OCAD U Presents: The Conversationalists II
Amy Leaman, cStreet
Dyan Marie, Artist
Nicole Bazuin, Alexandra Hong and Cheryl Hsu, Madeline Co.
Tuesday, March 15th
7 - 9pm
Scrap Metal Gallery, 11 Dublin St.
(Lost? http://www.scrapmetalgallery.com/contact-us/)
The conversationalists is a series of talks, performances, presentations and chatter that hopes to explore the notion of ‘social change’ and ‘social innovation’ within the arts. A three part series, the conversationalists will hope to offer varying insights into supports, challenges, warnings and ambivalences towards the language we use to describe what it is we do. What is Social Change? How can Social Innovation exist in the arts? This is where we start.
Nicole Bazuin, Alexandra Hong and Cheryl Hsu
Madeleine Co. is a Toronto-based art collective specializing in the creation of socially innovative content. Using co-creative platforms, Madeleine Co. integrates communication strategies with the ingenuity of artists to engage with audiences in empowered and emotionally-resonant ways. Our core principles of accessibility, participation, and collaboration guide us in the development of meaningful experiences with a strong social mandate.
Amy Leaman
Amy is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and holds a masters degree in Urban Design from University College London. Amy is co-founder and creative director of cStreet Campaigns, an agency that works with non-profits, political campaigns, and social movements to use digital tools to make social change. cStreet has worked with leading organizations including the United Nation Association, Rainforest Action Network, and Columbia University.
Dyan Marie
Dyan Marie works in photography, text and sculpture and is an early innovator in the field of digital imagery and community-based projects. She responds to urban situations with public art, curating, walking systems, publications, banner projects, community initiatives, festivals and poetry. A founder of C Magazine, Cold City Gallery, Walk Here, Dupont Projects, BIG: Bloor Improvement Group and is the Creative Director of the BIG On Bloor Festival and How We Live In Cities. Dyan received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the City Soul award from the Canadian Urban Institute among various art and community awards from city, provincial and federal government. AOCAD, MFA
Space is limited: e-mail dliddington@ocadu.ca in order to reserve a seat!
For further information contact:
DEREK LIDDINGTON
Coordinator, Impact Exchange
Centre For Emerging Artists and Designers
E. dliddington@ocadu.ca
The Impact Collective is a social innovation project at OCAD University. Learn more at www.impactcollective.ca