Common Pulse Festival

05/09/2014

Check it out! http://www.bookofjudith.com/symposium/

join in our daylong symposium exploring accessibility in the performing arts. This gathering intends to activate the conversation central to The Book of Judith ?s core message of inclusion.

10/30/2013

Tom Leonhardt shows and dicusses new work he created as part of the residency program at the Common Pulse Festival: Intersecting Abilities, at the Durham Art...

10/28/2013

Performed at Common Pulse 2013, Durham Ontario, along with She Likes Fiction (Steve Morel and Jim Grant) as well as collaborator Dan McGee.

10/10/2013

Ju Gosling reports on Common Pulse a bi-annual festival and symposium curated by Durham Art Gallery in rural Ontario, focusing on ‘important current developments that are taking place in the Canadian art and culture scene’. The theme for 2013's festival was Intersecting Abilities.

10/08/2013

“I’m not disabled,” says Judith Snow, addressing an audience at the Deaf and Disability Arts Movement Symposium. It seems an incongruous statement from an artist who is in a wheelchair, who is...

09/28/2013

Check out today's pop-up events around Durham. Nancy Halifax and Kim Jackson of the Red Wagon Collective will present at the Heritage Bridge across from the gallery. Janis Timm-Bottos will present Art Hive in front of Chicory Common.

09/27/2013

The Intersecting Abilities Symposium from 9am to 4:30pm at the Walkerton Clean Water Centre, exhibitions openings at 7pm at the DAG and a compelling film program at 8pm at the Durham Town Hall are on tomorrow's festival schedule. http://www.commonpulse.ca/where.php

Almost there! Tomorrow is the opening of 'Desire Lines' featuring the brand new work by Emily Cook, Jes Sachse and Tom Leonhardt. Kazumi will perform on Saturday evening at the Durham Town Hall.

09/17/2013

Another busy festival day.

Edge Hill students started their school day at the gallery with a 90-minute long lesson in arts and disability. Exhibitions were explained by Terry Burns and Ilse Gassinger; conversations with our artists in residence, Jes Sachse and Kazumi Tsuruoka, were held in- and outdoors.

09/17/2013

Kazumi Tsuruoka practicing with "She Likes Fiction, aka Steven Morel and Jim Grant, two great local musicians.

09/10/2013

Advertising with a twist.

guinness wheelchair basketball commercial ad

09/09/2013

now on display on the Durham Art Gallery's outside walls.

09/05/2013

Join us for the opening of the festival on Saturday, September 7 at 2pm. Exhibiting artists Lorette C. Luzajic, David Bobier and Grahame Lynch will be present. Additionally, David Bobier will be presenting an Emoti-Chair Demonstration at 3pm.

From Sept. 7 to 29 the Durham Art Gallery is presenting the second Common Pulse Festival, a biennial event that began in Durham two years ago.