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    • Same Difference
    • Reconnecting to the Bow
    • Minor Stipulations
    • A List of Antagonisms: Kitchener, ON
    • 100 years then and hereafter
    • we remain profoundly and infinitely connected
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    • In Retrospect
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    • The Egyptian
    • A List of Antagonisms: Hamilton, ON
    • Rehearsing Disagreement
    • Everything I Wanted to Tell You
    • Dear Scarborough
    • This Place
    • Souvenir Shop: Scarborough, ON
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    • Everything Is Happening Right Here
    • Souvenir Shop: Mississauga, ON
    • Something Written to the White House
    • Something Written in the Arabic Language
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    • Utterance
    • Trying to Find a Way to Tell You
    • Varying Proximities
    • Flagged for Review
  • Collaborations
  • Writing & Publications
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    • A Record of the Rivers
    • The Memory Cookbook
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    • An Etymology of Things
    • The Cycles of Stupidity
    • 1W3KND
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    • Call Calgary's Bow River
    • Belonging to a Place: Episode 1—Holding Ground
    • The Art of Change Podcast: Episode 11—Art and Social Change
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    • Capilano Review: Winter 2019
    • A List of Antagonisms
    • Nuit Blanche Scarborough
    • PLUS
    • Bow River's Emotions
    • Nuit Blanche Makes Mark in Scaborough
    • Letters to Scarborough
    • Field Trip: Toronto
    • Refugee, immigrant women collaborate
    • Welcome to Guelph
    • The Bow River
    • Life Inside the Broken City
    • Poetry in the Streets
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Hiba Abdallah

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  • Projects
    • Same Difference
    • Reconnecting to the Bow
    • Minor Stipulations
    • A List of Antagonisms: Kitchener, ON
    • 100 years then and hereafter
    • we remain profoundly and infinitely connected
    • Declarations for a Different Future
    • In Retrospect
    • Neighbourhood Trust
    • The Egyptian
    • A List of Antagonisms: Hamilton, ON
    • Rehearsing Disagreement
    • Everything I Wanted to Tell You
    • Dear Scarborough
    • This Place
    • Souvenir Shop: Scarborough, ON
    • The Rights of Nature
    • Everything Is Happening Right Here
    • Souvenir Shop: Mississauga, ON
    • Something Written to the White House
    • Something Written in the Arabic Language
    • Welcome to Guelph
    • Utterance
    • Trying to Find a Way to Tell You
    • Varying Proximities
    • Flagged for Review
  • Collaborations
  • Writing & Publications
    • Dear Scarborough
    • A Record of the Rivers
    • The Memory Cookbook
    • The Rights of Nature
    • An Etymology of Things
    • The Cycles of Stupidity
    • 1W3KND
    • How to Forget the Border Completely
  • News
    • Call Calgary's Bow River
    • Belonging to a Place: Episode 1—Holding Ground
    • The Art of Change Podcast: Episode 11—Art and Social Change
    • Neighbourhood Trust: The Housing Crisis
    • Capilano Review: Winter 2019
    • A List of Antagonisms
    • Nuit Blanche Scarborough
    • PLUS
    • Bow River's Emotions
    • Nuit Blanche Makes Mark in Scaborough
    • Letters to Scarborough
    • Field Trip: Toronto
    • Refugee, immigrant women collaborate
    • Welcome to Guelph
    • The Bow River
    • Life Inside the Broken City
    • Poetry in the Streets
    • Everyone's the Best
  • Contact
  • Broken City Lab
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Difficult Conversations with Niki Landau

October 13, 2018

October 13 @ 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
Toronto, ON

Niki Landau, both a theatre artist and alternative dispute resolution practitioner, spent the day facilitating conversations around disagreement through a series of exercises that helped build useful skills such as self-awareness, listening, compassion, and mutual understanding as a part of Justin and I’s exhibition Rehearing Disagreement.

During the workshop, we learned the different types of disagreement, how to disagree in more useful ways, and what style of arguing each one of our personalities coincided with.

Rehearsing Disagreement 

Hiba Abdallah and Justin Langlois’s Rehearsing Disagreement is the first project in MOCA’s Art in Use series on MOCA’s Floor 4. The project is comprised of four participatory works that explore disagreement and conflict through the lens of art and within the structure of the museum. Inviting visitors to share their lived experiences, the artists present the argument that co-existing in difference is a generative part of our civic responsibility.

As an extension to their project, a weekend program features participatory activities, talks, and workshops that frame the question: how does disagreement play a useful role in our everyday? By identifying the positive effects of differences, participants can develop the skill of agreeing to disagree.

Niki Landau is a mediator, actor, playwright, and theatre producer. She teaches theatre arts at York University and Seneca College, and is a Mediation and Communication Skills trainer who has worked with many individuals, families and organizations to help improve skills, relationships and group dynamics. She co­founded Theatre PANIK in 2005 and has taken part in the grassroots peacemaking initiative The Compassionate Listening Project.

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