Confluence: Shifting
Perspectives of the Caribbean
Kicks
off Caribbean Carnival Toronto Arts Line Up
Toronto –
July 23,
2014 –Join PATTISON Onestop,
Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival and Third Space Art Projects at the launch and sneak peek screening of
images from the public exhibition of Confluence:
Shifting Perspectives of the Caribbean on Thursday July 24th from
6:00pm – 8:00pm at BAND Gallery and Cultural Space.
Curated
by Pamela Edmonds and Sally Frater of Third Space Art Projects, Confluence:
Shifting Perspectives of the Caribbean highlights the work of 11 artists with cultural ties to the
Caribbean: Nicole Awai, Sandra Brewster, Charles Campbell, Delio Delgado,
Polibio Díaz, Zachary Fabri, Jérôme Havre, Karyn Olivier, Sheena Rose, Wayne
Salmon, and Natalie Wood.
Confluence:
Shifting Perspectives of the Caribbean
brings the Caribbean Carnival
to local and international visitors, as well as millions of commuters. Confluence will be presented every 10
minutes on PATTISON Onestop subway platform screens across Toronto from July 25
– August 29, as well
as on 2 PATTISON billboards along the Gardiner Expressway from July 21 – August 3. The project will also
appear on shopping malls screens across Canada until the end of August.
Drawing
inspiration from the geographical term that references the meeting of two or
more bodies of water, the artists in Confluence: Shifting Perspectives of
the Caribbean address
myriad subjectivities and concerns yet all in some manner or form embody the
notion of movement. The artists have roots in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago,
Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Guyana and Martinique. Their works touch on
themes such as hybridity, the performative, migration and transformation,
highlighting the notion of a space that is always in flux, refracting and
shifting to illuminate new perspectives.
Confluence:
Shifting Perspectives of the Caribbean is a co-presentation of PATTISON Onestop and Scotiabank Toronto
Caribbean Carnival, and was commissioned as part of
PATTISON’s ongoing Art in Transit programme.
Sneak Peek Screening
and Launch – Thursday, July 24th, 2014
BAND Gallery and Cultural
Space
1 Lansdowne Avenue, 2nd
Floor (Queen St. West/Lansdowne Ave)
6:00pm – 8:00pm; remarks
begin at 7pm
For more information please visit: www.artintransit.ca
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About
Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival -
www.torontocaribbeancarnival.com
The
Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival is an exciting three-week cultural
explosion of Caribbean music, cuisine, and revelry as well as visual and
performing arts. It has become a major international event and the largest
cultural festival of its kind in North America. As Carnival is an international
cultural phenomenon, the great metropolis of Toronto and its environs will come
alive as the city explodes with the pulsating rhythms and melodies of Calypso,
Soca, Reggae, Chutney, Steel Pan and Brass Bands. The Festival Management
Committee oversees the running of North America’s largest outdoor festival.
Third
Space Art Projects
Third Space
Art Projects is a Canadian-based curatorial collective co-founded by Pamela
Edmonds and Sally Frater. It is a forum for the promotion, presentation and
development of multidisciplinary contemporary art projects that engage
transcultural and diasporic communities, with a particular focus on visual
cultures of the Black Atlantic. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Third-Space-Art-Projects/317921244898640
PATTISON Onestop, a division of PATTISON
Outdoor Advertising, Canada’s
largest Out-of-Home advertising company serving 200 markets coast-to-coast, is
a world leader in the development and operation of Digital Out-of-Home Media
(DOOH) for mass transit, mall, retail, hospitality, residential, office, and
outdoor environments. Art in Transit represents PATTISON Onestop’s ongoing arts and culture programme.
Art in
Transit represents PATTISON Onestop’s
ongoing arts and culture programme, presenting thought-provoking projects that
enhance our shared environment and transport commuters, shoppers and
city-dwellers, if only momentarily, out of their daily routines.
For more
information contact:
NEW COURIER / MAIL ADDRESS
STEPHEN WEIR
Stephen Weir & Associates | stephen@stephenweir.com
109 Castlefield Avenue, Toronto, ON
CANADA. M4R 1G5
Tel: 416-489-5868 | cell: 416-801-3101
www.stephenweir.com twitter: sweirweir
STEPHEN WEIR
Stephen Weir & Associates | stephen@stephenweir.com
109 Castlefield Avenue, Toronto, ON
CANADA. M4R 1G5
Tel: 416-489-5868 | cell: 416-801-3101
www.stephenweir.com twitter: sweirweir
