Media@缅北强奸 is one of the co-sponsors of the inaugural Common Aliens: Diaspora Conference 2015 / 脡trangers communs: conf茅rence sur la diaspora 2015, run through Atelier C茅ladon, a community-based studio that supports pilot and ongoing visual projects by young creators.
Starting on October 1, 5 p.m. with a keynote panel given by Alice Ming Wai Jim (Concordia University), Cheryl Sim (DHC Art), Sharrae Lyon (Alien Nation Project), and Haema Sivanesan (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria), "Common Aliens" offers a full weekend of events, workshops, panels and a concurrent exhibition.
The conference seeks to bring together artistic practitioners to explore and create a contemporary understanding of a people of colour diasporic way of being in Montreal.
See the full programming here:
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