Latin American Canadian Art Projects (LACAP)

02/25/2026

02/18/2026

Join us for our first Open Mic Night of the year. A fundraising poetry and music jam night. All performers welcome!
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/warm-up-your-soul-open-mic-at-sur-gallery-tickets-1981792245956?aff=oddtdtcreator

Friday, February 27th, 7-10pm

We invite musicians, poets, artists, social activists, and all of those who would like to share their love for humanity, social justice, and art during these challenging and polarized times. Come and show your solidarity with the gallery while also building community and friendships.

If you are a performer who'd like to secure a spot SIGN UP emailing [email protected], or arrive early and IN-PERSON (Space permitting)/ One free drink for performers!

Doors open and sign-up starts at 6:50 PM. Performances start at 7 PM

02/18/2026

The artist Alejandro Arauz shares his print-based interdisciplinary artistic practice in this PROFILES episode where he discusses the alchemy of printmaking, its history and how it can speak to notions of migration, memory, identity, and transitory processes. www.alejandroarauz.ca

Link: https://youtu.be/KHtJ4Q0FzuA on our YouTube channel:

PROFILES is created by Director/Curator Tamara Toledo and filmmaker Peter Riddihough, this series of fifteen 5-minute portrait videos showcase Latin American artists of the diaspora in Canada.

01/19/2026

Check out Wayqeycuna a piece by Tiziano Cruz at Theatre Passe Muraille. "A homecoming that confronts history-and refuses to disappear"

Drawing from archival research and personal history, this powerful performance reflects on how cultural and collective identities survive under a world reshaped by neoliberalism's erasure. Through poetic gestures and shared rituals of grieving for his sister, Cruz creates a space for reconciliation and consolation — honoring the dead through ancient practice. Tiziano Cruz’s newest piece carries a quest for inner peace and reconciliation.

WINNER OF:
Zurich Theatre Spektakel Prize Audience Award 2024
The ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2023
Bienal de Arte Joven 2019

In Spanish with English surtitles
Wayqeycuna 🌄
Jan. 24 – 25, 2026
Theatre Passe Muraille
16 Ryerson Ave., Toronto
🎟️: https://www.passemuraille.ca/through-the-eyes-of-god/

Wayqeycuna by Tiziano Cruz
"A homecoming that confronts history-and refuses to disappear"

Limited run - January 24 & 25, 2026

Just as Andean women weave their quipus — textile artifacts of ropes and knots — as living memorials, Argentine artist Tiziano Cruz weaves his own memories to reconnect with his community and ancestry. Drawing from archival research and personal history, Wayqeycuna reflects on how racial hierarchies and systems of domination persist in a world reshaped by neoliberalism’s erasure of cultural and collective identities.

Most recently presented at the prestigious Avignon Festival, one of the world's most important contemporary performing arts events. Wayqeycuna concludes Cruz’s acclaimed trilogy Tres Maneras de Cantarle a una Montaña (Three Ways to Sing to a Mountain) — a poetic and political exploration of memory, class, and the global art market. TPM audiences are familiar with Cruz’s work from the trilogy’s first powerful entry, Soliloquio, which recently appeared at 2024.

Tiziano Cruz’s newest solo carries a quest for inner peace and reconciliation. The artist presides over a peculiar banquet in a performance full of gentleness and healing, a generous act of sharing.

Series 2026 🌎
Theatre Passe Muraille
16 Ryerson Ave., Toronto
🎟 at the link in our bio!

01/09/2026

If you missed this last year go check out Sur Gallery PROFILES on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/4JreSgjyw4E?si=SdnGE49kILWKc294
Helena Martín Franco is a Colombian Caribbean artist that we interviewed for this project. The artist talks about her trajectory, she reflects on identity and its challenges. When immigrating she highlights the importance of allies and colleges to understand and share how they are being perceived as Latin American women.
Created by Director/Curator Tamara Toledo and filmmaker Peter Riddihough, this series of fifteen five-minute portrait videos showcase latin artists in our community!

11/08/2025

Online Artist Talk with Triangle, Crear Poder Popular, and Watermelon Seeds Collective. Join us for an artist talk with members of the Crear Poder Popular Collective, Triangle Collective, and Watermelon Seeds Collective as they share their projects that aim to connect and support their communities, understanding collective memory as essential to resist violent forms of erasure.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artist-talk-for-collectivememory-exhibition-tickets-1712215134559?aff=oddtdtcreator

Image: Coman P**n, you can never cross the same river twice (nunca se puede cruzar el mismo río dos veces), 6:19 min.2024.

Artist Talk with Triangle, Crear Poder Popular, and Watermelon Seeds Collective.

09/25/2025

Sur Gallery presents "Collective/Memory" an exhibition celebrating the power of art, memory, and community. Inspired by the roots of collective social justice activism and the power of coalition, this exhibition highlights the work of Crear Poder Popular Collective, Día de los Mu***os Collective, Triangle Collective, and Watermelon Seeds Collective.

"Collective/Memory" opens on October 9th, 2025-- join us for the opening reception from 7-9PM!

For more information or to register for the event, visit our virtual site!

08/28/2025

We're currently looking for new team member to take on the following role:

➡️ Operations Manager : Part-time contract (Apply by: September 22, 2025)

Think you'd be a good fit? Visit our virtual site for more information!

08/19/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating Sur Gallery’s 10-Year Anniversary!

From sharing food and music at Artist’s Share, bidding at the Silent Art Auction, dressing up for the SUR Gala, to reflecting together during Decade of Dialogue, and finally dancing it out at the After Party—you made every moment unforgettable.

Here’s to the next decade!