[community] Invitation: Toronto Public Library Workshop with David Bobier on November 22 - ASL Interpreted Program

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Please join Toronto Public Library on November 22 for a workshop with David Bobier to explore accessibility, art, and communication. This program will be presented with ASL interpretation. Spaces are limited. Register now!<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/iir-a-workshop-with-david-bobier-accessibility-art-and-communication-tickets-457303114927> Details about the program are below.

Program:      A Workshop with David Bobier - Accessibility, Art, and Communication
Date:             Tuesday November 22, 2022
Time:            2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Location:       North York Central Library, E-Learning Lab (5120 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, M2N 5N9).

ASL Interpretation will be provided. If you identify as a person with a disability or a person who is Deaf, and require additional accessibility accommodation to participate in this program, please contact clinnovationhub at tpl.ca or 416-395-5646 as far in advance as possible.

Description:

David Bobier is a media artist, educator, arts administrator and curator. He is the Founder, Director and Curator of VibraFusionLab in London, Ontario, an arts-based public studio that investigates multi-sensory artistic modalities in the creation and presentation of art by and for people of all abilities. His artistic practice has been recognized in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has been the recipient of a number of Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council grants. He has served in advisory roles in developing Deaf and Disability Arts Equity programs for both Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. He is hard of hearing and is the parent of two deaf children.

Using performance and interactive installation, Bobier explores the bridging of methods of communication and language and ways of interpreting or transforming one modality to another. His work is engaged in a multi-sensory approach and experimentation that allows for the transitioning and re-interpreting of content and experience from one medium to another with particular emphasis on the tactile as a form of creative expression. Bobier will be presenting on this work and on the work he does through VibraFusionLab.

This program is presented as part of Toronto Public Library's Innovator in Residence program, with Jason Cullimore. The Innovator in Residence program is generously sponsored by the Holdbest Foundation.

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Thank you!

Winona

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