I have the good fortune to be working on website redesigns for author Kyo Maclear’s website in preparation for the release of two new books — Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault’s gorgeous picture book, Virginia Wolf, and a new novel, Stray Love. These two charming and homespun book trailers should whet your appetite for the coming editions.

The Pedagogical Impulse artist residency project at OISE kicks off tonight with an event featuring fifteen 3-minute “Performance Lectures” — it promises to be entertaining:

The Three Minute Launch
Thursday January 19th, 2012 from 5:30 to 7:30pm
The Pedagogical Impulse Lab Space
Room 10-140,
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor St. West
Toronto, ON

The Pedagogical Impulse in their own words is:

…a platform for research-creation concerned with contemporary art’s paradigmatic re-orientation towards the educational. The project will orient itself around a series of artist residencies that will take place across a number of educational sites (K-12 classrooms, teacher education programs, graduate programs, and community spaces) in order to examine how artists are engaging with educational concepts as spaces for the development of new critical practices, and the potential transformative engagements that occur when such art practices are located in collaboration with schools.

I hope to see you there!

An essential resource to the Toronto film community for 30 years, LIFT is celebrating with three nights of screenings at the AGO Jackman Hall! For more information (including a list of the films screening) visit the LIFT website.

30 x 30 – Three Nights of Films for 30 Years of Filmmaking

8:00pm Thursday, January 19, 2012
8:00pm Friday, January 20, 2012
8:00pm Saturday, January 21, 2012

AGO Jackman Hall
317 Dundas Street West (McCaul Street entrance)
Toronto, ON
Canada
$8

After party will be on Saturday, January 21st at 10:00pm.
Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina Avenue. Free admission. Cash Bar.