In Spirit: Damian Siqueiros, Songs of the Inner Chamber
Damian Siqueiros is in South Korea to work with dancers. The theme: exploring the notion of gender in this Asian culture.
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Penstrokes: An Interview with Callan Ponsford
Artist Callan Ponsford uses ballpoint pens to create images that imitate the look of dense paintings, while still retaining the immediacy of a line drawing.
LGBT Film Series: Brothers in Arms Break a Leg
Yurich and Poliquin are both gifted storytellers, with parallel subject matters executed in their own unique ways. One moment of mirroring is reflected in scenes…
CELLS: Interview
CELLS: A Poetry Installation and Durational Performance Interview We sit down on our terrace and talk with Jordan Brown and Alisha Mascarenhas who together make…
All Together: August 2017
All Together is a monthly review of photo highlights from Never Apart and NVA moments, events and happenings.
Noise Meditation Q&A with Sasha Ford
Practice began a year ago as a small, one-off collaboration between Mikael Tobias and Jann Tomaro. Intending to share a context combining elements of noise,…
Summer Exhibitions Vernissage 2017: Video Recap
Enjoy the video recap that captures the brilliant evening of seven new exhibitions featuring sixteen local and international talents that fill our galleries!
G.R.O.S.S.: Interviews
We chat with Nadine Faraj and Rebecca Storm who are two of the four artists involved in this fantastic group exhibition which is in association…
Artist Visits LA: Lex Vaughn
We talk with LA based multi media artist and performer Lex Vaughn about her diverse career and multiple characters, projects and past works.
Femme Realness: Interviews
We chat with all of our talented artists involved in this group show and learn more about them and their work in this powerful exhibition!…
Colour By Icons 2.0: Interview
We relaunched our “Colour By Icons” LGBT historical colouring book by adding an addition 25 new icons to the pages as well as an exhibition…
(Something) with a decorative edge: Interview
We chat with Anika Ahuja and Sara Graorac the Montreal based artists behind this exhibition currently on display in the Vitrine for our Summer 2017…
Wiggle Toronto Video Recap
Never Apart and The House of Venus teamed up with Nuit Rose in Toronto to produce the wearable art festival outside at The 519 with…
Artist Visits LA: Austin Young
We had the pleasure of spending the day with this fabulous photography and multi disciplinary artist in his LA studio. Austin shares his career highlights…
All Together: July 2017
All Together is a monthly review of photo highlights from Never Apart and NVA moments, events and happenings.
Beyond Borders: An Interview with Anika Ahuja & Sara Graorac
Artists Anika Ahuja and Sara Graorac gracefully unpack for us the themes of their powerfully moving installation, “(Something) with a decorative edge.”
Wiggle 2017: Video Recap
The Annual Wearable Art and Performance Extravaganza returned to bring an array of groundbreaking glamour with special guest hostess Candis Cayne.
Canada Day Top 10
To celebrate Canada Day we have asked ten influential Canadian artists to give us their Top 10 Canadian songs!
NVA Q&A: Nick Schofield
We’re teaming up with Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival for a daytime ambient show at our Centre— we caught up with Nick Schofield, co-curator of the…
Michael Palumbo Interview
The next noise meditation at Never Apart on June 10th features Michael Palumbo, a sound artist, scholar, and designer from Toronto.
Spring Exhibitions Vernissage: Video Recap
Enjoy the fantastic Video Recap from our Spring Exhibitions Vernissage! It captures the magical evening where over seven hundred people attended the launch of our…
Andrew Moncrief: Video Q&A
We chat with Montreal-based painter Andrew Moncrief whose exhibit “Losing Face” is part of our Spring Exhibitions. Andrew chats about his process, artistic background and…
Dayna Danger: Video Q&A
This multi disciplinary artist talk with us about her work in our “Two-Spirit Sur-Thrivance and the Art of Interrupting Narratives” group show and lets us…
Preston Buffalo: Video Q&A
Preston joins us in Montreal where he shares his story of creating the beautiful works that hang in our galleries as apart of our “Two-Spirit…
Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour: Video Q&A
Jeffrey join us from British Columbia to chat about the importance of the “Two-Spirit Sur-Thrivance and the Art of Interrupting Narratives” exhibition, his role as…
All Together: May 2017
All Together is a monthly review of photo highlights from Never Apart and NVA moments, events and happenings.
Evergon Legend Series Video Q&A
We celebrated the Canadian photographer with a screening of the film “Margaret and Evergon” by Donald Winkler who joins Evergon for the Q&A focussing on…
Q&A with Sky Gilbert
For more than 30 years, Sky Gilbert has been jolting Canada’s theatre scene with provocative works that enlighten, entertain and enrage.
Tunnel with Jen Reimer and Magnus Tiesenhausen
On May 13th practice, the serial noise meditation at Never Apart, will deviate from its habitual format to introduce a unique listening session of a…
Scent and Sound Meditation
On Saturday, April 22nd, Alex Beth and Jeremy Young will guide a meditation at Never Apart using scent and sound.
All Together: April 2017
Saad Al-Hakkak takes All Together to the streets of Mile-Ex, Montreal, capturing a spectrum of artists.
182 Days: An Interview with Scott Pilgrim
Scott Pilgrim’s first solo exhibition is a culmination of themes and inspirations.
Emilie Payeur: Lost in Listening
Payeur says she has been incorporating telephones and the use of their sounds for a while, even producing an album almost exclusively based on that…
Matthew Stinis: Industrial Strength Healing
Matthew Stinis became interested in sound meditation through an introduction to experimental noise music, rather than what may be considered traditional or proper meditation practices…
All Together: March 2017
All Together is a monthly review of photo highlights from Never Apart and NVA moments, events and happenings.
Artist Visits LA: Sham Ibrahim
We sit down and chat with LA based Pop Artist Sham Ibrahim about his practice, Hollywood life and his influences.
Beaver Sheppard: Video Interview
We chat with Montreal based multi-media artist and chef Beaver Sheppard about his fantastic paintings that capture the Chefs he has worked for and find…
Kali Spitzer: Video Interview
Enjoy the informative interview with photographer Kali Spitzer’s who’s photo exhibit entitled “An Exploration of Resilience” is hanging in our Upper Gallery for the Winter…
Mikael Owunna: Reaching Beyond Limits
Owunna creates photography stemming from a great love for it. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania yet based in Washington, D.C., his upbringing provided him with a…
Evergon: A Conversation with a Canadian Legend
Walking into Evergon’s home in HoMa is like entering a kind of sanctuary. There is a sacred and magical energy that permeates the air. There…
Christian Carrière: Practice Makes Purrrfect
Throughout my life, I’ve learned to play drums, guitar, piano and voice. That, in combination with my long-time fascination with all things audio has led…
All Together: February 2017
All Together is a monthly review of photo highlights from Never Apart and NVA moments, events and happenings.
The Life of the Night: Building and Sustaining Diverse Communities and Safer Spaces
On International Womxn’s Day, the Goethe-Institute and Never Apart present Ipek Ipekcioglu.
A Celebration of its People: An Interview with Maxine Walters
Maxine Walters is considered the “Queen of Dancehall”, and over the past forty years, her contributions in championing Jamaican culture cannot go unnoticed.
Winter Exhibitions Vernissage: Video Recap
Enjoy this glimpse into the joyful evening of the opening celebration for our Winter Season. Celebrating Black Heritage curated by Andy Williams, Paintings by Beaver…
Laurent Maurice LaFontant: Video Interview
We sit down with Massimadi festival’s Laurent Maurice LaFontant and talk about this year’s important film and art festival with many of the events happening…
Dries Depoorter: Jaywalking From Europa
Never Apart’s Winter Exhibit, brings Depoorter and his latest installation ‘JAYWALKING’ to Montreal for the very first time, presented in the Upper Gallery Display Room…
Never Apart: Year 1 Book
We are pleased to celebrate our 1st year of programming in the form of a Year 1 Book. This catalog documents Never Apart events, exhibitions…
Laurent Maurice LaFontant: Massimadi Festival
The Massimadi Festival will be held at different places throughout Montreal, such as J.A De Sève Concordia University, BANQ/Bibliothèque et Archives National du Québec, as…
All Together: January 2017
All Together is a monthly review of photo highlights from Never Apart and NVA moments, events and happenings.