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CAFKA is seeking an Audiovisual Technician and Videographer, and an Education and Public Programs Coordinator

Founded in 2001, CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area) is an artist-run organization that produces a biennial exhibition of public art in Waterloo Region. Through the biennial and related lectures, tours, workshops, and special events, CAFKA animates the Region of Waterloo's urban environments, and enables our community to learn about contemporary art and participate in its making.

CAFKA is seeking an Audiovisual Technician and Videographer, and an Education and Public...

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Education

03 May

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

An evening with Guillermo Gómez-Peña with cameos by Pocha Nostra members Saula Garcia Lopez and Balitronica      Combining spoken word poetry, activist theory, radical storytelling and language experimentation, Gómez-Peña offers critical and humorous commentary about the art world, academia, new technologies, the culture of war and violence in the US, organized crime in Mexico, gender and race politics, and the latest wave of complications surrounding gentrification in the “creative city...

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Support

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COVID-19 forced us to postpone our 2020 biennial until June of 2021. We are counting down to CAFKA.21. Staff and volunteers are very busy collaborating with artists to develop some of the brightest and best contemporary public art in Canada, but WE NEED YOUR HELP! Make a resolution today to engage with your community in a new way by making a donation to CAFKA.

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CAFKA.TV

Laura Watson, “Spell for the End of the World”, 2020.

Laura Watson: Spell for the End of the World

An animation and visual poem created for CAFKA and supported by the Digital Originals initiative from the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada and CBC/Radio-Canada.  Words +...

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