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FINAL TOUCHES MADE ON THE MANDELA WALL Signs - Mandela Exhibition In North Toronto By Stephen Weir : Dusting. Straightening.  Turning on the museum lights. The final touches on the exhibition MANDELA are being made in preparation for today's official opening!  The doors will open to the public after lunch for MANDELA, a blockbuster-touring exhibition created by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. It is all happening in North Toronto at the Meridian Arts Centre 5040 Yonge St, the show runs till January 5 th  2020. Mandela in Toronto - Toronto Star photo For show goers, a wall of battered “whites only” signs is the first thing you see as you enter the exhibition. Be prepared for what is described as a  “rich sensory experience of imagery, soundscape, digital media and objects!” This multi-media exhibition has been created in collaboration with the South Africa’s Apartheid Museum. MANDELA explores Nelson Mandela’s fight for justice and

By Stephen Weir Canada’s first professional photography association is having its first ever major exhibition this carnival season. It all happens in two weeks at the Scarborough Civic Centre on Borough Drive. Beyond The Carnival photography exhibition features the work eight members of the newly created Canadian Caribbean Photographic Art Collective (CCPAC). Their framed works will hang in the Civic Centre’s rotunda, July 24 th to August 7 th .   The new show is described as “an artistic expression of Caribbean experience through our lenses.”   The show is free and can be viewed 9am – 9pm daily. “The CCPAC, and this exhibition is all about archiving the history of the Caribbean Canadian experience,” explains Anthony Berot, the founder of the Canadian Caribbean Photographic Art Collective.   “ We have an amazing story that is unique to the people of the Caribbean that now call Canada home.   Black. Chinese. Indian we have a common experience that

Emerging American artist   Rupy  C. Tut's personal journey back to her Punjabi roots By K.J Mullins --  revised story by Newz4U publisher for Stephen Weir blog American artist Rupy C. Tut's work is currently being featured at PAMA (Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives) as part of Sikh Heritage Month. As the first large solo showing of her calligraphy and miniature paintings in Canada, Tut was excited to be part of the exhibition highlighting her culture at a gallery where Sikh people's culture is celebrated. As a woman, Tut is motivated to embody her heritage in beautiful ways. On Sunday, April 23 she presented a talk about her styles of art to a PAMA packed house. Artist Rupy Tut - Mullins photograph   The Sikh community in Canada has a very rich heritage Tut said during her talk. The struggles that the community experienced in India did not just disappear when people immigrated to North America. This has developed   into a North American Sikh

. By Stephen Weir Edited version posted by Huffington Post Moscow. Jerusalem. Vatican City. São Paulo . Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc is is known and admired for his world vision.   His photographs of crumbling synagogues, badly decayed Torahs scrolls and discarded school books he discovered in a rotting   70-years locked Jewish school in Slovakia are seen as instruments of change in a battle against cultural genocide. Here in Canada little is known about his travelling exhibition of pictures of those holocaust books. That is because he is Canada’s most accomplished nude photographer. That may changes now that his Last Folio exhibition has finally arrived in Canada, and people in Ontario are seeing his passion and his dread of mankind’s darkside. The Last Folio is an exhibition, an art book and a documentary movie, based on the Slovakia pictures he has taken.   The exhibition that continues to tour in Europe, Israel, South America and the United States just op