Events Calendar

April 24 2023

Tour & Discussion: The Spectre Animates our Bones

Emilie Morin (in person) and Ryan Clayton (streaming live from Winnipeg!) invite you on a gallery tour and informal discussion of their process and interests in creating The Spectre Animates our Bones.

March 23 & 24, 2023, 1-4pm

VHS Project Open Studio with Juan Miceli

80 VHS cassettes that VCR Concordia gave Juan are the basis of a temporary collective video installation. Come open those cassettes, share personal archives, discuss how vision machines mold us & find antidotes together. 

March 6, 2023, 6-8:30pm

Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Party #3 with Tornado Trish

Cheesy aerobics meets dance music, mood lighting, and optional biodegradable glitter all to help you get into your best wiggly, giggly, lunging and prancing self. All are welcome!

February 7, 4-5:30pm

How to stay a human when you dance with a machine
Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705)
 

Interactive digital artist and artist-in-residence at LePARC Tim Murray-Browne shares his work unsupervised AI, dance and belonging.

December 2 2022, 1-2pm

there is space to fall
 

‘there is space to…’ is a new series for performative encounters initiated by Adriana Minu. Practitioners from all disciplines are invited to improvise together under permeable frameworks.

November 29 12-14h

LePARC Lunch #3
 

A gathering moment to celebrate your arrival or return, share ideas, questions and what we are up to. Bring your lunch, come when you can and stay as long as you like.

January 30, 2023, 2-3pm

A Walk in LePARC with Adriana Minu
 

Adriana has been reclaiming her body from deep enrapturing tensions, learning what qualities can be nurtured in spaces that welcome alterity. Expect an experimental format: vocal solutions, digressions and improvisations.

May 7 + 8, 2022

Embodied Intervention 2022

An interdisciplinary student-run showcase of experimentation, collaboration & performance-based works.

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Mar 16 - Apr 16, 2022, 10-13h

Body Archeology with Tatiana Koroleva

Ancestral Memory in the Context of (Im)migration: a biweekly (Wed & Sat) workshop series and performance creation exploring genetic memory.

Feb 9, 2022 - 13-15h

The ABCs of Dramaturgical Ecologies #2

A conversation between Stéphane Martelly (University of Waterloo, CA) and 'Funmi Adewole (De Montford University, UK).

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November 4, 2021 - 14h-15h

De-\Re-coding International Law Through Art

Oonagh Fitzgerald shares approaches and art that instigate new codes of values seeking to overcome the multiple crises of the Anthropocene.

April 20, 2021, 12-14h

LePARC Lunch with Max Hunter & Christine Bellerose

For this gathering artist-researchers join an informal conversation with LePARC, sharing their projects, practices and questions.

March 23, 2021, 12-14h

LePARC Lunch with Undergraduate Fellows

Undergraduate Fellows Elena Stoodley and Quinlan Green share their practices, in this informal discussion with the artist-researchers of LePARC.

January 22, 2021, 11-13h

A Walk in LePARC w/ Bar Altaras, 11-13h

A performance screening and Q&A with Irsael-based dance artist Bar Altaras about her new work, Roots of One Body, Open to all!

November 21-22, 2020

Expanded Workshops:

Alys Longley & lo bil

Embodied explorations and virtual space with Alys Longley (Auckland, NZ) and lo bil (Toronto), and with the Centre de création O Vertigo.

April 11, 2023

A Walk in LePARC with Margo Zālīte

Join us for our last Walk in LePARC of the semester with visiting artist Margo Zālīte! Following a residency at LePARC, she will share her current process and work through informal discussion.

March 8, 2023, 4:30-6:30pm

Nothing with Victoria

What happens in the space/time that fills this “gap”? Is this another opportunity for/adventure in another kind of “doing nothing”? 

February 23, 5-7pm

there is space to flow

‘there is space to…’ is a series for performative encounters initiated by Adriana Minu. Practitioners from all disciplines are invited to improvise together under permeable frameworks.

February 6, 2023, 6-8pm

Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Party #2 with Tornado Trish
 

Cheesy aerobics meets dance music, mood lighting, and optional biodegradable glitter all to help you get into your best wiggly, giggly, lunging and prancing self. All are welcome!

January 20, 2023, 2-3:30pm

A Walk in LePRC with Bek Berger
 

Berger is an Australian curator, artist and creative producer based in Riga, Latvia. Join us to talk about interdisciplinary concerns in creative process and professional practices!

November 22, 2023, 12-2pm

Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Party

Get your boogie on with

Tornado Trish and potential guest appearance of MC Diamond Don for the first of many Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Parties. All are welcome.

October 25, 12-14h

LePARC Lunch #2
 

A gathering moment to celebrate your arrival or return, share ideas, questions and what we are up to. Bring your lunch, come when you can and stay as long as you like.

April 11 2022, 17h30-19h45

OPEN SCORES with Lo Bil

Finding ways to be together in our not knowing: holding space for one another individually and collectively without having to use language to describe what we’re working on.

Feb 16, 2022 - 12-13h

EI 2022:  Let's bodystorm some interventions!

Learn about EI 2022 in connection with Milieux's year-end showcase, propose ideas and brainstorm together about what it could look like.

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December 14, 2021 - 15h-18h

Returning to the Trees—the Technological Burnout Crisis 

A RISE event and proposition in Sheena Bernett's Ph.D. thesis: Composing with the Event-Techniques that Move Toward Neurodiverse Perception/Sensation.

November 2, 2021 12h30

LePARC Lunch with Sara Hanley

Sara Hanley joins other members in an informal online conversation with LePARC, sharing her projects, practices and questions.

April 15, 18h30

CLOrk: Opera in LePARC

Juanita Marchand Knight's networked mini opera "Mixed Messages, No Pants": an improvisatopera about pandemic job loss, artificial intelligence, and pyjama bottoms.

March 16, 2021, 16-17h30

Streams of Resistance: Black Bodies in Space-Time

A conversation with artist scholars Deanna Bowen (CA) and Kara Keeling (US) to articulate the (de)construction of narratives around blackness.

December 11, 2020

RISE Critical reflection #1

11h30-13h

A public discussion around RISE: a LePARC-based research-creation project investigating cataclysmic scenarios in 10 mini-operas.

March 23, 2023, 12-5pm

Ar Ais Arís (Back Again): A Virtual Reality Experience

Experience a 16-minute Virtual Reality performance at LePARC! Based on some of the finest contemporary writing in the Irish language, Ar Ais Arís combines literature and visual poetry in a Virtual Reality experience.

March 7, 2023, 12-2pm

LeP Lunch: Undergraduate Fellows & EI Info!

Heather Anderson and Mike Zajner will share their work and Embodied Interventions coordinators will be there to answer your questions. Bring your lunch, come when you can and stay as long as you like.

Feb. 8, 2023, 4:30-6:30pm

Nothing with Victoria

What happens in the space/time that fills this “gap”? Is this another opportunity for/adventure in another kind of “doing nothing”?

February 7, 12-2pm

LeP Lunch & Bodystorm: Embodied Interventions 2023
 

EI is student-driven and designed. Come learn more and exchange ideas and desires for this spring's edition. Join us in EV 10.765.

December 2 2022, 1-2pm

First Performance Jam!
Video Production Studio: EV 10.760

Do you dance, perform, make music, sound, plays, costumes, scenography, experiments? You are invited to meet in the space through improvisation. All disciplines are welcome.

Oct 5, Nov 2, Dec 7 2022, Jan 11 2023. 12-14h

Nothing with Victoria

What happens in the space/time that fills this “gap”? Is this another opportunity for/adventure in another kind of “doing nothing”? 

September 27, 12-14h

LePARC Lunch #1 - Welcome!

A gathering moment to celebrate your arrival or return, share ideas, questions and what we are up to. Bring your lunch, come when you can and stay as long as you like.

April 7 2022, 14-16h

The ABCs of Dramaturgical Ecologies #3

In conversation with Daniel McNeil (Queen's University, CA) and SERAFINE1369 (London, UK), on friction and opacity.

Feb 23, 2022 - 10-12h & 13-17h

A Walk in LePARC:  Performance and AI

A discussion with Frederik de Bleser about performance and AI, and the LAbO Summer School. Performers are invited to activate an AI Dancer!

Nov 29- Dec 3, 2022 - 13h-18h

Decoding & Reimagining Post-human Identity

A mixed media art exhibition and social engagement, by Oonagh E. Fitzgerald from November 29 to December 3, with Friday finissage.

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May 1 & 2, 2021 - 13h-16h

Workshops with the CCOV: Amanda Piña + Wynn Holmes

2nd Edition of our expanded, embodied and virtual workshops, in collaboration with the Centre de Création O Vertigo.

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March 30, 12-14h

LePARC Lunch with April White & Dorian Bell

For this gathering April and Dorian join an informal conversation with LePARC, sharing their projects, practices and questions.

January 26, 2021, 12-14h

LePARC Lunch with Dramaturgical Ecologies

For this gathering the artist-researchers of Angelique's project, Dramaturgical Ecologies join an informal conversation with LePARC.

December 18, 2020

Human-human with lo bil

13-14h30

For our last gathering before the break: a playful experiment in shared presence and performance with lo bil, extending our CCOV collaboration.