{"id":168575,"date":"2023-07-21T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=168575"},"modified":"2023-07-21T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:02:10","slug":"cafkas-22nd-biennale-festival-invites-people-to-reflect-and-come-together-after-challenges-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cafkas-22nd-biennale-festival-invites-people-to-reflect-and-come-together-after-challenges-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"CAFKA&#8217;s 22nd biennale festival invites people to reflect and come together  after challenges of COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kitchener\u2019s visual arts biennale, CAFKA presents a multitude of artists representing different geographies and cultures. Cafka, which is an acronym for Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, takes pride in the medium of outdoor public art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s CAFKA\u00a0 festival is \u2018Stay with Me\u2019.\u00a0 Tara Cooper, the director of CAFKA, explained,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn a way, it came out of our last biennale, which was during the pandemic two years ago. And the idea was literally just to stay with me, the idea of being together but also the idea of giving room for the things that are uncomfortable or hard to talk about.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooper is the Director of CAFKA and also Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. She talks about the history, some of this year\u2019s unique artworks within the exhibition, and what it takes to produce the show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CKMS news also talked to the Director of Cultural Services at the Region of Waterloo Helen Chimirri-Russell about how the Region approaches funding arts organizations, such as CAFKA.<\/p>\n<p>CAFKA runs until Saturday July 22, 2023, and you can find information on exhibits and shows at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafka.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAFKA.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, July 21, 6:00\u20137:30 pm, join CAFKA for a walking tour of\u00a0<i>Stay with Me<\/i>\u00a0installations in the Kitchener exhibition zone. Admission is free. Meet in front of Kitchener City Hall (200 King Street West, Kitchener) at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The music on today\u2019s show is called \"Maple Music\" by Godmode courtesy of by Expectantly Maple Music on YouTube. This music is copyright free and used with gratitude.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitchener\u2019s visual arts biennale, CAFKA presents a multitude of artists representing different geographies and cultures. Cafka, which is an acronym for Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, takes pride in the medium of outdoor public art.\u00a0 The theme of this year\u2019s CAFKA\u00a0 festival is \u2018Stay with Me\u2019.\u00a0 Tara Cooper, the director of CAFKA, explained, \u201cIn&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":168584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,225],"tags":[1503,28487,28486,7657,3994,5466,4054],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168673,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168575\/revisions\/168673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168575"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=168575"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=168575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}