PROGRAMS
FALL 2009

DECEMBER

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Melanie Egan
Sunday, 13 December | 2 PM

Melanie Egan is the Head of the Craft Department at Harbourfront Centre, where she develops and curates programs and exhibitions. She is also on the Board of Trustees at the Textile Museum of Canada.

FREE with gallery admission

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Michael Zryd
Sunday, 20 December | 2 PM

Michael Zryd is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at York University. He researches experimental film and other forms of North American alternative media.

FREE with gallery admission

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R. Bruce Elder
Sunday, 27 December | 2 PM

R. Bruce Elder is a filmaker and author of several books, including Harmony & Dissent: Film and the Avant-Garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century, which was awarded the Robert Motherwell Book Award in 2009.

FREE with gallery admission

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Lenka Kubelova & Macy Siu
Sunday, 3 January | 2 PM

Lenka was born in Prague and studied art history there at Charles University. Macy Siu is an Animateur and a graduate of the Visual Studies and English programs at the University of Toronto. Both are interns at The Power Plant.

FREE with gallery admission

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Christopher Regimbal
Sunday, 10 January | 2 PM

Christopher Regimbal is an art historian and curator who is currently at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto.

FREE with gallery admission

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Nicholas Brown
Sunday, 17 January | 2 PM

Nicholas Brown is Curator of Red Bull 381 Projects (Toronto), Arts Editor of Color Magazine and has written for many other publications.

FREE with gallery admission

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Ian Carr-Harris
Sunday, 24 January | 2 PM

Ian Carr-Harris is a Toronto-based artist, writer and Professor at OCAD who has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1971.

FREE with gallery admission

INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES
Michael Snow
Wednesday, 27 January | 7 PM
FREE Members, $12 Non-Members
Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre

The subject of the major survey 'Recent Snow,' Michael Snow speaks about his pioneering art practice. Born in Toronto in 1928, Snow has exhibited internationally for more than five decades. His films have been included in hundreds of film festivals and in retrospectives in Tokyo, Brussels and Geneva. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions world-wide and was selected for recent biennials such as Sydney (2008). The lecture will be moderated by Louise Dompierre, President and CEO of the Art Gallery of Hamilton and former Associate Director and Cheif Curator at The Power Plant.
International Lecture Series Lead Donor: J P Bickell Foundation

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Marc Losier & Vanessa Nicholas
Sunday, 31 January | 2 PM

Losier is an artist and researcher from Toronto and Nicholas studied fine arts at Queens before her MA in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Both are curatorial interns at The Power Plant. This tour will be bilingual.

FREE with gallery admission

FEBRUARY

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Gord Thompson
Sunday, 7 February | 2 PM

Gord Thompson is a potter and educator and a PhD candidate in Communications & Culture at York University researching craft and cultural theory.

FREE with gallery admission

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Christof Migone
Sunday, 14 February | 2 PM

Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer. He is the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

FREE with gallery admission

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Deirdre Logue
Sunday, 21 February | 2 PM

Deirdre Logue's film, video and installation work focuses on self-presentation, the body as material and the passage of "real time." She has had recent solo exhibitions at Oakville Galleries and the Berlinale, and is the Development Director at Vtape.

FREE with gallery admission

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Kelly Jazvac
Sunday, 28 February | 2 PM

Kelly Jazvac is an artist working in sculpture and installation represented by Diaz Contemporary, Toronto. Her current work and research addresses the re-purposing of materials into exhausted and deflated forms.

FREE with gallery admission

MARCH

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The Power Plant Animateurs
Sunday, 7 March | 2 PM

FREE with gallery admission