Events

Join us for the Advertising Changemakers Series on Friday, March 22nd, 2024 at 3 p.m., at 100 McCaul St., Auditorium, MCA 190.

<p>OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists &amp; Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create the Critical Distance Exhibition Essay Career Launcher.&nbsp;</p>

<p>OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists &amp; Designers (CEAD) and&nbsp;Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create the&nbsp;Critical Distance Public Art Billboard Career Launcher.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;">OCAD Univeristy's Faculty of Arts and Science presents ...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;"><strong>Women Making History</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;">Join us for two inspirational Speaker Series this Women’s History Month.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;">We are thrilled to present lauded art critic and curator Helen Molesworth and Feminist scholar and human rights advocate Dr. Shuchi Karim. These distinguished speakers will share their insights, experiences, and contributions, inspiring our community to celebrate the remarkable impact they are making in their respective fields. Join us as we come together to honor the resilience, creativity, and leadership of women in shaping the world we live in today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;"><strong>March 22, 2024: Dr. Shuchi Karim<o:p></o:p></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;"><strong>Student Talk: </strong>12:00-1:00pm</span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;">MCA 544<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;"><strong>Faculty Talk: </strong>3:00pm-4:00pm</span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;">MCA 550<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;"><strong>March 27, 2024<u1:p></u1:p>: Helen Molesworth<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;">7:00pm-9:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;">Book Signing and Public Talk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Inviting everyone who has their own unique ways of thinking, interacting, and experiencing the world. A peer-led space to share your lived experiences of barriers</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(17, 17, 17);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><strong>/</strong></span><strong>stigma and find community.</strong></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Malaga, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.5;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">&nbsp;</p>

鼻觀 Nose Contemplation IAMD MA Thesis Exhibition by Changhao Li

<p class="p1">Community &amp; Transmedia Archives for Just, Anti-Racist and Feminist Futures</p>

<p>Coffee Chats is a series of casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating a community.</p>

<p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" style="font-size:inherit;" dir="ltr">Ethennonnhawahstihnen - Where They Have a Good and Beautiful Life, graduating exhibition by Yuefeng Li</span></p>

Inspirations Studio 30th Anniversary & Art Auction

<p>Join us for a casual conversation with Zahra Ebrahim on essential strategies for creating inclusive businesses, co-designing with community, and building successful ventures with a lasting social impact.&nbsp;</p>

<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);border-width:0px;color:black;font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-optical-sizing:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-stretch:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-position:inherit;font-variation-settings:inherit;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">An exhibition with artists Tia Babbar, Jes Bonnie, Sari Cheah, Jodi Tu</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);border-width:0px;color:black;font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-optical-sizing:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-stretch:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-position:inherit;font-variation-settings:inherit;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">&nbsp;</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);border-width:0px;color:black;font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-optical-sizing:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-stretch:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-position:inherit;font-variation-settings:inherit;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">IMAGE: Tia Babbar, </span><em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Toothache</span></em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">, 2022, knitted wool on canvas 36”x 36.”</span></div><p><br>&nbsp;</p>

UX Student Association: Table Talk beginner-friendly networking event!

<p class="p1">Photography 2^nd&nbsp;year students present</p><h2><strong>Depth of Field</strong></h2>

Ilene Sova, Associate Professor in the FOA is curating an exhibition of DRPT Alumni and current OCAD U MFA Candidate Stephanie Camillie. This exhibition held at the Tarragon Theatre will happen in Conversation with the Studio 180 Theatre production of Four Minutes and Twelve Seconds at Tarragon Theatre. 

<p>OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists &amp; Designers is excited to announce a recruited placement in partnership with Secret Planet for the role of Studio Assistant.&nbsp;</p>

<p class="p1">Associate Professor in the FOA Ilene Sova will be presenting her international COIL project at the&nbsp;<a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsugl… class="s1">Global Digital Humanities Symposium</span></a><a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsugl… class="s1">&nbsp;</span></a>at Michigan State University with her co-teacher and co-presenter Dr. Alla Myzelev from State University New York.&nbsp;</p>

<p class="p1">Book Launch: Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life (Hybrid)<span style="color:black;font-size:16.0pt;"><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></span></p>

<p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" style="font-size:inherit;" dir="ltr">UNTITLED ARCHIVE IAMD MFA Thesis Exhibition by Yitong Wang&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>Join<em> power</em> curator, Lisa Deanne Smith, for an in-depth curatorial tour</p>

<p>Coffee Chats is a series of casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating a community.</p>

<p class="xmsonormal" style="background-color:white;margin:0cm;"><span style="border:1.0pt none windowtext;color:black;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:16.0pt;padding:0cm;">Creative Research Inclusive Practices (CRIP) Lab –&nbsp;The Launch</span><em><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></em></p>

<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;">Artist Talk Hugh Martin</span><br>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;"><strong>How to improve your Website&nbsp;</strong></span></p>

Indigenous Student Centre 113 McCaul Street, LVL 4 ROOM 410

The objective of OPEN CRITIQUE is to provide Indigenous students, alumni and community members with the opportunity for dialogue and relationship building with other Indigenous artists, including OCAD U faculty, alumni and special guests. Participants are encouraged to share their ideas, current works, and to visit with other Indigenous artists.

<p>Join us for the 2024 Seed Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs Pitch Event where t<span style="box-sizing:border-box;" data-contrast="auto">en finalists will pitch for the chance to receive up to $6,000 to launch or grow their business to an external jury of experts.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span class="TextRun SCXW212312227 BCX0 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:38px;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US">Tension between nature and city, digital and organic shown through a variety of media. Emotions and identities playing with the outside world and our interactions with natural and synthetic environments, through the works of Hayeon Song, Bianca Nam, and Jordyn Hendricks.</span><span class="EOP SCXW212312227 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:38px;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:480}">&nbsp;</span></p>