Massy Interviews / Romila

Massy Interviews / Romila

May 23rd 2023 – July 20th 2023, Massy Arts will host, Wong Pinter, a window installation by writer, facilitator and cyber-mystic of kejawen and Zoroastrian ancestry Romila, meant to invoke the feeling of being faced with a portal and invites viewers to sit in the potential discomfort of not receiving further invitation to pass through…

Open Call | Window Exhibition Space Available Sept-Nov 2023

Open Call | Window Exhibition Space Available Sept-Nov 2023

#OpenCall  /  Massy Arts Society is calling visual artists to send exhibition proposals for our September-November 2023 window exhibition. If you work through painting, drawing, photography, installation, and mixed media, send us your idea for a 2-month long show. We are offer to pay $500 for this display.    Guidelines:  Please provide us with: exhibition…

Black Migration, Living Transformations: Massy Arts interviews Suzette Mayr 

Black Migration, Living Transformations: Massy Arts interviews Suzette Mayr 

On Wednesday, April 19th at 7pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and the Beaumont Studios for Speaking the Unspeakable: Black Migration, Living Transformations, an evening of conversation in celebration of Suzette Mayr’s new award-winning book The Sleeping Car Porter. Mayr will be In conversation with Wayde Compton, author of The Blue Road and other…

Chasing the Poem: an interview with workshop hosts Jónína Kirton, annie ross, and Justene Dion-Glowa

Chasing the Poem: an interview with workshop hosts Jónína Kirton, annie ross, and Justene Dion-Glowa

In anticipation of Chasing The Poem – Third Edition, an online poetry workshop marathon for emerging writers, featuring three courses created by Indigenous poets Jónína Kirton, annie ross, and Justene Dion-Glowa, Massy Arts interviewed the creators and conductors of the courses.  Although the event registration is almost full, we felt compelled to share the generosity…

Watch: Opening Reception / a genocide laid bare with jaz whitford + Manuel Axel Strain + Louise Bernice Halfe + Jónína Kirton + Karmella Benedito De Barros

Watch: Opening Reception / a genocide laid bare with jaz whitford + Manuel Axel Strain + Louise Bernice Halfe + Jónína Kirton + Karmella Benedito De Barros

On Saturday, March 25 at 6pm PST, join Massy Arts Society, and secwe̓pemc & mixed settler interdisciplinary artist jaz whitford for the opening reception of a genocide laid bare, a new show that juxtaposes visual artworks with ekphrastic poetry, installed at the gallery as an invitation to discuss heritage, systemic aggressions, and Indigenous history between mediums. At the…

Watch: Performance + Healing / My Petals are Bruised and I’m Still a Flower with Jotika Chaudhary Samant + KeAloha + Phiroozeh Petigara

Watch: Performance + Healing / My Petals are Bruised and I’m Still a Flower with Jotika Chaudhary Samant + KeAloha + Phiroozeh Petigara

On Friday, March 24 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and artists Jotika Chaudhary Samant, KeAloha, and Phiroozeh Petigara for My Petals are Bruised and I’m Still a Flower, a night of art, performance, and healing that brings together three Queer, Disabled Artists who are South Asian, Fijian of Indian descent and mixed-Indigenous. Gather with them as they…