Symposium - The Winnipeg Effect: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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The Winnipeg Effect

Thursday, Nov 3 • CCCA Reception and Winnipeg Effect Project Launch

• Bill Kirby, Founder and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, will launch the Winnipeg Effect Project.

• Guest speaker, Martha Langford, Director of the Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University.

• MC for the evening will be Patricia Bovey, Director Emerita of the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Past-Chair of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art.

Friday, Nov 4 • Panels and Presentations:

• Three panel discussions which aim to stimulate a multi-generational discussion within the artistic community, among those who live, landed in, and/or left this city:

The Winnipeg Effect 1: Those from here, who left or stayed

The Winnipeg Effect 2: Those who came and stayed

The Winnipeg Effect 3 : Assessing the history of contemporary art in Winnipeg

Panelists and speakers include:

David Churchill,  Sigrid Dahle, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Ray Fenwick, hannah_g, Suzanne Gillies, Noam Gonick, Leona Herzog, Robert Houle, Ted Howorth, Andrew Kear, Bill Kirby, Laura Letinsky, Steve Loft, Kegan McFadden, Kristin Nelson, Jeanne Randolph, Mary Reid, Diana Thorneycroft, Jon Tupper, and Liv Valmestad.