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The Prison For Women Memorial  Collective Fundraiser for the Memorial Garden!

September 24^th at 6:00 PM at the Screening Room.

Films, conversation, snacks and beverages!

Featuring the films of award winning visiting filmmaker Sara Wylie, with Sara in person and in conversation with the P4W Collective members.

A More Radiant Sphere (2022)

A mid-length hybrid documentary about Joe Wallace, Communist poet, political prisoner, and my great-great uncle. Shot on 16mm and digital, featuring music by Fiver / Simone Schmidt.

The Garden Collective (2020)

The Garden Collective follows the Prison for Women Memorial Collective as they work to build a memorial garden on the grounds of the former prison in Kingston, Ontario.

If you cannot attend but wish to donate to the P4W Memorial Garden, please e-transfer to: p4wmemorialcollective@gmail.com

In collaboration with The  Kingston Cinema Society, The Kingston Film Heritage Project and the The George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, and the P4W Memorial Collective.

For more information about the P4WMC’s efforts, please go to

Artist Presentation, Sep 27, 11:30

The Isabel Bader Center Screening Room

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Maurício Chades is an artist and filmmaker from Brazil. His works in film, installation, sculpture, and performance speculate about anticolonial symbiotic futures and queer ecologies. Envisioning syntropic environments and multispecies alliances, his practice combines storytelling with restorative agriculture, composting, and fungiculture. Maurício holds a BA in Cinema Studies, an MA in Art and Technology from the University of Brasilia, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He participated in collective groups such as Espaço AVI, Kinofogo Cineclube, and NINHO - Collective for Research in Art, Interactivity, and Agroecology. His works were shown worldwide, like at Queer Lisbon, Curitiba International Film Festival, and FILE – Electronic Language International Festival. In 2019, he presented his first solo show, Pyramid, Urubu, at The Brasilia Digital TV Tower, receiving the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022. In 2023, Chades was featured at the Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil. His most recent accomplishment was the first prize of the e-flux Film Award for Green Cemetery. Mauricio is currently participating in the Landing exhibition at No 9 Gardens, close to Kingston.

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Maurício Chades is an artist and filmmaker from Brazil. His works in film, installation, sculpture, and performance speculate about anticolonial symbiotic futures and queer ecologies. Envisioning syntropic environments and multispecies alliances, his practice combines storytelling with restorative agriculture, composting, and fungiculture. Maurício holds a BA in Cinema Studies, an MA in Art and Technology from the University of Brasilia, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He participated in collective groups such as Espaço AVI, Kinofogo Cineclube, and NINHO - Collective for Research in Art, Interactivity, and Agroecology. His works were shown worldwide, like at Queer Lisbon, Curitiba International Film Festival, and FILE – Electronic Language International Festival. In 2019, he presented his first solo show, Pyramid, Urubu, at The Brasilia Digital TV Tower, receiving the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022. In 2023, Chades was featured at the Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil. His most recent accomplishment was the first prize of the e-flux Film Award for Green Cemetery. Mauricio is currently participating in the Landing exhibition at No 9 Gardens, close to Kingston.

Mauricio is currently participating in the Landing exhibition at No. 9 Gardens. He'll be back to Kingston for a talk at Tett Centre (Sep 24, 2.30PM), followed by a screening of his works (Sep 26, 7PM) and an artist presentation (Sep 27, 11.30PM) at the Isabel Bader Center Screening Room.

Please see information about the Tett talk below and about the other activities in the promo images attached.Maurício's visit is supported by Queen's Cultural Studies program, Department of Film and Media, and the George Taylor Richardson Fund. His participation in Landing was commissioned by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre with support from the Canada Council for the Arts; the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario; the City of Kingston Arts Fund, Kingston Arts Council.

Projections of a Place: Telling (Non) Site Specific Stories with Video and Mixed Media

Join us for an artist presentation by the talented Maurício Chades, a media artist and filmmaker from Brazil. Maurício Chades explores themes of anticolonial futures and queer ecologies through his unique artistic lens. In this talk, he will share how his practice intertwines storytelling with restorative agriculture, composting, and fungiculture, creating a vision of harmonious multispecies alliances.

This event is presented as part of 2024 Ontario Culture Days.

Free Admission/By Donation | | Drop Ins Welcome

ISSUE LAUNCH

PUBLIC 69: The Witch

Co-Presented with Vtape

Thurs., September 19th, 6–8pm
@ The Commons, Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space

401 Richmond Street W.
Suite 452
Toronto
M5V 3A8

*FREE*
— Cash Bar —
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Please join us the evening of September 19th @ Vtape to officially celebrate the release of our latest issue, 69: The Witch!

• Meet the issue editors and local contributors
• Enjoy some tasty bites prepared by  Restaurant
• Peruse a selection of our most recent journals and books for purchase
 

Issue editors Tamara de Szegheo Lang, Emily Pelstring, and Dan Vena will host an informal  "fireside chat" reflecting on the issue's origins and its evolution from virtual symposium to print publication. 

Plus...

Experience a large-scale version of the AR multiple included in the issue, After the Witch of Malleghem, by Jenn E Norton, Emily Pelstring, and Edie Soleil.

Receive an individual tarot reading using a custom deck designed and illustrated by artist collective !
 We hope to see you there 🔮