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You have entered the Sur Gallery Online Exhibitions Site, if you want to visit our LACAP website click here
WORKSHOP SERIES AYMARA WORLDVIEW & PHILOSOPHY
Six introductory workshops about Aymara's millenary culture. Facilitated by Yatichiri Eva Mamañi Challapa and organized by Rodrigo Barreda.
This series of six workshops provide a basic understanding of Aymara worldview and philosphy to students and the general public. Our goal us to introduce participants to a re-acknowledgement of the Aymara people, so that they may be able to identify its culture, languagem ways of life and territory, while helping safeguard the survivial of this millenary culture.
The workshops have been designed and are delivered by Eva Mamañi Challapa, Yatichiri of the Aymara communitites of Panavinto and Alto Hospicio in the region of Tarapacá, Chile.
Please plan to arrive 5-10 min before the workshop start time.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 7 The Aymara People and Language
Saturday, March 14 Aymara Territories
Saturday, March 21 Values and Principles of the Aymara
Saturday, March 28 Andean Worldview
Saturday, April 4 Worldview Activities
Saturday, April 11 Andean Textile Art Thought
FORMAT
- Hybrid, in-person/online.
- Classes will be delivered online to students who will be gathered in person. Meetings will take place at: Sur Gallery, 39 Queens Quay East, Suite 100, Toronto.
- Workshops will be delivered in Castellano (Spanish) with live translation to English.
COST FOR THE SIX WORKSHOPS
General Admission $40.00 CAD
Student $25.00 CAD (valid student ID will be required in person)
This series is organized by Rodrigo Barreda in partnership with Sur Gallery.
WORKSHOP SERIES AYMARA WORLDVIEW & PHILOSOPHY
Six introductory workshops about Aymara's millenary culture. Facilitated by Yatichiri Eva Mamañi Challapa and organized by Rodrigo Barreda.
This series of six workshops provide a basic understanding of Aymara worldview and philosphy to students and the general public. Our goal us to introduce participants to a re-acknowledgement of the Aymara people, so that they may be able to identify its culture, languagem ways of life and territory, while helping safeguard the survivial of this millenary culture.
The workshops have been designed and are delivered by Eva Mamañi Challapa, Yatichiri of the Aymara communitites of Panavinto and Alto Hospicio in the region of Tarapacá, Chile.
Please plan to arrive 5-10 min before the workshop start time.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 7 The Aymara People and Language
Saturday, March 14 Aymara Territories
Saturday, March 21 Values and Principles of the Aymara
Saturday, March 28 Andean Worldview
Saturday, April 4 Worldview Activities
Saturday, April 11 Andean Textile Art Thought
FORMAT
- Hybrid, in-person/online.
- Classes will be delivered online to students who will be gathered in person. Meetings will take place at: Sur Gallery, 39 Queens Quay East, Suite 100, Toronto.
- Workshops will be delivered in Castellano (Spanish) with live translation to English.
COST FOR THE SIX WORKSHOPS
General Admission $40.00 CAD
Student $25.00 CAD (valid student ID will be required in person)
This series is organized by Rodrigo Barreda in partnership with Sur Gallery.
KAIROI — Remembering the Future
An Exhibition and Public Activation at Sur Gallery
Sur Gallery and the Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology co-present KAIROI — Remembering the Future, an artistic research project exploring how the Colombian diaspora imagines peace, and how those imagined futures become memory.
At the center of the project are two questions that frame the encounter:
In what year do you imagine peace might become part of everyday life in Colombia? Will you be alive to see it?
Participants name a future year — 2038, 2057, 2075. That year is described, spoken aloud, and translated into translated into images generated through AI mediation. Individual projections accumulate into a shared temporal horizon.
“Remembering the Future” names the core gesture of the project. Rather than treating the future as prediction, participants often speak about it with the weight of recollection — as something shaped by waiting, migration, delay, and unfinished political processes. The future appears less as promise than as something carried over time.
Developed in the context of Colombia’s ongoing peace process, KAIROI does not present peace as a completed event or official milestone. Instead, it approaches peace as a fragile and uneven everyday condition — something imagined, postponed, negotiated.
For this one-night exhibition, the project moves from digital space into a physical encounter. Images, texts, visualizations, and archival materials bring these imagined futures into the gallery, where visitors are invited to participate and contribute their own imagined year to the evolving archive.
KAIROI is developed by Alex de las Heras, an artistic researcher and postdoctoral fellow in the Connected Minds program at York University (Toronto). His work explores temporal displacement, memory, and how futures are imagined and narrated collectively from within the present through participatory, performative, and AI-mediated practices. His work has been presented internationally, including at UNESCO’s 14th Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (14COM), Ars Electronica, and Performance Studies International (PSi #30).
This research was supported in part by the Connected Minds program, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF), Grant No. CFREF-2022-00010.
Date: March 27
Location: Sur Gallery, Toronto, 39 Queens Quay East, suite 100
Time: 7:00–10:00 PM
Free admission
KAIROI — Remembering the Future
An Exhibition and Public Activation at Sur Gallery
Sur Gallery and the Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology co-present KAIROI — Remembering the Future, an artistic research project exploring how the Colombian diaspora imagines peace, and how those imagined futures become memory.
At the center of the project are two questions that frame the encounter:
In what year do you imagine peace might become part of everyday life in Colombia? Will you be alive to see it?
Participants name a future year — 2038, 2057, 2075. That year is described, spoken aloud, and translated into translated into images generated through AI mediation. Individual projections accumulate into a shared temporal horizon.
“Remembering the Future” names the core gesture of the project. Rather than treating the future as prediction, participants often speak about it with the weight of recollection — as something shaped by waiting, migration, delay, and unfinished political processes. The future appears less as promise than as something carried over time.
Developed in the context of Colombia’s ongoing peace process, KAIROI does not present peace as a completed event or official milestone. Instead, it approaches peace as a fragile and uneven everyday condition — something imagined, postponed, negotiated.
For this one-night exhibition, the project moves from digital space into a physical encounter. Images, texts, visualizations, and archival materials bring these imagined futures into the gallery, where visitors are invited to participate and contribute their own imagined year to the evolving archive.
KAIROI is developed by Alex de las Heras, an artistic researcher and postdoctoral fellow in the Connected Minds program at York University (Toronto). His work explores temporal displacement, memory, and how futures are imagined and narrated collectively from within the present through participatory, performative, and AI-mediated practices. His work has been presented internationally, including at UNESCO’s 14th Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (14COM), Ars Electronica, and Performance Studies International (PSi #30).
This research was supported in part by the Connected Minds program, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF), Grant No. CFREF-2022-00010.
Date: March 27
Location: Sur Gallery, Toronto, 39 Queens Quay East, suite 100
Time: 7:00–10:00 PM
Free admission
SIP & PAINT with MICHELLE PERAZA.
Friday, April 10th, 7-10pm
Come and enjoy an evening in a relaxed atmosphere where you will be able to explore art materials and techniques with an experienced artist. An unforgettable night with an art instructor who will teach you about the healing properties of the same plants you will paint, while drinking tea from its leaves. Explore the intersections of botany and health, and the power of art to ignite your own creativity. Invite a friend, meet new ones, and follow a step-by-step process to help you create your very own artwork.
Chamomile: for anxiety, calming the nerves, soothing the soul, aids in sleep
Hibiscus: supports healing trauma, womb support, cooling, vitality and to heal the heart
Passionflower: induces sleep, calmness, relaxes the nerves, emotional distress, supports dream work
Tea and/or wine will help you relax and let those creative juices flow. All art supplies, refreshments and snacks will be provided. We will have a cash bar on site if you need to top up your drink of choice.
Limited seating/ Reserve your ticket today!
About the Artist
MICHELLE PERAZA (b. 1991, Windsor) is a visual artist of Cuban and Costa Rican descent. She holds a BA from Western University, a BFA from OCAD University and an MFA from York University. She has completed residencies at Mauser EcoHouse (Costa Rica), Vermont Studio Centre (United States), Arquetopia (Mexico), Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), Sustainable Colour Lab Summer Institute at OCAD University (Canada), and Gibraltor Point Centre for the Arts (Mnisiing/Toronto Islands Canada). She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including support from Craft Ontario, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Arts Council, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Joe Plaskett Foundation. She has exhibited in public and artist-run galleries including Maison de la Culture Claude-Léveillée, Niagara Artists Centre, Cambridge Art Galleries, Sur Gallery, TAP Centre for Creativity, Guelph Civic Museum and upcoming at Tom Thomson Gallery and Neutral Ground. She teaches in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University and works and lives in Toronto/Tkaronto.
SIP & PAINT with MICHELLE PERAZA.
Friday, April 10th, 7-10pm
Come and enjoy an evening in a relaxed atmosphere where you will be able to explore art materials and techniques with an experienced artist. An unforgettable night with an art instructor who will teach you about the healing properties of the same plants you will paint, while drinking tea from its leaves. Explore the intersections of botany and health, and the power of art to ignite your own creativity. Invite a friend, meet new ones, and follow a step-by-step process to help you create your very own artwork.
Chamomile: for anxiety, calming the nerves, soothing the soul, aids in sleep
Hibiscus: supports healing trauma, womb support, cooling, vitality and to heal the heart
Passionflower: induces sleep, calmness, relaxes the nerves, emotional distress, supports dream work
Tea and/or wine will help you relax and let those creative juices flow. All art supplies, refreshments and snacks will be provided. We will have a cash bar on site if you need to top up your drink of choice.
Limited seating/ Reserve your ticket today!
About the Artist
MICHELLE PERAZA (b. 1991, Windsor) is a visual artist of Cuban and Costa Rican descent. She holds a BA from Western University, a BFA from OCAD University and an MFA from York University. She has completed residencies at Mauser EcoHouse (Costa Rica), Vermont Studio Centre (United States), Arquetopia (Mexico), Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), Sustainable Colour Lab Summer Institute at OCAD University (Canada), and Gibraltor Point Centre for the Arts (Mnisiing/Toronto Islands Canada). She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including support from Craft Ontario, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Arts Council, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Joe Plaskett Foundation. She has exhibited in public and artist-run galleries including Maison de la Culture Claude-Léveillée, Niagara Artists Centre, Cambridge Art Galleries, Sur Gallery, TAP Centre for Creativity, Guelph Civic Museum and upcoming at Tom Thomson Gallery and Neutral Ground. She teaches in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University and works and lives in Toronto/Tkaronto.
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