Oct - Dec | Study Hall Sessions
About the Program
Presented as part of I Think This Means I Can Fly, Study Hall invites participants to engage with ideas of mythology, movement, disobedience, refusal, and dreaming.
Drawing on Fred Moten’s understanding of “study” as a continuous and lived experience, the program considers talking, walking, working, dancing, suffering, and gathering as forms of collective inquiry. Through poems, essays, films, embodied practice, and conversation, each gathering creates an intimate space for discussion, questioning, and discovery.
Study Hall serves as both a library of resources and a space for critical exchange.
Program Schedule
Saturday, October 17, 2026 | Evelyn Amponsah
Saturday, November 14, 2026 | Tender Possibilities and Jessica Kasiama
Thursday, December 10, 2026 | Nehal El-Hadi and Anique Jordan
Study Hall session I with Evelyn Amponsah : I Think I Need to Get High
Saturdays, October 17, 2026
2 to 4 PM
Free | In-Person | Registration not required
What does it mean to get high? To leave the ground, to alter our perception, to step outside ourselves, or to experience the world differently, even temporarily? And what might the desire or experience tell us about the world we are trying to get away from, or the ones we are trying to imagine?
Taking up flight, dreaming and movement in Anique Jordan’s I Think This Means I Can Fly, I Think I Need to get High considers some of the methods we use to alter how we experience ourselves and the world around us. We will think about getting high, in different manifestations, as practices that can shift perception, our experience of time, and our sense of what is possible.
Using texts already gathered within the exhibition, including Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora, The People Could Fly, Freedom Dreams, and Black Quantum Futurism, we will think together about Black surrealism, escape, altered time, imagination and flight.
The session is not interested in deciding whether “escape” through getting high is good or bad, rather we will sit with the desire to get/go elsewhere. What are we trying to get away from? What becomes available when our usual ways of seeing are interrupted? What can we see from somewhere else that we couldn’t see from here? And when we come back down, what, if anything, comes back with us?
Study Hall session II with Tender Possibilities: A Participatory Poetry Exploration with Jessica Kasiama
Saturdays, November 14, 2026
2 to 4 PM
Free | In-Person | Registration not required
Jessica Kasiama is a writer and cultural worker based in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in The Creative Independent, Toronto Review, C Magazine, Inuit Art Quarterly, and more. In 2025, she founded kimya, a listening session series exploring the relationship between music and literature. Informed by black feminist traditions, she is interested in how sound shapes and transmits cultural memory. Farhia Tato is a writer and place-based curator whose work engages with hybridity. Drawn to the unexpected ways people connect and improvise, she writes about surveillance, entanglement, environment and desire. Her work across poetry, performance and public programming includes projects with the Toronto Biennial of Art, Wavelength Music Festival, The Music Gallery, SummerWorks Festival, Evergreen Brick Works, Oakville Galleries, COOPER COLE, Gallery TPW and The 519. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Tender Possibilities, a participatory poetry exploration and creative placemaking initiative.
Study Hall session III: In Conversation with Nehal El-Hadi and Anique Jordan
Saturdays, November 14, 2026
4 to 6 PM
Free | Online | Registration required
