Events Calendar
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
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Last Wednesday of the month - 2025
LePARC Tea-time - Once per month!
Monthly tea-time hangout at LePARC Commons. We’ll be chatting, chilling, sipping on tea and munching on some snacks. We’d love for you to join us - come hear what LePARC is up to, and share with us what you have in store currently!
Photo by Kristina Hilliard
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Anytime the Performance Lab is free!
Community events and initiatives
If you as a LePARC member want to lead a research group, conduct an evening of improv, or share a workshop with the community - this is highly encouraged! Please reach out to the LePARC coordinator - we'll be happy to help out and spread the word!
PAST ACTIVITIES
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May 15th & 16th 2024
“Meeting through…” a research-creation project
an ongoing research-creation project by Lília Mestre (PCYIA grant) that employs choreographic tools to instigate new passageways of socio-political and environmental awareness.
Visit Lília’s website to learn more!
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March 21, 2024
Artist Talk: Esteban Donoso
During these two hours, we will do a reading/screening by Esteban Donoso and Gerard Reyes and hold an informal conversation with the attendants around the process of Mand/inga, archival excavation, and the meeting of research and performance.
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Fri. March 1, 2024
Workshop: Deep Democracy - the Soft Shoe Shuffle
Are you curious about new tools to support participatory and embodied forms decision making? Drawing from the body of work called Deep Democracy, interested members of Le PARC are invited to a workshop involving the Soft Shoe Shuffle!
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January 29, 2024
LePARC Critique Lab
An opportunity for LePARC members to share their research with one another and other attendees through a Pecha Kucha style presentation followed by feedback and questions among participants.
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December 5, 2023
LePARC Lunch: Embodied Interventions Daydream Ed.
This student-led structure is intended to support you via artistic encounters, collective critiques and the collaborative production. Each edition looks a little different. Come learn and imagine 2024!
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November 7, 2023
LePARC Lunch: Member Idea Discussion
We want to listen to your uses and needs in connection with LePARC and our spaces. All are welcome!
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April 27 & 28 2023
Movement and Dance Workshop
You are invited to explore how watching the 'The Spectre Animates our Bones' animation translates into your own body, its movements and its physical states. Participants of all levels are welcome to one or both days..
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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May 4th & 5th 2024
Embodied Interventions - 5th Ed. - Tentacular Inquiry
This year's annual performance showcase invited artists from across clusters working in performance to come into dialogue and share their work with the public!
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March 18, 2024
The Killing Movie + Another Goodbye to Juan Miceli
You are invited to The Killing Movie which is a screening, a performance and another farewell. You can either drop-in for a few minutes or stay for hours. Juan encourages you to consider the scope of research-creation as movement.
Image credits: Martin Cedres
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October 3, 2023
LePARC Lunch: Introductions!
This is a great place to meet new collaborators, suggest activities and munch on your lunch in good company. Come and go as you please, and bring your lunch!
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April 29 & 30 2023
Embodied Interventions Performances
Public Performances! A student-driven and student-designed performance showcase bringing together artists, researchers and collaborators across disciplines.
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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.
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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”?
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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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April 12th, 2024
Conversation: André Lepecki & Lília Mestre
This event is a conversation. We have limited attendance for student members of LePARC. The conversation will focus on the relationships between performance practice & academic research. We will collectively discuss how forms of doing in performance create alt. versions of academic processes.
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March 7, 2024
Artist Talk: Dermatographies with André Bocchetti
Come explore and discuss bodying-writing composition plans with André. He is an Academic Visitor at Concordia, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where he is one of the professors responsible for a series of courses titled “Writing that Dance”.
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February 22, 2024
Artist Talk: Inverse Interface with Juan Miceli
Learn about Juan's experience following six months as a research intern at Milieux last year in this performance lecture. He'll share what came out of his research-creation process like artecnic, apology of the remaining, inverse interface and black milk.
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November 28, 2023
Angles of Consequence Lab Report
The Angles of Consequence research team, Keith Fernandez, Christine White and Carolie Delisle with PI Meghan Moe Beitiks will share what they have exploring to since September! All are welcome.
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Sept 28 & 29, 2023
FLOW Symposium Watch Party
Projecting the Live On the Streets Performance Festival in the Performance Lab EV 10.785. There'll be popcorn!
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May 2, 2023
Workshop: Using Blender to Create Virtual Sets
Interested in 3D modeling to create virtual sets? Join Ryan Clayton for an introductory online workshop. Participants will be introduced to Blender, a free and open source 3D modelling and rendering software.
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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.
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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.
Walks in LePARC
LePARC hosts researchers and artists to give workshops, performances, presentations, and other forms of shared inquiry, open to all members and the public.
Winter 2020
Public Recordings
January 10 2020, 13h-15h
Milieux Resource Room EV.11.705
Skeleton Conductor with Hanna Pajala-Assefa VR Workshop/Experience
February 10-22, 2020
Misha Penton: Voice and Performance Devising
Workshop
March 10-12, 2020, 14h-16h
matrabox, EV 4.502
Walks in LePARC
LePARC hosts researchers and artists to give workshops, performances, presentations, and other forms of shared inquiry, open to all members and the public.
Winter 2020
Public Recordings
January 10 2020, 13h-15h
Milieux Resource Room EV.11.705
Skeleton Conductor with Hanna Pajala-Assefa VR Workshop/Experience
February 10-22, 2020
Misha Penton: Voice and Performance Devising
Workshop
March 10-12, 2020, 14h-16h
matrabox, EV 4.502
Embodied
Interventions
Embodied Interventions is a week-long performative platform for the research-creation projects of LePARC’s student membership that culminates in a weekend of presentations, performances, discussions, workshops.
Spring 2020
Creation: May 4th – 8th, 2020 - REORIENTED
Presentation: May 9th – 10th 2020 (2-7pm) - CANCELLED
Embodied
Interventions
Embodied Interventions is a week-long performative platform for the research-creation projects of LePARC’s student membership that culminates in a weekend of presentations, performances, discussions, workshops.
Spring 2020
Creation: May 4th – 8th, 2020 - REORIENTED
Presentation: May 9th – 10th 2020 (2-7pm) - CANCELLED
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LabO
A laboratory for young creators, by Antwerp based-production platform for new music and interdisciplinary arts within the deSingel's International Summer School, for interaction between the various arts disciplines: dance, music, fine arts and others.
Summer 2020
August 24th-30th 2020
Online
A laboratory for young creators, by Antwerp based-production platform for new music and interdisciplinary arts within the deSingel's International Summer School, for interaction between the various arts disciplines: dance, music, fine arts and others.
Summer 2020
August 24th-30th 2020
Online