Being Scene Curated Exhibition 2024 - "If i long for it"

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An exhibition showcasing photo based artworks by seven visual artists and performers. The artworks engage with topics of Psychogeography, home/belonging and the housing crisis in Toronto.

The artists in this exhibition are inviting us to envision a rather intimate redefinition of Home, one that goes hand in hand towards shaping the basis/foundation of our mental wellbeing. Whether it is people, built environment or nature, we consolidate our perception and notion of home between the tangible, the fictional, the public and the intimate.

Featured Artists: Anita McKernan, Marco Buonocore, Julie Riemersma, Shady Khalil, and ddadh members (claude wittmann, Serena McCarroll & I’mme).

Curated by: Fatma Hendawy

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Workman Arts

Being Scene is an annual juried exhibition of recent artwork by Workman Arts members and individuals who have accessed the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) services in their lives.

Workman Arts is a multidisciplinary arts organization that promotes a greater understanding of mental health and addiction issues through creation and presentation. We support artists with lived experience through peer-to-peer arts education, public presentations and partnerships with the broader arts community.

Workman Arts is the longest-running multidisciplinary arts and mental health organization in Canada. It was founded in 1987 by Lisa Brown, a former psychiatric nurse at the Queen Street Mental Health Centre (now known as CAMH), as a theatre company of eight member artists.

Over the years, it has grown to a multidisciplinary arts organization with 500+ member artists. For 35 groundbreaking years, Workman Arts has produced a variety of projects, including: 30+ original full-length Canadian plays, the annual Rendezvous with Madness Festival and the annual Being Scene juried art exhibition. In 2019, Workman Arts was shortlisted for the Premier’s Arts Award.

Being Scene began over 20 years ago on the grounds of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Over the years, Being Scene has exhibited juried surveys of thousands of artworks by Workman Arts member artists as well as artists with lived experience who have received services from CAMH. Being Scene is an invaluable professionalization experience for artists, consistently reaching audiences of over 5,000, allowing for a greater understanding of diverse experiences. Artists have given shape to compelling ideas and narratives, covering a wide range of conceptual and material approaches. Being Scene has been shown in spaces such as The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto Media Arts Centre, various Artscape locations, and at CAMH.