Truth Be Told

Alvis Parsley, Alien in Residence: Parallel Life, 2014. Photo: Tony Wei-Han Chen.

YTB Gallery brings together a night of performances and screenings entitled Truth Be Told, June 11th at the Revue Cinema co-presented with Art For Eternity. A selection of six young, Toronto-based artists present film, video, and performance work telling histories, jokes, deep truths and canny untruths. Mingling performative disruptions and flowing narratives, these artists play with stories and their dual power— conjuring telling as an insistence on erased histories, or as a method of bending the truth to unsettle and delight. Somewhere in the act of telling, these artists build rich and sumptuous new worlds: cautionary, wish-fulfilling, or utopian.

Artists
Sharlene Bamboat
Jessica Kichoncho Karuhanga
Alvis Parsley
Christopher Lacroix and afallenhorse 
Neil Lapierre
Rebecca Fin Simonetti

Curated by Alison Cooley and Humboldt Magnussen

Doors open at 9:00pm, event starts at 9:30pm.

This is a liscensed event; Beer/ Wine/ popcorn/ snacks will be available. 
Tickets:
$8 - advanced , student, senior, or starcard
$11 - general night of

to purchase advance tickets 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/truth-be-told-live-performance-film-at-the-intersection-of-fact-fiction-tickets-16920531766

Art For Eternity

Revue Cinema's Art for Eternity program, 2nd Thursday of every month : Bringing classics and future classics to the big screen on Roncesvalles. presenting a mix of art house cinema, creative documentary, and performance : a variety of artistic subjects whose aesthetic and creative influences we believe will last the test of time. 

art.for.eternity.cinema@gmail.com
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YTB Gallery

Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery is a nomadic artist run centre that will open its doors in Regent Park this summer. The mandate of the gallery is to support the professional practice of young artists by creating opportunities to exhibit artwork while engaging in the art community.

Download the Poster here.
 

Panel Discussion: Inclusivity and Art

As part of YTB's programming and beginnings, we are holding a roundtable discussion at UrbanArts on the theme of inclusivity and intersectionality in artist run centres. 

We are inviting you to join the conversation moderated by curator and YTB Board Member Geneviève Wallen.

Speakers on the panel will be Robin Fraser, artist, activist and student advocate at OCAD University; Adrienne Crossman - artist, curator, educator and programming coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre; and Emily Gove, artist, educator and director at Xpace Cultural Centre; Rohan Ramsay, rapper, wardrobe stylist and gallery supervisor at MOCCA. 

As we build a new kind of gallery space that differentiates itself from the current Toronto art scene, our goal is to learn more about what it means to have cultural representation in a multicultural environment such as Toronto, and what it means to be a good ally to different marginalized demographics.

Topics discussed will be:
• Strategies to foster inclusiveness in art spaces
• How to establish sustainable and fair partnerships with ethnocultural arts organizations
• Observations about the Toronto art scene and representation

Join us on the Thursday the 26th of March at 6:30 pm.

Co-directors Marjan Verstappen and Humboldt Magnussen will be there with the board of YTB Gallery

There will also be pizza!

Call for Submissions

Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery is currently accepting submissions from emerging artists under the age of 33 for a series of exhibitions to be held at our temporary space. Our mandate is to exhibit emergent and experimental art practices by Toronto and area artists. This call is also open to young curators to curate a show following our mandate. 

YTB Gallery aims to support work that is conceptually rigorous, responds to life in Toronto, engages with being part of Generation Y, and explores notions of failure, glamour, humour and resourcefulness. 

We encourage a discursive space where critical conversations and risk taking can emerge through responding to audience, artists and the community. We accept submissions of visual art in all media, with the understanding that selected artists will work with the Gallery to arrange appropriate technical requirements for the display of their work. We only accept electronic submissions. 

Submission guidelines:
Tell us about your art practice (a short 250-word statement or ten minute phone conversation with us- writing is not always the best way to describe a practice!) Include a short bio and ten images of work you have made or are about to complete, or a short video. No CV is required, but do mention any education you have received and your age. Email all submissions to: ytbgallery@gmail.com

Deadline:
Monday, January 12th, 2015 (As long as you are 33 or under by the deadline, you are eligible to apply).