Regent Park Film Festival: Digital Activism Panel


In the wake of the #MeToo movement, locally-based filmmakers and artists explore the implications this may have for women and trans folks belonging to communities of colour. Black communities, and Indigenous communities locally, and beyond. This discussion will focus on how each panelist’s work engages with ideas of racialized misogyny, sexual literacy, consent, and gender-based justice.

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Anique Jordan is joining the Digital Activism Panel with award winning filmmaker Shazia Javed, and feminist community organizer and philosopher Erica Violet Lee. The talkback will be moderated by legal and academic writer Azeezah Kanji.  



TD Bank Group Emerging Artist of the Year

September 4, 2018 - The Hnatyshyn Foundation announces $75,000 in awards for Canada’s visual artists and curators. The $25,000 prize for outstanding achievement by a Canadian mid-career artist is awarded to Maria Hupfield of Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario via Brooklyn, New York, while the winner of the $15,000 award for curatorial excellence in contemporary art is Daina Warren of Akamihk Montana First Nation in Maskwacis and Winnipeg, Manitoba. The TD Bank Group Awards of $10,000 each for emerging artist and emerging curator go to artist Anique Jordan of Scarborough, Ontario and curator Eunice Bélidorof Tiohtia:ke and Montreal. The William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes of $5,000 each for young artists go to Esmaa Mohamoud of Toronto, Audie Murray of Saskatchewan and British Columbia, and Hjalmer Wenstobfrom the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations and living in Ucluelet, British Columbia. The laureates will be honoured at a reception held on September 12th at the headquarters of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in Ottawa.

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Artist-in-Residence at Osgoode Hall

Osgoode’s 2018-19 Artist in Residence Anique Jordan (left) and FILM Fellows Allie Caldwell (centre), Jalana Lewis (right)

Artist in Residence Anique Jordan is an acclaimed artist, writer, curator, organizer and city builder who has participated in residencies around the world, lectured extensively and exhibited in numerous galleries.

She was awarded the 2017 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, is currently completing a 2017-18 artist residency at the University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago) and is the executive director of Whippersnapper Gallery in Toronto. She has a specialized honours BA in international development as well as a master’s in environmental studies from York University.

Working for more than a decade at the crossroads of community economic development and art, Jordan’s work as an artist plays with the foundations of traditional Trinidadian carnival and the theory of hauntology – challenging historical narratives and creating what she calls “impossible images.” During her residency, she will use the story of Clara Ford – a black Toronto-born woman who stood trial for the murder in 1895 of a wealthy white man who had allegedly assaulted her – to develop a performance art work involving Osgoode students that will bring this buried legal history into “a futuristic imagining of emancipation, freedom and the complexities of black survival.”

“They are three very talented artists whose justice-themed projects will undoubtedly provoke thought and discussion,” said Condon in her announcement.

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