Kaffeeklatsch

Kaffeeklatsch: In Conversation with Moneca Sinclaire and Ildako Nova

Friday, October 22, 12:00-100 pm CDT

Facilitated on Zoom and live-streaming on the School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba YouTube channel. ASL interpretation and closed captioning available

Moneca Sinclaire and guest Ildiko Nova are both self-taught Winnipeg-based recycled media artists whose art practices explore the intersections of identity, material application, community and storytelling. For both artists, their shared histories of marginalization, displacement and genocide as Indigenous and Romani are critical to their work. Similarly, their art practices are sites of self-healing, reclamation, and continuation of culture and stories to never be forgotten. As recycled media artists, their reasonings for re-using vary; Sinclaire considers herself a recycle, environmental or sustainable artist whereas Nova uses recycled materials to reclaim their purpose. Both work with and in the community as art teachers, facilitators, and activists.

Workshop: Mobile Creations

Saturday, October 23, 1:00-2:30 pm CDT

Facilitated on Zoom. Closed captioning available. ASL interpretation available upon request (please contact soageducator@umanitoba.ca by October 9 if you require an ASL interpreter)

In this workshop, Moneca Sinclaire will teach participants how to create a mobile using household items and materials found in nature. Discover easy ways you can make use of branches and sticks from nature and assorted household objects to create a 3-dimensional mobile that can be hung inside or outside.

Please have ready in advance of the workshop: an interesting branch or stick, and assorted household objects, which can include, but are not limited to, old cereal boxes, aluminium cans, shipping cartons, cereal boxes, shredded paper, CDs, tin cans, bottles, and more.