Forest City Gallery
258 Richmond st. N6B 2H7 London, ON, Canada

4 more days to see the National Gallery’s newest acquisition Suck Teeth Compositions while it’s at FCG! Come warm up, take a seat and experience Michèle Pearson Clarke’s work. The gallery is open all regular hours, with COVID safety precautions in place!

Submissions for this years Members’ Show and Sale are officially open! Click here: https://www.forestcitygallery.com//submission-form-for-the fill out your submission form - or renew your membership if you need to do that first. Be There, Be Here opens in December and the submission deadline is November 28th. We can’t wait to continue our longest-running annual event, and have your work in the gallery!

The gallery is open to the public during all regular gallery hours! Take advantage of this unseasonably warm weather and walk on down to see Michèle Pearson Clarke’s Suck Teeth Compositions (After Rashaad Newsome), on until the 21st. If you’d like to learn more about how we’re keeping the gallery safe head to www.forestcitygallery.com, while you’re there you can also read the exhibition text!

Suck Teeth Compositions (After Rashaad Newsome) opens tomorrow! Join us in person from 24 pm, you can find the link to make an appointment time here: https://forestcitygallery.setmore.com/. Looking forward to seeing you!

For a variety of reasons, ranging from current location,a criticallack of office, storage, and artists’ workspace,and our bright vision for the future of FCG, we are looking for a new place to call home! We arerequesting your input and participation in our search for a new space that is better suited to our artists and community, and our ambition as one of Canada’s longest-running artist-run centres. Please visit the link in our bio to learn more about why we’re looking for a new home, and to fill out our survey!

Join us on Thursday, November 12th, 2020 at 7pm for another round of FCG reads on Zoom! For this session, we'll be reading the graphic novel MEAL by Blue Delliquanti co-written with Soleil Ho. Facilitated by alecia bryan, non-binary artist, community organizer and lover of graphic novels. Interested participants can register here: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSfS6rtupfQyDFhj1q/viewform. The first 20 interested participants will be sent an electronic copy of the graphic... novel and the Zoom information for the FCG Reads group discussion. The deadline to register for this session is Saturday, October 17th

Suck Teeth Compositions (After Rashaad Newsome) is still on at FCG! Come experience the exhibition before it heads to the National Gallery. A reminder that the gallery is fully open, following safety protocols, accessible and kid friendly! We’d love to see you.

Join us Saturday, October 10th (by appointment) for the opening reception of Suck Teeth Compositions (After Rashaad Newsome) with artist Michele Pearson Clarke! Make your appointment here: https://forestcitygallery.setmore.com/ In Shade Compositions (2005-present), a series of live performances and videos, the African-American artist Rashaad Newsome explores issues of Black authorship, appropriation, identity and belonging by conducting choirs of women (and sometimes, gay men...) of colour who snap their fingers, smack their lips, roll their eyes, and cock their heads, creating expressive linguistic symphonies out of the nonverbal gestures and vocalizations of African-American women. Suck Teeth Compositions (After Rashaad Newsome) is a three-channel video and sound installation that both responds to and extends this inquiry by focusing on sucking teeth, an everyday oral gesture shared by Black people of African and Caribbean origin and their diasporas, including those of us who live here in Canada. See more

Big news!! Michèle Pearson Clarke’s Suck Teeth Compositions (After Rashaad Newsome) has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada; and you can see it right now at FCG! Congratulations Michèle! You can also join Michèle for an artist talk in partnership with @westernuvisarts on October 29th, Zoom link to come in our bio.

FCG Welcomes Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott The Employee is a contracted grant-writer and fundraiser hired to support the Forest City Gallery’s single-person staff for a one-year term. Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott has been hired by the artist Joshua Schwebel, who has conceived of The Employee as an artwork contributing to the structural support of the artist-run centre. Schwebel was awarded funding for the project, inclusive of the employee’s wages, from the Canada Council for ...the Arts. The delegated set of tasks comprising the project are at once the performance of an artwork and productive work benefiting the gallery. The work externalizes grant-writing and the administrative-economic tasks associated with the financial survival of the gallery as a supplementary durational performance enacted on the administrative margins of the exhibition space. Any funds successfully earned by way of the project will be incorporated into the gallery’s operating budget, and potentially used to bolster its future workforce. Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott(she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist from Québec (QC), currently based in K’jipuktuk (Halifax, NS). She graduated from Concordia University with a BFA in Print Media and Fibres & Material Practices in 2018 and recently completed an MFA in Fine and Media Arts at NSCAD University in 2020. If you’d like to learn more about Camille-Zoé please visit our website and check under projects and events!

tomorrow is our AGM! Join us at 6pm, virtually! Meet our board, elect our new board members and learn about everything FCG did last year! You can find both the link for our Zoom meeting here: https://www.forestcitygallery.com//2020-annual-general-mee and to become a member here: https://www.forestcitygallery.com/join Hope to see you there!

For those interested in supporting the Doorcrasher fundraiser but want to be able to rep their dedication to their favourite ARC no matter what they're wearing, we also have buttons! Check them out and learn more about the fundraising initiative through the link in our bio. Design by @_spankyjay

Eternal Wish Radio ends on September 5th! Come by the gallery to check it out before it’s gone!

This week's Rock and Roll Bingo is very kindly supporting our Doorcrasher Fundraising efforts as well as local London businesses and the pups at A.R.F Ontario. Registration closes this evening!

Join us tomorrow from 26 for the Live Stream of Eternal Wish Radio! You can find the link to the Zoom here: https://zoom.us/j/92080523155, or use the Meeting ID: 920 8052 3155 See you then!

Tune in today at 7pm for Special Zoom Danceparty edition of Hear Here! Hosted by PLUMP with DJ Harina and Surprise Special Guest Performance! Zoom Code:834 8589 3315... https://www.facebook.com/events/200827241371926/

Register now for our next FCG Reads Book Club! This time we will be reading Angela Davis’ Essay Race and Criminalization, Black Americans and the Punishment System (1997). You can register now by clicking this link: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSe0Ie36VOXSkq30A/viewform , with the book club meeting via Zoom on August 13th at 7 pm. FCG Reads is a series of virtual round-table discussions centred around a chosen book or piece of writing, with the goal of exploring and ...diversifying the conversations FCG facilitates and encourages in our community. What roles do structured ideas of race, police, embedded racism, and fear play in the narratives told to us about black people and their communities? How is the prison industry a modern and intentional tool used against Black Americans? In this edition of FCG Reads we will be reading and discussing the essay by Angela Davis: Race and Criminalization, Black Americans and the Punishment System, in which she contextualizes and critiques the long-time and re-invented atrocities committed against black citizens in our world. This event will be facilitated by Andres Garzon; artist, illustrator, and writer based in London, Ontario.