 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | (CBC) | | | This week’s link dump is all about the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards! There’ll be plenty of schmoozing and trophy-dispensing happening in Toronto this week — all leading up to the main event on Sunday, June 1. CBC Gem will be streaming the CSAs live at 8 p.m. ET, and comedian Lisa Gilroy will be your host.
As for the top contenders: in film, Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language is the frontrunner, leading the pack with 13 nominations. (Q interviewed the filmmaker last fall.) On the TV side, it’s all about Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent. The franchise spinoff is going into the CSAs with 20 nominations, more than any other title in competition. Well dun dun. (I guess that means it “lived up to the hype.”) We spoke with the series’ showrunner earlier this year.
We also have an interview with David Cronenberg about his CSA-nominated film, The Shrouds. (The Commotion panel called it his best movie in years.) And in March, we chatted with CSA nominee (and Severance star) Britt Lower about playing a Toronto librarian in Darkest Miriam. As for more recent conversations … just last week, our colleagues at Commotion were gabbing about one of their fave CSA-nominated comedies, Late Bloomer. (Its star, Jasmeet Raina, was also on Q.)
But if you’re in the mood for watching Canadian TV and movies, rather than listening to people talk about it, check out CBC Gem. There are plenty of CSA-nominated titles streaming there for free, including Bones of Crows, Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music and CBC Arts interview series Here & Queer. | | | | | Because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | J Webster | | Grad season continues, and out in Vancouver, Emily Carr University of Art and Design is celebrating the class of 2025 at The Show. Hundreds of graduating artists are exhibiting their work, and you can discover those projects online. Pictured: The Mutant by J Webster. | | | | |  | Alex Millington | | “Dissected and reassembled — familiar yet fractured.” That’s how Alex Millington describes the uncanny canaries in his collage series Pretty Bird. (Alex will be at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair from July 11 to 13.) | | | | |  | Mark Krzepis | | Technology’s Loving Embrace by Mark Krzepis. (See this painting and more of Mark’s work at Tiger Den in Toronto through June 2.) | | | | |  | Philip Leonard Ocampo | | Elsewhere in Ontario, at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, a new group exhibition (Milestone Nerve) opened last weekend, and at least one of the featured artists should be very familiar to newsletter readers: Philip Leonard Ocampo! It feels like just yesterday I was sharing a link to his episode of In Process … | | | | |  | McMichael Canadian Art Collection | | | | | As seen in Destination: Art, Shift is a concrete sculpture by Richard Serra that can be found in a field in southern Ontario. Toronto artist Derek Sullivan spent a year visiting the site. The result of his research is an exhibition of drawings, photographs, found objects and archival materials. | | | | |  | Dahlia Katz | | | | | Theatre fans are flocking to Harmony House, home of the “docu-concert.” | | | | |  | Sarah Del Angel | | | | | | | He’s already conquered TikTok, so what’s next for Toronto’s Neema Nazeri? Getting laughs IRL. | | |  | Miya Turnbull | | Miya is a Halifax-based artist who’s on the longlist for this year’s Sobey Art Award. She also happens to be a contributor to CBC’s Creator Network — and have you seen the video we ran from her last week? It’ll make your head explode (in a very good way). Watch it here. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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