Sundays at One

All discussions begin at 1:00 pm. Admission is free.

6th Annual Corn Roast
Sunday, September 12, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Wolf Sculpture Garden

Join London artist and rogue roaster Ron Benner at his garden installation As the Crow Flies for a corn roast. Part sculpture, part installation and part performance, the event will feature Benner�s roving corn roasting wagon Maiz Barbacoa. The site-specific piece�first exhibited in Montreal in 1984 after years of research�features a pond, garden and corn plants surrounded by black and white laminated photographs that trace the militarization of food and society, as well as themes of activism, environmentalism and global food politics.

Musician Frank Ridsdale will entertain us with his resolute songs of political misdemeanours covering a wide geographical range from the Port Stanley harbour to Latin American revolutionary songs. The London native and his band Slugfest are best known for their 2006 CD �The Port�, which pays homage to the Lake Erie beach he visited as a child and performed at as an adult.

Admission: FREE

Brenda Joy Lem in Conversation with M. NourbeSe Adamu Philip
Sunday, September 19, 1:00 pm

Artist Brenda Joy Lem will speak with noted writer M. NourbeSe Adamu Philip about themes key to Lem�s work currently on exhibition: memory, ritual and spirituality, racism, alienation and immigration, the enduring heart and its capacity for transformation. M. NourbeSe Adamu Philip is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, essays and drama. She is the winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize and a Fellow in Poetry of the Guggenheim Foundation. Her most recent work is the book-length poem, Zong! Her essay, "All Her Relations", on Brenda Joy Lem's work appears in the exhibition catalogue.

Admission: FREE

Performance and Lecture by Artist Natalka Husar, followed by Book Launch
Sunday, September 26, 1:00 pm

Assuming the costume of her alter ego, the stewardess, painter Natalka Husar will take the audience on a trip, complete with in-flight movies, to her past, her muses in Ukraine and then back to her painting studio in Canada. This blend of artist  talk and performance will delight all passengers.

After Natalka's talk, please join us for a launch of the Husar Handbook, a richly illustrated book, co-published by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, MacKenzie Art Gallery, McMaster Museum of Art and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. It contains essays by Gerta Moray (Toronto-based art historian), Dawn Owen (Assistant Curator, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre), Carol Podedworny (Director and Chief Curator, McMaster Museum of Art), Stuart Reid (Executive Director, MacKenzie Art Gallery), and Meeka Walsh (Editor, Border Crossings). The Handbook accompanies the catalogue Natalka Husar: Burden of Innocence. Both books will be available for purchase.

This program is part of Culture Days, organized by the Ontario Arts Council.
 

Admission: FREE

Theatrical Performance by Ojibway Storyteller Aaron Bell
Sunday, October 24, 1:00 pm
Theatre

Aaron Bell, Ojibway Storyteller, has been sharing the stories of First Nations people of Turtle Island for the past fifteen years. Through Bell�s interactive storytelling skills and dramatic presentation with hands-on materials, audience members of all ages will gain a better understanding of the First Nations people who have lived beside us for the past five hundred years. Bell has performed across Canada and has recently released his first young adult book entitled Jak's Story, which will be for sale after his performance. He currently resides in Brantford.

Admission: FREE

Curator Kathryn Brush Tours the Exhibition
Sunday, November 28, 1:00 pm
Moore Gallery

Join Kathryn Brush for new views into ways in which concepts about the Middle Ages helped to shape the history and visual culture of London and southern Ontario. Special attention will be paid to the invention of the �medievalizing� townscape of Canada�s new London on the Thames, where a Gothic-style �castle�-courthouse, now located next to Museum London, was the first building to be constructed (1827-29). Paintings by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven in Museum London�s collection will also be reinterpreted through the lens of medievalism.

Admission: FREE


Medieval Film Festival
Sunday, November 14, 1:00 pm
Lecture Theatre

Join Professor Kathryn Brush, guest curator of Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier, and her graduate students for a Sunday afternoon of medieval-themed films designed to complement the exhibition. Please consult the �Events� section of the official Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier website (http://www.mappingmedievalism.ca) for updates about the titles of these �reel� Middle Ages.

Admission: FREE

Artist Peter Dykhuis and Curator Robin Metcalfe in Conversation
Sunday, October 3, 1:00 pm
Ivey South Gallery

Public and private meet in this London native�s work: snippets of geo-spatial digital maps and Google landscapes collide with personal stick-it notes from home and sections of inter-office envelopes from work. Artist and curator help us connect the pieces and form the larger picture as they discuss notions of person and place, transportation and exchange, and how these shape local cultural geography.

Admission: FREE

Exhibition Tour with Curator Cassandra Getty
Sunday, October 17, 1:00 pm
Lawson Family Gallery

Cassandra Getty leads us on an insightful tour of works by Painters Eleven that have been united for the first time: paintings from Museum London�s collection can be appreciated in relation to works from regional private collections. Getty will address the emergence of the group in the fifties, and will elaborate on the significant position it has had on Canadian art in general. Of particular interest is the group�s philosophy of abstraction and colourism, and unique ways in which each member expressed him or herself through nonobjective painting.

Admission: FREE