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Free Admission (for UAAC members only): *Royal Ontario Museum. For the ROM, tickets will distributed in the registration kits so admission will only be possible after registration on Thursday evening. Please note that the ROM is open until 9:30pm on Friday and from 10am - 5:30pm on Saturday and Sunday. 2. L'Espresso Café 3. Bar Mercurio L'Espresso is the least expensive of these three. A list and map of inexpensive, casual eateries will be included in your registration package. |
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| Thursday November 6 |
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| 6 - 8pm | Opening reception Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto Sponsored by The Canadian Art Foundation Exhibition: Empty Orchestra Curated by Maiko Tanaka and Heather Keung. Works by Wong Gongxin, Karen Tam, Iichiro Tanaka, Candice Breitz and Christian Jankowski. |
| Friday November 7 |
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5:30 - 7pm |
Public Launch of the CCCA @ York The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto 416-531-4635 www.gladstonehotel.com Reception celebrating the launch of the digital Canadian Art Database in its new home in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. The Canadian Art Database is a flagship project of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. Through images, texts, video and audio clips and related archival materials, the Canadian Art Database is documenting the Canadian art scene since 1960, focusing on key arts institutions, organizations, artist groups and professional artists, designers, art writers and curators who have helped shape it. Admission is free. Sponsored by the Faculty of Fine Arts and Department of Visual Arts, York University. |
7:30pm |
Design for the Other 90%: A Panel Discussion Ontario College of Art & Design Auditorium, 100 McCaul Street In conjunction with the presentation of the exhibit Design for the Other 90% at the OCAD Professional Gallery and the UAAC conference, this panel addresses the issues of design and extreme affordability. Moderated by OCAD curator Charles Reeve, the panel will include Cynthia Smith (USA; curator of the exhibition and manager of travel exhibitions at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum), Modesta Nyirenda-Zabula (Botswana; project manager, Godisa Technologies Trust), and Vikram Bhatt (Canada; McGill University School of Architecture). The exhibition Design for the Other 90% is organized by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. This event is made possible by major support from the International Development Research Centre. |
| Saturday November 8 |
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7 - 9pm |
Closing Banquet Dynasty Chinese Cuisine, The Colonnade, second floor, 131 Bloor St. West (just east of Avenue Road). Tickets must be purchased by October 19. Preceding the dinner will be a "Vin d'honneur" for Adele Ernstrom. Adele Ernstrom attended her first UAAC conference in 1977 and has been an active and devoted member ever since. When RACAR went through an unsettled period in the 1990s, she was one of the UAAC members who stepped forward to secure its passage to stability. Impressed by Adele's efforts, then secretary-treasurer Carol Doyon suggested that Adele take over the presidency of the UAAC, which she did in 1994. Adele remained as president until 1999 and when she left the organization was on an even keel. During her presidency, Adele contributed to
RACAR, served as liaison between UAAC and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, and wrote reports for the UAAC newsletter on the Federation's attempt to defend the place of the humanities in universities. After 1999 she remained active and proposed to guest-edit an issue of
RACAR on art history outside the university. She subsequently served for many years as the journal's English language book review editor. If the UAAC continues today as a successful organization, it is in part because of Adele's outstanding contributions to it.
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