Location: Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto. Meeting Room. Getting there.

All events are free and open to the public.

Opening Reception

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm 

Opening remarks by the LAMAS team.

Ecologies: Spaces of Visibility 

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Panel

With speakers Laura Levin, Diana Sánchez, Tamara Toledo, and Luz Sierra.
Moderated by Dot Tuer.

Carving out space: Co-creating session on artists and community

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Activity

Moderated by Creato.

Helena Martín Franco: Elephant Woman

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Performance

Live performance by artist Helena Martín Franco.

Archival Visitations

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Panel

With speakers Camila Salcedo, Jorge Ayala-Isaza, and Kevin Coleman.
Moderated by Patricio Dávila.

On Loss: Migrant Relationalities  

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Conversation

With Helena Martín Franco and Alexandra Gelis.
Moderated by Claudia Arana.

Poetics of Arrival

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Panel

With Anahí González, José Andrés Mora, Luísa Cruz, and Derek Sands.
Moderated by Francisco-Fernando Granados.

Political Praxes of Memory: Diaspora Media Art Archives

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Panel

With Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, Zaira Zarza, and Sarah Shamash.

Sounds of Migration

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Collective Listening

Led by Bernardo García, Luis Navarro Del Angel, Luisa Isidro Herrera, Nicole Marchesseau, and Johann Sander Puustusmaa.
Moderated by Pablo Rincón.

A project by
aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of our funders, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

LAMAS has been generously supported by the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration Program (CERC Migration) and the WhereWeStand Project at Toronto Metropolitan University; the George Brown School of Media and Performing Arts; The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University; the Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University; Hemispheric Encounters; Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design at York University; Performance Studies (Canada); OCAD University; Onsite Gallery; the University of Toronto Centre for Culture and Technology; the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Toronto; the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University; and Lokaal.