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September Updates with Embassy Cultural House: UAAC, Colour by Schubert, Maiz Barbacoa

9/3/2025

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Join London artist and ECH Co-founder Ron Benner at his garden installation, "As The Crow Flies." This annual features fresh roasted corn on the cob.
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Ron Benner's Annual Maiz Barbacoa Corn Roast
Ron Benner roasting corn at Museum London, 2022. Photo credit: Studio Kuefner Photography
Community Corn Roast with Ron Benner
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 1–4 PM

Museum London, 421 Ridout Street North, London, ON
Free

Join London artist and ECH Co-founder Ron Benner at his garden installation, As The Crow Flies. This annual community gathering features fresh roasted corn on the cob with butter, salt, Mexican chili powder, and fresh lime juice. Part sculpture, part installation, and part performance, this event will feature Benner’s roving corn-roasting wagon, Maiz Barbacoa. Maiz Barbacoa includes images of corn roasters from around the world and the names of corn in over 50 languages. 
 
For more information, please visit Museum London's website. 
Billy Bert Young: Cloudburst at Museum London
Billy Bert Young, What Goes Up... (detail), acrylic on wood panel, 36 x 48", 2021
August 30, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Museum London
421 Ridout Street, London, ON


For over fifteen years, Billy Bert Young has been a vital presence in London’s lively art community, widely recognized for his intricate, monochromatic ink drawings filled with comic book creatures, dense patterns, and playful text. Now, in Cloudburst, a solo exhibition of new paintings created over the past four years, Young shifts gears to embrace vivid colour, sculptural form, and theatrical compositions.

This bold new body of work draws from a wide range of visual motifs, including nostalgic advertisements, movie posters, children’s book illustrations, and historical prints. The result is a series of layered, dreamlike paintings that reward closer looking. Blending high realism with pop culture and collage, Young’s compositions radiate a carnivalesque energy that feels familiar and fantastical.

Each piece is a visual puzzle, rich with symbolism and surreal titles that invite viewers to explore and imagine their own unique narratives. Behind the scenes, Young’s process is rooted in avid sketching and collecting, affording old magazines, artist publications, deaccessioned textbooks, and vintage ads new life through his work.

Colour by Schubert is retiring after 43 Years
UAAC-AAUC Conference 2025 at York University

UAAC–AAUC Conference 2025
October 16–18, 2025

York University, School of AMPD, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON
Registration required


This year’s Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) host is the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (School of AMPD) at York University, in Toronto. The Conference will run from October 16 to 18, 2025, at York University’s Keele Campus. With over 200 speakers and more than 60 sessions, this edition of the Conference will touch a vast array of topics and interests. 

Embassy Cultural House will have a book table at the conference on Friday, October 17, 2025. For more information about the conference, please visit UAAC's website. 

Stethoscope Story #1 with Tarek Loubani
Tarek Loubani in conversation with John Greyson during his recent trip to
Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. 
Not/For The Money presented by Embassy Cultural House
Alistair MacKinnon, Missing the Point, mixed media, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist

The Embassy Cultural House is pleased to present Not/For The Money, a group exhibition that highlights work by artists and cultural workers that examines themes related to money, capital, and value.  

Money is a very urgent issue for many artists. An aspect of this issue is the general public’s inability to value the arts and cultural workers’ vital role and impact within any community. There is a lack of understanding in the way cultural workers survive and build meaningful lives, often with a minimum of resources. The issue of money, the impact of economic disparity, and insecurity dominates many of our lives. Without a stable income, most people struggle to afford basic necessities that are required for quality of life.

The theme of money is addressed frequently within the art world, but usually it is in the context of the art “market,” commercial auctions, and wealthy collectors. Many artists work to imagine and engender new relationships, value systems, and ways of being. As journalist Eric Reguly wrote in The Globe and Mail business section, “You don’t necessarily need buckets of money to succeed. Sometimes imagination and the courage to break the rules can do the trick.”

Not/For the Money includes contributions by Ron Benner, Karl Beveridge, Lily Cho, Matthew Dawkins, Holly English, Soheila Esfahani, Kelly Greene, Jamelie Hassan, SF Ho, Michael Maranda, Alistair MacKinnon, Patrick Mahon, David Merritt, Mohamed Monaiseer, Sheri Osden Nault, Wanda Nanibush, Shelley Niro, Ruth Strebe, and Jeff Thomas. The project has been organized by Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan, Olivia Mossuto, and Mireya Seymour.

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  • From V&A Museum Youtube Channel: Tatreez: The Ancient Art of Palestinian Embroidery | Fashion Unpicked
  • From Democracy Now!: "Time to Cut Ties with Israel": U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing
  • Fluxus Experimental Film Festival, September 26–27, 2025 at Hamilton Artists Inc. in partnership with Factory Media Centre, Hamilton, ON
  • Holding Patterns: the long view, curated by Rachel Deiterding, September 25–December 6, 2025 at McIntosh Gallery, London, ON
  • From CBC News: Art exhibit seeks to break down language barriers with auction to support interpreting services by Jack Sutton
  • From Hyperallergic: Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map by Isa Farfan
  • From CounterPunch: In Israel's Genocide of Gaza, We See the Face of Five Centuries of Western Colonialism by Patrick Mazza
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Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.

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