A Home for Our Migrations – Symposium

Hemispheric Encounters and The Space Between Us presents A Home for Our Migrations: A Nuit Blanche and RUTAS Festival Symposium. September 27 – October 3, 2022.

A Home for Our Migrations brings together scholars, artists, and community activists for lively dialogues/conversatorios, workshops, keynote speakers, and performances. Over 50 invited presenters will engage with a range of timely topics in response to emerging artistic practices, as well as growing migration and environmental crises. Topics include: transformative curatorial practices, public art futures, performance actions/acciónes, intersections with labour, land, and diasporic memory, mobility as artistic method, the politics of displacement, and transnational collaboration. 

The symposium is co-presented by Nuit Blanche Toronto, the RUTAS Festival and Aluna Theatre, Hemispheric Encounters, The Space Between Us, the aabijijiwan New Media Lab at the University Winnipeg, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, and the City of Toronto.

Find the full schedule and registration information on A Home for Our Migrations symposium website.