AWE at Night - July 2025

Be sure to join us for this month’s AWE at Night on July 17th! AWE is open for an evening filled with art activities, community discussions, guided tours, and great vibes.

Art Activity: TBA⎮  5pm – 8:30pm, 2nd floor, Education Studio 

Performance: Bridget Moser ⎮ 5pm – 6pm, 2nd floor galleries 

Community Conversation: TBA⎮  6:30pm – 7pm, 3rd floor galleries  

Le Labo Tour – en francais⎮  7pm – 8pm, 2nd floor galleries 

Artist Talk: Soheila Esfahani⎮  7pm – 7:30pm, 2nd floor galleries 

Soheila Esfahani grew up in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Canada in 1992. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. Her recent work questions displacement, dissemination, and reinsertion of culture by re-contextualizing culturally specific ornamentation and various collected souvenir type objects. She navigates the terrains of cultural translation by exploring ornamentation as a form of “portable culture” that can be carried across cultures and nations. Her recent practice aims to destabilize the origin of culture and reconstruct Homi Bhabha’s “the third space of in-betweeness”: a site of cultural translation, where locations of cultures are negotiated and new narratives are adapted and hybridized. In this body of work, Esfahani simultaneously emphasizes and disrupts familiar collected objects such as blue and white china in order to dissolve traditional boundaries between cultures.

Music, food, and drink ⎮ 7pm – 9pm, 3rd floor galleries 

Let’s celebrate! Head up to the third floor to join us for music by DJ Brent Scudder, food and drinks by Windsor Eats, and good vibes.