Join us on Thursday, November 3th for a hands-on art experience with Nura Ali during our all-ages, family-focused First Free Thursday!
This print transfer workshop utilizes ink and language as participants explore how we make meaning, with a focus on how our brain works to make meaning out of language.
Nura aims to create an awareness of how we are not users of language but shapers of it. This is done by thinking of translation as a way to understand that meaning is not fixed, but a reflection of the relationship between sensory input and ourselves as interpreters
ABOUT NURA:
Nura Ali is a visual artist, writer and curator, living and working in Calgary, Alberta. She received a BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, a BA in English Literature, Art History and Italian from the University of Leicester and a BA in History from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her wide-ranging practise investigates the linguistic scaffolding upholding the assumptions we bring to the act of reading and writing. Alongside her visual arts practise Nura is also a prolific writer, a lifelong learner and has participated in various national and international residencies. Her work has been shown nationally and received numerous awards and grants; most recently from the Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. When she is not curled up with a book or puttering around her garden, Nura is dreaming up ways to dismantle oppressive structures and for this reason became one of the founding members of the Vancouver Artists Labour Union; a unionised workers cooperative whose mission it is to transform labour practises in the arts sector and create fair, equitable and sustainable working conditions for artists and cultural workers.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
This is event is for all ages, youth and family. Please ensure you RSVP and then drop in during first free thursday from 6-8pm on November 3rd. This will be fun and messy, please dress appropriately.