Events
Making tributes to our past, present and future selves
Join CUAG educator-in-residence Jade Sullivan for a free creative workshop in response to Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice and A Dream of Return.
In this workshop, we’ll look at Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s notion of the “return,” exploring how “return” can be a form of futurity and a dream for diasporic folks.
We’ll ask: how does “return” intersect with Indigeneity, diaspora, belonging and identity? What do different forms, acts and ideas of return look like today? How can art continue to heal historical ruptures with culturally significant lands, foods, practices and objects?
We’ll tour the exhibitions together and then create memory boxes that capture our ideas of return as tributes to our past, present and future selves. Writing, art-making materials and creative prompts will be provided. How you respond is up to you!
This workshop is free and open to all. Advance registration is required. Please register by emailing Fiona Wright.
This event is part of Stonecroft Semester: The Art of Connection. More info here.
Participants
Jade Sullivan (she/they) is an intersectional feminist geographer and activist currently pursuing her MA in Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton. She has been a community activist and researcher for almost a decade, working in feminist transformative spaces in Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and across the Caribbean region. Jade focuses on creating safe and sustainable spaces for systematically marginalized people, using anti-oppressive, decolonial and gender-transformative feminist tools. She is learning to use the knowledge from her black feminist foreparents and the politics of pleasure and care, to reframe her feminist future.
