May 17, 2025 - Speed Collaborator Generator

Workshop by Geneviève Wallen & La Centrale

Date: May 17
Time: 4-6 pm
Language: French/English
Places available: 28

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Are you searching for a collaborator? Perhaps you need one or more individuals to create a critique circle, or an accomplice to help write calls for proposals or grants. Do you feel a desire to reimagine an alternative cultural landscape, generate opportunities for your peers, or simply advance community-oriented initiatives? If this sounds like you, come and connect with like-minded individuals!

The "Speed Collaborator Generator" is a speed dating platform designed to plant seeds for reciprocal collaborations among creators. You may just discover your future collective or a new lifelong friendship!

This event is inspired by Geneviève Wallen’s decade-long relationship with her collective YTB Gallery, which led them to explore friendship as a strategy for longevity and sustainability, serving as a catalyst to dream and navigate an art world plagued by scarcity mentality.

**Note: the workshop was created by Geneviève Wallen and will be put in place by La Centrale's team. 

Geneviève Wallen is an award-winning independent curator, writer, researcher, workshop facilitator, and mentor. Wallen’s practice is rooted in the territories of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal) and Tkaronto (Toronto). Intersectional feminism, intergenerational dialogues, and alternatives to neo-liberal definitions of care inform her curatorial practice, administrative ethics and pedagogy. Her curatorial explorations include the practice of gift-giving, carving spaces for unfinished thoughts, and musings on longevity.