Event

OPEN FORUM: Marjorie Beaucage & Lisa Myers in conversation

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Doors: 6:30 pm; start time: 7:00 pm
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West

OPEN FORUM is a “last Tuesdays” monthly series of conversations about putting anti-racism on screen. This month, Anishnaabe curator, cook and artist Lisa Myers, whose works include Blueprints for a Long Walk, Straining and Absorbing, and Shore Line, Is in conversation with Marjorie Beaucage. Beaucage is a Métis filmmaker and activist whose films include Bingo, Ntapueu… i am telling the truth, and Coming In Stories: Two Spirit in Saskatchewan.

Co-presented by York University’s Department of Cinema & Media Arts, imagineNATIVE Festival of Film + Media Arts, CFMDC, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Vtape, Cinemobilia, Toronto Film & Media Seminar, York University’s Graduate Film Student Association, University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute, OCADU’s Art & Social Change, and York University Department of Arts, Media, Performance and Design.

Image credit: Ntapueu… i am telling the truth, Ted Ostrowski and Marjorie Beaucage (1998)