACE


A VISUAL RECORD OF EVENTS UNFOLDING

Black Visualities and Protest: A talk with Charmaine Lurch 


Charmaine Lurch is an interdisciplinary visual artist, whose work explores race, and blackness, outside normative racial scripts. She creatively insists that black life, while certainly shaped by infrastructures of race, is not wholly defined by them. Working with a range materials, and reimagining our environmental surroundings—from bees and taxi cabs to The Tempest and quiet moments of joy, Lurch subtly connects black life and movement globally, drawing attention to human-environmental relationalities. Lurch’s holds a Master’s in Environmental Studies from York University and her work has been exhibited at: the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal museum of Fine Arts, Station Gallery, Toronto Centre for the Arts, The Gladstone, Nuit Blanche, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and more.