Curator Talk with Norman Vorano

Wednesday, May 30 from 12pm to 1pm

For the first time, the influence of Japanese printmaking on the development of the printmaking tradition in Cape Dorset is discussed. With Norman Vorano, Curator of Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and curator of the exhibition Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration.

Talk • Little Red Riding Hood in Film

Thursday July 12 at 7pm

Little Red Riding Hood and the Pedophile in Film: Freeway, Hard Candy, and The Woodsman

A talk with University of Winnipeg Professors Pauline Greenhill (Women and Gender Studies) and Steven Kohm (Criminal Justice)

"Little Red Riding Hood" is one of very few well-known fairy tales that have not come under what Jack Zipes calls "the Disney spell," which has ossified and Americanized so many others. Creators using various artistic genres have thus felt free to rewrite and reconceptualize it. Greenhill and Kohm will discuss how the "Little Red Riding Hood" story offers filmmakers and viewers a metaphorical tool for understanding relations between pedophiles and their victims in novel ways, opening up the possibility of a shift in perspective on this issue. • Free admission

Talk with Jack Zipes

Friday July 20 at 7pm

Revitalizing Fairy Tales: Feminist and Deviant Artworks

A subversive twist on age-old stories with Jack Zipes, one of the world’s leading thinkers on the social and political impact of fairy tales in contemporary society • Tickets $5 members/$15 non-members