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This Week at Agnes
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Opportunity
Applications due 17 October
We are hiring for the role of TD Civic Engagement, Strategic Initiatives and Impact Coordinator. This position joins Agnes at a pivotal moment in our history and works with a team who is dedicated to making the museum more accessible to a wider range of users through new membership, visitor service models and community engagement. This is an exciting role for anyone who has faced systemic barriers within museums: the successful candidate will not only gain hands-on professional experience in the museum field but will also have a hand in changing museum practices in Agnes Reimagined.
Visit the Queen’s Career page for the full job description and to complete your application.
This position is made possible with the support of TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform The Ready Commitment, which is helping to amplify diverse voices within cultural organizations.
Agnes team outside of the former building. Photo: Garrett Elliott.
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Exhibition
On until 12 October 2024
Agnes, in conjunction with Union Gallery, is proud to support the Office of Indigenous Initiatives’ Third Annual Indigenous Art Exhibition as part of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Housed at Union Gallery, this exhibition showcases works from Indigenous creators based in the Katarokwi-Kingston region. Visit the exhibition Tue-Sat, 11am-4:30pm, open until 8pm Wednesdays. Closes 12 October.
Spencer Sparks, Untitled (detail), 2024. Photo: Viara Mileva.
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Exhibition
21-25 October 2024
Agnes is revisiting the former site of a John A. Macdonald statue. Nine years after Erin Sutherland’s prophetic project that anticipated the dismantling of colonial monuments, she returns with a second iteration of performances, reorienting the site toward future possibilities. In collaboration with Agnes’s Associate Curator, Care and Relations, Sebastian De Line, Erin brings back artists Leah Dector, David Garneau and Peter Morin from TBTJM #1 together with newly invited artist, Jimmie Kilpatrick for spoken word performances, collaborative karaoke and more.
For the full schedule of events, visit the exhibition page: Talkin’ BackTo Johnny Mac 2.
BONUS: Register for Erin’s much-anticipated Dunning Lecture, “Party-Crashers: A Conversation on Monuments and Counter-Monuments” (25 October @ 2pm @ Stauffer Library in the Alan G Green Fireplace Reading Room).
Now dismantled statue of John A. Macdonald. Photo: Aric McBay.
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Film screening
26 October 2024 @ 1pm
As part of the third edition of Open Secret, Agnes hosts a screening of artist and filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION, curated by acclaimed film curator and programmer, Nataleah Hunter-Young. The film follows an 80 year-old widow as she winds up her earthly affairs, makes arrangements for her burial and prepares to die, but rises to meet an unexpected challenge within her community. Filmmaker Mosese will join via Zoom for a Q&A after the film, moderated by Queen’s Gender Studies PhD candidate, Milka Njoroge.
Curated by Nasrin Himada, Associate Curator, Academic Outreach and Community Engagement.
Film Still from THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION
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Artmaking
19 October 2024 11am-2pm
Creation Station, our family-friendly and free artmaking workshop is back this time at the Queen’s Fall Harvest Alumni Gathering. Located at Agnes Benidickson Field (across the street from the future site of Agnes Reimagined) our art educators will be leading participants in a cozy fall weaving craft (we’re calling them Homecoming Hangups). During this homecoming celebration we’re incorporating the ethos behind Agnes Reimagined (hospitality and returning a house to a home) by giving everyone the opportunity to contribute to our communal visual mood board, which poses the question: What does “home” mean to you?
Lawn games, food trucks and local vendors will also be onsite at the gathering. No registration is required, but visit the event page for more information.
Creation Station, 2020. Photo: Tim Forbes.
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Artmaking
Select dates Fall 2024 & Winter 2025
Join Alyssa Vernon from Queer Collage Collective for supportive and expressive collaging workshops hosted by Agnes. Curate, cut, paste and create in a group as Alyssa guides conversations and leads activities centred around topical issues with a queer, anti-oppression focus. The first session in this series is later this month on 20 October, 1-4pm.
Admission is free, no materials or experience required, all collage materials provided. If you do have materials you’d like to collage, please feel free to bring them.
Queer Collage Collective, 2022. Photo: Garrett Elliott.
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Queen’s University
36 University Avenue
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
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Agnes Etherington Art Centre is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory.
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