The first episode of Golden Hour, curated by Luminato Artist in Residence Travis Knights, introduces the question “Who are we as Canadians?” and challenges mythologies of Canadian culture. Presented through the lens of local artists, Golden Hour invites these creative minds to answer “Who are we?” by revealing their lives, rituals and art. Presented in four episodes, season one of Golden…
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CRIP COLLAB is a collaborative zine featuring artists who belong to all three of these fantastic communities: Disabled, Racialized and 2SLGBTQ+. This zine is curated by a multiply disabled, chronically ill, cancer survivor named Pree Rehal. View Last Year’s Issue How do we imagine the futurities when our lived realities as Disabled/crip/mad/chronically ill folks are compounded…
Available on demand until August 1, 2021. Online https://luminatofestival.neme.tv/ What is Canada? is the second episode of Golden Hour, as curated by Djennie Laguerre. This episode focuses on how folklore and mythology shapes a culture’s moral codes. What are the stories we tell ourselves? How does that work with understanding who we are as Canadians?…
Luminato’s Creative Current presents Chinatown with Hannia Cheng. Created by Tea Base. Available from July 7, 2021 Let’s talk about how T’karonto’s downtown Chinatown is not a monolith, and more than a tourist destination; an active community, home to many, and full of stories. Join Hannia Cheng, co-founder of Tea Base and founding member of…
Audio Walking Tour Anthropocene Immersion, Unearthing Lost Taddle Creek is an audio walk from Ryerson University to Toronto City Hall. Walking time 75 minutes to an hour. Distance approximately 2 km. Anthropocene Immersion, Unearthing Lost Taddle Creek is a journey to find the landscape of lost Taddle Creek. These are the stories of the land:…
Built on Genocide is a reckoning, a call to action, and an unflinching look at the colonial foundations of Canada that remain intact today. Created by Indigenous artist Jay Soule | CHIPPEWAR from the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation (Deshkaan Ziibing Anishinaabeg), Built on Genocide is a powerful visual record of the 19th-century buffalo…
Image created by artist Nyle Miigizi Johnston A global pandemic. Climate change. Racial injustice. Zaagidiwin is a multi-disciplinary film that reflects on our social responsibilities and our relationship with nature. Nanabozo takes us on an adventure (or misadventure) from the land into the city core, revealing its beauty as well as its darkness. Through spoken…
Podcast Forest fires. Record heatwaves. Unchecked global warming. As the climate change crisis continues to grow in impact and scale, so do our questions. What is humanity’s real impact on the planet? How has that changed during the pandemic? What do we need to do right now to protect the environment for future generations? Presented…
Film Tales from the G20 – In June 2010, leaders from the twenty largest economies met in Toronto with representatives of corporate interests to discuss the policies that would shape the world for everyone else. Exclusion zones, overlapping layers of security fencing and an estimated 25,000 police and military personnel transformed the downtown area into…
Image of Allie Rougeot. Tune in to Protest Radio, a combination of music and memory presented interstitially with the Henry G20 pod plays. Featuring curated music and audio memories of the G20 protests in Toronto, Protest Radio can be played in between the theatrical chapters of Henry G20, as you travel between the locations in…