The Peterborough Examiner

[in]Sites events schedule

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[in]Sites events presented by Public Energy, Artspace, ReFrame Film Festival and the Art Gallery of Peterborou­gh

Saturday: Aki: Five Short Films about Place Curve Lake First Nations Pow Wow - 1 to 6 p.m. Local filmmaker Cara Mumford chose the films. She’ll talk about the films and their relationsh­ip to the idea of place.

Sept. 23: Woven Wires Downtown - 8 p.m./8:45 p.m./9 p.m. Toronto-based artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher and Denver-based artist Pearl Salas will perform a response to how media is changing our past, present and future selves.

Sept. 24: Manifesto workshop Artspace - noon Lead by Vanessa Dion Fletcher, the event is designed to inspire political awareness and action by examining the history of artist manifestoe­s. Participan­ts will write their own manifesto.

Sept. 27: Pushing It Del Crary Park/Art Gallery of Peterborou­gh (AGP) - 3 p.m./5:30 p.m. Becky Welter-Nolan will push a sixfoot textile boulder around Del Crary at 3 p.m. and through the AGP at 5:30 p.m. A reception will follow.

Sept. 30: Brenda Francis Pelkey: A Retrospect­ive/Pushing It. AGP - 2 to 5 p.m. Two exhibition­s, Brenda Francis Pelkey: A Retrospect­ive and Becky Welter-Nolan’s Pushing It are launched for the fall.

Oct. 1: Call and Response: Site Specific Practices Panel Talk APG - 11 a.m. A panel discussion with artists Brian Solomon, Becky Welter-Nolan and Francis Pelkey.

Oct. 11: Pine Tree Talk Nozhem First Peoples’ Performanc­e Space, Gzowski College – noon to 1 p.m. The talk features artists Brian Solomon and Aria Evans.

Oct. 19/20: Nogojiwano­ng Rite of Spring Anishnaabe burial site: 190 Brock St. - 6 p.m. A site-specific dance featuring community members and profession­al dancers that re-envisions the 1913 modern ballet Rite of Spring through an Indigenous lens.

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