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UPCOMING LECTURES & EVENTS
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.
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Docent-Led Tours
Every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
May 7 - June 2, 2013
During the month of May, trained RIC docents will lead guided walking-tours of current exhibitions. Tours begin inside the Great Hall and run for approximately one-hour, including time for questions and comments. No registration is required and all tours are FREE to the public! For more information please contact ric@ryerson.ca or call 416.979.5164.
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Curator and Artist Walk-Throughs Wednesday, May 15 @ 6pm
Exhibition curators Blake Fitzpatrick and John Bentley Mays, will lead a tour of Arthur S. Goss: Works and Days.
Wednesday July 24 @ 6pm
Exhibition curator, David Harris, will lead a tour of Gabor Szilasi: The Eloquence of the Everyday.
Wednesday August 14 @ 6pm
Exhibition curators Blake Fitzpatrick and John Bentley Mays, will lead a tour of Arthur S. Goss: Works and Days.
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Doors Open Toronto
Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, May 26
The Ryerson Image Centre will be open and participating in Doors Open Toronto from 12pm to 5pm. Special tours will be offered to the public at the following times on both days:
12:30pm – Exhibition tour led by RIC Director, Doina Popescu 2:00pm – Architectural tour led by Diamond Schmitt Associate Architect, Peggy Theodore 3:30pm – Exhibition tour led by RIC Director, Doina Popescu
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Wednesday, June 19 @ 7pm Please join us at the Ryerson Image Centre for a public reception to celebrate the opening of Gabor Szilasi: The Eloquence of the Everyday and Ken Woroner: Hardscrabble and the re-opening of Arthur S. Goss: Works and Days and Here and There: Photography and Video Works on Immigration.
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Book Launches
 May 8, 2013 @ 6pm - Black Star Please join us at the Ryerson Image Centre on for the launch of Black Star. A limited edition, handmade book, produced by Lumiere Press in Toronto, Black Star is edited and designed by publisher, photographer and author, Michael Torosian. An introduction by RIC Collections Curator Peter Higdon honours the longstanding collecting activity practiced by the School of Image Arts, and now by the Ryerson Image Centre, in developing its historically significant holdings of photography.
The central essay written by Michael Torosian addresses the European origins of the New York-based Black Star photo agency and its relationship to the rise of the picture magazine in North America. The remarkable character of the agency’s founders and their role in transplanting the picture magazine to North American culture in 1936 is examined in depth. Their successors, one of whom continues to direct the Black Star photo agency today, are profiled, and photographers, both recognized figures from the history of photography and those lesser known, are discussed and represented in a selection of powerful images from the collection.
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Symposia
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The ‘Public Life’ of Photographs
Symposium, May 9-11, 2013 Eaton Lecture Theatre (RCC204)
Rogers Communications Centre, 80 Gould Street
The lead sponsor of the symposium is Partners in Art. The conference is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (expected), the Institut français and the Consulat Général de France à Toronto as part of Paris-Toronto and is co-presented with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
The Ryerson Image Centre’s symposium entitled “The ‘Public Life’ of Photographs” will analyze the dissemination of photographic images from the nineteenth century to the present. The reproducibility of a photograph largely determines how it is used, shared, and made accessible. Photography can perform a wide range of functions: it can be a vehicle of information, an instrument of ideology, a means of scientific exploration, and an artistic medium. The flexible nature of photography and its use within many different contexts demand a wide scholarly approach. The conference will bring together experts in the history of photography, art history, philosophy, and visual culture, including 15 internationally renowned scholars and curators, from Canada, the United States, France, Germany, England, and New Zealand, for a three-day symposium (May 9 to 11, 2013) at the Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University.
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