**IMPORTANT_News Updated**

In the current context, regarding COVID-19, we are following the recommendations of Santé publique du Québec. In order to protect our visitors and our team, OPTICA is close until further notice. We will keep you informed through the social medias.

Solidarity

OPTICA wishes to express its solidarity to the Afro-descending community and to all those who experience racism on a daily basis. We also denounce all forms of police brutality. Cultural organizations, by their very mandate, are likely to play a key role in interpreting the struggle against racism, for they are bearers of and witnesses to a collective conscience. Through art, they have the capacity to raise and stimulate public awareness around values and principles, since the works not only convey ideas, but open up avenues for reflection. For millennia, art has helped to better understand the world arising before us.

GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS: Creative Workshops to do in your Living Room; Chapter 5: HOW TO MAKE YOUR SUMMER PORTRAIT SKETCHBOOK

OPTICA is presenting you with a last creative workshop to be completed before the summer as part of the GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS series launched last March. With this workshop, you will be guided through the creation of a small booklet in which you can have fun sketching portraits at a distance of 2 meters or virtually of your family, friends and people in your neighborhood. You’ll also be able to document your best moments of the summer in this personalized booklet. Two versions of the sketchbook are presented to you with this workshop where you can discover different simple bookbinding techniques: an accordion fold technique and a stitching technique.

Audio and video discussion in preview of the solo exhibition of the Toronto artist Sandra Brewster

The latest solo exhibition of Sandra Brewster, Blur, was on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario until March 14, when the museum closed to the public. The exhibition has since been confined within the gallery walls. Next fall, OPTICA will present in its two gallery spaces a monographic exhibition of Sandra Brewster which will include this recent series, Blur (2017-2019) as well as other series.

Post Exhibition, audio interview on a background of a commented visit with the curator Nuria Carton de Grammont / in French and in Spanish

As part of the COVID 19 pandemic, OPTICA had to unexpectedly interrupt the exhibition Un dos tres por mí y mis compañeras which had started on January 18, 2020. In order to compensate for the cancellation of the commented visit, which was to take place on March 14, 2020, OPTICA offers you the fruit of an interview that took place on April 7, 2020 with curator Nuria Carton de Grammont. During this sound recording, the latter deals with the major themes that unite the works of the artists exhibited.

GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS: Creative Workshops to do in your Living Room; Chapter 4: HOW TO MAKE A BIRDHOUSE FROM A PLASTIC BOTTLE

OPTICA recently launched GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS, a series of creative workshops to be carried out in its living room. Keychains and badges, shadow theater, homemade playdough, follow us on Instagram @optica_mediation to discover ideas for artistic activities to do easily at home during this period of isolation. Image: Sandrine Côté et Claudia Goulet-Blais

GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS: Creative Workshops to do in your Living Room; Chapter 2: SHADOW THEATER

OPTICA recently launched GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS, a series of creative workshops to be carried out in its living room. Keychains and badges, shadow theater, homemade playdough, follow us on Instagram @optica_mediation to discover ideas for artistic activities to do easily at home during this period of isolation.

How to make a mask from recycled materials

GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS is a series of step-by-step creative workshops that can be done in the comfort of your living room. Follow us on Instagram @optica_mediation to discover creative art activities that can easily be done with the family at home during this time of isolation. We invite you to share photos of your creations with us and we will present them in a virtual exhibition!

Montreal and Toronto Launched, new publication: ARCHI-FÉMINISTES!

NEW PUBLICATION
ARCHI-FÉMINISTES!
Contemporary Art, Feminist Theories
Montreal and Toronto book launches

Un dos tres por mí y mis compañeras

Opening: January 18,2020 3pm to 6pm
Performance from Christine Brault
ApareSer (AparÊtre), 2019-2020, January 18, 2020 at 4 pm, duration of 1 hour 30

Published in 2001 by OPTICA, centre d'art contemporain, the book Creative Con/Fusions : Interdisciplinary Practices in Contemporary Art is now available in its entirety in a digital version. It will also be possible to consult it in the collections of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and e-artexte. The volume addresses questions about the multidisciplinary approach that remain current and that over the years have become more assertive.

GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS: Creative Workshops to do in your Living Room; chapitre 1: HOW TO MAKE YOUR HOMEMADE PLAYDOUGH

OPTICA launches GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS, a series of creative workshops that you can do in the comfort of your own living room. Follow us on Instagram @optica_mediation to keep busy with your kids! From keychains and pins, shadow theatre to homemade playdough, we will be posting simple art activities that you can do during this period of isolation.

GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS: Creative Workshops to do in your Living Room; Chapter 3: SHRINKY DINKS DIY KEYCHAINS

OPTICA recently launched GLUE, PAPER, SCISSORS, a series of creative workshops to be carried out in its living room. Keychains and badges, shadow theater, homemade playdough, follow us on Instagram @optica_mediation to discover ideas for artistic activities to do easily at home during this period of isolation. We invite you to follow the different workshops, the instructions are included in the text. Send us your photos resulting of the workshops by Instagram, we will publish them !!