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Edison Osorio is a 3rd year student of Criticism and Curatorial Practice at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He was born in Colombia and lived for several years in Queens, N.Y. He then moved to London, ON where he finished high school and started to get involved with art practices. He also attended Sheridan and Fanshawe College for fine arts and liberal studies respectively. But it wasn’t until three years ago that he moved to Toronto and started to develop his artistic skills as writer as well as a video artist. He currently works at XPACE Cultural Center where he edits his colleagues’ blogs while listening to groovy tunes.

From the Cupcake Decorating Contest by Jacky Challenger

On Friday, March 5 XPACE hosted a Cupcake Decorating Contest as part of our
Wing Ding Friday’s event nights. We had a pretty big turnout and
ended up with quite a variety of creative designs by the end of the night.
Our next Wing Ding Friday will be a bookbinding workshop on April 2nd.

Here are some [...]

Ryerson University CONTACT Lecture Series (Two Events): Free Admission

Between the Arts. What and Where Is German Photography Now?
Presentation by Felix Hoffmann, Chief Curator at C/O BERLIN
Ryerson University CONTACT Lecture Series
Monday, March 22, 7PM
Ryerson University – Library Building, Room 72
350 Victoria St at Gould St

Great Deal on tickets to see Tanya Mars’ Six Images in Search of an Artist: Remix.

On behalf of the Free Fall festival in partnership with Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage:
The Theatre Centre and Tanya Mars want to extend a Special Offer to their friends XPACE Cultural Centre. In her first Canadian performance since winning a 2008 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, see Tanya Mars’ Six Images in Search of [...]

Video: Bloggers should not be killed

I have been asked to share this.

For more information go to  www.march18.org

“Toronto through Her Writer’s Eyes”: My Two Cents

In spite of having lived in Toronto for only three years (so far), I have developed a strong sense of home. The reasons for that sort of attachment I cannot explain, at least off the top of my head. Though they are certainly highly relevant. I came to live in Toronto after having exhausted my [...]

Panel discussion on GMOs sustainable practices in food production: Tuesday, March 2nd

Please circulate :
London artist Ron Benner will present on his work on a panel which will discuss issues that relate to GMOs and sustainable practices in food production with Arlene Stein, Sarah Wakefield, and a student representative from The Hot Yam! student organization.
Event : organized by student members of the Hart House Farm Committee,  Hart House Social Justice Committee [...]

Free event: Transformation through arts-based education

This might be of interest to some of you:
“Join Amanda Procter from Pueblito Canada and Ananya Ohri from York University, for a discussion about two different approaches to using art as a tool for community development.”
Follow the link above for details
and
I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY YOUR READING WEEK

LOCAL TALENT: ON SCREEN, IN YOUR BEDROOM

A few weeks ago I ran into Joshua Barndt at XPACE. At the time I was editing a blog for XBLOG, when Joshua started up a conversation with my co-workder Elise Windsor, who was sitting right by me. He handed her a business card and made her promise to attend an event he was hosting [...]

February Hotness

Gallery 1313 has been supporting emerging artists for twelve years. Although twelve years might not seem like a long time, it is enough time to have some sort of history. As part of Gallery 1313’s programme, curator Phil Anderson has put together a sex show that has been running for six years. This show went [...]

XU TANG – KEYWORDS SCHOOL

JMB Gallery is offering an attractive educational program for free (February 15 – 20).
For more info go to:
http://extra-curricular.info/?page_id=96