Fall workshop series
We are happy to announce that Art Volt is collaborating with articule, ELAN, FutureBound and Yellow Pad Sessions to offer a series of online professional training workshops this fall!
Workshops
Presented in Collaboration with articule
Sunday, September 12th – 11am to 12pm in English with Fannie Sosa
Pleasurably obtaining knowledge, fabricating it, and redistributing it, seems to be at the core of an intersectional understanding where knowledge, power and pleasures and pain are interrelated. Black femme pain being inevitable is part of a necro-colonial extractivist extension that self-actualizes to generate and accumulate wealth, so "whose pleasures are enhanced by ignorance?" and "whose pleasures are suppressed by knowledge?" are complex questions that must be asked repeatedly in any look of liberation. Pleasurably hacking femme-hood, womxnity and Blackness is one of the strategies I’d like to defend in the making of liberatory practices, theories and economies.
About Fannie Sosa
Fannie Sosa is an afro-sudaka activist, artist, and pleasure scholar, currently doing a France-Brasil co-directed PhD called Twerk/Torque: Anti Colonial Strategies for Thriving and Surviving in Web 2.0 Times. They creates mixed media knowledge packages that span performance / video installations / circular talks / extended workshops, using pleasure and its transmission as a radical act of resistance for an embodied afro-diasporic evolutionary praxis.
Their written work is set up to question binary epistemicides, scientific and institutional racism, and sex economical inequalities. They have been featured at the Tate Modern (UK), MOAD Miami (US), le Centre Pompidou (FR), the Broad Museum (US), Wiener Festwochen (AU), Nitéroi’s MAC (BR), IMG Gallery (UK), and Museo Reina Sofía(ES), among others. Sosa has collaborated with Tabita Rezaire, Navild Acosta, Bearcat, Miss Boogie, Ana Pi, and Julien Creuzet.
Sosa’s current projects involve Pleasure is Power, a multimedia conference around healing bass, sexual autonomy and oshunality, and Black Power Naps, a series of non mixed restful spaces around the world, in collaboration with Navild Acosta. They use their gender studies degree to pop their pussy even more severely than before.
Fannie Sosa currently lives and works between Europe and South-America.
How to Register
Please note that we will prioritize BIPOC participants for this workshop.
Offered by FutureBound, D3 and GradProSkills
Tuesday, September 21st – 1pm to 3pm in English with Alexandra Allen, Talent Coordinator, District 3
Do you have an idea that you believe will make a difference in the world? Have you come up with a technological breakthrough and are wondering what options you have to take it to the market? Are you passionate about what you know and want to make a social or economic impact? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then this workshop is for you.
During this workshop, you will get to explore entrepreneurship and what it entails to be an entrepreneur with the goal of helping you make an informed decision on what you want to do with your knowledge and ideas. This workshop will also introduce you to the process of business modeling as a thinking framework that can help you guide your idea into a sellable product.
About D3
D3 helps nurture and develop multidisciplinary startup teams that harness emerging tech to create businesses with global impact. They look for the brightest of minds and offer the most rigorous training. D3 bridges the knowledge, skills and resource gap between building a product and building a company.
How to Register
This workshop is open to undergraduate and graduate students of Concordia University, as well as recent alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Presented in Collaboration with FutureBound
Thursday, October 7th – 10am to 12pm in English with Burcu Emeç
This workshop will introduce participants to self-producing and event planning from the perspective of artists and cultural workers. We will cover aspects such as building and managing a project, approaching organizations and presenters of interest, preparing communications, and increasing the accessibility of artistic events. The workshop aims to provide artists and cultural workers with introductory tools to self-produce, allowing them to realize their projects and effectively balance the administrative aspects of being an artist.
About Burcu Emeç
Burcu Emeç (she/her) is a performance maker and cultural worker who practices care, political engagement, and rigorous curiosity. Her approach as a performance maker mixes social commentary, active listening, and visual art. Her cultural work is focused on public programs and arts advocacy, with an interest in anti-oppressive organizational development and collaborative structures. Burcu’s artistic work has been presented in a wide range of settings in Montreal and Toronto. Recent accolades include the Mécènes investis pour les arts and the OFFTA Hybridity Award.
How to Register
This workshop is open to undergraduate students of Concordia University and recent alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Presented in Collaboration with Yellow Pad Sessions
Thursday, October 14th – 1pm to 3pm in English with Kelly Belfo
From creating effective artist one-sheets, to getting your music charted on national campus and community radio reports, this workshop will present valuable tips and tricks for getting your name and music out there!
Join us to find out how to increase your chances of getting your music charting on national reports such as !Earshot Magazine, to learn about what music industry curators are looking for when it comes to artist one-sheets, and to discover how to get your music played on college/community campus radio across Canada.
About Kelly Belfo
Born and raised in Montreal, this Egyptian/Portuguese lovechild is inspired by ancestral drumming and funky basslines, playing music from afro latin house to psychedelic funk and soul.
World Music Director at CJLO 1690 AM and co-founder of Flat Cola MTL, a non-profit organization showcasing female DJs from around the world, Kelly Belfo is also known as DJ Sugarface Belfo. She recently played on ICI Musique Radio Canada and Piknic Electronik Montréal 2021.
As a mentor for CJLO’s “On Rotation” Artist Residency Program, her guidance helped world music artist, Joyce N’sana, reach and remain No 1 in Canada on World Music charts (!Earshot, 2016).
How to Register
This workshop is open to students and recent alumni of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, as well as members of Yellow Pad Sessions.
To register, please email your name, program/department and year of graduation to artvolt@concordia.ca.
Presented in Collaboration with ELAN
Tuesday, November 2nd – 10am to 1pm in English with Chris Enns, Rags to Reasonable
Are your finances a major source of stress? In this workshop, we’ll talk about the fundamentals of finance and how to start building a financial technique. We’ll work with tools that help connect your money to what really matters, manage money when your income is variable, and strategies to pay off debt/save for the big things you’re working towards.
About Chris Enns
Chris Enns is a certified financial planner (CFP) and opera singer. He has spent the last 10 years as a performing artist and learned the hard way that ignoring money doesn’t really work. He is the founder of Rags to Reasonable - an advice only financial planning firm that specializes in working with creatives and people with other non-traditional financial situations.
How to Register
This workshop is open to students and recent alumni of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, as well as members of ELAN.
To register, please email your name, program/department and year of graduation to artvolt@concordia.ca.
Presented in Collaboration with ELAN
Thursday, November 11th – 1pm to 3pm in English with Nick Maturo, ELAN
Want to know what grants are available to artists in Quebec? Ready to make your first application but not sure how to get started? This is the workshop for you! In this one-hour presentation and Q&A led by Nick Maturo, manager of ELAN’s Québec Relations project, we’ll cover the basics of arts funding in Quebec and highlight the resources ELAN offers to take the stress and confusion out of the process. From ELAN’s searchable online funding database and one-on-one consultations to match you with the grants that are right for you, to the free referrals for grant assistance to help you apply with confidence, Québec Relations has everything you need to navigate the provincial arts funding system. Join us to learn more!
About Québec Relations Project
Since its launch in 2018, ELAN’s Québec Relations project has sought to better understand the needs and experiences of the English-speaking arts community and to develop resources that facilitate artists’ access to funding in Quebec through hands-on support and guidance. For more information, please consult our project webpage or contact us directly at research@quebec-elan.org. Québec Relations is funded by the Secretariat for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers.
About Nick Maturo
Nick Maturo currently serves as an ELAN project manager for Québec Relations, having originally joined the team in 2019. Nick also holds an M.A. in Communications Studies from McGill University and a B.F.A. in Electroacoustic Studies from Concordia University. His ongoing research considers musician labour and the role of institutions within the rapidly evolving field of online music distribution. As an artist, Nick has been active in Montréal’s experimental music community for over ten years and has performed at the Suoni Per Il Popolo and MUTEK festivals.
How to Register
This workshop is open to students and recent alumni of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, as well as members of ELAN.
To register, please email your name, program/department and year of graduation to artvolt@concordia.ca.
