Saturday October 3 and Sunday October 4 10-4 PM
hush, it’s not yet winter, but we’ve invited the tricksters Nanabozho and Anansi into our living room to tease us with stories we cannot fully know. you see, the land is a refugium, a bountiful archive of braided Indigenous and Black histories that come alive, sustain life at the behest –or in spite of?– these other-worldly creatures
Debbie Ebanks’ NansiRoachy is media sculpture and archives embodying Anansi, the Akan trickster and shapeshifter, and Auntie Roachy, the Jamaican character brought to life by Miss Lou, a revered Jamaican storyteller. As the Keeper of All Narratives, Anansi carries stories from western Africa to Jamaica and Canada, collecting new stories and transforming old ones. NansiRoachy shares a mulimedia experience of the Jamaican diaspora on Annishinaabe, Haudonshonee and Huron-Wendat territories, in which Creemore is entangled in the web of stories.
Adrian Kahgee’s work is a mixed media exploration of storytelling as it relates to her Afro-Anishnaabe being, rooted in the land and histories of her community and traditional territory of Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Drawing on cultural materials used in oral traditions, such as birch bark and beads, Adrian weaves in digitized 16mm film through beaded pixelations on LED matrixes. This work is an artistic expression of when wiigwaasaatigoog (birch trees) spill the tea.
This show is generously sponsored by Dalton and Associates
