Conversations

Here you will find conversations our curator, Seika Boye had with various artists that were involved in this exhibit. Dive deep into the thought process behind each art piece.

Please join poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, visual artist Lyse Lemieux, and SFU Galleries' Director Kimberly Phillips for a reading and conversation around Otoniya's text artwork and installation, Made Nude, and its connections to archival records in the exhibition, It's About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now, curated by Seika Boye. This talk was given on October 23rd, 2022 for the Vancouver Exhibit.

Curator, Seika Boye, in conversation with artist Adriana Contreras and dancer Ashley “Colours” Perez discussing the graphic recording created by Contreras, which translates Perez’s oral history into a visual form. This conversation took place September 23, 2020 for the Edmonton Exhibit.

Seika Boye, curator of It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now, speaks with local painters Braxton Garneau and Preston Pavlis, who both were commissioned to create works in response to archival objects in the collection that are on display at the gallery. This conversation took place October 21, 2020 for the Edmonton Exhibit.

It’s About Time curator, Seika Boye, in conversation with local artist and dancer Mpoe Mogale, and scholar, assistant professor Cheryl Thompson discussing Blackness, Beauty Standards and Performance. This conversation took place November 3, 2020 for the Edmonton Exhibit.

The Social Aspect of Dance with Michèle Moss and Cheryl Foggo.

Michèle Moss is the co-founder of Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in Calgary and Cheryl Foggo is a Calgary-based writer and historian. Together, Moss and Foggo will be discussing their personal experiences and the social aspect of dance, in relation to It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now, curated by Seika Boye. This conversation took place December 2, 2020 for the Edmonton Exhibit.