We are pleased to co-present “Domestic Cinema” at the Images Festival. Artistic Director Steffanie Ling writes that the ongoing discourse of Domestic Cinema springs from Gabi Dao’s film The Protagonists. Examining the relationships that...
In partnership with Trinity Square Video and CONTACT Photography Festival, we are pleased to present The Loudspeaker and the Tower featuring works by artist Manar Moursi. Through an immersive environment constructed of coloured lights,...
You are invited to SAVAC’s 2019 Annual General Meeting. Meet staff, board members and learn more about what we are planning for 2019. Every year the board is elected at the Annual General Meeting, which is open...
SAVAC presents Fakepicnik, our first annual deepwinter picnic at your local indoor beach at The Commons @ 401 Richmond. Chill under the fake sun, share “seasonal” foods and hang with the SAVAC crew and community. Expect charades....
We are pleased to present Coco Guzman’s graduate student exhibition. Las cosas que se quedan / The things that remain investigates the relationship between the experiences of political haunting, embodied memory and mass tourism...
The exhibition The Medium is the Medium is the Medium presents works by media artist P. Mansaram and thinks through the artist’s decades-long practice of repetition.
Exile Series = Rising Sadness Performance and Artist Talk by Ali Asgar Presented by OCAD University’s Art and Social Change, The President’s Office and Onsite Gallery Co-sponsored by SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) and...
How do severed architectures become sites of memory? How do Indigenous peoples and diasporic settlers come to occupy constructed landscapes as specters? This program explores human intimacies with transitory landscapes—built urban neighbourhoods and homes...
As a part of the Toronto Queer Film Festival, SAVAC is happy to co-present a program of experimental shorts titled Lands and Seas of Bones. Featuring films from Turtle Island, the program remember the...
SAVAC is pleased to co-present The Feeling of Being Watched (Q&A with director Assia Boundaoui to follow) at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) on Sunday 23 September 2018 at, 4:15 PM. Filmmaker Assia Boundaoui is haunted by a childhood memory...