Forty-nine years after a York University class concert that never quite ended, Eric Cadesky on candlelight, breakage, and the world’s only ensemble that builds, plays, and tours its own glass instruments.
How Toronto’s early punk scene erupted into life, shaped by art school, DIY spaces, and a city steeped in constraint, boredom, and borrowed influence—told by people who were there.
Actor, director, and playwright Christopher Morris on the intensive research and moral questioning behind his play The Runner, opening this week in a new production presented by Koffler Arts.
From her talk presented by Koffler Arts, producer and actor Jennifer Podemski reflects on her early years navigating her dual Jewish and Indigenous identities, what that taught her about the importance of continuity, and how her career has shaped the way she thinks about representation in media.
Poet and playwright Titilope Sonuga on her new libretto for Stravinsky’s 1918 theatrical work being performed by the Art of Time Ensemble, inspired by the story of the Canadian army’s first all-Black battalion.
If singers and musicians are our culture’s de facto philosophers of love, what do their sometimes headline-grabbing relationships tell us about the art of creating together.
Arcade speaks with Toronto artist Nancy Friedland on what drove her mid-career transition from conceptual photography to painting, and how the anticipation of grief lay at the heart of much of her work.
As he approaches the first anniversary of his joining Koffler Arts as its new general director, Arcade spoke with Matthew Jocelyn about the tenuous position of Canadian arts organizations, and his vision for Koffler going forward.
A conversation with Brazilian artist Giselle Beiguelman about her exhibition Botannica Tirannica—now showing at Koffler Arts—and understanding the colonial imagination.
Fresh off of winning a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Barbara Astman looks back at the materials and methods behind her two works included in Koffler Arts' recent group show DECADE.
