Series Season: 2022

Using textiles, artist Meghan Price takes woven cloth and perspective to skew our view of a simple concept of a grid and how that interacts with our concept of scale and space. “The grid is commonly employed as a stable matrix and fixed standard, but a malleable woven grid is made when its axes are […]

Artist-in-Residence Steph Cloutier incorporates materials such as cotton paper pulp and lake water to mirror the physical place the exhibition is located and its connection to the waterfront. “Mapping Out Calm is part of my ongoing investigation in material exploration using handmade paper.  I have spent most of my life near the body of a […]

Volunteer engagement in the arts and culture sector has been deeply affected by COVID-19. Due to rolling pandemic restrictions, arts and culture organizations stopped producing live events, which had a direct (and detrimental) effect on the many volunteers that make up the fabric of the community. Whether suspended, laid off or redeployed to new roles, […]

A recurring talk series that will bridge borders, bringing together a diverse group of Canadian, Nordic and international artists, thinkers, youth leaders, entrepreneurs and policy-makers to address the large-scale issues that affect our regions. Through the lenses of arts and culture, panelists will examine an array of topics that focus on matters of innovation, accessibility, […]

DanceWorks presents Morphs, by Montreal’s Lina Cruz / Fila 13 Productions. An insatiable movement storyteller, Cruz creates a surprising world of mischievous dreamweavers. The Morphs are fairy-tale chefs, who cook up mischievous cuisine, drawing us into their world of illusion. Composing strange snippets of dreams, these creatures await the arrival of their sleepy clients. Multiple games, […]

Inspired by Toronto’s renowned, historic Bohemian Embassy, meet a new generation of artists inspiring Canada’s ever-evolving literary scene at The New Embassy: a digital mini-series of spoken word, poetry, prose, theatrical readings, music and dance.  Curated by Lebanese Canadian actor, writer and producer Yousef Kadoura, this final event in The New Embassy series reflects on […]

Inspired by Toronto’s renowned, historic Bohemian Embassy, meet a new generation of artists inspiring Canada’s ever-evolving literary scene at The New Embassy: a digital mini-series of spoken word, poetry, prose, theatrical readings, music and dance.  Consider disabled, Deaf and Mad futures through a riveting set of performances by Black artists. Curated by Syrus Marcus Ware, […]

Join us for Inose / Field Trip, a 25-minute sound walk created by the award-winning Anishinaabe-Ojibwe playwright Yolanda Bonnell and Dr. Jesse Popp, a Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science at the University of Guelph. Inose [Ee-no-say] means to walk in a certain way, to a certain place. Commissioned by Imagining Climates (a project of the […]

Unseen uses conceptual photography to depict the experiences of struggle by a group of participants. Suzie Larke uses constructed imagery, digitally stitching photographs together so that they present as a single, untampered image. Using this “magical realism” to transform pictures that take every day and skew it, she creates images that interpret the subjective experience […]

Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s work deals with disability politics, aesthetics of assistive devices and gender issues related to disabled women. Her presentation will be part working artist’s studio and part exhibition space of her most notable recent mixed media work alongside pieces created during this Artist-in-Residency.

Facilitated by CoMotion Artist-in-Residence Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen, participants will be working with textiles, weaving and interlacing strips into a mesh fabric by hand to create one long carpet displayed in the room.  For Wallinheimo-Heimonen, accessibility is not a special arrangement – it’s more like preparing in advance, both individually and as a society. We can eat […]

What is meant by the term Deaf-led? How does a Deaf-led process innovate form and practice? Why does it matter? How does the experience of making Deaf-led art differ from country to country? This panel brings together three celebrated Deaf artists from Canada, Finland and Japan for a community conversation facilitated by acclaimed Quebec-based Deaf […]

Scored in Silence is a solo digital sign language performance by London-based Deaf Japanese artist Chisato Minamimura. The show unpacks the hidden perspectives of Deaf people from the small number that survived the horrors of the atomic bomb atrocity in Japan in 1945.    Survivors of the A-bomb are known as “hibakusha,” and the final performance […]

Celebrate CoMotion Festival with Alex Bulmer, artist and comedian Ophira Calof and special guest. Bring your questions, join a trivia game, and enjoy a closer look at our inaugural CoMotion Festival! 

Sync Goûter is a tea-time delight for Deaf and disabled creatives curated by Co-Founder of Sync Leadership Sarah Pickthall and CoMotion Curator Alex Bulmer.  This online interactive event is for the Deaf or disabled community and includes those who are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind, Mad, experience chronic illness, are disabled by barriers to mobility, […]

An invitation to pause.   To rest.   To listen.   A Crash Course in Cloudspotting asks you to connect with the subversive act of lying down. It’s about public rest, the acts of bravery we don’t see and scaling the distances and depths of human connection.   The piece is part verbatim theatre, meditation on rest, gravity and connection.   Expect […]

In this one-hour workshop, participants will be introduced to dance practices in which dancers relate to each other through movement and mutual consent. Through dance, relationships are developed through four key pillars:  Following  Being with a partner  Copying or transposing a partner’s action   Finding inspiration between each other  Our stories will begin to live […]

Deaf public speaker Nathan Jesper has arrived at his venue desperately late. As he launches into his speech, he soon realizes that things are not what they seem. Written and performed by Deaf actor Chris Dodd, Deafy is a stand-up/sit-down tragicomedy blending ASL, the spoken word and surtitles, which leads you on an unexpected journey […]

This new wall work explores BIPOC disability activism in the arts and in media and is a tribute and celebration of Black Deaf Olympian and artist Courage Bacchus. 

Displayed throughout Harbourfront Centre’s Artport building, written sentences appear in expected and unexpected places. The sentences deal with feelings of loneliness, unbelonging and reflections on what it feels like to be marginalized, all designed to create a safe space to spark conversation and connection. 

This mosaic reflects the thriving ecology and abundance of life in places seemingly full of decay and stillness. It highlights the growth patterns, movement, beauty and commotion created by the interdependent organisms that exist all around the forest floor’s detritus. It captures a snapshot of the creatures who make homes in the undergrowth, taking time […]

Musician, poet, and stutterer JJJJJerome Ellis offers a performance that celebrates stuttering, and disabled speech more broadly, as a vital way of being. Through music, literature, performance, and video he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time.  

Deaf and disabled people worldwide have a long history of artistic expression.   Still, Deaf and disability art is relatively unknown or is perceived as an innovation to established forms.   Not Born Yesterday, Not Going Away celebrates the long history of Deaf and disability art, connecting living artists with their chosen ancestors. It aims to create […]

Join us for a family-friendly, fun-filled afternoon with circus artists Erin Ball and Jayeden Walker, hosted by Deaf actor Elizabeth Morris. Aerial acts, live music, pirates, mermaids, a chance to learn some hula hoop moves and so much more!    Radio Circus: Red Dress  Circus artist Erin Ball, musician Bon Evans and access consultant Amy Amantea […]