DISLOCATIONS is part of Open Doors Ontario DISLOCATIONS will be on display till May 26th and will be part of Doors Open weekend.  to know more about Doors Open Ontario visit http://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca About Riverdale Hub This once derelict three-storey building in Toronto’s Little India was transformed into a revitalized community hub with numerous sustainable design elements, including geothermal heating and cooling. It is now 90 per cent energy efficient. Riverdale Hub, a grassroots organization, develops social enterprises to provide marginalized women and families with services and training, enabling them to develop sustainable livelihoods. 1326 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, OntarioTelephone: 416-465-6021, ext. 3004Architect: Advocate Architects: Natale & Scott Architects, 2009Saturday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

DISLOCATIONS is part of Open Doors Ontario

DISLOCATIONS will be on display till May 26th and will be part of Doors Open weekend.  to know more about Doors Open Ontario visit http://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca

About Riverdale Hub

This once derelict three-storey building in Toronto’s Little India was transformed into a revitalized community hub with numerous sustainable design elements, including geothermal heating and cooling. It is now 90 per cent energy efficient. Riverdale Hub, a grassroots organization, develops social enterprises to provide marginalized women and families with services and training, enabling them to develop sustainable livelihoods.

1326 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Telephone: 416-465-6021, ext. 3004
Architect: Advocate Architects: Natale & Scott Architects, 2009
Saturday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

very successful opening reception.. so many people turned up ;) 

Exhibition will run till 26th May. On Saturday, May 18, Timothy Neesam will be leading an Artists’ Talk at the gallery, start time is 2 p.m. 

to know more about the exhibiting artists visit
http://insight44.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/opening-reception-tonight-thursday-artists-talk-saturday/

Hi everybody.. If you’re in town, join us for the Opening Reception of INSIGHT this Thursday May 16th, as part of CONTACT Photo Festival 2013  Gallery 1313 Opening Reception, Thursday May 16th: 7pm - 10pm Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Address: 1313 Queen Street West, Toronto, ONwww.g1313.org My work in this group exhibition is part of a project called ‘Washing Men’. In India, the ‘Dhobis’ (washers) keep hotels in clean sheets and people brightly robed. Encounters with luminous linen flapping in the hot, humid air can be aesthetically pleasing to the touristic gaze. However, the presence of these washers in Goa’s landscape and their absence in the spaces of leisure their work circulates in raises important questions about the exclusion of migrant workers from certain socio-cultural and political spheres. The project seeks to explore the underlying tension between migrant labour and tourism economy within the framework of our current complex conditions of globalization. The images neither idealise nor dramatise the Dhobis; instead they explore the relationship between the subject and the viewer while depicting what is, ultimately, just another day’s work. “Annie Sakkab adopts a self-reflexive and relational approach with her subjects. Her work raises questions about forced and privileged modes of movement – the displacement of migrant workers, the artist’s international travel, and the circulation of abject imagery across the globe. Her projects touch on issues of self-representation and the perpetuation of stereotypes of people from developing countries in media discourse” Sevan Injejikian, Curator. Annie Sakkab is a documentary photographer who lives in Toronto. Born in Jordan, she has worked and resided in London, Rome, Dubai and Amman. Her documentary practice investigates socio-cultural issues and questions of identity, and seeks to raise awareness on experiences of exile, uprooting, and displacement among marginalized groups. An honours graduate in Fine Art and Graphic Design, Sakkab’s photographs have been exhibited in Canada as well as abroad. Her work Non-spaces (1993) is part of the collection of the National Gallery in Amman, Jordan. Her recent series, Projections - Ghosts of Dubai’s Boom (2010), was exhibited in a featured group exhibition in the 2013 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto, Ontario. To see some of the work on display, you can visit my website herehttp://www.anniesakkab.com/washing-men To know more about the exhibiting artists, visithttp://insight44.wordpress.com see you there ;) Annie

Hi everybody..

If you’re in town, join us for the Opening Reception of INSIGHT this Thursday May 16th, as part of CONTACT Photo Festival 2013 

Gallery 1313
Opening Reception, Thursday May 16th: 7pm - 10pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Address: 1313 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
www.g1313.org

My work in this group exhibition is part of a project called ‘Washing Men’. In India, the ‘Dhobis’ (washers) keep hotels in clean sheets and people brightly robed. Encounters with luminous linen flapping in the hot, humid air can be aesthetically pleasing to the touristic gaze. However, the presence of these washers in Goa’s landscape and their absence in the spaces of leisure their work circulates in raises important questions about the exclusion of migrant workers from certain socio-cultural and political spheres.

The project seeks to explore the underlying tension between migrant labour and tourism economy within the framework of our current complex conditions of globalization. The images neither idealise nor dramatise the Dhobis; instead they explore the relationship between the subject and the viewer while depicting what is, ultimately, just another day’s work.

“Annie Sakkab adopts a self-reflexive and relational approach with her subjects. Her work raises questions about forced and privileged modes of movement – the displacement of migrant workers, the artist’s international travel, and the circulation of abject imagery across the globe. Her projects touch on issues of self-representation and the perpetuation of stereotypes of people from developing countries in media discourse” Sevan Injejikian, Curator.

Annie Sakkab is a documentary photographer who lives in Toronto. Born in Jordan, she has worked and resided in London, Rome, Dubai and Amman. Her documentary practice investigates socio-cultural issues and questions of identity, and seeks to raise awareness on experiences of exile, uprooting, and displacement among marginalized groups. An honours graduate in Fine Art and Graphic Design, Sakkab’s photographs have been exhibited in Canada as well as abroad. Her work Non-spaces (1993) is part of the collection of the National Gallery in Amman, Jordan. Her recent series, Projections - Ghosts of Dubai’s Boom (2010), was exhibited in a featured group exhibition in the 2013 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto, Ontario.

To see some of the work on display, you can visit my website here
http://www.anniesakkab.com/washing-men

To know more about the exhibiting artists, visit
http://insight44.wordpress.com

see you there ;)
Annie

Musician Jessica Spezziale at Nellie’s Shelter for Mother’s Day event

Musician Jessica Spezziale at Nellie’s Shelter for Mother’s Day event

Beautiful Event. Amazing Musicians. Lots of fun to photograph ;) Check out more images here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.649250395100578.1073741827.255002787858676&type=1 To know more about the Artists and One Fire Movement visit http://www.onefiremovement.com/

Beautiful Event. Amazing Musicians. Lots of fun to photograph ;)

Check out more images here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.649250395100578.1073741827.255002787858676&type=1

To know more about the Artists and One Fire Movement visit http://www.onefiremovement.com/

FInally, I have some pictures of our exhibition DISLOCATIONS. For the past few months, Curator Sevan Injejikian and I have worked tirelessly setting up Riverdale Hub Community Art Gallery, and now it’s looking pretty gorgeous ;)) we are still fundraising, so please don’t forget to visit our campaign page and consider donating. we still have 10 days to go and we are short by &4500. if you’re not able to donate, please share and like our page. Thank you all
 
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dislocations-a-contact-2013-featured-exhibition

Installation of DISLOCATIONS is complete..and finished it off with yummy english style fish and chips. If you’re in town, make sure you pass by for the opening night on Thursday May 2nd, 6pm - 9pm.

At the Arts & Fashion Week

Last night at the Arts & Fashion Week

Matilde Gattoni: The Swallows of Syria

On Friday, more than 11,000 refugees fled Syria in a single day. LightBox presents photographer Matilde Gattoni’s portraits of the swallows of Syria, female refugees seeking safety in Lebanon from the violence of their homeland.

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WE ARE ONE CD Interviews with One Fire Movement in Kensington Market, Toronto

With artists Jessica Speziale, Brendan Albert, Alissa Vox Raw and Rory O’Hearn

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These were taken at the recording session for We Are One - a charity compilation by One Fire Movement.  The proceeds go towards Nelly’s Women’s Shelter and Amnesty Canada.  Photos by Annie Sakkab, Annie Sakkab, Toronto Events Photography.


Come celebrate the CD release with us on Thursday, October 25th at the Supermarket in Toronto’s Kensington Market!  Show starts at 8pm :)

WE ARE ONE CD Interviews in Kensington Market, Toronto

With artists Ania Soul and Julian Fuego.

Hi Everyone

Curator Sevan Injejikian and I are curating an exhibition together which has been selected as a featured show in this year’s CONTACT 2013 Photography Festival in Toronto and which will help launch the Riverdale Hub’s new Community Art Gallery.

We need to raise nearly $6000 to launch the new gallery and its arts programming which is geared towards community development. Located in the heart of Little India in Toronto, the Riverdale Hub provides invaluable hands-on training opportunities to marginalized women and their families, enabling them to develop sustainable livelihoods.

Please take a moment to watch our 3-minute video and consider making a donation. Any donation, no matter the amount, will bring us closer to reaching our goal.

Your donation will further the Hub’s goal of engaging the community in dialogue through art, and present the work of 7 established and emerging contemporary artists who address experiences of migration.

Thank you so much for your support.

For more information and to donate please visit:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dislocations-a-contact-2013-featured-exhibition/x/1626685

If you can’t contribute, please help us get the word out about our campaign by sharing this post or by sending this information to friends, family or colleagues!

You can also use the Indiegogo share tools or forward this message.

For every contribution, you will receive a gift:
- As a thank you for contributions between $25 - $75, we will offer a special exhibition invitation card signed by the curators.
- For contributions between $75 - $200, we will offer a signed 8 x 10” print by one of the exhibiting artists.
- For contributions of $200 and over, you will receive a limited edition of the exhibition catalogue which includes artist statements, biographies and images of the works exhibited.

Thank you again for your support!

Annie

DISLOCATIONS - A CONTACT Featured Exhibition Opening Reception

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Photo Credit: Mona Kamal, Reflections on Memory, 2011. Photo credit: Terrance Houle.

For those of you who are in Toronto during the month of May, join me for the Opening Reception of DISLOCATIONS - A CONTACT Featured Exhibition that I’m Co-curating with Curator Sevan Injejikian.

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The Riverdale Hub presents:

DISLOCATIONS
Curated by Sevan Injejikian and Annie Sakkab


A Scotiabank CONTACT 2013 Featured Exhibition
Featuring Jamelie Hassan, Jin-me Yoon, Brett Gundlock, Annie Sakkab, Khadija Baker, Meral Pasha, and Mona Kamal

May 2 - May 26, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 2 from 6 pm - 9 pm

The Riverdale Hub Community Art Gallery
1326 Gerrard Street E
Toronto, ON  M4L 1Z1
Mon - Fri: 9 am - 5 pm
Sat : 1 pm - 6 pm

For more information, please contact Annie Sakkab at annie@anniesakkab.com or visit our website
http://dislocations2013.wordpress.com/

Also, please visit the Featured Exhibitions page on the Festival’s website:
http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/

The Riverdale Hub and the Scotiabank CONTACT 2013 Photography Festival are pleased to present Dislocations at the Riverdale Hub Community Art Gallery from May 2 - 26, 2013. Dislocations brings together artists who explore the tenuous relationship between identity and place, and who investigate how movement has become a mode of being in the world during an era of globalization. The month-long exhibition features established and emerging artists from Toronto, Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver, and highlights their aesthetic engagements with cultural dislocation.

Artists Annie Sakkab, Meral Pasha, Mona Kamal, Jin-me Yoon, Khadija Baker, Brett Gundlock and Jamelie Hassan consider how we negotiate a place for ourselves from one social environment to another. They examine what travels with us across personal, political, and social borders during different kinds of migratory trajectories, and what we leave behind. As discussions on place and identity have shifted towards more fluid understandings, the artists engage with particular kinds of uprootings and regroundings that are embodied and specific. Their work articulates a pluri-local sense of self which is gendered and cultured, and explores how visual culture informs the way we see ourselves in the world, as well as how others situate us in it.

About The Riverdale Hub Community Art Gallery
Located in the heart of Little India, The Riverdale Hub is a transformative space and green working environment informed by the values of diversity, sustainability and equality. The Hub’s social enterprises – like its Community Art Gallery – provide invaluable hands-on training opportunities to marginalized women and their families, enabling them to develop sustainable livelihoods.

The Hub focuses on employing the transformative power of art to engage the community in dialogue. This exhibition – like The Hub – aims to create a dialogue between the work of documentary photographers and visual artists, between the Hub and the Little India community, as well as between the women and youth who frequent the centre and the Festival’s diverse public.

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