Live @ 5: Art and Emerging from the Pandemic

^{Image from Canada COVID Portrait Project at Harbourfront Centre.}

Live @ 5

Featuring Melissa Vincent, George Pimentel, Akshata Naik, Nicole Balm, and Mitchell Chan.

Tune in on Wednesday, November 10 @ 5pm

Watch live here.

No registration required!

The ArtworxTO Talks program is a platform to discuss some key issues in public art today, through the lens of wellness and well-being - personal, mental, societal and community.

This is a discussion on art and emerging from the pandemic.

Hosted by Katriina Campitelli - Public Art Officer, City of Toronto

Moderator:

Melissa Vincent - Melissa Vincent is a writer, editor, producer, and content strategist based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in all of the usual suspects: Pitchfork, Billboard, The Fader, NPR Music, The Globe and Mail, CBC, Elle, Flare, Canadian Business, and Vice. In the past, she's led content platforms operated by Blue Ant Media, Universal Music Canada, and Banger Films. She is a Prism Prize juror, a SOCAN Songwriting Prize Panelist, and a member of the Mayor's ArtworxTO External Advisory Committee. In 2019 she was selected to become the Polaris Prize jury foreperson and join their board of directors.

Panelists:

George Pimentel, Canada's top celebrity photographer "One shot George," created the Canada COVID Portrait project during the pandemic.

Akshata Naik is a contemporary visual artist, born and raised in Mumbai and now based in Toronto. Her works reflect upon her lived experiences of moving homes, cities and countries. Through a lens of immigration, war, displacement, home and belonging, including Bloody Boats 2.0 for ArtworxTO.

Nicole Balm, Director, Education & Community Engagement at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, was part of a program connecting socially isolated seniors with TSO and TSYO musicians called TSOUND Connections.

Mitchell Chan is an artist who creates innovative new media installations and exhibited across North America since 2006. Many of them are about changing human sensibility in the age of technology, including Nil-Nil for ArtworxTO.