In collaboration with UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory Instructor Christine D’Onofrio, and concurrent with Art+Feminism events worldwide, the Belkin Art Gallery invites participants of all genders and expressions to join in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Annually each March, art and feminist communities around the world converge to correct Wikipedia’s gendered biases, to bolster the representation of female-identified persons indexed within the ubiquitous online resource.
Join us on Saturday, March 18 to create and edit Wikipedia articles about female artists, feminist art movements and scholarship. We will provide help for beginner Wikipedians, reference materials, childcare and refreshments. Bring your own laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation.
The Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is part of the Belkin Art Gallery’s project Beginning With the Seventies, an ongoing research initiative investigating the 1970s, an era in which social movements of all kinds – feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, access to health services and housing – began to coalesce into models of self-organization. The Edit-a-thon is also part of the Spring Fever: Vancouver Independent Archives 2017 events.
RESOURCES
List of individuals who need Wikipedia entries
Information session presentation by Christine D’Onofrio
Art+Feminism website
Art+Feminism tumblr
Childcare can be reserved by emailing Christine at christine.donofrio@ubc.ca in advance.
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Join us and help balance the gender imbalance by creating and editing Wikipedia articles about female artists, feminist art movements, histories of cis and trans women and non-binary persons around the world. We will provide help for beginner Wikipedians, reference materials, and refreshments. Bring your own laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For more information contact naomi.sawada@ubc.ca.
Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of Alberta
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"Don't Agonize. Organize." - Florynce Kennedy Learn how to become a Wikipedia editor in preparation for the on-campus Wikipedia Edit-a-thon taking place on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at the Belkin Art Gallery. For information about the workshop, contact naomi.sawada@ubc.ca. More information about the world-wide Wikipedia Edit-a-thon can be found at Art+Feminism.
Image courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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The second in an ongoing series of events, Reactivating: Art and Archives gathers a community of interest around the issues of art, activism and archives. Talks by Christine D'Onofrio, Amy Nugent and Becki Ross will be followed by group discussions.
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Collective Acts taps into the generative potential of archival research by artists into experiments with collective organizing and cooperative production, presenting new work by Dana Claxton, Jeneen Frei Njootli and the ReMatriate Collective, Christine D’Onofrio and Heather Kai Smith, alongside work by Salish Weavers Guild members Mary Peters, Adeline Lorenzetto and Annabel Stewart. Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts is curated by Lorna Brown and is the third of four exhibitions based upon the Belkin Art Gallery’s research project investigating the 1970s, an era when social movements of all kinds – feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, Indigenous rights, access to health services and housing – began to coalesce into models of self-organization that overlapped with the production of art and culture. Noting the resurgence of art practice involved with social activism and an increasing interest in the 1970s from younger producers, the Belkin has connected with diverse archives and activist networks to bring forward these histories, to commission new works of art and writing and to provide a space for discussion and debate.
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As part of the exhibition Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts, the Belkin is honoured to present an afternoon symposium addressing key issues in feminism related to collective organizing, mobilization and individual resistance. How does attention to the archive affect everyday experience and acts of resistance to hegemonic inequality? Attending to struggles with racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other intersecting oppressions, this program will address the exhibition and the stubborn frustrations that persist in perpetuity. Please join us in conversation with Candice Hopkins and Marilyn Dumont.
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Join us for a concert by the UBC Contemporary Players at the Belkin Art Gallery. Ensemble Director Paolo Bortolussi presents a program that celebrates the Belkin Art Gallery’s current exhibition Beginning With the 70s: Collective Acts.
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