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Now! Subscribe WOODLAND ART EVENTS CULTURAL CENTRE MUSEUM LANGUAGE At a Glance EXHIBITIONS WORKSHOPS January 24–27, 2019 PERFORMANCE ARTS& Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday FESTIVAL THE GUELPH CONVERSATIONS CONVERSATION OPENING LECTURE AND PERFORMANCES Qwo-Li Driskill RECEPTION On Being On Breathing 11 am – 1 pm Welcome and Braiding 7–10 pm AGG · Free CULTURE 6:30–7:30 pm 9:30 am – 4 pm A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE RRC · $25/$20 Page 36 FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT AGG · Free Page 26 RRC · Free WWW.WOODLANDCULTURALCENTRE.CA Page 20 Page 30 184 MOHAWK ST., BRANTFORD 519-759-2650 BIG IDEAS PERFORMANCE RECEPTION AND PANEL LECTURE Wamunzo: Dance CONVERSATION IN ART & Performance by The Curse of CULTURE Zab Maboungou of Geography Free Home Compagnie Danse 2:30–5 pm University Nyata Nyata AGG · Free 7:30–9 pm 7:30 pm · RRC Page 36 AGG · Free Free Page 20 Page 30 KICK-OFF DANCE PARTY CLOSING ADDRESS CONCERT Mix Mix Dance 5 pm · AGG · Free Collective 9:30 pm · 10C Page 36 Free 9:30 pm Page 22 Red Papaya · Free Page 32 OPENING RECEPTION 4 Exhibitions festival.artseverywhere.ca 7–9 pm · BHA · Free AEFestival @AEFestGuelph Page 38–47 VENUES

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www.publicationstudio.biz Welcome Sunday How to Play Your World Marginal Equity Messages 7 Conversation 36 by Rich Marsella by Kade L. Twist Qwo-Li Driskill Program 17 Closing Address 36 Thursday The Curse of Geography 36 Opening Reception 20 Reception and Panel Conversation: Artistic Journalism Free Home University 20 Big Ideas Lecture in Art & Culture Four Exhibitions Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Opening Reception 38 Oleynikov Dispatches from the Ghost Ship— Kick-off Concert 22 Jacob Cohen and Sidd Joag 38 Petra Glynt and New Chance Fierce: Toronto—Ajamu 40 This manual celebrates noise in the classroom, in Marginal Equity is a book-length poem that ex- the streets, and on the air. Squeezing sound out amines the unresolved tensions between mar- Friday Markets of Resistance— of just about anything, How to Play Your World is ket-driven systems and American Indian cultural Angel Velasco Shaw 44 the perfect cookbook for any musical anarchist. self ‐determination. The Guelph Lecture Collective Memories—Rocky Cajigan 46 —On Being 26 In Ten Minutes Queer City, Esi Edugyan Haroon Siddiqui Readings 51 by Carolyn Meili A Reader Tanya Tagaq 400 Years Saturday of Inequality 52 Conversations and Michael Roberson Performances 30 What Else Our Society On Breathing and Braiding Could Become 58 Performance 30 Ajay Heble Wamunzo Dance Party 32 Biographies 65 Mix Mix Dance Collective Why ArtsEverywhere? 78 Positioned on a park bench in Victoria, British Co- A collection of essays, artistic contributions, lumbia, photographer Carolyn Meili documents and two inserted zines, Queer City, A Reader quiet dramas unfolding over the course of ten was developed as part of an 18-month inquiry Credits 80 minutes on a summer's day in 1989. in São Paulo.

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modern society. Musagetes, the University of Guelph, and the Eramosa Institute co-present the Supporting the creation and exhibition of annual ArtsEverywhere Festival independent media art since 1976 in Guelph and beyond. in collaboration with numerous community partners, volunteers, elcome to the ArtsEverywhere businesses, sponsors, and creative WFestival 2019 where art, ideas, people who have a say in who politics, and community spirit we invite, how we frame the thrive! Over four days, the festival discussions, and how we keep the offers lectures, conversations, conversation going after the festival music, artistic performances, circle is over. gatherings, and literary readings. All The ArtsEverywhere Festival aims of this takes place on the ancestral to spark rich dialogues about issues, and treaty lands of the Mississaugas ideas, and challenges that are of edvideo.org of the Credit, as well as the interest to our local audiences, and Haudenosaunee from the south, and of relevance and interest to our the Anishinaabe and Métis from the national and global audiences via North. We express our gratitude for ArtsEverywhere.ca. By bringing to sharing these lands for our mutual the stage a diverse, informative, GUELPH benefit. creative, and, sometimes, unlikely Three years ago, the festival combination of speakers, artists, FILM was born out of the success of and musicians, the festival offers FESTIVAL the Guelph Lecture—On Being, a program that connects to the which has become a central ongoing work and needs of many event of Guelph’s artistic and organizations and individuals who intellectual life. The festival is a wish to make the world a better live version of ArtsEverywhere.ca, place. Musagetes’ online platform for artistic experimentation and Shawn Van Sluys exploration of the faultlines of Musagetes | ArtsEverywhere

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gesturing toward the many ways of being that we as individuals and communities live, love, and learn in the world. We hope that you will come away from the festival inspired Valerie Hall (left) and Joy Roberts to think about how you and the e are very pleased that organizations with which you are Wour two organizations are affiliated can join this important collaborating—along with the effort and make our future bright. University of Guelph and many We feel this momentum strongly community partners—to offer a and it is evident in the great number Festival of Ideas over four days. For of community organizations 15 years the Guelph Lecture—On that co-present various parts of Being Canadian has added new the festival, the businesses that voices to the ongoing conversation offer financial and promotional of what it means to be Canadian support, and the volunteers who and what role our country could and enthusiastically give their knowledge Janet Werner: should play in a changing world. and labour to make each festival as Friday night’s event marks the successful as possible. What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf? third time that the lecture is the Thanks for your ongoing JANUARY 17 TO APRIL 14, 2019 centrepiece of the ArtsEverywhere collaboration, participation, and Festival. support. We encourage you to visit This year, the Guelph Lecture ArtsEverywhere.ca to keep the Lisa Hirmer: We Are Weather is sporting a new subtitle: “On conversation going. JANUARY 17 TO APRIL 7, 2019 Being.” The lecture will continue to feature many dimensions of what Valerie Hall Joy Roberts it means to live on this land we now President Chair The Curse of Geography call Canada; however, we are also Eramosa Institute Musagetes JANUARY 17 TO APRIL 7, 2019

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to share our ideas and insights on things that matter—to be heard and to listen—and to use those ideas and insights to change our world, and maybe ourselves, for the better. This shared event also reminds Get Noticed. Get Found. elcome to the 2019 us of the strength of community. Get Noticed. Get Found. WArtsEverywhere Festival and It’s in bringing together our varied the Guelph Lecture—On Being. perspectives, backgrounds, and As in past years, the University experiences that we forge a of Guelph community is proud common and communal future. to present this year’s festival in On campus, we are committed to partnership with Musagetes and the harnessing our collective strengths Eramosa Institute. for a common purpose: to improve Through art, music, literature, life. Through our partnership in and discussion, this event brings us ArtsEverywhere and the Guelph together to talk about and reflect Lecture, we join with the wider on issues, ideas, and challenges that community for the same shared Empowering Leaders. are important to us all. Whether purpose. Empowering Leaders. it’s a novel, a memoir or a poem, a Enjoy this year’s festival events. Strengthening Communities. musical or dance performance, or Strengthening Communities. an art exhibition, change begins with the creative act of imagining Dr. Franco Vaccarino something different. President and Vice-Chancellor This festival gives us a chance University of Guelph

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people in our community and well beyond our borders. A special welcome to the speakers, presenters, artists, and performers who will be in Guelph for the festival. We’re grateful to have you with us. n behalf of the City of Guelph, Welcome, also, to everyone in OI’m thrilled to welcome everyone attendance—whether you’ve come to the 2019 ArtsEverywhere Festival from near or far. Thank you for being and The Guelph Lecture—On Being. part of this extraordinary event. This event brings together thought Enjoy the program! leaders, artists, and creative people who never fail to challenge, inspire, Sincerely, and enlighten us. It’s a festival of Cam Guthrie ideas that, year after year, enriches Mayor of Guelph

Congratulations to Julie Hastings upon her retirement as the Guelph GUELPH JAZZ Jazz Festival’s Director of Operations! FESTIVAL Celebrating 25 Years • 1994-2018 We wish her, after twenty-four years of dedicated service to the organisation, the field of creative improvised music, and the Guelph community, much joy and adventure in this new chapter of her life.

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We are fortunate to have CAFKA@The Walper 2019 best-selling author Esi Edugyan, Installations and Interventions distinguished journalist Haroon Siddiqui, and award-winning vocalist Tanya Tagaq presenting this year’s Guelph Lecture—On Being, now in its t is with great pleasure that 16th year. Their performances along March 2019 II welcome you to the 2019 with the rest of the program will no ArtsEverywhere Festival, taking doubt spark new insights into how place on the traditional territory we think about diversity, justice, of the Mississaugas of the Credit rights, queerness, colonialism, and First Nation of the Aanishinaabek so much more. Peoples. Thank you to this year’s As you gather to share ideas and presenters, Musagetes, Eramosa celebrate the creativity alive in our Institute, and the University of This exhibition has been made possible with the assistance of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. CAFKA is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, City of Kitchener, Kitchener and Waterloo community, I encourage you to think Guelph and to the many partners Community Foundation - Musagetes Fund, Ontario Arts Council and City of Waterloo about how the choices we make and sponsors whose generosity has www.cafka.org today will affect the next seven made the festival possible. generations. I hope you are all enriched and As your Member of Provincial brought closer together over Parliament, I go to work every day the next four days of lectures, proud to represent a community performances, gatherings, and of artists, innovators, and conversation. changemakers who aren’t afraid to experiment, explore, and challenge Mike Schreiner convention. MPP, Guelph raresites Waterloo Region/ Wellington’s Urban Land Trust A community opportunity to steward more lands, together.

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WELCOME Program As you come together to celebrate these unique and engaging artists, I encourage you to experience all you can while you are in Guelph. From s the Member of Parliament and experimental artists, musicians, Aon behalf of the Government of authors, and award-winning Canada I welcome you to the annual journalists, Canada’s cultural ArtsEverywhere Festival! Guelphites diversity celebrates performing take great pride in the strong artists. As always, this year’s connection Guelph has to the arts. festival will ensure a wonderful As the Member of Parliament for experience, and I hope you enjoy this Guelph I am thrilled to represent inclusive, thought-provoking festival. a community with such a vibrant Over the course of the festival and growing creative presence. The I encourage everyone to immerse Government of Canada recognizes themselves in the message of the important work Canadian the artists and to reflect on creators do in creating economic how it expresses our shared growth and shaping our identity. values of inclusiveness and social In our increasingly digital world it engagement. is exciting to see Canadian artists sharing their work internationally Sincerely, and gaining national and worldwide Lloyd Longfield recognition. Member of Parliament, Guelph

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OPENING RECEPTION BIG IDEAS LECTURE IN ART & CULTURE WELCOME Peter Schuler Elder, Mississaugas of the Credit Free Ho me University

LECTURE January 24, 6:30–7:30 pm January 24, 7:30–9 pm Art Gallery of Guelph Art Gallery of Guelph ALESSANDRA 358 Gordon St. · Free 358 Gordon St · Free Co-presented by CAFKA and POMARICO AND The Art Gallery of Guelph NIKOLAY OLEYNIKOV ree Home University (FHU) Fis a pedagogical and artistic experiment created in 2013 in southern Italy by a local and international group of artists and thinkers, along with Musagetes. FHU focuses on generating new Overleaf: Pink Panthers Party (PPP) vs Maxim BIG Gorky (2015) by Chto Delat, mixed textiles, ways of sharing and creating vinyl paint, 223 x 395 cm; Michael Roberson IDEAS knowledge by experiencing life in and Elwood Jimmy in foreground. Photo by IN ART + CULTURE Nikolay Oleynikov LECTURE SERIES common. The name Free Home Presented by Musagetes and CAFKA University gestures toward a non-vertical, energy-liberating, insurgent environment (Free), Brennan Stalford within a protected and intimate Private Release space (Home), committed to

Runs Feb 2—Mar 3, 2019 create a temporary, autonomous fundamental values of this open- community of learners (University). ended, research-based experiment A full immersion into a collective in alternative education and experience, a coalitional approach aesthetic processes. in the definition and construction Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay 5 Gordon St, Unit 107 of the inquiry, sharing aspects Oleynikov are the co-curators of Guelph ON N1H 4G8 519 821 9068 of life, and getting deeper into Free Home University, a program ricagallery.com the context and struggles of our initiated and developed with local communities, are considered Musagetes.

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KICK-OFF CONCERT Petra Glynt New Chance

January 24, 9:30 pm ew Chance (Toronto) has 10C, 42 Carden Street, 4th floor · Free performed in art venues, Beer Sponsor: Wellington Brewery N concert halls, dance clubs, and Presented by KAZOO! public spaces. Her work in music also includes a long-time collaborative etra Glynt is the solo experi- practice in contemporary dance. Pmental pop project of Alexan- She DJs and organizes queer raves dra Mackenzie formed in 2012 in as part of the New Nails collective. Toronto. Now based in Montreal, She recently released an EP, It Glynt released her sophomore Says New Chance on Toronto label, album My Flag Is A Burning Rag of Bedroomer. She is currently working Love this year on Toronto independ- hard on another EP, Hardly Working. ent label Pleasence and embarked newchance.biz on her first solo tour of the USA. petraglynt.zone Photo: Jessica Choen Photo: Mark Sommerfeld

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FRIDAY FRIDAY The Guelph Lect ure—On Being

January 25, 7–10 pm River Run Centre, Main Stage 35 Woolwich St $25 adults/$20 students

WELCOME LITERARY GUEST KEYNOTE LECTURE CONCERT FRANCO VACCARINO ESI EDUGYAN HAROON SIDDIQUI TANYA TAGAQ President, University of Guelph Presenting the 2018 Giller Prize-winning Social Media, Populism and With a reading from Split Tooth EMCEE novel, Washington Black the Crisis of Democracy Co-presented by the International Institute for Critical Studies in rom the author of the award- he “wonders” of the Internet SHAWN VAN SLUYS Improvisation Executive director, Musagetes Fwinning international best Thave led to the slow death of Editor-in-chief, ArtsEverywhere seller Half-Blood Blues comes newsrooms, the rise of news deserts, xperimental vocalist and artist another Giller Prize-winning novel, and the substituting of journalism ETanya Tagaq won the Polaris Media Sponsor Washington Black. It is a dazzling with free fake news and celebrity Prize for best Canadian album in adventure story about a boy who journalism. It has empowered hate- 2014, Animism. Her first book, Split rises from the ashes of slavery to mongers and populists, divided us Tooth, is the story of a girl growing up become a free man of the world. into quarrelling tribes, devalued in Nunavut in the 1970s. Tagaq has Reception Sponsor Washington Black was shortlisted truth, and undermined liberal spoken of her musical improvisation for the 2018 Man Booker Prize democracies. Haroon Siddiqui, as a never-ending thread pulled and was a finalist for the Rogers editorial page editor emeritus of through the needle’s eye; set in a Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. the Toronto Star and distinguished part of the world where a year can Overleaf: Origins by Rocky Cajigan, 2018, visiting professor at Ryerson feel like one long day, Split Tooth is a variable dimensions. Human hair, copper University, surveys the ruins and rich and startling expression of this tubes, wood, thread, beads. Installation at the Drawing Room, Makati City, Philippines suggests some ways forward. continuum.

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CONVERSATIONS AND PERFORMANCES On Breathing a nd Braiding

January 26, 9:30 am – 4 pm his day is an expansion of complexities, difficulties, and pain of calibrate different sensibilities River Run Centre an on-going collaborative the process of healing. towards interwoven and generative 35 Woolwich St T process between Elwood Jimmy We have invited a number of orientations, while not erasing Canada Company Hall Lunch will be served. and Vanessa Andreotti through artists we have encountered difference, historical and systemic Free. No registration required. their shared work with Musagetes. whose work gestures toward this violent conflict, paradoxes, Throughout 2018, their collaboration space in between and strives to contradictions, and uncertainty. has involved several modes of CURATED BY relational engagement with ELWOOD JIMMY AND Indigenous and non-Indigenous 9:30 – 10 AM Coffee and refreshments VANESSA ANDREOTTI artists, scholars, and communities, 10 – 11:45 AM Introductory Remarks including visits, gatherings, and PARTICIPANTS Conversation with Robert Houle consultations leading up to a ROBERT HOULE number of questions relating to 12:00 – 12:30 PM LUNCH (PROVIDED) TANYA LUKIN rigorous, ethical, and respectful 12:30 – 2:00 PM Overtone – Resonant and Collective Frequencies engagement with Indigenous senses Music Performance by Rosary Spence LINKLATER and sensibilities (being, knowing, Conversation with Tanya Lukin Linklater and Zab Maboungou relationships, trauma, place, space, BREAK ZAB MABOUNGOU time, movement, rhythm). 2:00 – 2:15 PM JAKE MOORE A key inquiry woven throughout 2:15 – 3:45 PM Interpolation – Interruption and Alteration of Narratives this day asks how different Spoken Word Performance by Kahsenniyo Williams SANDRA SEMCHUK sensibilities learn and work together Conversation with Sandra Semchuk and jake moore in the holding of space for the WAMUNZO ROSARY SPENCE possibility of collective breathing 7:30 – 9:00 PM Performance by Zab Maboungou and braiding, of recalling exiled Cooperators’ Hall (no ticket required) KAHSENNIYO capacities and enlivening guidelines The artist has composed a work in which the body resonates and WILLIAMS for this work with (self-)compassion, restores its own pathways in time and its own energy in space. generosity, humility, flexibility, See Biographies, page 67 An aesthetic of presence, without concession, that manifests the and rigour, without turning our dynamics of solidarity through space. Overleaf: Mix Mix Dance Collective back to (or burning out with) the

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DANCE PARTY Mix Mix Dance Collective

January 26, 9:30 pm movement, music, and art practice. Red Papaya, 55 Wyndham St N The artists of Mix Mix Dance Free. No registration required. Collective have been extensively Co-presented by Guelph Dance Free. No registration required. training, performing, teaching and competing in various street dance oin us at the Red Papaya for a forms for more than 10 years. Their Jfestival party where members work is loud, colourful, groovy, and of the Mix Mix Dance Collective accessible yet poignant—sharing will freestyle from their piece, their love of underrepresented Follow Me, and inspire everyone street dance forms with a wider to get up and dance the night audience. The work of the collective away! Mix Mix Dance Collective is deals with issues of equality and outrageous, fierce, and thoughtful challenging socially constructed in their investigation of diversity in identities such as gender and race. Communityin motion bigPromoting ideas to change communities

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CONVERSATION RECEPTION AND PANEL CONVERSATION Qwo-Li Driskill Anti-Colonial Disability Arts and Activism The Curs e of Geography January 27, 11 am – 1 pm Art Gallery of Guelph · 358 Gordon St ARTISTIC JOURNALISM Co-presented by Bodies in Translation and Cripping the Arts January 27, 2:30 – 5 pm 1–2 pm: Lunch will be provided. FEATURING ephemeral representations of these Art Gallery of Guelph varied and fascinating locations. 358 Gordon St · Free oth Indigenous and disability Sidd Joag The material includes graphic works, Managing editor Co-presented by justice movements are calling drawings, photographs, audio, video, B ArtsEverywhere the Art Gallery of Guelph for a radical refiguring of power and and sculpture created during and our relationships with each other German Andino he Curse of Geography is an inspired by the reporting process in on Indigenous land, but too often Illustrator and journalist ongoingT series of investigations Honduras, Newfoundland, Puerto they are spoken of as separate Arahmaiani focused on the effects of geographic Rico, Tajikistan, and Tibet. movements. This talk will weave Performance/visual artist isolation from and proximity to In tandem with the opening of between performance, poetry, and centres of power, with an emphasis The Curse of Geography, the artists scholarship to call on decolonial and Xu Shuang on multiple dimensions of social and journalists will host a panel disability movements to imagine Photographer and justice, human rights, and public discussion on artistic journalism and centre an anti-colonial disability ethnographer policy. The reports, published on and the integration of artistic justice model into our work as Esteban Figueroa ArtsEverywhere, are produced in practice, ethnography, reporting, artists and activists. Artist and organizer multimedia format in partnership documentation, and reflective with artists, journalists, NGOs, production. In the age of “fake Emma Kazaryan academic and cultural institutions, news” and an increasingly unstable CLOSING ADDRESS Video journalist and news outlets. They locate the news industry—marked by memory Peter Schuler Amber Art & Design arts and culture at the centre of loss and driven by ad revenue— Elder, Mississaugas of the Credit Artist collective complex, intersecting social, cultural, artists are devising new approaches and political realities, and the to storytelling, grounded in January 27, 5 pm Daniel Phelan lived experiences of communities. communities, amplifying their voices Art Gallery of Guelph Artist and architect The exhibition is a composite and equipping them to construct 358 Gordon St Jacob Cohen assemblage of material and their own narratives. Artist and musician Overleaf: La Mosquitia (single panel from a work of artistic journalism by Sidd Joag, Alberto Arce, and German Andino), 2018, bit.do/LaMosquitia

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EXHIBITION Dispatches from the Ghost Ship

Reception: January 27, 7–9 pm exhibited at the Queens Museum in Musagetes July 2018. 6 Dublin Street South Jacob Cohen is a Brooklyn-based Artist in Attendance Exhibition: experimental cellist, visual artist, January 24 to February 28 and educator. Since 2014, he has been working with adolescents ARTIST and young adults incarcerated on JACOB COHEN Rikers Island. He brings his cello CURATOR directly to the housing units, often playing for those that have received SIDD JOAG infractions for violent behaviour while there. After about a year ispatches from the Ghost Ship is he started to draw portraits of Dan installation of portraits and them and their surroundings. At landscapes of life on Rikers Island, first the drawings were basic, but created by artist Jacob Cohen. The over time complexity and nuance body of work consists of over 500 began to develop and the drawings observational drawings made over began to capture something both the course of four years of Cohen’s deeply personal about the subjects work, teaching, and performing and revealing about the system on Rikers, as well as a selection of in which they are ensnared. These drawings made in collaboration with images are of youth, ages 16 to 21, young inmates. There are no photos currently incarcerated and awaiting taken of the inmates during their sentencing. incarceration other than their mug shots. No cameras are allowed onto the island. The installation was first MA Kash (detail) by Jacob Cohen

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EXHIBITION Fierce: Toronto

Reception: January 27, 7–9 pm LGBTQ experience in Toronto. Young Boarding House Arts, 2nd Floor, people, generation after generation, 6 Dublin Street South must repeat the isolated journey of Artist in Attendance Exhibition: their Elders to find the core of their January 15 to February 15 heritage and the rich contributions Works will be available for sale. made by others before them. Fierce: Toronto is a landmark ARTIST testament to the contribution and AJAMU influence of Black LGBTQ artists, activists, movers and shakers, and ierce: Toronto is a series of pioneers across the generations Fportraits of Black Lesbian, to the social, cultural, and political Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer histories of Toronto. individuals who are also artists, Fierce: Toronto was produced as activists, cultural producers, DJs, part of Ajamu’s multi-city residency academics, and others from all with ArtsEverywhere/Musagetes in walks of life living and working in 2017–18. The residency gave shape Toronto. The history, experience, to the concept of the photographic and achievements of Black LGBTQ pop-up studio as the portraits and people living and working in Toronto interviews took place in hotel rooms, do not appear in their rightful place nightclubs, and other spaces. The in records of our lives, history books, Fierce series includes portraits made film, mainstream and popular during visits to other cities including culture—and most importantly, they São Paolo, London, New York, are often not seen through a lens of Amsterdam, and Quito. aspiration and celebration. White and Black, heterosexual and queer, history and culture alike deny Sheldon K. Mortimer by Ajamu, or avoid the essence of the Black Fierce Toronto

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EXHIBITION Markets of Res istance

Reception: January 27, 7–9 pm Velasco Shaw, the project director, The overall project culminated in include appropriation of Western Ashlar Gallery curator and participant in Markets a series of events that included practices, the impact of local/ Boarding House Arts of Resistance (Baguio City, June a three-week exhibition in three global tourism, and the effects 6 Dublin Street South Artists in Attendance to December 2014) and Markets Baguio market stalls, where people of globalization on Indigenous Exhibition: January 24 to February 28 of Resistance Redux (Philippine bartered for artworks. and non-Indigenous peoples who Women’s University, Manila, July Cultural and social issues explored co‑inhabit a place. 2015). CURATOR This multidisciplinary project ANGEL VELASCO SHAW was produced in collaboration with AN INVITATION TO BARTER the Institute for Heritage, Culture The Markets of Resistance project set of 18 postcards. The artist requests efore monetary value was and the Arts/Philippine Women’s provides participants with the that the interested customer look at the Battached to services and goods, University and Ax(is) Art, a Baguio opportunity to see the side of art that sample list of items to be exchanged for humanity engaged in business by City-based collective of Indigenous we sometimes forget in the process of the equivalent number of postcards. means of barter-trade. The value and non-Indigenous traditional and commodification: that art is something Examples of goods to barter of things to be bartered was often contemporary artists, scholars, human—and as humans, artists too, thought to be arbitrary but was poets, and community workers. have to meet their basic needs through in actuality dependent upon a Project components included a For a postcard or two: a gemstone, labour and even struggle. By bartering participant’s needs or desires. When six-month academic course; three a shell, a homemade card, a song, a for the artworks, you come closer to compared to today’s system of cultural immersion trips in the poem, seeds, buttons, pressed flowers, a the humanity of art. You are no longer a appraisal and value-assigning based Cordillera region (Baguio City, handmade bookmark, a special feather, buyer simply guessing at values based purely on numbers and currency, an American colonial hill station, a favourite recipe. on numbers. The value is there for you barter-trade is easily romanticized Bontoc, a pre-Spanish and American For a few postcards or a full pack: baked to see and experience, in the weight of as a more personal and perhaps less trading centre, and Sagada, home goods, knitted goods, print, drawing, trading goods, in the labour it takes to flexible mode of doing business. to the Kankan-ey people); artists’ photograph, book, a pair of socks, obtain them. The Policy of Attraction postcard talks, studio visits and city-wide preserves, notebook, vinyl, a tin. And series were created by Angel alternative walking tours; poetry The Policy of Attraction postcard series local medicinal things—tea, sweetgrass readings, performances, and film can be bartered for individually, in or cedar, or different concoctions that screenings; and presentations with multiple quantities or as a complete many people in Guelph make. Overleaf: Markets of Resistance by Angel Velasco Shaw contemporary artists and scholars.

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MARKETS OF RESISTANCE (CONTINUED) Collective Memories

ARTIST of existing within and representing ROCKY CAJIGAN his community as an artist. These works draw upon and interrogate he birds and the beans. The the transformations of the ili, the Treference points for Rocky Cordilleran village and community, Cajigan’s latest show Collective as it is transplanted into cities and Memories include scarecrows, loom adapts to cross-pollination with weaving, beehives, and biology lab other cultures and aesthetics. experiments. Through these objects Amidst constant pressures that his focus is placed on agriculture, would wipe it and its history out, fertility, and community. the ili persists, its past immortalized As in previous exhibitions, Cajigan through its people’s recollections Installation view of Rocky Cajigan’s exhibition, Collective Memories, at the Drawing Room, Makati City, Philippines calls attention to the interplay of their birthplace and culture. of Cordilleran indigenousness Cajigan explores this relationship and the prevailing culture of through a contrast between organic warped with yarns of human hair, of images in Collective Memories commodification into which it has subject matter and forms and the the phallic shoots of an unknown that core statement holds true. The been thrust. Cajigan describes the integration of industrial and mass life form, or the evocation of alien hairs woven together, the sprouts experience of being Indigenous as manufactured materials. deep-sea organisms than their sheer growing in synch, the honeycomb- simultaneously being the proverbial In Collective Memories Cajigan otherworldliness. These objects shaped wall pieces that allude to the canary and the coalmine: both the uses such contrasts to play with must be grown—this wood, this hair, bees’ cooperative instinct, all point thing that is mined and excavated the strange and alienating, but he these bones. They must first of all to an ethics of collective life and for value and, at the same time, also asks the viewer to penetrate be germinated or have a point of being-for-each-other that is at the the warning and expression of beyond the unnatural aura that a insemination. heart of indigeneity. the dangers of that excavation. In gallery builds up around the objects Collective Memories is a tribute to recent months Cajigan has worked in it, to see the natural and organic that point of beginning in forms of — Allan Carino & Kar A. Calderon and made installations in the newly identity of these objects as material collectivity that every return to the opened town hall of his hometown things. To consider their origin in an ili still so strongly evokes, no matter Memory Eaters by Rocky Cajigan, 2018, of Bontoc, a process which here actual ecosystem of culture and life. its assimilation into modernity’s variable dimensions. Human hair, glass beaker, wood, copper. Installation at the Drawing sees Cajigan exploring the tensions There is more to this weaving loom monoculture. Amidst the profusion Room, Makati City, Philippines.

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exHIBITIons festival.artseverywhere.ca ConversaTions and Black, existing into a space of estrangement, have been sacrificed for the progress of the American democratic project. 400 Years This truth is most significant and reflective of a long historical tradition of the Black radical fight for freedom. As the late, great writer Richard Wright once exclaimed, of Inequality The truth is, we black folk, our history and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America. What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If ArtsEverywhere invited Michael Roberson to reflect on the 400th we black folk perish, America will perish. If America has forgotten anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into her past, then let her look into the mirror of our consciousness bondage in North America. Michael is a public health practitioner, and she will see the living past living in the present, for our activist, and leader within the LGBTQ community, and the memories go back, through our black folk of today, through founder of the Federation of Ballroom Houses, the National Black the recollections of our black parents, and through the tales of Gay Men’s Advocacy Group, and the Arbert Santana Ballroom slavery told by our grandparents, to the time when none of us, Freedom School. Michael presented the Big Ideas in Art & Culture black or white, lived in this fertile land.” (Richard Wright, 12 Million lecture at the 2018 ArtsEverywhere Festival. Black Folk, 1941).

What is the sound of freedom? Every sound is a structure The year 2019 called together, interwoven through particular formed of many sounds. Every sound archives echoes from anniversaries, ways, and means to illuminate both the dialectical encounters, spaces, from moments of voices, both historical and tensions of liberations and oppressions, subversion and contemporary, both earthly and cosmic that demands, desires, hegemony, home, and homelessness with the history of the Black requires the vibrations in between; the off-note, the tonality struggle for freedom. Not only is it the 400th anniversary of of ancestral cries for liberation, the memories never lost but lie the first Africans brought into Jamestown, Virginia (1619), 2019 dormant, ready for the awakening. marks the 50th anniversary of the LBGTQ Stonewall rebellion This year marks the 400th anniversary of when the first (1969), the 50th anniversary of the SNCC (Student Non-violent Africans were brought onto the land that is now known as the Coordinating Committee), which created The Black Manifesto United States of America. Four centuries have marked the (1969). Yet it is also, as far and as much as we can historicize, the ongoing struggle for freedom for Black People in America. As 150th anniversary of the very first drag ball (1869). I illuminate long as four centuries may seem, we, Black People don’t own the this fact as a moment of reckoning, as a call and a response, or monopoly of the chronology of inequality. History must recognize as the international sound art collective, Ultra-red, articulates, that ethical imperative of allowing suffering to the suffering of of deep listening. Journey with me and listen to the Sound of Native Americans, whose bodies gave permission for these new Freedom, through a Ballroom lens and Black poetics: an ode to Africans to remain hopeful. All of these bodies, Native Americans 400 Years of Inequality.

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Ballroom: A Poetic Ode to 400

Here We Are Again…at the opportunity to create greatness...To remember who We Really Are…To Remember Our Own Greatness… Our Own Divine Greatness…Yet the question remains…How have We evolved??…As individuals…as a community…as a collective… as a people whose creative gifts are shown…and replicated across the globe…all over this world…whose gifts have blessed this Universe in countless ways…Magnificent and Brilliant…whose relentless efforts…and tireless desires have “Made A Way Out of No Way”…And so…How do We evolve…in This Moment and Time when The Universe is begging Us to Be and Remember Our Own Audacity…How do We raise the bar…create new standards…in Our loving…in Our mobilizing…in Our own individual and collective process of self-definition…self-determination…through Our coalition building…Our community service work…on the runway… on the catwalk…on the Piers of New York against a landscape of a city where it all began and now finds itself across the globe… From Slavery…to the Emancipation Proclamation…from Black BALLROOM…Be Clear…Be Real Clear…Who We Are is Ballroom…. reconstruction…and the rise of lynching and Jim and Jane Doe Racism….from the Great Migration of Black Folk moving from We are such a Wonderful...Beautiful…Unbelievably Brilliant the South to the North…making Harlem, NYC the Black mecca… People…Ballroom Rockstars…Freedom Fighters…Radical Scholars… where Black queers became homeless in the new home because Revolutionary Artists…The Black Church…God in motion… of the Black church’s rejection….and because of these moments The Universe enacting it’s Magnificence…Fusion Politics…The in time…..Harlem Drag Ball emerges…through the ethos of Radical Theology…Leaders in Our Own Right… And so This is Black Trans women…..as our church…..and using performance that Moment moving towards the end of an era…Soon, 2019 will as our hermeneutics of the body…our sacred text…Ballroom be the 400th year anniversary of the first Africans arriving in has claim our right to be fully human and divine….We can hear Jamestown, Virginia…what began 400 years of inequality…within the Voices…the Echoes of Our Pioneers…Our Ancestors…Crystal the framework of what We call…the United States Project of Labeija…Peppa Labeija…Dorian Corey…Avis Pendavis…Paris Democracy…It will also be the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Dupree…Angie Xtravaganza…Eric Christian Bazaar…Danielle and Rebellion, the beginning of what we call the modern LGBT Octavia and Portia…Sylvia and Marsha P. Johnson…All of them movement…and, as much we can historicize, the 150th anniversary saying “E PLURIBUS UNUM….Out of many, the one….Ballroom… of the very 1st drag ball…. Well done…My Beautiful People...Well done.”

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Cultivating Resources for Hope a musician, moreover. Telling that the improvised remarks were Through Improvised Music about a dream.1 I’ve chosen to begin my essay with this dream, this BY AJAY HEBLE improvisation, because it offers so compelling an example of how spontaneous acts of creativity can offer resources for hope and social transformation, because it speaks powerfully to how the social and creative practices associated with aggrieved peoples confronting systems of oppression can be enduring In an interview marking the occasion of the 50th documents of hope, resilience, and determination. anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s profoundly 1 influential I Have a Dream speech, Clarence Jones, Dr. King’s We live in troubled times. We live in an era when diverse speechwriter and attorney, remarked that the celebrated peoples and communities of interest are struggling words “I have a dream” “were not written in the text that King 2 to forge historically new forms of affiliation across prepared” (Bernstein). Instead, Dr. King went off-script in cultural divides. In such a context, I want to suggest that the response to a prompt from gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, and participatory and civic virtues of engagement, dialogue, respect, improvised what has arguably become the most famous political and community-building inculcated through improvisatory speech in world history. practices can take on a particular urgency. Indeed, an interest “Tell ‘em about the dream, Martin,” Jackson yelled out in how people step up to meet the needs of the moment, how from the stands. “Tell ‘em about the dream!” (Bernstein). In they improvise communities in the here and now, sometimes response to Mahalia’s prompt, King, as Jones remembers, amidst devastation and disenfranchisement, can, as writer abandoned his text and spoke “completely spontaneously and extemporaneously” (Bernstein). It’s telling that such a powerfully 1 I first wrote about the improvisational nature of Dr. King’s famous speech in important and iconic moment in world history was improvised. “Prologue: Spontaneous Acts,” a short piece I co-authored with Rebecca Caines for our co-edited anthology, The Improvisation Studies Reader: Spontaneous Telling that Dr. King’s most famous words emerged in response Acts (London: Routledge, 2015). This current essay for ArtsEverywhere draws, to an unforeseen prompt from a member of his audience—from in part, on material from that earlier piece as well as from two other previous publications: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation, a book I’ve co-authored with Daniel Fischlin and George Lipsitz, and my essay “Take Two/Rebel Musics.”

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Rebecca Solnit has suggested in her book, A Paradise Built in Robeson created a stunningly original and enduring document Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, offer of hope out of what might have seemed a hopeless situation. “a glimpse of who else we ourselves may be and what else our Similarly, his ability to improvise upon the scripted lyrics of “Ol’ society could become” (page 9). Man River” in order to insert a resistant presence into the heart of a popular showtune (for example, instead of the scripted “Git Let me give you a working definition of what I mean by a little drunk an’ you’ll land in jail,” Robeson sang, “You show a improvisation. In The Fierce Urgency of Now, a book I’ve little grit and you land in jail,”) reveals a remarkable commitment 3 co-authored with Daniel Fischlin and George Lipsitz, to creating opportunities for hope and defiance: a song that we suggest that improvisation involves “the creation and might otherwise have fostered stereotypical portrayals of development of new, unexpected, and productive cocreative African American people is now known to have given rise to one relations among people. It teaches us to make ‘a way’ out of of the most powerful examples of resistant creative practice in ‘no way’ by cultivating the capacity to discern hidden elements the history of music making. of possibility, hope, and promise in even the most discouraging circumstances. Improvisers work with the tools they have in the Much of my own current research takes its cue from the arenas that are open to them in order to imbue the world with work I’ve been doing in my role as founder (and for 23 the possibility of making right things transpire” (page xii). 5 years as Artistic Director) of the Guelph Jazz Festival. For years, as part of the festival, I’ve been bringing together The research our team members have done as part musicians from different parts of the world, musicians who of the International Institute for Critical Studies in come together onstage in an improvised musical setting. 4 Improvisation makes clear that there is much to be A few years ago, for example, I brought together several learned about social change from the creative practices of musicians from diverse cultural locations (Mali, Ethiopia, improvisation. Indeed, there’s a long and illustrious history Mexico, The Netherlands, USA, Canada). Much of the music of musicians from aggrieved communities who’ve used that I would program during my time as the artistic director of improvisation to sound off against structures of oppression. the Guelph Jazz Festival involved precisely these sorts of real- I’m put in mind, for example, of Paul Robeson’s landmark Peace time interactions. Now, think about what happens in such a Arch Concert (see Heble, “Take Two”). In May 1952, prevented context (when it works): a group of people who may never have by the United States government from crossing the U.S. border met, who, in many cases, know very little, if anything, about because of his active participation in worldwide struggles for one another, who may not even speak the same language, human rights, singer and activist Paul Robeson stood one foot can create wondrous, inspired, and compelling music. And from the Canadian border on a makeshift stage at the back of a they can do this on the spot with no explicit prearranged flatbed truck and delivered the now historic Peace Arch Concert musical direction. What does this tell us? How might such to some 40,000 people. Improvising with the materials at musical examples enable us to think about what it means to hand—in this case, a makeshift stage on the back of the flatbed negotiate differences within a community? What might such truck located just shy of the border he was not allowed to cross— improvisation tell us about trust, humility, responsibility, critical

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listening, and social cooperation? There is, I want to suggest, to dream about other possible futures, to enact the possibilities an important lesson being played out in such real-time face-to- we envision. face encounters, a lesson about how best we might learn to get Okay, I know this might sound a bit utopian, but I’m not going along in a globalized world. to apologize for that. Like Robin Kelley, in his extraordinary book, Freedom Dreams, I’m addressing my words today to those of us If improvised music’s ability to cultivate resources for who are “bold enough still to dream.” Imagine, then, what the hope and resilience, to imbue the world with possibility, future might hold if we were able to translate the resources, 6 is evident in these real-time musical encounters, a sense the spirit of inquiry and experimentation, the ability to adapt of hope and resilience is also being nurtured in a number of associated with improvisation into other spheres of influence community-based initiatives associated with our Institute. and action. Imagine “what else our society could become” if We’ve worked with improvising musicians to develop a number we were able to do so in the service of sounding new models of of outreach initiatives in partnership with music festivals social cooperation. Imagine the ideals that might be nourished, and social service organizations in Canadian cities over the relationships that might get fostered, the lessons that might the last several years. Our research makes clear that these get learned. initiatives have played a vital role in helping to foster vibrant, If struggles for social change often take as one of their cohesive communities with at-risk urban youth populations, most salient manifestations an allegiance to forms of artistic kids with disabilities, patients at mental health/addiction expression that can’t readily be scripted, predicted, or compelled treatment facilities, and residents of some of Canada’s poorest into orthodoxy, then our success is solving some of the most neighbourhoods. Our students and team members have crucial problems we’re facing, now and in the future, may well documented the events and conducted follow-up interviews depend on our ability to break out of conventional, recurrent and surveys. These events, we know from the interviews, solution-patterns, may well depend, in short, on our ability to have genuinely touched people’s lives—reaching populations dream, to hope, and to improvise. who rarely get a chance to shine. We’ve seen first-hand how improvisation enables new models of cooperation, adaptation, Works Cited and listening within at-risk populations, and how it fosters Bernstein, S., 2013. “Famed King and the Politics of Music Making.” vibrant, cohesive, resilient communities, while increasing self- speech almost didn’t include ‘I have a Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant dream’ ”: author. Reuters, 26 August. Sounds, and the Politics of Music esteem, self-confidence, leadership, and social skills. Available at www.reuters.com/ Making. Ed. Daniel Fischlin and Ajay article/2013/08/26/us-usa-dream- Heble. Montreal: Black Rose Books, Such resources for hope, as Dr. King’s improvisations speech-idUSBRE97P0EV20130826 2003. 232–48. (Accessed 18 December 2013). during his I Have a Dream speech should remind us, are Kelley, Robin. Freedom Dreams: The in direct contrast to the culture of acquiescence or non- Fischlin, Daniel, Ajay Heble, and Black Radical Imagination. Boston: 7 George Lipsitz. The Fierce Urgency of Beacon, 2002. Print. participation which asks us to resign ourselves to the way things Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Solnit, Rebecca. A Paradise Built in are because (or so we are too often told), no other future is Ethics of Cocreation. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2013. Print. Hell: The Extraordinary Communities possible. Improvisation can teach us otherwise. It encourages us that Arise in Disaster. New York: Heble, Ajay. “Take Two/Rebel Musics: Viking, 2009. Print. Human Rights, Resistant Sounds,

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exHIBITIons festival.artseverywhere.ca ConversaTions BIOGRAPHIES International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation

Vanessa de Oliveira German Andino was born in Andreotti holds a Canada San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Research Chair in Race, in 1984. He studied Systems Inequalities, and Global Engineering, specialized Change at the Department in Graphic Arts, and later We offer MA and PhD degrees in Critical of Educational Studies, spent months traversing Studies in Improvisation. Come research and University of British Buenos Aires and one of practice arts-based community-making with us in Fall 2019. Columbia. Her teaching and research focuses Tegucigalpa’s oldest neighbourhoods. Using on analysis of historical and systemic his command of English and access to the patterns of reproduction of knowledge and people of the streets, Andino worked for TRUST THAT inequalities and how these limit or enable years as a “fixer” to foreign reporters trying SURPRISE WILL possibilities for collective existence. to tell the story of Honduras. As reporters came, and went he kept documenting the TEACH YOU Ajamu is a fine art lives of the first gangs to take control of the SOMETHING. photographic artist and city. He decided then that it was time to archives curator whose work decolonize the narrative, and that the story has been shown in galleries, of Honduras should be told by Hondurans. He Graduate program applications museums, and alternative chose photojournalism as the best platform due: February 15, 2019 spaces internationally. His where the Hondurans could see themselves. College of Arts work has been published in www.uoguelph.ca/arts/improv a wide variety of publications and critical Arahmaiani is one of the leading figures in journals. He studied at the Jan van Eyck the Indonesian contemporary art scene, Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands, working in performance, painting, drawing, and is currently a PhD researcher at Royal installation, video, poetry, dance, and music. College of Art, London. She was one of the artists featured in the Indonesia National Pavilion at the 50th Amber Art and Design facilitates Venice Biennale. Her work has grappled with dynamic interactions between people contemporary politics, violence, critique of and communities that create spaces for capital, the female body, and in recent years, positive growth. With over a decade of her own identity, which although Muslim, still collective experience, Amber Art & Design’s mediates between Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, public projects, exhibitions and educational and animist beliefs. She often uses her activities have engaged thousands of public presence in order to attract attention people, in hundreds of communities across to violence against women, and female the United States and internationally. discrimination in Indonesia’s Islamic society. We operate with the belief that art can Since 9/11, she has combined her critical be a collaborative and inclusive platform attitude toward Islam with a fight against to initiate critical conversations. It can be its general stigmatization. Her interests also collaborative and inclusive of marginalized extend to environmental issues, which has voices. Amber Art & Design leverages led her to work with monks on the Tibetan resources from the art world for the purpose Plateau in recent years. of community empowerment and public Rocky Cajigan was born in 1988 in the service. Mountain Province of the Philippines. He is a multimedia artist and writer who received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Saint Louis University in Baguio City, Philippines.

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Jacob Cohen is a Brooklyn- young adults and the Rose M. Singer Center based experimental cellist for women. In addition to playing music with and visual artist. From the participants he began sketching the daily JOIN US 2011–2016 he earned a living lives of the people incarcerated on Rikers performing in the New York Island awaiting trial. The style of drawing Members SAVE City subways, developing quickly began to develop and the drawings a unique style that has became popular and sought after within grown out of a frustration with traditional the jail. He continues to work with youth 10% on Books cello music and a complementary love of at Rikers Island and runs a free recording improvisation and performance. In 2014 he studio in Harlem for those returning to the 41 QUEBEC ST $3 on Movies won the Transform Today contest sponsored community. BOOKSHELF.CA by Absolut Vodka, which led to the creation $20/yr individual $35/yr family of Cello Without Walls, in which he has been Natalia Crocker lives in GUELPH, ON performing and conducting music and art Trout River, Newfoundland. workshops in prisons and jails throughout She works at Elephants the northeastern United States. In 2015 Cello Head RV Park and is a Without Walls was sponsored by Friends of member of the Trout River Island Academy, a non-profit organization Trail Committee—a new based in Harlem that provides services to group she co-founded—to young adults incarcerated on Rikers Island restore the town’s hiking trails. She is the as well as transitional services upon their coordinator of Trout River Contemporary, an release, and was awarded a grant from artist residency program at the Fishermen’s the Vogler Foundation to create a music Museum. Natalia volunteers her time with program for youth at Rikers Island’s Robert the PTA, school breakfast program and N. Davoren Complex. In 2016 Cello Without anywhere else she’s needed. In her free time, Walls was awarded funding from the she spends her day with her family and her Department of Corrections to expand into dog, hunting, hiking, reading, and going on the George Motchen Detention Center for adventures. Natalia is a young enthusiastic

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68 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2019 BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES person who loves meeting new people, Esteban Figueroa is an honourary doctorates from University of texts on social injustice for its online sharing stories and helping them experience artist, activist, and the Ontario Institute of Technology (2016) and platform ArtsEverywhere. the traditional Newfoundland lifestyle. Director of Tierra Studio the University of Manitoba (2014), the 2015 Non-Profit Organization in Governor General’s Award in Visual and Siddhartha Joag is an artist, Qwo-Li Driskill is a (non- Puerto Rico. He developed Media Arts, and many other awards. journalist, and community citizen) Cherokee Two- the multidimensional project organizer who has worked Spirit and Queer writer, ARTE SANA (ART HEALS), Elwood Jimmy is Nêhiyaw at the intersection of arts, activist and performer also which is located at Villa Carmen Atelier, a and Nakawe. He is a learner, culture, social justice, and of African, Irish, Lenape, safe space for local and international artists collaborator, writer, artist, human rights for 15 years. Lumbee, and Osage ascent. and their work after Hurricane Maria. Project facilitator, curator, cultural He is the managing editor at S/he is the author of several “Arte Sana” was developed by Figueroa manager, and gardener. He is ArtsEverywhere.ca and a member of Amber books, including Asegi Stories: Cherokee who has made it his purpose to create a originally from Thunderchild, Art and Design. Queer and Two-Spirit Memory, a finalist for sanctuary for artists and art in Puerto Rico. a Nêhiyaw community in a Lambda Literary Award in 2017. S/he is the global north. For close to 20 years, he Emma Kazaryan is a the Director of Graduate Studies, Women, Ajay Heble is the Director of has played a leadership role in several art multimedia journalist Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon the International Institute projects, collectives, and organizations locally based in New York City. She State University. for Critical Studies in and abroad. In December 2015, he was hired holds a master’s degree Improvisation (IICSI) at the as the program coordinator for Musagetes, from Columbia Graduate Esi Edugyan was born University of Guelph. IICSI and has also commissioned artist-authored School of Journalism. She and raised in Calgary and co‑presents Tanya Tagaq’s is ethnically Armenian and studied creative writing at concert at the Guelph the University of Victoria. Lecture—On Being. She is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Robert Houle is a Toronto Tyne, which was shortlisted artist and a member of for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and Sandy Bay First Nation, Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Manitoba. He graduated MAKE THE MOST Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man from both the University Booker Prize, the Governor General’s Literary of Manitoba (B.A.) and OF YOUR MONEY Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize, and McGill University (B.Ed.) the Orange Prize. In 2014, she published and studied painting and drawing at the her first book of non-fiction, Dreaming of International Summer Academy of Fine Elsewhere: Observations on Home. Her most Arts in Salzburg, Austria. Houle has been recent novel, Washington Black (released in exhibiting internationally for over 40 years At Meridian you’re not just a customer, you’re a Member and September 2018), won the Scotiabank Giller and taught at the Ontario College of Art an Owner. That means we work for you. Prize, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ and Design University for over 20 years. He Trust Prize and was nominated for the Man has written several essays and monographs It also means that we can take our profits and return them to you Booker Prize. Esi lives in Victoria with her on contemporary First Nations and Native with some of the best rates and services in the marketplace. husband and two children. American artists. His work has been Visit us in-branch or online collected by many institutions including the Art Gallery of Ontario, McMichael Canadian Guelph Branches Collection, Museum of Contemporary 2 Clair Rd, 370 Stone Rd, 200 Speedvale Rd Art Sydney Australia, National Gallery of meridiancu.ca Canada, National Museum of the American ™Trademarks of Meridian Credit Union Limited. Indian, Royal Ontario Museum, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. He has received

70 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2019 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2019 71 BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES was born in Georgia and grew up in Russia. Now at Crystal Bridges Museum of American their understanding of contemporary and Nikolay Oleynikov (Saint Her passion is covering international affairs, Art in relation to a sculptural work by Sonya African dance. She has always shown a Petersburg) is a member of particularly post-Soviet geopolitics, and Kelliher-Combs. Tanya is a doctoral student strong commitment to create living art, CHTO DELAT art collective, the Middle East. Previously, she has worked in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. In in the noblest sense of the term, an art editor for CHTO DELAT on the conflicts in Abkhazia (Georgia) and 2018 she was the inaugural recipient of the that has succeeded in embodying human newspaper, member of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenia), geopolitics Wanda Koop Research Fund administered beings and their times, beyond histories and editorial board of Moscow of Tajikistan and China’s One Belt, One Road by Canadian Art. Tanya originates from the communities. A unique itinerary reflecting Art Magazine (2011), project. Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions the aesthetic with great poetic power. co-founder of the Learning Film Group, in southwestern Alaska and is based in and May Congress of Creative Workers Tanya Lukin Linklater’s northern Ontario. jake moore is an artist that (Moscow 2009–11). He is an activist and a performances in museums, works at the intersections of member of Arkady Kots band. Since 2013, videos, and installations Zab Maboungou, founder material, text, and vocality Oleynikov is a co-founder and mentor of have been exhibited of the renowned Zab and a PhD candidate in Art the SCHOOL of ENGAGED ART of Chto in Canada, the United Maboungou/Compagnie History and Communication Delat, St. Petersburg, and a co-pilot of States and abroad. Her Danse Nyata Nyata, Studies at McGill University. Free Home University (Italy). Since 2016 work centres Indigenous a performing and moore considers her primary he is a contributor and editor at large at knowledge production in and through orality, choreographic artist, medium to be space; this idea expands the artseverywhere.ca. He is theauthor of SEX conversation and embodied practices, philosophy professor, understanding of her artistic practice to of the OPPRESSED (FreeMarxistPress, including dance. She considers That which and author of the book, Heya ! Poétique, include administrative projects and other Moscow, 2013–14 and PS Guelph, 2016). He sustains us a conceptual and affective line historique et didactique de la danse africaine, acts of building capacity as a sculptural has co-edited and designed What’s There to within her work, alongside histories and has distinguished herself on all artistic method—one that changes the form and Learn (PS Guelph, 2018). He has exhibited structural violences that Indigenous peoples and cultural action fronts. Remarkably, her volume of public spaces. worldwide both with CHTO DELAT and as a continue to respond to. In 2017, as a member contribution brings together and transcends solo artist. of Wood Land School, she participated in identities and genres, without ever diluting Under the Mango Tree—Sites of Learning, the knowledge and practices that she Rebecca Peeler is a New York City-based a gathering for documenta14 in Athens innovated and developed in this country with freelance journalist who has reported on and Kassel. In 2018 Tanya developed a an unflagging consistency. Her movement health, environmental, and social concerns. commissioned performance for Art for a technique, lokéto, is innovative and has won She is currently pursuing a degree in New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to the favour of those who want to perfect Traditional Chinese Medicine, which has

72 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2019 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2019 73 BIOGRAPHIES allowed her to explore the idea of holistic Peter Schuler is an Elder of remedies and how they serve and function in the Mississaugas of the New our society. Rebecca has a M.S. in Journalism Credit First Nation of the from Columbia University and has worked for Anishnaabek Peoples. digital and broadcasting agencies in the U.S. producing short documentaries. Alessandra Pomarico (New York/Italy), Phd in Sandra Semchuk is a Sociology of Migration, is Ukrainian Canadian an independent curator, photographer and video writer, and educator artist who works across organizing international generations, cultures, residencies, public programs, and species. In her book, festivals, exhibitions, and research-based The Stories Were Not projects at the intersection of arts, Told, Canada’s First World War Internment pedagogy, social issues, and nano-politics. Camps, Semchuk uses memory work and She is interested in ways in which artistic photography to create a space for internees thinking and practices can contribute and their descendants to tell their stories. to the foundation of autonomous para- As a partner in Treaty 6 and widow of institutions, transformative constituencies, co-collaborator, the late Cree orator, James and community self-organized initiatives. Nicholas, Semchuk uses dialogue to disrupt Also a journalist, recently a contributor myths that have shaped settler relations to and editor at ArtsEverywhere.ca, she has First Nations. She incorporates lenticular collaborated with Musagetes since 2011. She imagery, 3D, vocables, overtone singing, and is a co-founder and artistic director of the performance to converse across constructed pedagogical and artistic platform Free Home boundaries. University (2013, on going) and co-editor of What’s There to Learn (PS Guelph, 2018).

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Suzy Xu Shuang is a Newspaper Association, Advertising her with strength thus far in her life’s about her new book, Split Tooth, which folds storyteller of traditions, Standard Canada, Canadian Civil Liberties journey. These teachers include her children, memoir with fiction, traditional stories with ancient, and contemporary Association, Canadian Club, and the Ontario the wisdom of her peers and mentors, her reality, poetry with prose. It is the story cultures. She also explores Press Council. He is author of Being Muslim, a family and friends, and last but not least, her of a girl growing up in the Nunavut of the portraiture and landscape in post-9/11 bestseller based on travels through maternal grandparents Frederik and Fabiola 1970s. Dark and rapturous, Split Tooth does a poetic way. Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Spence, whom were alive during the creative with words what Tagaq’s music often does Far East. process of this recording, but whom have without, sweeping the reader into a space both since passed onto the Spirit World. where life’s artificial constructs hold no Haroon Siddiqui is editorial Originally from the coastal Rosary currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. claim. page editor emeritus of Cree community of Fort the Toronto Star, Canada’s Albany First Nation, off Experimental vocalist and Kahsenniyo Williams is a largest newspaper; a senior the coast of James Bay, artist Tanya Tagaq won spoken word artist from Fellow at Massey College, Rosary Spence is a well- the Polaris Prize for best the Mohawk Nation Wolf University of Toronto; recognized Indigenous singer, Canadian album in 2014, Clan. Kahsenniyo began and distinguished visiting steeped in time-honoured for Animism. Those who utilizing her poetry as a professor at Ryerson University, Toronto. Aboriginal rhythms and styles. Spence prides thought she had then tool for social change and He has reported or supervised coverage herself as an established self-taught vocalist made her definitive artistic community engagement in of Canada for 50 years and also reported but has also studied vocals at The Banff statement were in for a surprise. Also in for a 2008. Her work is centred around Indigenous from nearly 50 countries. He’s a recipient of Centre for the Arts and has participated in shock were those who thought international issues. She aims to educate non-Indigenous the Order of Canada, the nation’s highest vocal training with a diverse group of artists success, playing to major festivals and people about the struggles, beauty, and civilian honor; the Order of Ontario; the at various times throughout her professional packed houses all over the world, would realities facing Indigenous people. Her National Press Club’s UNESCO Award; career. Spence has been a featured artist lead to a mellower sound or a more laid- work also attempts to create moments of four citations of the National Newspaper on a variety of albums and collaborations back approach. Tagaq follows up Animism understanding, connection, and healing for Awards; and numerous other honours. He is with various artists throughout her musical with Retribution, an even more musically Indigenous people. Kahsenniyo transforms former president of PEN Canada and also career. Spence’s debut album (released in aggressive, more aggressively political, her love for her community and people served on the board of Pen International, 2015) is titled Maskawasiwin, a Cree word more challenging, more spine-tingling, through her passionate performances. She which has 144 chapters in 101 countries. He for strength. It is dedicated to all of the more powerful masterpiece. In addition to draws on her lived experience to engage has done extensive work for the Canadian teachings and teachers whom have provided her musical performance, Tanya will talk audiences.

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