SIDE fX/ Living & Working from a Love Ethic
When you are Fd up and lead the revolution, you are probably going to get a pretty Fd up revolution.
bell hooks
Hosted by OCAD Universitys new Publications Specialization, SIDE fX is a student-led day of activities exploring the topics of self-care and wellness. In our keynote workshop, Living and Working from a Love Ethic, radical educator Julia Hainer-Violand will guide participants through drawing, writing, meditative and conversational exercises in a playful reflection on love. Come gather with us around the giant love-rug!
SIDE fX includes a series of tent installations each housing a different generative environment. Rituals in breathing, drinking, playing, reading both psychic and literal, questioning, and responding are explored through hands-on creative processes. The SIDE fX experiment guides participants in acts of balance and recalibration, with the goal of rejuvenation.
This event is also a book launch for our publication of the same name-- featuring interviews with Gina Badger, Diane Borsato, Shawna Dempsey, Shauna Jean Doherty, Faith La Rocque, Stacey Sproule, and the Peoples Library Philadelphia.
The first 40 people in attendance will get a hand made First Aid Kit for Artists.
Schedule of Side fX activities:
1-2 pm: Open house and tent activities
2-3:30 pm: Living and Working from a Love Ethic
3:30-4:30 pm: Hands-on workshops in Papermaking and Anthotype Exposures
5:30 pm: Book co-Launch with Side fX, the OCAD U Zine Collective, and students in OCAD Us Publications 1 course.
A suggested donation of $10 includes the Side fX publication, all workshops, tent exploration, and snacks but no one will be turned away! Attendance can be drop-in or all day.
SIDE fX will be held at
Artscape Youngplace, Flex Studio Gold, Room 107
180 Shaw Street Toronto
To pre-register or with additional questions, contact Shannon Gerard:
647 928 5306
Side Effects are normally listed as possible harm resulting from attempts to medicate a problem. SIDE fX repositions the concept, offering healthy or positive results that come with slowing down, taking care, and focusing on wellness personal and social.
Julia Hainer-Violand is a Bolivian-American educator & curriculum writer from Washington, DC. Thanks to the writing of bell hooks, Sharon Salzberg, & Thich Nhat Hanh, she draws commonalities between feminist theory and Buddhist concept of loving-kindness metta. This is her fourth workshop on living and working from a love ethic, which came from a desire of giving without burning out, while concurrently valuing self-love and relationship in ones life. She is currently an elementary school teacher and believes the living curriculum, i.e., the relationship between teacher and student, as the key to igniting the fire of learning in a child.
