I Spy...Raine Bongon | Online Artist Talk Series
Lunch-time talk with screenwriter, artist and poet Raine Bongon, hosted by Nadia Mahamoor and UNIT/PITT.
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Nadia Mahamoor | nadia.mahamoor@gmail.com
Join us for an online lunch-hour artist talk and presentation with Raine Bongon as part of this year's I spy... Speaker Series.
This online artist talk series is a part of a connecting bridge of projects created by UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. Multi-disciplinary curator Nadia Mahamoor has invited three artists to discuss their practice, present their work, and share their common ground with the themes of I spy鈥, UNIT/PITT鈥檚 disposable camera mail art project.
About:
Raine Bongon is a Filipina-Canadian screenwriter, script analyst and poet. An award-winning graduate of the Vancouver Film School鈥檚 Writing for Film, Television and Games program, she has since worked in the industry writing script coverage as well as helping out on sets as Production Assistant and Script Supervisor. Her poetry can be found published in Glass Mountain Literary Magazine and local art journals. Her work primarily focuses on themes of identity, minds and bodies, the Filipino diaspora, girlhood, trauma and punk rock:
Nadia Mahamoor is a first generation Sri-Lankan-Malay multi-disciplinary creator currently residing on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the the xwm蓹胃kw蓹y虛 蓹m (Musqueam), S岣祑x瘫 w煤7mesh (Squamish), and s蓹l虛 ilw蓹ta蓙涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work currently focuses on identity, textiles, fantasy, futurisms and moral ambiguity. She enjoys conceptual design, experience building, expression, creating dialogs, sharing stories with communities, and exploring new narratives. Currently, she is in the process of completing a BDes at 色库TV, majoring in Industrial Design.
UNIT/PITT is a charitable non-profit artist run organization based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations in Vancouver BC. I spy鈥 a disposable camera project is a mail art program created by UNIT/PITT:
Please note, this event will be a Zoom Webinar and it will be recorded.
We will have live-captioning through Zoom. If you require an accessibility accommodation, please contact the organizer at bbachmann@unitpitt.ca, and we will do our best to meet your needs.
This series is supported by Shumka Centre鈥檚 Art Apprenticeship Network, which connects students of 色库TV with established mentors.
Promotional background photo by Katayoon Yousefbigloo for I spy... 2020