Undercurrents Forum - Ongoing
Organized by Pumice Raft in collaboration with artist-educator Chris Mendoza, this program investigates notions of public and private space, the geopolitics underlying them, and their impact on artistic production.
Pumice Raft 5-Year Anniversary - November 2, 2024
Group photo and celebration of Pumice Raft's 5-year anniversary at 348 Ryding Avenue
Summer Triple Feature - July 13, 2024
Andrew James Paterson's "The Walking Philosopher," Bennett Miller's "The Cruise," and Chloé Galibert-Laîné's "Flânerie 2.0."
Kiss Landing Book Launch - May 11, 2024
Fatine-Violette Sabiri and Nathan Donovan in conversation to celebrate the launch of Fatine's new artist book: Kiss Landing
Exiles From the Future Vol.2 Labour Panel - April 20, 2024
Panelists include: Meagan Christou (AGO technician and strike captain); Vanessa Rieger (Power Plant shop steward and senior technician); and Luis Jacob (artist and assistant professor at University of Toronto). The panel will be moderated by Jack Copple (Toronto & York Region Labour Council employee and former shop steward at the Gladstone Hotel).
Meaningful Congress - January 20, 2024
Readings by: Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Esmé Hogeveen, Andrew James Paterson, and Lee Suksi.
Dance screening - December 30, 2023
A screening of the 2014 rendition of DANCE, a collaboration between Lucinda Childs, Sol LeWitt, and Philip Glass.
if the path is paved with asphalt - September 2, 2023
Readings by: Faith Arkorful, Angel Callander, Nora Rosenthal, Sennah Yee; book launch for
Performing Radical Dependency - June 20, 2023
Performances by Lili Huston-Herterich, Ami Xherro, Fan Wu, Shima Raeesi, and Hannia Cheng at Tail of the Junction Music Lounge.
Einstein on the Beach screening - December 30, 2022
This screening featured documentation of a production of "Einstein on the Beach" that took place on July 1, 2014 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.
Implicit Choreographies & Relational Topographies - Summer/Fall 2022
Organized by Pumice Raft in collaboration with artist-educator Chris Mendoza, Implicit Choreographies & Relational Topographies is a processional public program sited within the Don River Valley.
Happenstance
A spontaneous, nomadic, and ephemeral reading series curated by Cason Sharpe.
Soupy - June 25, 2022
As part of the closing reception for
High Park Labyrinth Remediation - June 12, 2022
In partnership with the Friends of the Labyrinth Society of Ontario and the City of Toronto, Pumice Raft repainted the lines of the High Park Labyrinth.
A Room with Four People Reading - May 25, 2021
A conversation with Rotterdam-based artist Lili Huston-Herterich to discuss her billboard project “A room with four people” (2021) as well as facilitate a group reading of a corresponding manuscript that explores the four characters and their relationship to cycles of use, labour, and refuse.
A Coin with Two Sides - September 19, 2020
A Zoom conversation with Hiba Abdallah and Michael Abel discussing Architecture as Propaganda, Urban Advocacy, and How to Meaningfully Engage with Community in Space
Lamp in the Hand Artist Talk - June 1, 2020
A Instagram Live conversation with Vancouver-based artist Graeme Wahn discussingn the effects of Covid-19 on exhibition planning and the ways in which publishing can expand the scope of a project
Socially Distant Residency Project - May 2020
A residency experiment during COVID-19 featuring: Kathleen Taylor, Daniel Rotsztain, Cotey Pope, Fan Wu
Images in/of the City - May 6, 2019
Esther Hovers (False Positives, FW: Books) and Melanie Wilmink (Ed. with Solomon Nagler of Sculpting Cinema, Pleasure Dome)
The Evolution of the Artist-run Centre - December 3, 2017
Karen Carter (B.A.N.D), Jess Carroll (AC Repair Co.), Veronika Ivanova (Bunker 2), and Manden Murphy (Roberta Pelan), Michael Pace (Art Metropole)
Toronto's Psychogeography, Spaces, and Places - November 4, 2017
Matt Blackett (Publisher, Spacing Magazine), Catherine Nasmith (President, Architectural Conservancy Ontario), Amy Lavender Harris (Author, Imagining Toronto)
The Intersections of Cinema and Architecture - October 7, 2017
James Macgillivray (Partner, LAMAS) and Joseph Clement (Director, Integral Man)