Listening to Art, Seeing Music with Amirali Alibhai

Curator’s Tour

Listening to Art, Seeing Music with Amirali Alibhai

Date: Tue, Feb 06, 2018 06:30PM - Tue, Feb 06, 2018 07:30PM
Price: $20, $18 Friends, $12 students and seniors

Join Amirali Alibhai, Head of Performing Arts, as he discusses the inspiration and development of the Museum-wide musical experience Listening to Art, Seeing Music.

Amirali Alibhai has been actively making and exhibiting visual, performance, and community-based arts for more than 25 years. His professional experience includes roles as a curator, educator, publisher, and administrator. Between 1996 and 2008, he helped to establish the Roundhouse Community Arts Centre in Vancouver, where his role included developing artists-in-communities projects and coordinating cross-cultural partnerships. From 2009 to 2012, he was the Executive Director of the Greater Vancouver Alliance for Arts and Culture (2009–2012). He has previously served on the Board of the Canada Council for the Arts (2005–2008), the Board of the Canadian Conference of the Arts (2010–2012), and the Provincial and Territorial Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Human Resource Council (2010–2012). He currently serves on the a Program Advisory Committee of the Arts Management program at Centennial College, and on the Music Committee of the Toronto Arts Council.

Photo(s) by Aliya Sharif

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