​​UKAI Projects is thrilled to announce the second year of Carnival. This year's theme is Shipwreck, designed to ignite discussions and inspire action on urgent issues such as climate change, technological volatility, and rising authoritarianism.

Attendees have come to expect direct, strange and embodied encounters with the changes underway. If we continue to turn sense-making over to ideologies, whether unreflectively internalized or forced upon us, we forego the work of making up our minds. To be answerable for what's coming, we will need to rediscover our capacity to make sense of the world.

Carnival is reversal. Carnival is release.

This festival, which will take place from October 22 to 26, 2024, will feature a vibrant mix of exhibitions, performances, and workshops that fuse art, technology, and activism in powerful ways.

 

Festival Highlights Include:

• Thought-Provoking Exhibitions: Explore art installations by Canadian and international artists that combine storytelling, digital media, and ecological themes.

• Interactive Workshops: Participate in hands-on sessions delivered by Toronto's leading creatives and activists, designed to empower participants to rethink and reimagine solutions for today's pressing environmental and social issues.

• Live Performances: In addition to the Canadian premieres of Pessimist (Bristol, UK) and Yuko Araki (Tokyo, Japan) with their bone-crushingly visceral sounds, Carnival of Shipwreck packs two venues and four nights with music acts featuring internationally acclaimed Canadian artists, including E-Saggila, D. Blavasky, Honeydrip, and more, curated by Toronto's UKAI Projects, Lewdline, Spadinababy, Xodkaar, and Secret Contact.

 

Event Details:

• Dates: Opening on October 22; Festival runs from October 23 to 26, 2024

• Location(s): The Bridge (379 Adelaide St. W., 4F), Spadinababy (688 Richmond St. W #405), and other locations in the Garment District

• Ticket Information: https://ukaiprojects.com/pages/festival

• Individual tickets for live performances are available via RA: https://ra.co/promoters/128810

• For the latest updates about the festival lineup and event schedule, please visit https://ukaiprojects.com/pages/festival

About UKAI Projects:

UKAI Projects is a federally incorporated non-profit cultural organization based in Toronto and operating globally.

Their mission is “culture for what’s coming”.

Although often invisible, culture shapes the ways in which we perceive and interact with the world around us. UKAI seeks and tests out approaches to culture that make sense of the world we are creating and handing down to future generations.

They call this work cultural research and development, and just like R&D in other fields, they are trying to make things better. In this case, UKAI is trying to build resilience to massive volatility and change.

Different groups will insist that they hold special, privileged knowledge of what these changes mean. Social media encourages us to take sides. But we shouldn't confuse these maps with the terrain.

As human beings we can't help but make meaning out of the experiences of our lives. We can allow for pre-existing ideologies to do the work of telling us what’s going on. Or we can do the work ourselves of assembling from events some coherent picture, and then become answerable for what happens next.

The risk is letting things get rigid and this rigidity is what we are responding to.

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