Public Programs

Each exhibition at the Ryerson Image Centre is accompanied by public opening receptions, gallery tours, lectures, conferences, symposia, screenings and more. The Research Centre also presents "Noon Time Collection Talks" intimate conversations focusing on the Ryerson Image Centre’s vast photography collections.

All public programs are free admission and open to the public.


Curator and Artist Walk-Throughs

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 @ 6pm
Exhibition tour of Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. with guest curator Steve Loft and special guest(s)

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 @ 6pm
Exhibition tour of Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. with guest curator Steve Loft and special guest(s)

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 @ 6pm
Exhibition tour of Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. with guest curator Steve Loft and special guest(s)

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 @ 6pm
Exhibition tour of Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. with guest curator Steve Loft and special guest(s)

Tour, Film Screening and Artist Talk

Friday, October 18 @ 11:00am - 1:30pm

Join guest curator Steve Loft on a personal guided tour of the Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art., beginning at 11am outside the exhibition entrance.

Following the tour, the expanded full-series of Skawennati's ground-breaking Second Life series Time Traveller™ will be screened, followed by a talk with the artist herself.

This special event is presented in partnership with the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

Exhibition Tours

September 18 – December 15, 2013
Daily @ 2:30pm

The RIC is pleased to offer daily guided walking-tours of all current exhibitions by trained docents. Tours begin inside the Great Hall and run for approximately 45 minutes, including time for questions and comments. No registration is required and all tours are FREE to the public! For more information or to inquire about special requests, group bookings or accessibility accommodations, please contact ric@ryerson.ca or call 416.979.5164.

Exhibition Opening:

Wednesday, November 6 @ 6 - 8pm
Please join us at the Ryerson Image Centre for a public reception to celebrate the opening of Elena Malkova: Camera Obscura.

Marcus Schubert: Visionary Environments
October 17, 2013 @ 12pm

The RIC is pleased to have a strong representative selection of prints from photographer Marcus Schubert’s seminal body of work, Visionary Environments. A gift of the artist, the works were produced over the period of 1985 – 1990 in Europe, the United States and Canada. Schubert’s deep interest in Outsider Art led him to both document and interpret a diverse range of extraordinary architectural and sculptural creations constructed by untrained practitioners. Marcus Schubert’s work is a testament to these artists’ fantastical and often obsessive visions, which flow from rich imaginations unimpeded by the limitations of traditional artistic convention. Please join us for a presentation and discussion of the work by the artist.

Valérie Matteau: Bringing “Old News” into the Twenty-First Century
November 14, 2013 @ 12pm

Valérie Matteau, the RIC’s Curatorial Associate + Exhibitions Coordinator, will speak about two current projects whose aims are to deepen our knowledge of the Black Star Collection − the first being an oral history documentary film project, and the second, a crowd-sourced ‘keywording’ initiative that offers a new point of access into the holdings. Drawing from the Black Star Collection’s photographs of the American Civil Rights Movement, Valérie will show original prints in conjunction with excerpts from film interviews where the photographers recount their experiences documenting these historic events, animating their own photographs, and enhancing our understanding of the images. Valérie will then discuss the RIC’s “tagging” project with Tagasauris, an approach that uses crowdsourcing to describe subjects in photographs from the Collections, with the result of allowing contemporary terms to be used when searching the Collections Database. Please join us for a presentation on how these current projects at the RIC are enriching our understanding of the Black Star Collection.