THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 2023
ARTSIDEOUT (ASO) is a large-scale, one-day, multidisciplinary arts festival at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Involving individuals from various walks of life, ASO celebrates the rich diversity of the community. The festival transforms UTSC with site-specific installations, exhibitions, performances, and film screenings. ASO is a result of wide-ranging collaboration between student organizers from various disciplines, community organizations, and passionate artists.
WE BRING SCARBOROUGH’S ART SIDE OUT!
Our Mission
ARTSIDEOUT challenges familiar use of space and forms connections between artistic practices in Scarborough. Inspiring critical engagement with ordinary spaces and artistic expressions, ARTSIDEOUT promotes creativity and offers a venue to explore artistic skills, viewpoints, and concepts. ARTSIDEOUT reveals potential that is inherent in everyday life at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
“We bring Scarborough’s art side out”
Our Vision
ARTSIDEOUT brings together the UTSC and Scarborough communities in the acknowledgement and celebration of diverse culture and artistic practices through an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaborations.
Our Values
Critical expression
We believe that art and art-making has the powerful capacity to engage critical reflection. Art allows the expression of everyday lived experiences and societal movements.
Accessibility
We continue to work towards providing a platform for peoples of all identities to engage with art.
Student engagement
We support personal and professional development of students
Inclusion and diversity
We encourage membership from individuals of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Collaboration
We are built on strong partnerships between UofT students and faculty, artists and non-artists, and community members and organizations.
To give thanks to the generations before us, we wish to acknowledge the land on which the festival is held. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to gather and let our ART SIDE OUT on this land.