RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS FESTIVAL OCT. 10–20 2019
WORKMANARTS.COM #GETMAD #RWMFEST
CONTENTS
#GetMad Festival Calendar 2-3 Post your stories on social media! Box Office Information 4 #GetMad about stigma and discrimination Venues & Map 5 #GetMad and take action Accessibility 6 on injustice #GetMad and share your About Workman Arts 7 story of resilience What does #GetMad Staff & Board 8 mean to you? Welcome Letters 9-12 Exhibition 14-17 LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Workman Arts would like to acknowledge Performance 18-22 the Indigenous land on which the Festival takes place; Toronto comes from the Kanien’kéha word Tkaronto, which can be Film 25-39 translated as “where the trees meet the water.” It is part of traditional territories of many nations: the Huron Wendat, the Supporters 42 Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe and the Mississaugas of the New Credit. Donors 43 Workman Arts recognizes this is an ongoing dialogue; we attempt to honour Mental Health 44-45 the histories of this land by sharing our space with all people — those Indigenous Resources to Turtle Island and those from all over the world. Index 46
Cover Artwork: Co-Effect Creative SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
EXHIBITION PERFORMANCES FILMS
7-11 PM MAKING MAD 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... 5 PM OPENING THU OPENING RECEPTION PERFORMANCE RECEPTION OCT 10 → P.14-17 → P.19 → P.25 6:30 PM CONVICTION SCREENING + PANEL → P.25 12-6 PM MAKING MAD 7 PM PSYCHOSIS 8 PM FOXY + SHORTS FRI EXHIBIT DANCE SCREENING + Q&A OCT 11 → P.14-17 → P.18 → P.26 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... PERFORMANCE → P.19 9 PM IN THIS HOUSE PLAY → P.20 12-6 PM MAKING MAD 2 PM IN THIS HOUSE 4 PM OUR WONDERFUL SAT EXHIBIT PLAY + Q&A LIVES OCT 12 → P.14-17 → P.20 SCREENING → P.28 1 PM MAKING MAD 6:30 PM PSYCHOSIS 6 PM IN SEARCH... ARTIST PANEL DANCE + Q&A SCREENING + Q&A → P.14-17 → P.18 → P.29 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... 8:30 PM MY SOUL DRIFTS... PERFORMANCE SCREENING + Q&A → P.19 → P.30 8 PM INTANGIBLE ADOR... PERFORMANCE → P.21 12-6 PM MAKING MAD 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... SUN EXHIBIT PERFORMANCE OCT 13 → P.14-17 → P.19
MON, OCT 14 - NO PROGRAMMING (THANKSGIVING)
12-6 PM MAKING MAD 6:30 PM INTANGIBLE ADOR... TUE EXHIBIT PERFORMANCE OCT 15 → P.14-17 → P.21 8 PM IN THIS HOUSE 7 PM CHAOS PLAY + Q&A SCREENING + PANEL → P.20 → P.31 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... PERFORMANCE → P.19 2 ACCESSIBLE VENUE
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EXHIBITION PERFORMANCES FILMS
12-6 PM MAKING MAD 8 PM INTANGIBLE ADOR... WED EXHIBIT PERFORMANCE OCT 16 → P.14-17 → P.21 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... 7 PM BEDLAM PERFORMANCE SCREENING + PANEL → P.19 → P.32 12-6 PM MAKING MAD 7 PM IN THIS HOUSE 7 PM M THU EXHIBIT PLAY SCREENING + PANEL OCT 17 → P.14-17 → P.20 → P.33 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... PERFORMANCE → P.19 9 PM PSYCHOSIS DANCE → P.18 12-6 PM MAKING MAD 7 PM INTANGIBLE ADOR... 6 PM JUNHA’S PLANET FRI EXHIBIT PERFORMANCE SCREENING + PANEL OCT 18 → P.14-17 → P.21 → P.34
8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... RELAXED PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE → P.19 8:30 PM PSYCHOSIS 8:30 PM KABUL, CITY IN THE... DANCE SCREENING + PANEL → P.18 → P.35 12-6 PM MAKING MAD 2 PM INTANGIBLE ADOR... 2:30 PM RETROSPECT SAT EXHIBIT PERFORMANCE + Q&A SCREENING OCT 19 → P.14-17 → P.21 → P.36 7 PM LAUGHTER VS... 5 PM IF YOU ASK ME COMEDY SCREENING + PANEL → P.22 → P.37 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... 8:30 PM IRENE’S GHOST PERFORMANCE SCREENING + PANEL → P.19 → P.38 12-6 PM MAKING MAD 2 PM PSYCHOSIS 6 PM TALE OF THE SEA SUN EXHIBIT DANCE SCREENING + PANEL OCT 20 → P.14-17 → P.18 → P.39 4 PM IN THIS HOUSE PLAY → P.20 8 PM THE LIFE & DEATH... PERFORMANCE → P.19 3 BOX OFFICE INFORMATION
ADVANCE TICKETS: PASSES: FREE EVENTS On sale starting Monday September 9 Passes can be redeemed online or The Making Mad exhibition and at the door prior to showtime. associated events at the exhibition venue Advance Tickets are all free of charge. Pay What You Wish: $44 FOUR PASS $12, $15 or $20 One entry to four events MEDIA: Online: workmanarts.com Phone: 416-583-4339 $80 EIGHT PASS Suzanne Cheriton, Red Eye Media (Monday-Friday 10 AM – 6 PM) One entry to eight events [email protected]
There is an online/phone service fee $100 UNLIMITED PASS CONTACT INFO: of $2 per order. One entry to each festival event workmanarts.com All passes are 1 ticket per event. AT THE DOOR TICKETS: Passes are non-transferable and @WorkmanArtsTO Pay What You Wish with a suggested do not include the opening night pre- /WorkmanArts minimum of $12. No one will be film reception. @workmanartsTO turned away for lack of funds. Group rates: #GETMAD At the door tickets go on sale 1 hour Please call 416-583-4339 ext 5 #RWMFEST prior to showtime and are subject to #RWMFEST19 availability. *Methods of payment at all venues: cash, debit, credit (VISA, MC) OPENING NIGHT FILM:
$15 film program only $40 with pre-film reception (includes food, beverage, art and film program)
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VENUES & MAP
PERFORMANCE VENUES:
1 Workman Arts Chapel & KING ST W Workman Arts Theatre
651 Dufferin St (north of Dundas St W) DUFFERIN ST
2 Comedy Bar 945 Bloor St W 3 Dead End Studio 7 Fraser Ave, Suite 13 (south-east of King St EAST LIBERTY ST and Dufferin St)
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FILM VENUES:
1 Workman Arts Theatre 651 Dufferin St (north of Dundas St W) 4 Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema 506 Bloor St W 5 AGO (Jackman Hall) 3 317 Dundas St W KING ST W
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6 TMAC (Toronto Media Arts Centre) 32 Lisgar St (south-west of Queen St W and Dovercourt Rd) EAST LIBERTY ST GARDINER EXPRESSWAY 5 FRASER AVE
GARDINER EXPRESSWAY ACCESSIBILITY
ACCESSIBILITY PERSONAL SUPPORT WORKERS The Rendezvous With Madness Festival is If you require a personal support worker to committed to values of inclusivity and accessibility accompany you to programs, please let our box for all guests, staff, volunteers and artists. We are office know and we would be happy to welcome listening and learning from our community to help your personal support worker free of charge to us address barriers and open up opportunities for any programs. anyone interested in engaging with the growing dialogue about mental health and/or addictions. AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL) INTERPRETED PROGRAMS If you have questions about accessibility and We will provide ASL interpretation at select access needs at Rendezvous, please contact programs. Our ASL services will be provided by a Justina Zatzman at justina_zatzman@ collaborative team including a deaf interpreter and workmanarts.com or call our Festival Box Office a hearing interpreter. In mental health settings, at 416-583-4339. Learn more about accessibility ASL interpreters primarily work alongside Deaf initiatives at Rendezvous at workmanarts.com. interpreters who are Signed Language experts. We often don’t know a Deaf person’s cognitive MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS – HELD SPACE ability, linguistic background, or upper extremity As important as we believe it is to engage in mobility issues. Having a Deaf interpreter helps honest, direct discussions about mental health us be able to connect with more of the Deaf and and/or addictions, this material can be difficult or hard of hearing community. If you require ASL triggering for some. In line with a commitment to interpretation in order to engage with a program being trauma-informed, each program venue will you’re interested in, please indicate that need have an onsite Held Space and active listener. The when purchasing tickets, as we also try to book Held Spaces are quiet areas where anyone can ASL interpreters based on expressed needs. go to during and after programs to take care of themselves. These spaces will contain a sensory OPEN CAPTIONING lounge with art making supplies, mental health We will provide open captioning for all film resources and an active listener, to help guests programs. At select live performance events, regulate and ground, should you need to talk. ASL interpretation will be supplemented by live Guests are welcome to come and go as they need captioning. Check the calendar to see which while engaging with the festival. programs will be ASL interpreted. If you require open or live captioning in order to engage with a PHYSICAL ACCESS program you’re interested in, please indicate that Unfortunately, not all of our program spaces are need when purchasing tickets, as we also try to wheelchair accessible (entrance and washrooms). arrange for captioning based on expressed needs. Please see the map which indicates which spaces are accessible. SERVICE ANIMALS Service animals are welcome in all areas of all NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE venues at Rendezvous. Please advise the box office Since navigating to new venues can be challenging, if you will be bringing a service animal with you into please see our website for venue accessibility the venue. information, including navigation guides (written and/or video). These guides will tell you how to find RELAXED PERFORMANCES a venue and what to expect from the space when There will be a relaxed screening of Junha’s Planet. you arrive. Please see page 34 for details. FINANCIAL ACCESS There are Pay What You Wish (PWYW) tickets available at all Rendezvous With Madness programs and performances. Please ask the box office. 6 ABOUT BECOME WORKMAN ARTS A MEMBER
For 32 years, Workman Arts has been empowering If you are an artist who has received mental health artists with lived experience while challenging and and/or addiction services and you’re interested in advancing perspectives on mental health. our programs, consider applying for membership. We are always interested in connecting with artists Workman Arts is a multidisciplinary arts and adding new perspectives and talents to the organization that promotes a greater Workman Arts community. understanding of mental health and addiction issues through creation and presentation. Member artists arrive at Workman Arts with varying Workman Arts supports artists with lived levels of experience ranging from emerging to experience through peer-to-peer arts education, professional artists. Workman Arts is best suited to public presentations and partnerships with the artists that have an existing art practice and goals broader arts community. to further develop, professionalize and share their practice. Workman Arts offers training programs Workman Arts was founded in 1987 by Lisa Brown, in Media, Literary, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts a former psychiatric nurse at the Queen Street delivered by artists and arts professionals. Members Mental Health Centre (now known as CAMH) as a also receive access to studio space, onsite gear theatre company of eight member artists and has and equipment, exhibition opportunities and grown to a multidisciplinary arts organization with professional support. These programs support 425+ artist members. Workman Arts has produced members to reach their potential by honing their a variety of projects, including: 30+ original full- artistic skills and practice. All programs are free of length Canadian plays, the annual Rendezvous charge to members. with Madness Festival and the annual Being Scene juried art exhibition. In summer 2020, Workman We do not require formal referrals. Arts will move to the brand new McCain Complex Artists are encouraged to contact us directly. Care and Recovery Building at CAMH. For more information or to become a For more information please visit member, contact Membership and Hospital workmanarts.com Program Manager, Justina Zatzman by email ([email protected]) or by phone (416-583-4339 ext. 9).
7 STAFF
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mark Goldbloom, Chair
Kelly Straughan Scott Miller Berry Jessica Jang Nancy Horvath, Vice Chair Executive Artistic Director Managing Director Education Komathie Padayachee, Manager Treasurer Norma Mendoza, Secretary Krista Chaytor Jim LeFrancois Apanaki Temitayo Minerve Donna Slaight Sara Kelly Nena Pendevska Cara Spooner Lori Spadorcia Communications & Scaling Project Manager Public Programming & Development Manager Partnerships Manager
Rendezvous With Madness Justina Zatzman Paulina Wiszowata David Sweeney was founded in 1993 by Lisa Membership & Hospital Visual Arts Coordinator Technical Director Brown Programming Manager and Kathleen Fagan.
SPECIAL THANKS Claudette Abrams Geoff Pevere Anastasia Akulinina Exhibitions Curator Rendezvous Film Program Rendezvous Program Evelyne Au-Navioz Director Manager Roman Lifshitz Co-Effect Creative, Erum Khan, Programming Committee Member Festival & Catalogue Design Rick Miller, Programming Committee Member Scratch Anderson, Finance Coordinator Suzanne Cheriton, Red Eye Media, Publicist Aus Bahadur, Volunteer Coordinator
Katelyn Gallucci Box Office Coordinators: Program Assistant Hanan Hazime, Paula John, Kaylyn Hamlyn 8 Welcome to the 27th annual Rendezvous Under the theme of #GetMad, we’ve With Madness Festival! This year’s theme gathered a roster of excellent panelists-from is #GetMad - a call to action, reminding us artists, to professionals in the field, to people that sharing stories is a powerful tool against with lived experience of mental health and isolation, stigma and discrimination. I invite you addiction issues. Come for the show and stay to #GetMad on social media and post your for the chat! stories of resilience. Congratulations to the artists and filmmakers Last year marked a departure from our film for continuing to shine a light on mental festival roots to a multidisciplinary event. health. Thank you to the fabulous staff and This year we are thrilled to add stand-up volunteers who make this festival happen. comedy. Join us on Saturday, October 19th at the Comedy Bar for an evening of Laughter vs Enjoy! The Universe headlined by Chanty Marostica, winner of 2018 SiriusXM Top Comic competition at the JFL42 comedy festival. I also invite you to expand your experience and Kelly Straughan stay for the exciting post show discussions Executive Artistic Director at selected screenings and performances. Workman Arts
Welcome to the 2019 Rendezvous With high-quality and thought-provoking programs Madness Festival! On behalf of the Workman the Rendezvous With Madness Festival is Arts Board of Directors, we are pleased to have renowned for. We are showcasing powerful you join us for the Festival’s 27th year. films, performances and artworks, as well as dynamic panel discussions that bring We are so proud to bring you the largest light to mental health, addiction, recovery arts and mental health festival in the world! and wellness. Last year we embraced a wide range of multidisciplinary art forms at the Festival, Please join us as we embark on a journey including live performance, music, theatre that explores everything from challenging and performance art and we were so pleased narratives of institutional life and treatment with how this was received that we have to lighthearted reminders that normal is continued to expand the Festival to showcase relative. Through the Festival, we invite you, as multidisciplinary art forms. audience members, to engage in discussions that challenge and transform perspectives on This year we are mad — mad about the stigma mental health and addiction. and discrimination that unfairly follows those that have experienced mental health and Many thanks to the incredible Workman Arts addiction issues. To help combat this we are staff who organize this great event and to those asking you to #GetMad and use social media who provide their financial support to make to let the world know what makes you mad the Festival possible. We truly hope you will about stigma and discrimination. find the Rendezvous With Madness Festival enjoyable, meaningful and enlightening. Let This year’s programming highlights a wide the Festival begin! range of mental health and addiction issues from at home and abroad. It is my pleasure to welcome those acclaimed national and international artists to Toronto and to congratulate the very talented Workman Mark Goldbloom Artists included in the program this year. Chair, Board of Directors I encourage you to come out and see the Workman Arts 9 Welcome to the 27th Rendezvous With We’re thrilled to re-focus our attention on Madness! As ever, we offer the finest in mad post-event discussions, something we’ve been cinema from across the globe. Not to mention known for since our humble beginnings. This the oddest, most controversial, challenging, year our centrepiece program will put the lens inspirational and fun to watch. On the three- on the devastating effects of deinstitutional- dimensional side of RWM, this year sees our ization. Ken Paul Rosenberg’s Bedlam, a rattling first comedy showcase, exciting live theatre and indictment of the state of mental health treat- performance events and an expansive, ten-day ment in America, will also be followed by a exhibition. And our venues are more accessible discussion about the impact of deinstitutional- than ever (details on page 6). ization in Canada and other countries. Our closing night film isIrene’s Ghost, directed by Each day brings a little more knowledge about Iain Cunningham (UK). Iain’s intimate, intensely addiction and mental health, but also new personal documentary utilizes blended forms waves of resistance. Nothing panics ignorance — live footage and animation — in the search for and prejudice more than facts or passion. Irene, his mother, a ghost in the closet. Stories have many sides, and for nearly thirty years Rendezvous has been scouring the globe For over a quarter century now, Rendezvous for the best, most current, controversial and — With Madness has tracked these global most important — conversation-starting stories upheavals and put them where they can out there. be seen, experienced and talked about. So welcome once again. Come for the movies, We open on World Mental Health Day, Thursday, stay for the conversations and, please, October 10 with Conviction, a sometimes har- whatever you do, #GetMad. rowing account of life in a women’s correctional facility in Nova Scotia. After the film, we’ll be joined on stage by one of the film’s directors and subjects, a representative from the Elizabeth Fry Society and women who have real-life stories of their own. Geoff Pevere Rendezvous Film Program Director
Welcome to the 27th annual Rendezvous With CAMH is thrilled to partner with an Madness Festival presented by Workman Arts. organization so committed to promoting a greater understanding of mental health and Last year, after 25 years of holding the title addiction issues. I commend Workman Arts’ of the first and largest mental health film team of talented and passionate artists — both festival in the world, Rendezvous With staff and volunteers — for their tremendous Madness took the bold step of expanding to a hard work and achievement. multidisciplinary festival including media arts, visual art, performance, music, theatre and I wish all the festival goers, artists and behind- dance. As a proud supporter of the-scene team a memorable and successful Workman Arts and Rendezvous With festival. Congratulations and enjoy! Madness, I am pleased to say it was a resounding success.
This year, Workman Arts delivers another set of exceptional programming, challenging and Catherine Zahn advancing perspectives on mental health with President and CEO, thought provoking creativity and skill. CAMH 10 On behalf of the board and staff of the Ontario year’s program will surely challenge audiences Arts Council, I wish you all a very warm and generate important conversations around welcome to Rendezvous With Madness 2019. mental health issues.
Rendezvous continues to be the largest Congratulations to the festival’s organizers arts and mental health festival in the world. and to all of the featured artists in their The festival has evolved into a successful important work which contributes to a better multidisciplinary event with an expanded understanding of mental health. program including film, visual arts, performance, music, theatre and dance.
Remaining true to its roots, Rendezvous continues to prioritize the work of artists with Rita Davies varied lived experiences in relation to mental Chair, health, addiction, recovery and wellness. This Ontario Arts Council
For more than 50 years, OAC has played a vital role in promoting and assisting the development of the arts for the enjoyment and benefit of Ontarians. In2018-19 , the Ontario Arts Council funded 2,252 individual artists and 1,424 organizations in 228 communities across Ontario for a total of $61.1 million.
The arts have the power to unite us, to spark The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to dialogue, and to offer unforgettable human support Rendezvous With Madness, and sends experiences. They are crucial to our individual its best wishes for a successful event. and collective development.
The Canada Council for the Arts’ growing support for a dynamic, renewed, and diverse arts scene makes Canadian creativity Simon Brault, O.C., O.Q. accessible to all Canadians, and to people Director and CEO, beyond our borders. Canada Council for the Arts
11 On behalf of Toronto Arts Council, welcome fighting stigma surrounding mental illness and to the 27th Rendezvous With Madness addiction by giving voice to those with lived Festival presented by Workman Arts. We experience and providing a forum for critical are proud to support this festival, which just discussions within the city. last year expanded its reach to include visual art, performance, music, theatre and dance Congratulations to the staff and board at in addition to its core emphasis on media Workman Arts and thank you to the volunteers arts. This work and the audiences that it who make this inspiring event possible. attracts continue to strengthen conversations Wishing you continued success. surrounding mental health, addiction, recovery and wellness. Yours truly, The City of Toronto, through Toronto Arts Council, invests public funds in the arts, allowing millions of Torontonians and visitors to enjoy incredible artistic activity, like the Rendezvous With Madness Festival. We Susan Crocker applaud the Festival for being a leader in Chair, Toronto Arts Council
It is my pleasure to extend greetings and can be incredible forces for the development a warm welcome to everyone attending of an individual, group or community, and they Rendezvous With Madness Festival hosted by promote intercultural connections including Workman Arts. tolerance, understanding, friendship and social cohesion. Welcome to everyone who is in attendance for this festival that takes a multidisciplinary On behalf of Toronto City Council, please approach to showcase films, live accept my best wishes for an enjoyable event performances, music and visual arts about and continued success. mental health and/or addiction issues.
The arts are an integral component of Toronto’s cultural and economic fabric that enrich and enhance the lives of many.
I am delighted that wonderful events like this John Tory are taking place in Toronto. Arts and culture Mayor of Toronto
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13 OCT EXHIBITION MAKING MAD: 10 HOW EXPRESSIONS – OF VULNERABILITY 20 CONNECT US Through humour and pathos, the artists in Making Mad explore the ways in which depictions of vulnerability in their work resonate on a human scale. Deep-diving into personal touchstones that go beyond the individual, these works relate in poignant and absurd ways to our condition as a collective of fallible, temporal beings.
Vulnerability is rarely associated with courage, yet it is central to survival. Happiness and contentment require little consideration — fitting well within our expectations and ideals — yet pain and uncertainty seem to demand justification in order to understand their purpose and meaning, especially in the absence of any explanation.
The artists in Making Mad unapologetically take cues from their own misgivings to draw attention to our universal susceptibility to harm. They attempt to debunk stigma equated with weakness, shame and isolation, to embrace the compassion, intimacy and intensity of the ways in which vulnerability teaches us to live with an awareness of the likelihood of change. VENUE Toronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC) 32 Lisgar St CURATED BY #GetMad: Join the Conversation Claudette Abrams FREE EVENT MAKING MAD EXHIBITION ARTIST PANEL & EXHIBIT SATURDAY OCTOBER 12, 1 PM FEATURED TORONTO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE OPENING ARTISTS RECEPTION Join the exhibiting artists in Alison Crouse Thu, Oct 10 – 7-11 PM conversation with Curator Claudette Peter Dillman Abrams as they discuss how their work GALLERY HOURS Esmond Lee explores and navigates issues of mental health and pushes back against stigma. Daily, 12 - 6 PM Ben McCarthy + SpekWork (note: Closed Sarah Trad Monday Oct 14) Véronique Vallières
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14 ALISON PETER CROUSE DILLMAN
Devastation Portraits is a series of performative 45 Homes is a body of work which chronicles images, staged by the artist, who deliberately the forty-five different homes that artist Peter collapses face down in public spaces. These overt Dillman moved in and out of throughout his life re-enactments give visibility to the often invisible with a changing constellation of family members, weight of anxiety and depression and challenge housemates and partners. Through the compilation societal norms of what is considered “appropriate” of documentary materials, such as census data and emotional expression. Alison continues to produce photographs, the artist reconstructs and recounts these scenarios for sharing on social media, and they a history of domestic instability from an early have been featured in BuzzFeed, Metro.uk and on age, moving to a more stable environment as he the NPR Picture Show. achieved autonomy.
Alison Crouse is a Philadelphia-based artist, Peter Dillman is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary filmmaker, photographer and instructor. She artist, curator, theatre professional and instructor. received her MFA in Film and Media Arts from He studied Fine Art at the University of Waterloo, Temple University and her BFA in Photography Theatre Design at the National Theatre School, and from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Culture and Heritage Management at Centennial and University of Vermont. Her award-winning College. His multi-media work explores themes film and videos have been broadcast, screened of home and environment. Peter Dillman’s work and distributed internationally. Alison Crouse’s has been exhibited across Canada and is held in photographic work has been published and shown corporate and private collections. in galleries across North America. → instagram.com/peterd9777 → devastationportraits.com 15 ESMOND BEN MCCARTHY LEE + SPEKWORK
Ancestral Veneration is a photo-based series resourced is a VR documentary about the depicting the inter-generational realities of precarious labour of frontline workers. The user migration. As a second-generation Chinese progresses through a series of interactive levels, Canadian, Lee’s work examines the nuances and each built to reflect the lived experience of street ambiguities of suburban cultural evolutions. His nurses, social workers, sex workers, and activists; layering of familial and familiar motifs on vinyl mesh people serving those at the margins of society banner material echo the clash and assimilation of who are often marginalized themselves through ancestral values with contemporary identities and associated stigma and poverty. experiences. SpekWork is a studio exploring new political Esmond Lee is a Toronto-based artist and architect. narratives through game design with a focus on the He holds a Master of Architecture (University of dynamic relationship between work and play. The Toronto) and Bachelor of Architectural Studies studio is a collaborative effort of Cat Bluemke, Ben (Carleton University). He has received Toronto and McCarthy and Jonathan Carroll, post-secondary Ontario Art Council grants and is recognized by instructors teaching from the intersections of art, the Ontario Association of Architects. His work has labour and emerging technologies. Members been exhibited at Gallery 44, Koffler Centre for of the collective have been recognized through the Arts, Toronto Media Arts Centre and Artscape awards, grants and commissions for their individual Youngplace. Recent projects include participation in and collective work, and supported by Rhizome, the Ontario Heritage Trust’s Doris McCarthy Artist- the Canada Council for the Arts and the Art Gallery in-Residence program and Nuit Blanche 2019. of Ontario.
→ esmondlee.com → spek.work 16 SARAH VÉRONIQUE TRAD VALLIÈRES
In Sickness and in Health (but mostly, Just in I Extend my Arms/Je Tends les Bras is a multi- Sickness) is a multi-channel video projection media installation involving a methodically storied installation which visually shows unnoticed assemblage of forms that playfully hinge on moments between couples and explores the spectrums of human experience, spirited dualities difficulties of seeking companionship while faced and intensity of feeling. Physical interaction with with mental illness, codependent tendencies and material is signified as curative. Craft functions as metaphysical crisis. The title, partly taken from a survival tool, patterns as armour, and scale that traditional marriage vows, highlights the optimistic transforms larger-than-life, gender-fluid, soft- decision to bond. sculptures into delightfully embracing recliners.
Sarah Trad is a Philadelphia-based artist. She Véronique Vallières is a Toronto-based, multi- graduated with a BFA in Art Film from Syracuse media artist, working primarily in ceramics, textiles University, where she subsequently became and printmaking. They hold a BFA from Concordia an Engagement Fellow. She is the recipient of University and have attended residencies in the 77Art Artist Residency (Rutland Vermont Montréal, Moncton and Winnipeg. As a film Art Center) and Carol N. Schmuckler Award for curator, they co-programmed monthly film and Outstanding Achievement in Film. Sarah has performance events for the Revue Cinema. shown at The Warehouse Gallery (Syracuse, NY), Véronique Vallières has received multiple grants Kitchen Table Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Gravy for their work, which has been exhibited widely, and Studio and Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) and the most recently, acquired for the CAMH permanent Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY). art collection.
→ littleberlin.org/sarah-trad → instagram.com/v.vallieres 17 OCT 11 – 20
VENUE Workman Arts Theatre 651 Dufferin St DANCE
SHOWTIMES Fri, Oct 11 — 7 PM PSYCHOSIS Sat, Oct 12 — 6:30 PM RONALD TAYLOR DANCE (with Q&A) Thu, Oct 17 — 9 PM Fri, Oct 18 — 8:30 PM PSYCHOSIS is inspired by the investigation of Ronald’s mental health Sun, Oct 20 — 2 PM episode in Canada and pulls into the present to explore an awareness of adversity, reconciliation and resilience. By connecting relationships 60 MINS between disability, environment and the human spirit, PSYCHOSIS seeks to explore the trauma and ongoing challenges of mental health, while CREDITS dealing with bouts of darkness, depression and the human psyche. Director & Choreographer: Ronald Taylor #GetMad: Join The Conversation THE MAKING OF PSYCHOSIS (ASL INTERPRETED) KEYWORDS Caribbean After the show on October 12, join the cast members to discuss the intricacies of Dance creating and performing Ronald Taylor’s PSYCHOSIS. Through an intersectional Dis/Ability lens, performers and audience members will have the chance to further reflect together on the performance and the insight that it provides. Performance Recovery
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VENUE Dead End Studio 7 Fraser Ave, Unit 13
SHOWTIMES Thu, Oct 10 — 8 PM PERFORMANCE Fri, Oct 11 — 8 PM Sat, Oct 12 — 8 PM Sun, Oct 13 — 8 PM THE LIFE AND DEATH OF Tue, Oct 15 — 8 PM FRED HERKO Wed, Oct 16 — 8 PM Thu, Oct 17 — 8 PM DAUGHTER PRODUCT Fri, Oct 18 — 8 PM Sat,Oct 19 — 8 PM Sun,Oct 20 — 8 PM In 1964, at the age of 28, a queer dancer named Fred Herko jetéd out the window of his ex-lover’s apartment — naked and high on speed. 60 MINS In this site-specific and interdisciplinary performance, striking sound design, movement and text combine to reimagine Fred Herko’s CREDITS infamous, suicide performance. Director: Claire Burns; Playwright: Natalie Liconti; Performed by: Oliver Price
KEYWORDS Drug Use Queer Suicide Violence
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19 OCT 11 – 20
VENUE Workman Arts PLAY Theatre 651 Dufferin St IN THIS HOUSE SHOWTIMES TALK LIKE YOU THEATRE Fri, Oct 11 — 9 PM Sat, Oct 12 — 2 PM Charlie is looking for happy, Remi is a struggling musician and bartender, (with Q&A) Tue, Oct 15 — 8 PM Jinx is a burlesque performer and PHD candidate who works at The (with Q&A) Orange Balloon, and Minka, no one knows what Minka does. In This Thu, Oct 17 — 7 PM House is a play about a generation, a city, and an exact time in our lives. Sun, Oct 20 — 4 PM This is a play about how we save each other.
60 MINS #GetMad: Join the Conversation MILLENNIAL MENTAL HEALTH: A TWO-PART CONVERSATION CREDITS How are young people today talking about suicide? How are Millennials navigating Playwright/Director: their experiences with mental health and addictions? Join the cast of In this House Grace Thompson; after the shows on October 12 and October 15 as they discuss the production Stage Manager: Erin themes and their experiences navigating between being emerging artists, living Maxfield; on their own for the first time and managing their mental health. This two-part Set & Lighting conversation will explore the unique difficulties for young people in Canada, and Designer: Lisa the communities of support being created as a response. Van Oorschot
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20 OCT 12 – 19
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INTANGIBLE ADORATIONS VENUE Workman Arts FOREVER EPIC FILMS Chapel 651 Dufferin St
SHOWTIMES Intangible Adorations is an immersive theatrical experience that explores Sat, Oct 12 — 8 PM the impact of celebrity worship on the mental health of the famous, and Tues, Oct 15 — 6:30 PM on those who become infatuated with celebrity. Audience members will Wed, Oct 16 — 8 PM Fri, Oct 18 — 7 PM participate in a ritualistic performance with a celebrity whose identity Sat,Oct 19 — 2 PM is concealed by a morph suit. Will they reveal their identity, or will they (with Q&A) choose to remain Anonymous? 60 MINS #GetMad: Join the Conversation
CELEBRITY AND ANONYMITY: AN ARTIST TALK AND Q&A CREDITS A discussion of Intangible Adorations with creator and performer Lisa Anita Wegner Creators: Lisa Anita and collaborator Scott White on Saturday, October 19 after the 2 PM show, moderated Wegner & Scott White; by Lisa McKeown. The discussion will touch on the nature of modern celebrity culture, Lighting & Effects celebrity worship syndrome and the origins of this version of Intangible Adorations. Designer: Carl Elster The panel will also discuss the significance of Lisa’s journey with mental and physical health, the relevance of finding anonymous expression, and how this piece fits into KEYWORDS Lisa’s larger universe of therapeutic performance and film work. Anxiety Celebrity/Pop Culture Performance Art Slow Pulsing Light COMMUNITY PARTNER
21 OCT 19
COMEDY LAUGHTER VS THE UNIVERSE
Comedy Bar and Rendezvous With Madness are thrilled to team up for a one-night-only special comedy showcase designed to remind us that sometimes laughter is the best medicine.
Join us for a very special celebration of some of Canada’s finest stand-up comics! Featuring a star-studded line-up including guest appearances VENUE from Christophe Davidson, Tamara Shevon and a special headline Comedy Bar performance by Chanty Marostica. 945 Bloor St W
SHOWTIME CHANTY MAROSTICA (HEADLINER) Sat, Oct 19 — 7 PM Chanty Marostica, known for their unique brand of high energy physical comedy, brings their jokes to life through a combination of storytelling, impressions and spot-on timing. CREDITS Host: Chanty has been featured in Just For Laughs, JFL42, ODDBLOCK, Kevin Hart’s Laugh Christophe Davidson Out Loud, The Halifax Comedy Festival, The Winnipeg Comedy Festival, CBC’s Laugh Out Loud, Debaters, Workin’ Moms and Season 3 of Netflix’s Designated Survivor. Opener: Tamara Shevon Chanty is an award-winning comic, nominated for Best Stand-Up Comic at The 2015 Winnipeg Comedy Festival. They won Patrons Pick in both 2015/2016, received the Headliner: Canadian Comedy Award for Best Breakout Artist in 2018 and Best Stand Up Comic Chanty Marostica 2019. Chanty was named Sirius XM’s Top Comic in 2018 for their debut album, The Chanty Show, which went to #1 on iTunes, was nominated for a 2019 JUNO Award for ACCESSIBILITY Comedy Album of the Year, and won Comedy Album of the Year at the 2019 Canadian Comedy Awards.
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World Mental Health OPENING FILM Day CONVICTION
With more resources being invested into prisons than communities, VENUE women have become the highest growing prison population in the Hot Docs world. In Conviction, a team of documentary filmmakers gain access to a Ted Rogers Cinema 506 Bloor St W Mental health female correctional facility in Nova Scotia to tackle the crisis from within. Instead of simply conducting interviews, the filmmakers collaborate SHOWTIME with a group of women in the facility to create a deeply personal and Thu, Oct 10 — 6:30 PM affects us all. prisoner’s-eye documentary. Utilizing cameras, spoken word poetry and art supplies, the women share their experiences with institutionalization DIRECTORS and unapologetically address the ineptitude of incarceration. What can Nance Ackerman we do to prevent women from being imprisoned in the first place and stop Teresa MacInnes Ariella Pahlke systemic re-institutionalization? Working alongside the Elizabeth Fry Society and the filmmakers, the women envision a better alternative to a Together, we can all help end 2019 failing criminal justice system to build communities; not cages. CANADA the stigma around mental illness 78 MINS #GetMad: Join the Conversation with these 5 simple ways + Panel Discussion WOMEN INCARCERATED 1. Language matters Join us for our first panel discussion, which will includeConviction ’s filmmaker Ariella GENRE Pahlke, subject Tanya Bignell, Executive Director of Elizabeth Fry Toronto, Kelly Documentary 2. Educate yourself Potvin, and guests with lived experience of incarceration. Moderated by Orev Reena Katz, a Mental Health Correctional Chaplain, they will discuss the various realities and KEYWORDS 3. Be kind difficulties for women living with mental health issues within a correctional facility. Community 4. Listen and ask Why are women the fastest growing segment of the prison system in Canada? How do Criminal Justice we support, encourage and make space for the growth of women on the inside? Institutionalization 5. Talk about it Pre-film reception starts at 5:00 pm and includes food, beverage, art and film program Trauma (See page 4). Join us after the screening and panel at TMAC for the opening reception of Women’s Stories Making Mad and the RWM opening night party (see page 14, transportation provided). bell.ca/letstalk ACCESSIBILITY
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25 OCT 11
FILM VENUE AGO (Jackman Hall) 317 Dundas St W FOXY
SHOWTIME Hair is just keratin protein and dead skin cells. Yet beauty standards Fri, Oct 11 — 8 PM today and historically have made hair and its appearance a signifier of DIRECTOR status. When you are dissatisfied with the state of your hair, each hair care Trista Suke advertisement is a microaggression advocating anything but otherness.
2018 Foxy is a spunky film that debunks the social stigma surrounding CANADA alopecia universalis by interweaving a scripted memoir of director Trista 60 MINS Suke’s personal story with direct-to-camera interviews highlighting + Shorts: 28 mins people from the community who are also living with hair loss. In flirty + Panel Discussion fashion, the fictional character Penny Todd tracks a journey of ultimate TORONTO PREMIERE self acceptance and what it’s like to live as a beautifully bald woman.
GENRE #GetMad: Join the Conversation Documentary SHARING YOUR STORY THROUGH FILM KEYWORDS A range of filmmakers showing work as part of this screening will celebrate and Alopecia reflect on the power of sharing their stories through film. What is it about the Youth medium of film that has called each of these artists to create these works and how Body Image has it empowered them to reveal their vulnerable depths to themselves, audiences and each other? Musical
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CONSENT IS... THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE ISOLATION Lucy Drumonde Ann Bekooy 2019 | Canada | 1 min | Canadian Premiere 2019 | Canada | 8 mins | Toronto Premiere In public or private, the ethics of informed consent Through a dreamscape of surreal images, artist Ann Bekooy acknowledges the human right to choose. poetically narrates the universal but somehow alienating condition of existence.
ANIMATING ARTISTS’ HEALTH (AAH) MICHAEL Canada | 19 mins David Rendall | 2019 | Canada | 2 mins Animating Artists’ Health features short animations Michael is an animated portrait of the artist’s late friend and exploring artists’ health and wellbeing. This program is mentor Michael Stone, a Zen and yoga teacher, writer and a product of Artist Health Alliance’s Creating Artists’ activist who struggled with bipolar disorder. Health initiative. BURN OUT ACHES Raoul Olou | 2019 | Canada | 2 mins Nikole Hidalgo McGregor | 2019 | Canada | 3 mins “How does it feel to burn while drowning?” This short mixed-media animation focuses on pain as a by-product of creation. RESTLESS Tommy Truong | 2019 | Canada | 4 mins ROOT CAUSES Restless depicts the creator’s personal struggles with M.C Cruz | 2019 | Canada | 3 mins anxiety through the daily mundane activities of his A young working class Hispanic artist finds herself in the career via overarching themes of burnout versus a more crosshairs of stigma and discrimination when depression sustainable lifestyle. arises in high school. THIS BODY APPEARING FACES Ess Joelle Okemow | 2019 | Canada | 2 mins Shelton Deverel | 2019 | Canada | 3 mins This Body explores the concept of self-care by drawing on A series of animated portraits of six artists, whose faces are the personal experiences of artists in diverse fields. seen emerging from the clouds.
Stills L-R: Aches, Root Causes, Appearing Faces, Michael, Burn Out, Restless, This Body
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27 OCT 12
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VENUE AGO (Jackman Hall) NOS VIES FORMIDABLES 317 Dundas St W (OUR WONDERFUL LIVES) SHOWTIME Sat, Oct 12 — 4 PM Group therapy sessions. Community meals. Heartfelt conversations. This life is foreign to Margot (Julie Moulier), a thirty-something DIRECTOR woman from a wealthy French family. Margot lives with addiction Fabienne Godet and she’s just enrolled in a rehab facility in a remote French country- 2018 side. It’s quaint and dreamlike in the country, which is the complete FRANCE opposite of Margot’s fevered mental state. Her repressed feelings 117 MINS make Margot reluctant to open up to strangers. She doesn’t believe TORONTO PREMIERE in the community approach to recovery. What might happen if she French with English actually let go of her fears and allowed others in? Margot’s character Subtitles offers audiences an intimate examination of the deep-rooted GENRE psychological causes of addiction. Our Wonderful Lives gives us a Fiction nuanced and refreshing look into community-based recovery and the significance of something as simple as friendship. KEYWORDS Addiction Community Friendship Group Therapy Rehab
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28 OCT 12
FILM VENUE AGO (Jackman Hall) IN SEARCH... 317 Dundas St W
SHOWTIME Director Beryl Magoko underwent Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Sat, Oct 12 — 6 PM as a child. Unlike many of her peers, she wasn’t forced into it. Feeling pressured by societal expectations, Beryl went through FGM behind her DIRECTOR mother’s back. Nobody told her about the pain, guilt and trauma that Beryl Magoko would follow her into adulthood. Years later, Beryl learns that her FGM can be reversed with the help of reconstructive surgery. But after everything 2018 she has been through, she’s hesitant to make a decision. “Will I be GERMANY, KENYA 90 MINS making another terrible mistake?” In her documentary, Beryl is searching + Short: 19 mins for an answer. She asks other women who survived FGM about their + Q&A experiences and thoughts on reconstructive surgery. By frontlining these TORONTO PREMIERE stories, Beryl processes her trauma and exposes the extreme misogynist German and Swahili ideologies behind FGM. with English Subtitles
SCREENING WITH THIS RIVER GENRE Erika MacPherson, Katherena Vermette | 2016 | Canada | 19 min Documentary This River offers an Indigenous perspective on the devastating experience of searching for loved ones who have disappeared. KEYWORDS FGM #GetMad: Join the Conversation Sexuality Q&A WITH BERYL MAGOKO Trauma Women’s Rights Following the screening of In Search..., join filmmaker and subject Beryl Magoko for the discussion of her film. ACCESSIBILITY
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29 OCT 12
VENUE FILM AGO (Jackman Hall) 317 Dundas St W MY SOUL DRIFTS LIGHT UPON SHOWTIME Sat, Oct 12 — 8:30 PM A SEA OF TREES
DIRECTOR After losing an uncle and two friends to suicide, Zen Buddhist Ittetsu Heinrich Dahms Nemoto made it his life’s work to support individuals struggling with depression and suicidal ideation. Despite cultural taboos from a temple in 2018 JAPAN, the high mountains of central Japan, Ittetsu Nemoto takes a community- NETHERLANDS focused, holistic approach to healing trauma. My Soul Drifts Light Upon a 93 MINS Sea of Trees inscribes the journey and mission of Nemoto as he helps three + Short: 15 mins people find life after limbo. As each person candidly reveals their story of + Panel Discussion what the edge of life felt like, a therapeutic effect transfixes the audience. NORTH AMERICAN With this remarkable film, a quiet plea for a radical shift in the way we think PREMIERE about suicide is heard. Japanese with English Subtitles SCREENING WITH ANCESTRAL LANDSCAPES Rick Miller | 2019 | Canada | 15 mins | World Premiere GENRE Documentary From the traditional territories of the Micmac Nation of Gespeg to the small town of Gaspé, Québec, director Rick Miller reveals to the audience his family’s lineage and KEYWORDS how it has defined and illuminated his relationship with mental health. Group Therapy #GetMad: Join the Conversation Spirituality Suicide MY SOUL DRIFTS WITH ITTETSU NEMOTO Trauma Join us for a discussion with the subject of My Soul Drifts Light Upon a Sea of Trees. Internationally known Buddhist priest Ittetsu Nemoto will be joining us via Skype to ACCESSIBILITY talk about his life’s mission to provide space and time for those who live with depression.
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30 OCT 15
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VENUE CHAOS AGO (Jackman Hall) 317 Dundas St W Winner of the Golden Leopard Award at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival, SHOWTIME Chaos tells the story of three women in three cities and asks: what’s the Tue, Oct 15 — 7 PM effect of war on the human spirit? As the personal stories of these Syrian women are intimately revealed, Chaos bears witness to the scarred DIRECTOR existence of survivors. One woman lives in Damascus, spending her Sara Fattahi days in silence as she grieves for her teenage son. Another has fled the country to a Swedish village, where she’s coping with trauma by painting. 2018 The third woman is Sara Fattahi herself, Chaos’ director, who now lives in AUSTRIA, SYRIA, LEBANON, QATAR Vienna. She’s portrayed on-screen by an actor, while excerpts from a radio 95 MINS interview with the Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann give expression + Panel Discussion to Fattahi’s innermost feelings. Fattahi explores the women’s immediate TORONTO PREMIERE surroundings with equal attention to detail; interiors speak to us, the winds Arabic and German whisper clues and the rain is tangible. Beguiling our senses, Fattahi draws with English Subtitles us into the processes of profound grief and inner disengagement. GENRE #GetMad: Join the Conversation Documentary DISPLACEMENT AND THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS KEYWORDS How does displacement affect those living with mental health conditions and Feminism how are mental health conditions a result of displacement? As we look at the film Migration Chaos, we will take time to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and how this global Survival crisis intersects with gender, mental health diagnoses and the importance of sharing these stories. Trauma
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Spotlight Film FILM BEDLAM VENUE AGO (Jackman Hall) Haunted by the death of his sister Merle, psychiatrist Kenneth Paul 317 Dundas St W Rosenberg takes on the role of documentary filmmaker to examine a national health crisis in the US. Bedlam follows personal stories of people SHOWTIME Wed, Oct 16 — 7 PM living with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other chronic mental health issues with a television-style precision. Bedlam describes the DIRECTOR deinstitutionalization triggers pulled in the mid- and late 20th century Kenneth Paul (which occurred in Canada as well) to create this ‘bedlam’ on an inter/ Rosenberg national scale. Created over the course of five years,Bedlam takes us inside Los Angeles County’s overwhelmed and vastly under-resourced 2019 psychiatric ER; a nearby jail warehousing thousands of patients; and people USA 84 MINS suffering from severe mental health issues in their homes and homeless + Short: 6 mins encampments, where silence and shame often worsen the suffering. + Panel Discussion CANADIAN SCREENING WITH TALKING AT NIGHT PREMIERE Eric Thiessen | 2017 | Canada | 6 mins Director Eric Thiessen captures behind-the-scenes experiences of Saskatoon’s GENRE Mobile Crisis Centre staff as they provide 24/7 crisis resolution to people in distress. Documentary #GetMad: Join the Conversation KEYWORDS EXTENDED PANEL Economic Inequality DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER Empowerment The history of deinstitutionalization in Toronto has led to the Mad Pride movement; Institutionalization shaped the Parkdale neighbourhood (and others in the GTA); and continues to alter Political Action hospital emergency rooms, shelter systems and community-based harm reduction Psychiatry centres. In witnessing how the US systems have been affected inBedlam , we will use this film as a counterpoint to reflect on where we have been and where we are going ACCESSIBILITY here at home.
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32 OCT 17
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Menahem Lang is an Israeli actor with a tragic past. He was raped as a VENUE child by several older men from his own community. Lang grew up in AGO (Jackman Hall) the Haredi sect, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community known for its 317 Dundas St W theological conservatism. After confronting one of his abusers, Lang left his hometown of Bnei Brak and hasn’t been back. In M, Lang returns SHOWTIME to face his community, his trauma and to seek justice. But more than Thu, Oct 17 — 7 PM anything, Lang ends up finding other survivors. Shooting her film entirely at night, director Yolande Zauberman follows Lang as he runs into DIRECTOR multiple strangers on the streets of his old neighborhood where they all Yolande Zauberman confess the same thing — they were also sexually abused as children by 2018 older men in the community. Through many candid interviews, we learn FRANCE that child molestation is rampant in their community, turning the abused 115 MINS into abusers in a vicious circle of sexual violence. + Panel Discussion ONTARIO PREMIERE #GetMad: Join the Conversation Yiddish and Hebrew CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE & RECOVERY with English Subtitles This panel features specialists who work in trauma informed care, childhood sexual abuse and sexuality studies. We will sensitively discuss the realities and impacts GENRE of (early) sexual abuse; the complexities of finding treatment; and the journey of Documentary recovery in the context of observant communities as well as in more secular contexts. KEYWORDS Rape Religion Sexual Violence Trauma
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33 OCT 18
VENUE AGO (Jackman Hall) Relaxed 317 Dundas St W Screening
SHOWTIME FILM Fri, Oct 18 — 6 PM Relaxed Screening JUNHA’S PLANET DIRECTOR Hyung-sook Hong Junha is a 4th grader who doesn’t make friends easily. Afraid he will attack or spit on them, his classmates keep their distance. Junha’s teachers 2018 spend most of their time with Junha trying to discipline him or simply SOUTH KOREA understand why he behaves the way he does. But Junha lives on the 108 MINS Autism spectrum: he has little to no control over his impulses. Concerned + Panel Discussion parents of Junha’s peers question whether he should be educated in CANADIAN PREMIERE the same environment as their kids. While the school advocates for Korean with English Autism awareness and encourages children to support Junha, many lose Subtitles their patience. Including Junha. Junha’s Planet is a quiet and powerful observational documentary that addresses some of the most pressing GENRE issues at the intersection of disability and education. Documentary #GetMad: Join the Conversation KEYWORDS AUTISM IN ONTARIO Autism Children After experiencing Junha’s Planet and the realities of autism education in South Korea, join a panel of educators, parents and advocates to discuss the current state Disability of autism spectrum disorder support in Ontario. How can we support those living on Education the spectrum as well as families and educators here at home? South Korea
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34 OCT 18
VENUE AGO (Jackman Hall) 317 Dundas St W FILM SHOWTIME KABUL, CITY IN THE WIND Fri, Oct 18 — 8:30 PM DIRECTOR In this subtle and beautiful documentary portrait, first time feature film Aboozar Amini director Aboozar Amini captures the everyday lives of 12-year old Afshin and his younger brother Benjamin alongside bus driver Abas. The three subjects 2018 of this subtle portrait of Kabul take us on a journey of their daily lives where NETHERLANDS, war is omnipresent. Amini’s gentle camerawork gives us time to witness the AFGHANISTAN, JAPAN, GERMANY intricacies of life in Kabul, where dust appears as a main character in the film. 88 MINS Kabul, City in the Wind unfolds via intimate direct interviews with the subjects + Panel Discussion and observations of daily routines: in between the markets and helicopters Dari and Pashto with buzzing, Abas’ bus keeps breaking down and Afshin becomes head of the English Subtitles household when their father, a former soldier, unexpectedly has to go to Iran. Kabul, a city that is mostly known for war and death, is presented lovingly as GENRE Documentary home for those who strive for a better tomorrow.
#GetMad: Join the Conversation KEYWORDS Addiction TRAUMA & ADDICTION IN KABUL Family Kabul, City in the Wind is an intimate and heartbreaking look at families affected Survival by war and trauma in Kabul. We will take time after the film to process and discuss Trauma our impressions and responses with a series of guests and experts who have lived War experience within a trauma informed lens. ACCESSIBILITY
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35 OCT 19
VENUE Workman Arts Theatre 651 Dufferin St FILM SHOWTIME Sat, Oct 19 — 2:30 PM RETROSPEKT (RETROSPECT) DIRECTOR Esther Rots Retrospect is a chaotic puzzle of an unreliable narrator’s memories, anarchic bursts of punk music, a sporadic and shredded timeline. And 2018 yet, in the heart of the story are Mette and her so-called ‘perfect’ nuclear BELGIUM, family. Mette (Circé Lethem) is a domestic violence support worker, and NETHERLANDS the film starts with her intervening in a violent and abusive altercation 101 MINS Dutch and Flemish with involving a strange young couple on vacation. It then jumps to a family English Subtitles dinner where Mette confronts her husband, who clearly doesn’t equate the importance of her career to his. After this uncomfortable scene, GENRE back to the future and Mette in the hospital following a catastrophic Fiction accident. She’s now in a wheelchair and has no recollection of preceding events. Gradually, Mette starts remembering how she invited Lee (Lien KEYWORDS Wildemeersch), a client, to escape an abusive partner by moving in. The Domestic Violence Family arrangement soon explodes, Mette’s flashbacks offering only vague clues Marriage to the calamity. But who is really to blame for Mette’s downfall? Social Work Women’s Stories
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36 OCT 19
FILM IF YOU ASK ME (IYAM)
For the third consecutive year, Workman Arts is proud to support VENUE emerging filmmakers with mental health and/or addiction experiences Workman Arts to create new work through the IYAM program. Theatre 651 Dufferin St The 2019 participants are: Saba Akhtar, Julianne Ess, Erum Khan and James Knott. These filmmakers worked under the guidance of mentor SHOWTIME Sat, Oct 19 — 5 PM Fallon Andy at Trinity Square Video to develop new short films on the theme of mental health. DIRECTORS #GetMad: Join the Conversation Saba Akhtar Julianne Ess 1-ON-1 ADVICE FOR YOUNG FILMMAKERS & PROFESSIONALS Erum Khan The IYAM participants are emerging arts leaders who are interested in giving back James Knott to their communities. Join the filmmakers as they engage in intimate conversations Fallon Andy (mentor) along with representatives from professional filmmaking organizations as they offer advice, talk through ideas, give feedback and, most importantly, meet other young 2019 filmmakers who are looking to share their stories through film. 50 MINS + 60 min Panel Discussion
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Closing Night Film VENUE Workman Arts FILM Theatre 651 Dufferin St IRENE’S GHOST SHOWTIME Sat, Oct 19 — 8:30 PM Irene’s Ghost is a stunning six-years-in-the-making documentary that follows a son’s search to find out about the mother he never knew. DIRECTOR Cunningham breaks the silence and tracks down his mother’s friends and Iain Cunningham family to rebuild a picture of her. Cunningham was three when his mother Irene died. His father never spoke of it and the family’s silence around 2018 Irene meant that she was alive only in Cunningham’s imagination. The UK 82 MINS birth of his own child inspires a journey to discover the truth about Irene. + Short: 13 mins Utilizing gorgeous animation alongside moving archival footage, Irene’s + Panel Discussion Ghost lovingly rebuilds Irene’s lost life. CANADIAN PREMIERE SCREENING WITH UNCLE THOMAS: ACCOUNTING FOR THE DAYS Regina Pessoa | 2019 | Canada | 13 mins | Toronto Premiere GENRE Regina Pessoa’s latest animation beautifully illustrates her childhood memories of her Documentary charming and idiosyncratic uncle.
KEYWORDS #GetMad: Join the Conversation Depression MOTHERHOOD Family How does talking about (or not talking about) postpartum depression and Grief postpartum psychosis impact women and families? After the screening of Irene’s Postpartum Ghost, we will explore the complicated layers of how postpartum disorders are Relationships understood and felt personally as well as culturally through first hand experiences from women and professionals in discussion with the filmmaker. ACCESSIBILITY
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38 OCT 20
FILM TALE OF THE SEA VENUE This delicate and quiet film, part family drama, part homage to older Workman Arts Iranian artists, comes from veteran director Bahman Farmanara. Taher Theatre Mohebi, a well-known writer, breaks down after witnessing a violent 651 Dufferin St murder and spends three years in a mental institution. After his release, Taher is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless SHOWTIME Sun, Oct 20 — 6 PM hallucinations make him want to return to the institution. This film is dedicated to Abbas Kiarostami and affectionately displays the late DIRECTOR master’s understanding of complex human relationships. Bahman Farmanara
#GetMad: Join the Conversation 2018 MENTAL HEALTH AND FILM IN IRANIAN CANADIAN COMMUNITIES IRAN For over a decade, the Intercultural Iranian Canadian Resource Centre (I2CRC) and 97 MINS Rendezvous With Madness have collaborated to present Iranian films that explore Farsi with English mental health and addiction issues, as well as host post-show discussions and Subtitles beautiful pre-show receptions. This year is no exception as we close the festival with Iranian food, conversation and, of course, films! GENRE Fiction Pre-Film Reception hosted by Iranian Canadian Resource Centre. To reserve your $20 tickets (includes dessert, art, socializing & film) please contact KEYWORDS I2RCRC at 416-388-9314 or [email protected]. Schizophrenia Family
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41 SUPPORTERS
We are extremely grateful to the following supporters, who make what we do at Workman Arts possible.*
Alice Goldman PATRONS INDIVIDUAL DONORS James Miller & Kimberly Hacuman Her Excellency Sharon Mary Margaret Danann Hawes Johnston, C.C. VISIONARIES ($5,000+) Johnston-Miller Astrid Ho Patrick J Manley & Karen Mills Bridget Hough Dr. Barbara Dorian & Ann Lomax Louisa O’Reilly Dr. Paul Garfinkel Ivor & Renee Simmons Nancy Howe CHAMPIONS Kelly Straughan Pat Kern GOVERNMENT ($2,500- $4,999) Susan Lapell SUPPORTERS Mary Lou Roder SUPPORTERS Spencer Levine in Honour Canada Council for Bob Shea ($100-$249) of Norma Mendoza the Arts Anonymous Hyla Levy Canada Summer Jobs BENEFACTORS Anonymous in Honour Gwynne Long Canadian Heritage ($1,000-$2,499) of Alison Murray Amy Loucareas Ontario Arts Council Lisa & Michael Brown Gerald Benson Jeanne Lovsted Ontario Trillium Donna & Gary Slaight Erin Brown Andrea Lynett Foundation Lori Spadorcia Marjorie Brown Clint Martinez Toronto Arts Council Linda Carter Ingrid Mathison AMBASSADORS Family Advisory Christopher Miller FOUNDATION ($500-$999) Committee, CAMH in Torsten Radke SUPPORTERS Annick Aubert Memory of Bahar Derek Rucas Nathan & Lili Silver Family Krista Chaytor Karimian Cathy Spooner Foundation Lynn Hardy Marian Gibson Amar Wala The Norman & Margaret Nancy & Leanne Horvath Alan Kay in Memory Hailey Ward in Memory Jewison Charitable Alan Kay, In Honour of of Jean Carmichael of Elizabeth Toon Marnie Foundation Blair Kay & William Sara Kelly Yates in Memory Norman & Marsha Paul Rizzuto Baron Manett of Elizabeth Toon Family Trust Seerat Kazmi Joan McDonald in Honour CORPORATE Marshall Korenblum of Karine McDonald SUPPORTERS Michele Poulin Ann Unger In Memory A Space Press Dr. Ivan Silver in Memory of Nanette Deger *Donor list is current for Bell Let’s Talk Community of Dr. Brenda Smith Nancy Vander Plaats August 1, 2018 to August Fund 28, 2019. If you see any Digital Edge CREATORS PATRONS ($20-$99) errors or omissions, please Friends of the CAMH ($250-$499) Anonymous let us know. Archives Anonymous Tina & Mike Agrell Green Shield Canada Give Brenda Arseneault Andree Bagosy Where We Live Program Scott Miller Berry Megan Casinha RBC George Dzuro in Memory Keith Courville in Memory TD Bank Group of Elizabeth Toon of Elizabeth Toon The Beret Lady Events David Goldbloom Ann Davidson The Granite Club in Mark Goldbloom & Melissa De Sousa Memory of Adrienne Jennifer Pilkington Myfanway Douglas Alison Norma Mendoza Suzanne Duncan
42 BECOME A FRIEND OF WORKMAN ARTS
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DONOR BENEFITS*
CATEGORY PATRON SUPPORTER CREATOR AMBASSADOR BENEFACTOR CHAMPION VISIONARY
SUPPORT LEVEL $20-$99 $100-$249 $250-$499 $500-$999 $1,000-$2,499 $2 ,5 00 - $ 4,9 99 $5,000+
TAX RECEIPT MAX ALLOWABLE AMOUNT
RECOGNITION ON WEBSITE & IN EVENT CATALOGUES
1 TICKET TO RWM OPENING NIGHT FILM & GALA RECEPTION
1 ADD’L TICKET TO RWM OPENING NIGHT FILM & GALA RECEPTION + 1 ALL ACCESS FESTIVAL PASS
1 ADD’L ALL ACCESS RWM FESTIVAL PASS
INVITE TO VIP RECEPTION FOR BEING SCENE
INVITE TO INNER CIRCLE DINNER
CUSTOMIZED BENEFITS
* Tax Receipting Policy: In accordance with CRA regulations, the value of benefits must be deducted from the total gift. Donors may choose to waive benefits and receive a full tax receipt.
Charitable Registration Number: 13073 4403 RR0001 43 MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
There are many options for accessing local and affordable mental health and addictions support. The resources below are arranged alphabetically by name, with the focus or format of their support listed below.
If you are in crisis, call Toronto Distress Centres at 416-408-HELP (4357) 24/7/365, or visit your closest hospital emergency department.
7 Cups of Tea Canadian Centre for Distress Centres of Ontario Free online text support Victims of Torture Distress support + resource 7cups.com Newcomer and refugee referral mental health + trauma dcontario.org Al-Anon/Alateen ccvt.org Addiction Empowerment Council al-anon.org Canadian Centre on CAMH client advocacy Substance empowermentcouncil.ca Alcoholics Anonymous Abuse (CCSA) Addiction Addiction Frederick W. Thompson aatoronto.org | aa.org ccsa.ca Anxiety Disorders Centre Anxiety Artist Health Network of Centre for ADD/ADHD sunnybrook.ca/ Canada Advocacy Canada content/?page=frederick- Artist health ADD/ADHD thompson-anxiety-disorders- artshealthnetwork.ca caddac.ca centre
Assaulted Women’s Helpline Centre for Addiction & Mental Gerstein Crisis Centre Violence against women Health (CAMH) Distress support + resource awhl.org Mental health + addiction referral camh.ca gersteincentre.org Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic COSTI Hard Feelings Women’s health Newcomer + refugee mental Low cost therapy schliferclinic.com health hardfeelings.org costi.org
44 Kids Help Phone Ontario Peer Development The Gestalt Institute Youth mental health Initiative (OPDI) of Toronto kidshelpphone.ca Peer advocacy Low cost therapy opdi.org gestalt.on.ca/low-cost- Lesbian Gay Bi Trans therapy-clinic Youth Line Ontario Suicide Prevention Youth LGBTQ+ Network Toronto Institute for youthline.ca Suicide prevention Relational Psychology ospn.ca Low cost therapy Maggie’s Toronto tirp.ca/lowcost Sex work + mental health Parents for Children’s Mental maggiestoronto.ca Health (PCMH) What’s Up Walk In Youth mental health Clinics Mind Your Mind pcmh.ca Free counselling for Youth mental health youth mindyourmind.ca Psychiatric Patient whatsupwalkin.ca Advocate’s Office (PPAO) Mood Disorders Client advocacy Women for Sobriety Association of Ontario sse.gov.on.ca/mohltc/ppao Addiction (women) Mood disorders womenforsobriety.org mooddisorders.ca Renascent Addiction Virtuous Pedophile Mood Disorders Society renascent.ca Sexual issues of Canada virped.org Mood disorders Schizophrenia Society of mooddisorderscanada.ca Ontario Psychosis National Eating schizophrenia.on.ca Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) Sheena’s Place Eating disorders Eating disorders nedic.ca sheenasplace.org
Native Child and Family Survivor Support Program Services Suicide grief Indigenous mental health torontodistresscentre.com/ nativechild.org suicide-loss
Ontario Obsessive The Family Association for Compulsive Mental Health Everywhere Disorder Network (FAME) (OCDOntario) Support for families + caregivers Anxiety/OCD fameforfamilies.com ocdontario.org
45 INDEX BY TITLE
FILMS Isolation 27 Tale of The Sea 41 Animation Fiction Aches 27 Ann Bekooy Bahman Farmanara Animation Nikole Hidalgo McGregor If You Ask Me 37 Talking at Night 32 Anthology Documentary Ancestral Landscapes 30 Saba Akhtar, Eric Thiessen Documentary Julianne Ess, Rick Miller Erum Khan, This Body 27
James Knott Animation Appearing Faces 27 Ess Joelle Okemow Animation Junha’s Planet 34 Shelton Deverell Documentary This River 29 Hyung-sook Hong Documentary Bedlam 32 Erika MacPherson, Documentary Kabul, City in the Wind 35 Katherena Vermette Kenneth Paul Rosenberg Documentary Aboozar Amini Uncle Thomas 38 Burn Out 27 Animation Animation M 33 Regina Pessoa Raoul Olou Documentary Yolande Zauberman Chaos 31 Documentary Michael 27 PERFORMANCES
Sara Fattahi Animation In This House 20 David Rendall Consent Is... 27 Play
The Freedom to Choose My Soul Drifts Light 30 Grace Thompson
Animation upon a Sea of Trees Intangible 21 Lucy Drumonde Documentary Adorations Heinrich Dahms Conviction 25 Performance Documentary Our Wonderful Lives 28 Lisa Anita Wegner Nance Ackerman, Teresa Fiction Laughter vs. 22 MacInnes, Ariella Pahlke Fabienne Godet The Universe Foxy 26 Restless 27 Comedy Headliner: Chanty Marostica Documentary Animation Trista Suke Tommy Truong Psychosis 18 In Search... 29 Retrospekt 36 Dance Documentary Fiction Ronald Taylor
Beryl Magoko Esther Rots The Life and Death 19 Irene’s Ghost 38 Root Causes 27 of Fred Herko Documentary Animation Performance Iain Cunningham M.C Cruz Natalie Liconti
46 BEING SCENE
OUR SIGNATURE, ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION Join us for our 19TH annual Being Scene exhibition in March 2020. For submissions information and details, visit workmanarts.com
Bursting Bubbles 2018, opening, artwork L-R: Kat Singer, Janieta Eyre
ART SALES & RENTAL
The Art Sales and Rental program at Workman Arts promotes and supports member artists through the sale, rental and exhibition of their work to public and private sector clients. All sales proceeds directly support artists with lived experience of mental health and addiction issues. To view our online gallery, visit workmanarts.com Being Scene 2019, opening, artwork L-R: TK Workman, Lorette Luzajic, Jackie Lewis, Kurt Rostek, Sylvia Frey, Leslie-Anne Smith, Robin Jones
For information contact Paulina Wiszowata, Visual Arts Coordinator [email protected] or 416-583-4339.
Art Rental Install, artwork: 47 Susana Rizzi ConnexGO: guided mental health and addictions information and system navigation
866.531.2600 connexontario.ca
Be Safe: tools for youth and young adults seeking crisis services mindyourmind.ca
Apps available for iOS and Android
48 Get accessibility information on art venues:
Open Minds Quarterly welcomes Access designations writing and art from people with lived experience of madness, Automatic door openers mental health challenges, mental Photos illness, and/or neurodiversity Washrooms NONFICTION • FICTION • POETRY • VISUAL ART • Parking E EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH REVIEWS LETTERS • • • Tactile labels, braille Video CC, described video ASL for programs Lighting, signage Connect with the experiences of your peers or broaden your Maps understanding of madness while supporting writers and artists with lived experience FLEXIBLE RATES & OPTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS • accessvisualart.ca ORGANIZATIONS • PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE Artwork: Half of Me • Laura Mclean www.openmindsquarterly.com // BVopenmindsquarterly
49 HARD FEELINGS STRONGER MENTAL HEALTH
Hard Feelings is a non-profit social enterprise. Our mission is to reduce barriers and increase access to mental health supports and resources. When you shop at Hard Feelings, you make this work possible. Our retail storefront supports the delivery of low-cost counselling by a unique community of professional counsellors. Visit our storefront to find a selection of curated books and resources that can help build and sustain stronger mental health.
To learn more about our work, visit hardfeelings.org or follow us @hardfeelingsto on
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50 A SPACE TO REIMAGINE MEDIA ARTS
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51 Who needs another pair of socks this year?
We do. For a patient who arrives at our doors with nothing, even the most basic items can mean everything.
This holiday, purchase an Emergency Kit at giftsoflight.ca to give CAMH patients essentials such as socks and toiletries.
Show someone who is living with mental illness that they’re not alone.
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