JUNE 11-20
ILLUMINATIONS Gain enlightening insights into Luminato events – direct from the artists themselves. Throw Down Your Heart – Film Screening and Discussion Béla Fleck and Bassekou Kouyate, featured performers in this year’s Global Music: Rock the Casbah & An African Prom (see page 20), discuss their musical collaboration, whose reach extends from Nashville to Mali. Their conversation is preceded by a screening of Sascha Paladino’s documentary Throw Down Your Heart, which follows Fleck as he travels to Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, and The Gambia to explore the banjo’s African roots.
Isabel Bader Theatre SATURDAY, JUNE 12 10:30 AM tickets: $15*
In Conversation WITH CARDIFF/MILLER In partnership with the Performance Studies International Conference (PSi16), York University, and OCAD Canadian artists and George Bures Miller, creators of the installation Ship O’ Fools (see page 17), have won international acclaim for their pioneering use of technology and illusion to immerse viewers in intricately realized alternative worlds. Hear them discuss the work that has intrigued the minds and delighted the senses of spectators and participants throughout the world.
Ontario College of Art & Design Sunday, June 13 4:00 PM FREE
African Issues and the Challenge of Artistic Response In partnership with the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics Binyavanga Wainaina, playwright of The Africa Trilogy’s Shine Your Eye (see page 29) and Director of the Chinua Achebe Centre for African Literature at Bard College, and James Orbinski, writer, doctor, and former head of the Nobel Prize winning Médecins Sans Frontières, discuss African issues and the place of artistic response in an arena more often dominated by international development discourse. To what extent can art be a force for change? Should it be? Are some artworks more or less useful than others in such a context?
George Ignatieff Theatre, University of Toronto SUNday, June 13 7:00 PM FREE
Pop Divas Produced In association with Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre From Judy Garland to Lady Gaga, the goddesses of popular music have always held a special fascination. A panel of leading music writers and critics, as well as performers from this year’s Festival, takes a look at the pop diva phenomenon. This event has been programmed and produced by a selected group of high school students from Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre.
In partnership with the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.
Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, 3rd floor conference room Saturday, June 19 11:00 AM free
BAMAKO IN TORONTO Co-presented by Volcano, Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre, Autograph ABP, and the Gladstone Hotel Timed to coincide with Volcano’s The Africa Trilogy, this collection of images from Africa’s foremost contemporary photography festival testifies to the sophistication and range of a rising generation of photographers from across the continent. A rare chance to catch a glimpse of contemporary Africa as seen through the lenses of some of the continent’s hottest photographers. Curated by Mark Sealy, Director of London’s Autograph ABP agency. Made possible with the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and with the cooperation of the Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. Zanele Muholi, Katlego Mashiloane and Nosipho Lavuta, Ext. 2, Lakeside, Johannesburg 2007, Courtesy of Michael Stevenson, Cape Town/Autograph ABP, London.
Gladstone Hotel (3rd and 4th floor) June 3 – August 2 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM DAILY free
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DURATION: All Illuminations (except Bamako in Toronto) are 90 minutes including Q&A.
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*Please note that this event is general admission. For tickets, call Ticketmaster at 416 872 1111 or visit luminato.com.
