August 2019
TD Community Sunday
Enjoy free admission to the museum from 10am to 2pm.
TD Community Sundays are made possible by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform, The Ready Commitment.
Find out more »September 2019
Age of You: Members’ Preview & Public Opening
Free
It’s about you. As the world shifts from fossil to digital capitalism, you’ve become that precious new resource: data.
You’re increasingly imaginary, invisible and immortal. Do we need a new word to describe this thing that individuality is morphing into?
You’re becoming your Extreme Self.
Find out more »What is The Extreme Self?
During the opening week of "Age of You", we present a conversation that delves into the exhibition’s key concern: data. How have we become our data, and how is our data becoming us? Artist Agnieszka Kurant and two of the exhibition’s curators, Shumon Basar and Douglas Coupland, are joined by moderator Joachim Johnson of HXOUSE to discuss our current and ever-accelerating technological moment.
Find out more »Artists on Artists: Shirin Fathi on “Age of You”
Shirin Fathi is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose work focuses on cultural changes in relation to gender identity. Through role-play and the use of cosmetics, masks and prosthetics, Fathi uses her own body as a subject to stage ambiguous and often marginalized identities. Fathi will lead a tour and discussion of "Age of You", with refreshments to follow.
MOCA’s Artists on Artists series is a programme where local artists are invited to discuss MOCA’s current exhibitions, or a single artwork, in any format or direction of their choosing.
Find out more »Sterling Road Block Party
Come one, come all, for our annual Drake x Henderson Brewing Sterling Road Block Party. You don't want to miss the ultimate neighbourhood Sunday Funday with eats + drinks from our Commissary kitchen, Henderson's craft beer and some surprises from our foodie friends. Shop our market of local artisans while DJs and live bands keep the vibes going all day long.
Find out more »From the Bay Area to the Arctic: Shezad Dawood and Alice Xia Zhu
Artist Shezad Dawood is joined by researcher Alice Xia Zhu for a conversation that addresses the fate of microplastics in marine and freshwater contexts, from the San Francisco Bay to the Arctic. This programme is organised in dialogue with Shezad Dawood’s exhibition "Leviathan", presented on MOCA’s Floor 4. "Leviathan" is an ambitious “episodic monster” consisting of ten filmic episodes that envisage a future, uncannily much like our present, to consider possible links between borders, mental health, and marine welfare.
Find out more »October 2019
Nuit Blanche: “It All Makes Sense” by Stephanie Comilang
Stephanie Comilang creates a video, light, scent and textile installation for Nuit Blanche. "It All Makes Sense" recreates a memory of the first time Comilang saw "Perfumed Nightmare" by Kidlat Tahimik — a figure who, like Comilang’s father, comes from Baguio, a mountain city and old American airbase in the Philippines. This teen moment in a basement changed Comilang’s perspective on life.
Find out more »Artists on Artists: Hannah Epstein on “Age of You”
Hannah Epstein works at the cross-section of textiles, experimental games and video art to reimagine the iconography of popular culture, highlighting the cultural negotiation between bottom-up (folk) and top-down (institutional) storytelling. By blurring the lines between traditional craft, popular culture and contemporary art, she aims to isolate and eliminate notions of hierarchy as archaic relics. Epstein will lead a tour and discussion of "Age of You", with refreshments to follow.
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