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AFK | Workshops

Dance&Alchemy

We will explore

potential alchemical mixtures from the repertoires of artists Fan Wu and Serena Lee, including qigong, taijiquan, parable, calligraphy, poetry, and somatic translation.

We will begin 

by grounding ourselves in space and in the presence of our bodies.

We will read 

and counter-read Fenollosa’s “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry” by pushing at the limits of alphabetical languages that are traditionally considered non-pictographic.

We will write 

between image and word, wet and dry, light and shadow—sensing how language appears through what it omits—the negative space it’s bound to speaking.

We will follow 

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Du Fu, Ikkyu—and many others in the lineage of the supple phenomenology of attention—and compose using the density of the ordinary as an ever-replenishing raw material.

Presented in collaboration with Dancemakers, this workshop is part of a composite program that bookends the 39th edition of Images Festival featuring Serena Lee and Fan Wu in their years-long conversation.

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Curated by
Jaclyn Quaresma
Date / Time
April 13, 2026
4:00PM – 7:00PM EDT
Location
CineCycle

129 Spadina Avenue

CineCycle is not yet fully wheelchair accessible. The laneway entrance beside 129 Spadina has two steps and no automatic doors. The rear entrance has no steps, but the path is uneven. Inside, the space (including gender-neutral washrooms) is all on one level. We're working with the 401 building to improve accessibility. If you have any specific access needs or would like to arrange a walkthrough, please get in touch.

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(ARTISTS)

Fan Wu, Serena Lee
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Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.