AWW Free School: Extreme Music Therapy

AWW Free School: Extreme Music Therapy

Inspired by the exhibition Ai Weiwei: Unbroken, this unique series in collaboration with The Gardiner Museum will transform the exhibition into a site for social action.

Writer, on-camera personality, and musician Sarah Kitteringham facilitates an in-gallery heavy metal listening exercise, followed by metal show featuring:

Vile Creature (external link) 
angry queer gloom cult from Hamilton on Prosthetic Records
http://vilecreature.bandcamp.com (external link) 

Tashme
political & emotional hardcore from Toronto
http://tashme.bandcamp.com (external link) 

When Ai Weiwei was released from his detainment by the Chinese government in 2011, he put out the self-proclaimed heavy metal single “Dumbass” as “a kind of self-therapy” to help him deal with the traumatic experience of being held in detention by the state.

Co-presented by The Jack Layton Chair; The Gardiner Museum; and Melanie Panitch, The Director of The Office of Social Innovation, Ryerson University