Stonecroft Semester: The Art of Connection

September 29 - November 24, 2024

A themed series of free events grounded in art, making and conversation

CUAG is thrilled to announce Stonecroft Semester: The Art of Connection, a themed series of free public events that takes place over the fall 2024 semester.

The semester is generously supported by the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, which promotes education in the visual arts and fosters the public’s appreciation of the visual arts.  

The inaugural Stonecroft Semester takes the form of a multi-vocal, multi-site series of events organized to accompany two concurrent CUAG exhibitions. A Dream of Return and Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice.

The events explore the connections we share and create with each other, the land and our collective histories. These ties resonate across time and generations. Join artists who will lead conversations and workshop to bring these connections into practice.

A Dream of Return tour / Sunday 29 September at 1:00 p.m. / CUAG

Join an informal conversational tour of A Dream of Return, with artists Adeyemi Adegbesan, Nic Cooper, Theo Jean Cuthand, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh and Farouk Kaspaules. Each artist will be posed one question by a guest: curator Pansee Atta and scholars Sarah Phillips Casteel, Salam Hawa and Adam Saulis.

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Return to INDIGENA / Saturday 5 October at 1:30 p.m. / Teraanga Commons 270 / 272 / 274, Carleton University

Danielle Printup will moderate a conversation with Lee-Ann Martin, Michelle McGeough and Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow about a pivotal moment in Indigenous art history. This is the first in a series of three conversations on Indigenous curatorial practice, curated by Carmen Robertson and Danielle Printup.

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On Paying Homage to Past Selves While Envisioning Future Realities with Dr. Winsom Winsom / Saturday 5 October at 1:00 p.m. / CUAG

Join renowned Practice As Ritual / Ritual as Practice artist and educator Dr. Winsom Winsom and CUAG educator-in-residence Jade Sullivan for a collage workshop and journey of self-reflection.

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Memory Box workshop / Wednesday 30 October at 6:00 p.m. / CUAG

Join CUAG educator-in-residence Jade Sullivan for a creative workshop in response to Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice and A Dream of Return. Participants will tour the exhibitions together and then create memory boxes of their connections to past, present and future selves.

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Tomoni / Go Together / Saturday 16 November at 7:00 p.m. / Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (280 Lisgar Street)

This free Japanese community celebration and variety show features daring and unique artistic collaborations between Japanese cultural performers and invited artists.

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Za’atar workshop / Sunday 24 November at 2:00 p.m. / Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (280 Lisgar Street)

Join artist Rana Nazzal Hamadeh and CUAG educator-in-residence Jade Sullivan for an afternoon of cooking and conversation inspired by Hamadeh’s work presented in A Dream of Return.

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A Dream of Return video portrait

Created by Susannah Heath-Eves (SHE Films), this video tour will feature curator Pansee Atta walking through the exhibition and talking about the work of the artists in A Dream of Return.

Stay tuned!