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2002

13 December, 2002. 7-10pmConvocation Hall, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen St. W, Toronto Tickets $35.00 This first of its kind event is bound to be the hottest of the 2002 Holiday Season, featuring paintings, drawings, photographs, prints by some of the best South Asian Artists in the city, and performances by top musical groups and dancers.This is your evening to be entertained in style! Enjoy delicious food, mingle and bid on your favorite artworks in a silent auction. It is also your night to make a difference!The proceeds raised for SALCO will provide access...
Professor Salima HashmiWednesday, 24 July, 7pm Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto. Henry White Kinnear Education Theatre $8 general public, free to SAVAC members   Salima Hashmi is the curator of Threads, Dreams, Desires, an exhibition that traces some of the strategies artists in Pakistan have evolved to question the canons of 'fine art' and 'craft'. The exhibition is currently on exhibit at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston UK and features the work of Naazish Attaullah, Ruby Chishti, Aisha Khan, Naiza Khan, Imran Qureshi,...
#Sylvat Aziz, Hamra Abbas, Rashid Rana, Ali Raza, Risham Syed 12 July- 5 September, 2002.York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront, Toronto235 Queens Quay W. Organized by Karin Miller-Lewis and Mahnaz Fancy of the IndoCenter of Art & Culture     Painting Over the Lines provides a glimpse into the vital culture of a country in transition. Until recently, the culture and politics of Pakistan have received sporadic attention on the world stage. But over the last year, the need to understand its contemporary conflicts, culture and history has acquired an unpreced...
SAVAC is proud to offer its membership a program of mentoring workshops with Sarindar Dhaliwal.   Sarindar Dhaliwal is a visual artist based in Toronto. She was born in the Punjab, raised in England and moved to Canada in 1968. She has shown extensively in Canada over the past twenty years and also served on the boards of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Toronto Arts Council and Fuse Magazine.SAVAC members are invited to take part in this exciting program where they will work one on one with Sarindar Dhaliwal to articulate their artistic goals and develop...
#Avantika Bawa (Savannah, Georgia), Astra Howard (Sydney, Australia), Cyrus Irani (Toronto, Canada) 4-27 April, 2002 64 Sixty Four Steps Contemporary Art Gallery, 1164 Queen St. W., Toronto Curated by Rashmi Varma Opening reception: Thursday, 4 April, 2002. 7-10pm   Rebirth of Space explores the nature of physical space and transformations, through poetics, excavations, construction and reconstruction.Avanitka Bawa creates a sculptural installation using common building materials and cardboard boxes that reflect urban Toronto, while formally engaging ...
# Sylvat Aziz, Siona Benjamin, Chitra Ganesh, Rummy Gill, Samina Mansuri, Amin Rehman, Sakun Samarkoon, Tamara Zeta Sanowar-Makhan, Camilla Singh, Leela Viswanathan 25 April - 26 May, 2002 Laidlaw Hall, Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga Opening Reception: Thursday, 25 April 25, 6-8pm Jury: Shelly Bahl, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Asma Arshad Mahmood   Jurors Shelly Bahl, Sarindar Dhaliwal and Asma Arshad Mahmood have selected works by SAVAC members that best facilitate a rich and textured reading of the contemporary views of diaspori...
Including work by Amna Amir, Roark Andrade, Neena Arora, Nikolas Groot, Wahab Jaffer, Rachel Kalpana James, Mona Kamal, Asma Arshad Mahmood, Shahid Mahmood, Riaz Mehmood, Asma Menon, Gwen Pura, Sejal Purewal, Meera Sethi, Nep Sidhu, Sanjiv Sirpal, Khadija Saleh, Sukhinder, Vicky Talwar, Rashmi Varma Friday, 22 March, from 7-10pm 401 Richmond St. W - in the newly transformed subterranean paradise Admission and raffle ticket: $10   SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Collective) presents Exotica~Erotica, a one-night art and performance extravaganza to benefi...
#9-14 February, 2002 The Loftus Lioyd Cafe, 401 Richmond St. W., TorontoCo-sponsored by WARC and Mercer Union Opening Lecture with Shilpa Gupta WARC, 401 Richmond St. W., Suite 122 9 February, 2pm ...since you are too busy to send a handwritten letter nowadays, you can do so here! Just speak your emotions into the microphone and the rest will be taken care of. Your letter will be handwritten, scented and mailed to the person of your choice. It will be processed in Bombay, which has 16 million people and a lot of unemployment, so lots of cheap skilled ...
# Mona Kamal, Pamila Matharu, Tara Sabharwal 12 January - 9 February, 2002 WARC Gallery. 401 Richmond St. W., Suite 122, Toronto curated by Corinna Ghaznavi Opening reception: Saturday, 12 January, 2-5pm Artist/curator discussion: Saturday, 12 January, 4pm   Wish explores issues of location, culture, and identity through fragments, glimpses and interior landscapes.Mona Kamal's Screen of Wishes is a textile installation of re-knotted threads sewn to create an eight-foot panel of fine netting. This is hung against the backdrop of Kamal's mother's sa...
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