Concordia University

This art exhibition showcases the results of an ongoing studio research project in textile (batik), dance (Javanese dance) practices and pedagogy inside and outside the campus. The mobility grant that I received from Concordia University helped facilitate this project. I have been exploring the potential of interdisciplinary and culturally-relevant pedagogy for high school students. I have been developing a unit plan which brings together batik, dance, and pedagogy for Culture in-school program. <br/><br/>In this exhibit, I am presenting batik creations that were completed already and are in progress, using both traditional tools (canting) and a digital fabrication tool as an interdisciplinary approach to techniques in artmaking. I am also presenting batik &#145;Laseman&#146; technique steps as the pedagogical tool. This technique links to visual culture and further promotes digital fabrication to design textile/batik motifs. This exhibit is retrospective for me as an artist, art educator and batik designer. <br/>

Telefilm Canada First Feature Production Funding The Talent Fund-supported Talent to Watch Program (formerly Micro-Budget Production Program) finances emerging content creators who are recent alumni of a partner educational institution (i.e. Concordia), active members of partner cooperatives, recent participants in a partner film festival incubator initiative, or those who have directed a short film selected by a recognized film festival. The program also provides automatic funding to projects directed by an emerging director who has previously directed a short film that has been awarded a prize by a recognized film festival. Deadline for applications is February 21, 2020.