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Symposium: A Home for our Migrations

RUTAS + Nuit Blanche + Hemispheric Encounters

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 – Monday, October 3, 2022

Artscape Daniels Launchpad

90 minutes / session

Celebrating the return of in-person gatherings for Nuit Blanche Toronto and the RUTAS Festival 2022, A Home for Our Migrations symposium will bring together scholars, artists, and community activists for 5 days of lively dialogues/conversatorios, workshops, keynote speakers, and performances. Over 50 invited presenters will engage with a range of timely topics in response to emerging artistic practices, as well as growing migration and environmental crises. Topics include: transformative curatorial practices, public art futures, performance actions/acciónes, intersections with labour, land, and diasporic memory, mobility as artistic method, the politics of displacement and transnational collaboration.

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This symposium is co-produced by Nuit Blanche Toronto, the RUTAS Festival and Aluna Theatre, Hemispheric Encounters, The Space Between Us, the aabijijiwan New Media Lab at the University Winnipeg, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, and the City of Toronto.