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elcome to the frst annual ArtsEverywhere Festival, Guelph’s festival of ideas. Over three days, the Wfestival offers lectures, conversations, music, artistic performances, literary readings, workshops.

As we gather, we are reminded that Guelph is situated 4HE'UELPH#OMMUNITY FLE;8K@FE on treaty land that is steeped in rich indigenous

YOU history and home to many First Nations, Métis and bringing people &ME and causes Inuit people today. We would like to acknowledge the together Mississaugas of the New Credit on whose traditional territory we live and work. We offer respect to our Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Métis neighbours as together we build community. we strengthen our relationships with them. BUILDING COMMUNITY. CELEBRATING CANADA. THE COMMUNITY FUND FOR CANADA’S 150TH artseverywhere.ca In the spirit of Canada’s 150th and in collaboration with Community Foundations of Canada and The Government of Canada, The Guelph Community Foundation recently granted over $204,000 Save the dates for next year’s ArtsEverywhere Festival: January 18–20, 2018. to Guelph charities who will inspire, build and encourage The Guelph Lecture—On Being Canadian: January 19, 2018 community throughout 2017. Our heart-felt thank you to those organizations who will be creating impact with their programs in the year ahead. Presenters

C THE GUELPH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION Through strategic granting and community leadership we work to strengthen the foundation of the Guelph community. Are you Ontario’s most innovative At a thinker? The Lieutenant Governor’s Visionaries Prize wants to elevate Glance Ontario’s profile in our country and the world by recognizing you — our young and creative thinkers. We want you to identify and address the challenges Ontario will face over the next 50 years — we’re Thursday, Friday, Saturday, looking for everything from proposals for electoral reform and transit January 19 January 20 January 21 modernization to your wildest idea for making our province better. This prize is all about the public good. If you are selected, you will get Big Ideas What Can Conversation: the chance to present your idea to an audience of government, business, and innovation-sector heavyweights. Lecture in Art I Do? The & Culture A Workshop Complexities Submit your idea now at Suzy Lake on “Doing of (Re) www.thewalrus.ca/lgvisionariesprize 7–8:30 pm Reconciliation” conciliation Enter for a chance to present your big idea Art Gallery of 1–4 pm 3–5 pm in one of the following cities in 2017: Guelph Musagetes Guelph Black Reconciliation Free. Page 12 6 Dublin St S Heritage Society Thunder Bay, September 13 Free, limited. Free. Governance Kingston, September 19 Register at info@ Page 18 Inclusive Prosperity musagetes.ca Windsor, September 21 Page 25 Environmental Stewardship Waterloo, September 26 The Guelph On Being Clown Social Cohesion Lecture Failing and Brampton, September 28 On Being Reconciling Scientific and Technological Innovation Toronto, October 2 Canadian in Canada 7–9:30 pm 7–9 pm River Run Centre River Run Centre $20/$15 $20/$15 Page 16 Page 22 artseverywhere.ca welcome welcome

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e are very pleased that this perspective, describing “an his year we celebrate the and others at the University of Wour two organisations are initial period of cooperative inter- T150th birthday of this amazing Guelph. Over the past year, we collaborating—and working reliance grounded in norms of country. What better way to have developed a new strategic with new partners across the equality and mutual dependence.” launch those celebrations than framework that expresses our community—to offer an entire As we come to Canada’s 150th with the annual Guelph Lecture— common purpose and lays out a Festival of Ideas over three days. anniversary on July 1, we are only On Being Canadian? path for the future. For 14 years now, The Guelph just beginning to understand the The 2017 lecture anchors the Among fve key themes in that Lecture—On Being Canadian has enormous blemish created by inaugural ArtsEverywhere festival framework is the importance added new voices to the ongoing the “the ethos of exclusion and of ideas. From lectures and of connecting communities. At conversation of what it means to cultural annihilation” that followed conversations to music and artistic U of G, we have long taken pride be Canadian and what role our our promising beginning. performances, this event will in being connected to those we country could and should play in We are determined to learn bring together thought leaders to serve, here at home and around a changing world. what we can do to advance discuss how we defne ourselves as the globe. This year we are helping to reconciliation, knowing it will a community and a country. In that spirit, we are proud highlight some of the work that help all who live on this land now As in past years, this year’s to present this year’s event in needs to be done within our own called Canada. We hope that you lecture promises to spark thought- partnership with the Eramosa borders—including right here at will come away from the Festival provoking ideas about who we Institute and Musagetes. Enjoy home—to create spaces that inspired to think about how you are as a nation. Maybe more this lecture and festival—and shape a new relationship with and the organisations with which important in this anniversary year, happy birthday to all of us. Indigenous peoples, especially you are affliated can join in this this event will stimulate thought in the context of broadening important effort and make our and discussion about who we want Franco Vaccarino, PhD, FCAHS awareness of the cultural genocide future as bright as our beginning. to be. President and Vice-Chancellor made visible by the Truth and Thanks for your ongoing interest That idea resonates for me University of Guelph Reconciliation Commission. If and support. you were at our 2009 event, you heard John Ralston Saul describe Valerie Hall, Canada as founded on three pillars President, Eramosa Institute (Aboriginal, French, and English) Joy Roberts, Chair, Musagetes and the Commission reinforced

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n behalf of the City of Guelph, Finally, I would be remiss if I n behalf of the Government Art has a unique role to play in OI am pleased to welcome did not thank and recognize the Oof Canada, I welcome you to reconciliation, as it helps acquaint everyone to the 1st annual Eramosa Institute, Musagetes, the frst annual ArtsEverywhere Aboriginal culture to the rest of ArtsEverywhere Festival, and the and the University of Guelph Festival! Guelphites take great Canada and the world. Therefore, 14th annual Guelph Lecture—On for bringing, for bringing this pride in the strong connection I would like to extend my condo- Being Canadian. extraordinary event to our city. Guelph has to the arts. lences to the art community for the A special welcome to all of the Guelph is proud to be home to this For the next three days, we will untimely passing this past year of speakers, panelists, workshop important annual dialogue and come together to celebrate the talented Aboriginal artists Tim Pit- facilitators, artists, and perform- exchange of ideas. rich tapestry that is Canadian art. siulak and Annie Pootoogook. Their ers. We are thrilled to have these Enjoy the program! From musicians to poets to actors work will continue to inspire us as extraordinary cultural leaders and and authors, Canada owes its art- we address the issues of reconcilia- culture creators with us in Guelph Sincerely, ists and thinkers a great deal. By tion together. to kick off Canada’s 150th birth- Cam Guthrie pushing the boundaries of modern Over the course of the Festival day celebrations in the community. Mayor of Guelph conventions, they force us to con- I encourage everyone to immerse I am sure their insights and perfor- sider and reconsider social norms. themselves in the messages of mances will be an inspiration to all. I must express my sincere thanks these artists and to refect on how to the organizers, who have they express our shared values. emphasized the importance of reconciliation. Meaningful recon- Sincerely, ciliation with First Nations peoples Lloyd Longfeld is essential if we are to create a Member of Parliament, Guelph true sense of Canadian unity from Providing the coast to coast to coast. real estate experience you deserve homegrouprealty.ca

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thursday thursday Big Ideas Lecture in Art & Culture Suzy Lake January 19, 7–8:30 pm • Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon St. Free event. No registration required. Co-presented by CAFKA and Musagetes

uzy Lake is among the frst Sfemale artists in Canada to adopt performance, video, and photography to explore the politics of gender, the body, and identity. In her artistic practice, which spans nearly 50 years, Lake addresses the individual’s relationship to societal forces that break and reveal constructions or restraints built into our culture.

CEREMONY BY Carol Tyler BIG Opposite: Suzy Lake, 6 Over 28 (detail), 1975. Gelatins silver, fbre-based print IDEAS and graphite drawing IN ART + CULTURE Overleaf: Suzy Lake, Red Enhancement LECTURE SERIES (detail), 2015 Presented by Musagetes and CAFKA

12 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 13 friday friday The Guelph Lecture On Being Canadian January 20, 7–9:30 pm KEYNOTE→ River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St Human $20 adults/$15 students Relationships as

ow in its 14th season, The Land Ethic NGuelph Lecture—On Being Dr. Jeannette Canadian promotes public dialogue on ideas and issues of Armstrong concern to Canadians. It serves Okanagan knowledge keeper, as the centrepiece of this festival, author, educator, artist, and fostering greater understanding activist and exploring new possibilities. We are very excited to bring together a cast of imaginative thinkers and performers who will engage us MUSIC (pictured previous spread) with an array of ideas— not just for Canadians, but for all. Midnight Shine Exploring First Nations’ culture, ↑LITERATURE Chop Suey tradition, and life in the North Nation ←EMCEE Ann Hui Melanie Goodchild The Globe and Mail’s Educator and researcher in national food reporter Indigenous social innovation

16 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 17 saturday saturday The Complexities of (Re)conciliation Saturday, January 21, 3–5 pm Guelph Black Heritage Society, 83 Essex St Free event. No registration required. Donations to GBHS are welcome. This venue is not yet fully accessible.

n Canada, the colonial CONVENED AND Iproject was an east-to-west MODERATED BY endeavour. As such, the impact France Trépanier of colonization takes a different Visual artist, curator, and shape in British Columbia—very researcher of Kanien’kéha:ka few treaties with the Crown were and French ancestry signed; more ancestral languages are spoken; many ceremonies IN CONVERSATION WITH have been preserved and are still enacted; many stolen art objects Dr. Marianne have been repatriated. This panel Nicolson will offer fresh perspectives from Artist and member of the the territory now known as British Dzawada̱’enux̱w Tribe of the Columbia that will help to reveal Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw First Nations the complexities of (re)conciliation. on Vancouver Island

CEREMONY BY Dr. Ashok Mathur South Asian cultural organizer, Tehotsienhate writer, and visual artist Bruce Weaver OPENING PERFORMANCE

Opposite: Performance by Peter Morin, Peter Morin a song to activate the exhibition called glacier, Tahltan artist and scholar Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. Photo: Kevin Bertram

18 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 19 20 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 21 saturday saturday On Being Clown Failing and Reconciling in Canada

January 21, 7–9 pm • River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St Tickets: $20 adults/$15 students

econciliation requires What does it mean to be a clown? Rthe ability and the will to Who are the contemporary acknowledge, to absorb, and Canadian clowns? And, oh my, confront our failures. Throughout what are they doing? We gathered our lives we are taught to avoid six infuential clown performers and erase failure, and to seek and one clown moderator, out and embody the familiar whose work stems from distinct markers of success defned by traditions and whose performative dominant culture. As a practice styles vary widely. The artists ↑PERFORMANCE BY CLOWN ARTISTS embedded in several cultures will put their heads (and bodies) Heather Annis, Barry Bilinsky, and traditions, clowning disrupts together, to consider the tradition conventional understandings of, of clowning in Canada, the notion Jan Henderson, Mike Kennard, and relationships to failure and of failure, and its role in the Julia Lane, Amy Lee, success. For clowns, the path reconciliation process. to success is ofen informed and Christine Lesiak and enriched through a fearless CO-CURATED BY ↑MUSIC BY relationship with failure, giving Julia Lane Tara Williamson them unique insights into ways of Clown scholar at the advancing (radical) reconciliation THANKSGIVING BLESSING → University of British Columbia with Indigenous peoples in the Raweno:kwas place we now call Canada. Elwood Jimmy Program coordinator William Overleaf: Mump and Smoot at Musagetes Woodworth

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n partnership with the University of Guelph, the ArtsEverywhere IFestival invites students to join the ArtsEverywhere Emerging Scholars. This program offers thirty graduate and undergraduate Can I Do? students a complimentary festival pass, a festival mentor, receptions A Workshop on “Doing Reconciliation” with the speakers, an intimate two-hour conversation with one of the speakers, and an opportunity to publish some festival insights at Friday, January 20, 1–4 pm • Musagetes, 6 Dublin St S ArtsEverywhere.ca. Limited to 20 participants; to join the workshop please email a statement of interest to [email protected]

WORKSHOP LED BY Chris Creighton-Kelly Diane Roberts WELCOME CEREMONY BY Melanie Goodchild

his workshop is designed locating themselves in this Tprimarily for non- conversation and of imagining Indigenous Canadians who actions that they can create want to contribute towards moving forward. Encouraged by “reconciliation” with Indigenous the calls to action of the Truth and peoples. Using deep listening Reconciliation Commission, this and innovative, participatory workshop will assist participants techniques borrowed from in understanding a new creation theatre—such as embodied story for Canada, as they answer creative expression—participants the question, “What can I do?” will discover fresh ways of both

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rtsEverywhere is an online ArtsEverywhere focuses on ArtsEverywhere extends Aplatform by Musagetes, experimentation with new, invitations to leaders, innovators, concerned with the role the revived, and alternative forms, and critical thinkers in diverse Visit ArtsEverywhere.ca arts can play in addressing the possibilities, and networks beyond felds and sectors. We wish to and immerse yourself in the faultlines of modern society and the status quo. It considers art in create open spaces for dialogue conversations happening there. the deep and perplexing problems relation to public space, economic about the value that the arts bring that beset contemporary life. dignity, community-building, to all aspects of our communities Follow us on Twitter As Musagetes’ 2007 Manifesto urbanism, and rural dynamics. and societies — not only from the @Arts_Everywhere states, “We strive to help restore And it considers art in relation points of view of artists, cultural and @MusagetesF the power of imagination in to systems of oppression, forms workers, and arts institutions, individuals.” We do that by placing of struggle, and celebrations of but also from the perspectives artistic thinking and inquiry in difference. of journalists, policy makers, relation to everyday life and to ecologists, mathematicians, the urgencies and struggles of Several lines of inquiry that emerge children, city builders, social justice our societies and communities. frequently within ArtsEverywhere leaders, farmers, educators, include improvisation, indigenous activists, and so on. ArtsEverywhere is committed knowledge, reconciliation and to two core principles: decolonization, queerness, Musagetes is an international • The arts must be a central feminism, ecological literacy, artist philanthropic arts organization component of individual and rights, pedagogy, artistic inquiry, based in Guelph, Ontario. It is collective experiences of the and economic dignity. committed to making the arts world more central and meaningful • The arts must be a vital part of in peoples’ lives and in our all social and political processes communities and societies. (governance, justice, activism, economies, education, etc.)

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Jeannette Armstrong written about creativity, education, Chris Creighton-Kelly Jan Henderson Both educator and protector, Jeannette ecology and Indigenous rights. Slash, Chris Creighton-Kelly is an Jan Henderson is one of Canada’s Armstrong is a professor of Indigenous which Armstrong published in 1985, is interdisciplinary artist, writer and leading clown and mask teachers. For Studies and a Canada Research Chair in considered by many as the frst novel by cultural critic. He was born in the UK over 30 years, she has helped people Indigenous Philosophy at the University a First Nations woman. of South Asian/British heritage. His get in touch with their most authentic, of British Columbia (Okanagan). Barry Bilinsky artworks — presented across Canada, playful, and creative aspect — their inner She is a spokesperson for Indigenous in India, Europe, and the U.S. — have Wise Fool — and use it to enrich their Barry Bilinsky is a professional theatre peoples’ rights. The award-winning been internationally recognized with personal and professional lives. Jan practitioner, working as a performing writer and activist, novelist, and poet grants and awards from fve countries. is a co-artistic director of Edmonton artist, technical/production manager, and has always sought to change deeply Chris has given numerous lectures, clown company, Small Matters theatre director with several different biased misconceptions related to companies in Edmonton. He recently workshops, and presentations, both in Productions, and teaches Clown and Aboriginal peoples. Her research into joined the Aboriginal Arts Council as an community-based organizations and Mask in the drama department at the Indigenous philosophies and Okanagan assistant director. He has been a member in academe. He has persistently been University of Alberta, where she has Syilx thought and environmental ethics of The GeriActors and Friends since interested in questions of absence in received four awards for excellence that are coded into Syilx literature has 2012, contributing as an actor, writer, the discourses of the Western world in teaching. She is also a recipient been recognized locally and globally, and director/facilitator. Barry focuses on — whose epistemology is unquestioned? of Global Television’s Woman of and she serves as an active member creating work with diverse communities Who is not represented? Who has Vision Award, and in 2014 she was of the Okanagan Nation Alliance through various art disciplines. power? Who does not? And why? nominated for an Outstanding Lifetime and the En’owkin Centre. Known Achievement Award for the Mayor’s for her literary work, Armstrong has Guelph Lecture Ad 2016.pdf 1 16-12-14Celebration 10:53 PM of the Arts, Edmonton.

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Ann Hui and complexity theory approaches to Ann Hui is The Globe and Mail’s National tackling wicked problems. She was Food Reporter, using food as a lens a 2015/16 International Women’s to explore public policy, health, the Forum Leadership Foundation (IWFLF) environment, science, and technology. Global Leadership Fellow, sponsored In 2016, she travelled across Canada for by Harvard Business School and INSEAD, and is nominated as a TED 2017 a series called Chop Suey Nation, which told the stories of Chinese restaurants 2017 Global Fellow. She is a former in small towns and the families who run board member of the Thunder Bay Art them. She’s now working on a book, to Gallery and former national chair of Save these be published by Douglas & McIntyre in the Arts Network for Children & Youth 2018, about Chinese restaurants across (ANCY). Melanie is also a graduate Canada. of the International Film & Television Workshops flm resident program in 5abulous Melanie Goodchild 2017 screenwriting, in Rockport, Maine. Melanie Goodchild, Anishinaabe, is a member of the Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Michael Kennard First Nation (formerly Ojibways of the Michael Kennard is best known as performer and co-creator of the dates. Pic River) in northwestern Ontario. Melanie, moose clan, is the daughter of Canadian clown duo Mump & Smoot. Hillside Inside Delaney and Melinda. Her great great Their shows have enjoyed great success February 9–12 maternal grandfather was a traditional in the Fringe Festivals as well as at the healer from Treaty 3 territory, Lake of Yale Repertory Theatre, the American Guelph Dance Festival the Woods. She has an HBA and MA Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, June 1–4 in Sociology and is pursuing her PhD Massachusetts, the La Jolla Playhouse, in Social & Ecological Sustainability the Dallas Theatre Centre, Off- Hillside Festival at the University of Waterloo. She is Broadway in N.Y., and most recently July 14–16 currently working with the Toronto Arts at Canadian Stage in Toronto. Michael Council and several other organizations, has also been teaching clown in Toronto Eden Mills Writers’ Festival who are pursuing systems thinking for over 10 years, as well as sharing his September 10 Guelph Jazz Festival September 13–17 Guelph Film Festival November 10–18 Love the taste of bottled water but hate the bottle? Ditch the bottle and get safe, great-tasting water from your tap!

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30 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 Biographies practice in university settings around (Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2007), the world. In addition to performing WOMAN: The feminist Avant-Garde and teaching, Michael has also directed from the 1970s (Sammlung Verbund a number of plays and clown-based collection European tour, 2013–18) shows across Canada. and Traffc: Conceptual Art in Canada Suzy Lake 1965–80 (2010). In 2014, the Art Gallery of Ontario presented a full-career Suzy Lake is among the frst female retrospective titled Introducing Suzy artists in Canada to adopt performance, Lake. video, and photography to explore the politics of gender, the body, Julia Lane and identity. In her artistic practice, Julia Lane is a clown scholar, a term which spans nearly 50 years, Lake that she introduced in her doctoral addresses the individual’s relationship dissertation to indicate someone to societal forces that break and reveal who does not merely study clown constructions or restraints built into our but also studies as a clown, applying culture. Concurrent to her practice, Lake the principles of clowning practice taught for 40 years in Montreal, Toronto, to scholarly inquiry. As a performer, and received Professor Emerita status Julia’s work is process-oriented, from the University of Guelph in 2008. interdisciplinary, collaborative, and In 2016, Lake received the Governor frequently site-specifc. She is artistically General’s award in Visual and Media obsessed with the unexpected, and Arts and the Scotiabank Photography her recent work has been focused Melanie Authier, Ground Seeker (detail), 2015, acrylic on canvas. 60" x 72" Award. She currently lives and makes on surreptitiously bringing clown work in Toronto. Lake has participated performance into academic spaces. OPENING JAN 18, 2017 AT 7 PM in signifcant conceptual or feminist Amy Lee exhibitions such as: WACK! Art and the Amy Lee is a performer, playwright, Feminist Revolution (LA MOCA and tour, producer, and educator. She is Contrarieties & Counterpoints: 2007-08), Identity Thef: Eleanor Antin, co-artistic director of Up your Nose Lynn Hershman, Suzy Lake, 1972–1978 Recent Paintings by Melanie Authier

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36 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2017 37 Biographies Biographies of Anthropology, Western Front, Bill engagements. Her practice engages residence at Open Space in Victoria, and those from artists of colour in Reid Gallery, and Yukon Art Centre. In with issues of Aboriginal histories BC. France teaches Indigenous arts at understanding a new “creation story” for 2016, Morin was the recipient of the and politics arising from a passionate Camosun College. She is co-chair of this territory now known as Canada. Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts involvement in cultural revitalization the Indigenous Program Council at Tara Williamson Award for outstanding achievement as and sustainability. the Banff Centre, Alberta. France Tara Williamson is a First Nations a mid-career artist. was the co-recipient of the 2012 Audain Diane Roberts musician, writer, and recovering Aboriginal Curatorial Fellowship by the Marianne Nicolson Diane Roberts is the founder of The academic from Manitoba who comes by Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. She co- Marianne Nicolson (‘Tayagila’ogwa) Arrivals Personal Legacy Process and way of Peterborough, Ontario. Both of authored with Chris Creighton- is an artist of Scottish and has been its lead workshop facilitator her EPs — Lie Low (produced by James Kelly Understanding Aboriginal Art Dzawada̱’enux̱w First Nations for the past 15 years. The roots of McKenty) and ndn summer (produced in Canada Today: a Knowledge and descent. The Dzwada̱’enux̱w People are storytelling and multi-disciplinary art by Kinnie Starr) garnered national Literature Review for the Canada a member tribe of the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw forms — mixing of ritual song, dance, attention on various music blogs, best- Council for the Arts. France and Chris Nations of the Pacifc Northwest storytelling, live art, and theatre — drive of lists, and placement on the National are currently working on a two-year Coast. Her training encompasses both her arts practice. Her intuitive style of Aboriginal Music Countdown. Her frst initiative, Primary Colours/Couleurs traditional Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw forms and facilitation draws on specifcally crafed full length album, Songs to Keep Us primaires, which emphasizes the culture and Western European-based creative engagement tools that inspire Warm, was released in the winter of centrality of Indigenous art practices art practice. She completed a Bachelor people of all cultural backgrounds 2016 and was produced by Jim Bryson. of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of to unearth their authentic creative Art and Design (1996), a Masters in Fine impulses. Her working methodology PROUD TO SPONSOR Arts (1999), a Masters in Linguistics draws out a common vocabulary and Anthropology (2005) and a PhD amongst Indigenous and diverse artists, THE GUELPH LECTURE – ON BEING CANADIAN in Linguistics, Anthropology and Art their ways of working, and their sense History (2013) at the University of of themselves in a global society.

Victoria. She has exhibited her artwork France Trépanier locally, nationally and internationally as France Trépanier is a visual a painter, photographer and installation artist, curator and researcher of artist, has written and published Kanien’kéha:ka and French ancestry. numerous essays and articles, and She is the Aboriginal curator-in- has participated in multiple speaking

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