UPCOMING
exhibitions, MENTORSHIP, talks & WORKSHOPS
2023
OCT:
Panelist : Montreal Black Film Festival : Sunny’s Quest
SEPT :
Opening EDI Keynote - York University - Dance Department (Toronto)
Guest Speaker - National Film Board Gathering des Femmes Noires (Montreal)
Guest speaker - Main Film : Prisme Program for Black Producers (Montreal)
JULY : Opening Keynote Speaker(s) at EXNW Global Summit (Vancouver)
MARCH : Featured Opening Speaker for Margaret Atwood (Live - Toronto Reference Library & Trouble Club)
PAST EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS & TALKS
2022
SEPT 6 : Opening EDI Keynote - York University - Dance Department
FEB 17 : Guest Talk & Workshop : Drew University (Online)
FEB 23 - MAR 26 Photo Textile Workshop Series : Scarborough Arts (Online)
FEB 24 Panelist : Amani Project Panel (Online)
FEB 28 : Active Listener : Balancing Act Presentation (Online)
FEB - APR : Open Screenplay : Guest Mentor
MAR 15 : CBC Reads : Guest Artist (creation of book trailer for City of Dirt Water)
APRIL 1 - JUNE 24 : Group Show ‘In My Skin’ : DUNLOP ART GALLERY
MAR - MAY : National Screen Institute : TELUS STORYHIVE Black Creator’s Edition : Guest Mentor
2020
NOV 9 : PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP FOR BLACK YOUTH @ NIA CENTRE FOR THE ARTS in partnership with Ryerson University
DEC 5 & 12 : PACT EQUITY WEBINARS for Organizational leaders - more details to come
JAN 2020 : BLACK WOMEN FILM ‘ELEVATE’ MASTER CLASS SERIES - see website for more details and list of presenters
FEB 2020 : CREATIVE FACILITATION TRAINING @ EGALE (private event)
2019
Gallery TPW Toronto / LA Residency & Installation w/taisha pagett
Black Dance Film Creation Workshop : Gallery TPW
TIFF Guest Moderator : Higher Learning (Toronto)
Ontario Arts Council Mid Career Visual Artist Grant Recipient (Toronto)
Mayor Arts Award Nomination (Toronto)
2018
AUG : Official Selection WORLD CINEMA FESTIVAL (Amsterdam)
MAY - JUNE Group Show : Ecstatic Nudes : Nia Centre for the Arts (Toronto)
APR 29 : Installation : Inaugural Moving Body Moving Image Festival COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Barnard College (New York)
APR 25 : Guest Speaker : This World Town Workshop (Toronto)
APR 7 : Guest Speaker : Agnes Varda Retrospective / TIFF (Toronto)
MAR 14 - 18 : Official Selection CINEDANS Festival 'Dance for Life' (Amsterdam)
FEB 20 - APRIL 21 : 'Performing Feminisms' Group Show & Talk / Lamont Gallery (Boston, New Hampshire)
JAN 15 : Unmasked Group Show : Art Gallery of Mississauga @ Mississauga Central Library (Ontario)
JAN 27 : Dance for Life Documentary Screening / Reframed Festival (Peterborough)
2016 - 2017
DEC 19 Artist Talk / foundationClass : Weisensee University (Berlin)
NOV 3 - 10 Black Star Film Series : Toronto International Film Festival & British Film Institute : Guest Speaker & Programmer (Toronto)
NOV 7 - JAN 15 Art Gallery of Mississauga 'Body Land Identity' photography feature in Unmasked Group Show
OCT 19 - 22: 'Dance for Life' San Francisco Dance Film Festival
SEPT 9 Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) Installation & Panel
SEPT 1 - 2 : V-formation Installation / Digital Carnival, Richmond World Festival (British Columbia)
JULY 28 - AUG 26 : Group Show / XPACE Cultural Centre (Toronto)
JULY 26 : V-formation Screening : Saugeen Band Council
JULY : PICTURE BERLIN - Summer Residency & Exhibition (Berlin)
JUNE 1 : Installation / Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) First Thursdays
APRIL 20 - 23 : US Premiere 'Dance for Life' @ Dance Camera West (LA)
APRIL 23 : Presentation / Open Engagement & Columbia College (Chicago)
APRIL 16 - 21 : Banff Cultural Leaders Lab Fellow (Toronto Arts Council)
FEB 1 - 27 : Group Photography Show / Exposure Festival (Calgary)
FEB 11 : Screening & Panel @ KUUMBA / Harbourfront Centre (Toronto)
FEB 4 : Video Installation @ Long Winter / Theatre Centre (Toronto)