Curating the Village: Open Sessions
Curating the Village: Open Sessions is a public symposium curated by Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan. It emerges from Curating the Village, a research pilot developed through a study group of curators, artists, and cultural workers with caregiving responsibilities, supported by Balancing Act Canada and MOTHRA Artist-Parents Project as part of the Level Up! initiative (2025–2026).
Toronto (some hybrid participation) | June 24-27, 2026
The Open Sessions will extend this research into a public and sector-facing context, creating space for shared reflection, presentation, and dialogue.
About the Open Sessions
The Open Sessions are conceived as two public gatherings in June 2026 that bring together contributors and audiences for presentation, exchange, artistic expression, and conversation. They are grounded in the understanding that caregiving is not peripheral to cultural production, but a structuring condition that shapes how work is made, shared, and sustained.
Contributors are invited to share practices, artworks, ideas, and approaches that reflect sustained engagement with care in relation to curatorial, artistic, or cultural labour.