Please join us for a conversation with Vtape artist, filmmaker Glace Lawrence and critic, curator and thinker Sarah-Tai Black. This conversation will be followed by questions from special guests Cameron Bailey, artistic director and co-head of TIFF; Andrea Fatona, OCADU Professor and founder of State of Blackness Database, and others. ⊕

Congratulations to Vtape artists Bonnie Devine and Cheryl L’Hirondelle, who are among this year’s recipients of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts! ⊕

On Friday, March 26, 2021, all of program 8 will be made available, and curator Shalon Webber-Heffernan will be in conversation with artists Ursula Biemann, Shelley Niro, prOphecy sun, and Sharon Isaac at 7pm EDT on Zoom Live. ⊕

Feb. 29-March 12. Online screening of Wendy Coburn’s critical video exploring the intricacies of public protest and state intervention. Followed by a discussion with panelists Josh Lamers, Aliya Pabani & Kirsty Robertson, moderated by Rebecca Garrett & b.h. Yael. Presented by Onsite Gallery, OCAD University & Vtape  ⊕

Happy International Women’s Day to our 780 artists and all who identify as women! And to all trans women and femmes! D-E-S-I-R-E by Glace Lawrence focuses on fashion magazines in addressing the issue of female body image for young black women. ⊕