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Wednesday, March 1, 2023 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Black and Free: New Art | Un ‘loc’ de riddims in meh body

Collette “Coco” Murray is a dance educator, cultural arts programmer, mentor, and arts consultant. As part of the Black and Free: New Art series, her exhibition and performance Un ‘loc’ de riddims in meh body, is a visual movement journey where dance photography visually amplifies how a body in geopolitical spaces across the Afrodisapora can exist, claim, and sustain nuances of being Afrodescendant.

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Black and Free: New Art | Mai ba da labari

Afro- Caribbean Canadian artist Suritah Teresa Wignall is a passionate communicator who uses her exuberant, colorful paintings to pay homage to her cultural roots. As part of the Black and Free: New Art series, her exhibition piece Mai ba da labari (The Storyteller) is a legacy painting of Goggo (Grandma), telling the story of her journey and how she ended up in Jamaica. Goggo’s Soyayya (love) pushes through. We listen, because our freedom is her. Our freedom, depends on us understanding our past.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Black and Free: New Art | Typeface

TAFUI is an educator, designer and painter. Her paintings are inspired by deconstructing cultures into their base elements and symbols, looking for the similarities and relationships they share. As part of the Black and Free: New Art series, she will be sharing the progress on the original typeface design for the Black and Free project that she is creating in collaboration with BAF partner Studio Otherness.

You are invited to participate in Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People. Working with the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (OIR), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, the annual installation presents a counter discourse/memorial against the silencing of the historic and continual violence endured by Indigenous communities. https://youtu.be/Zu2t6LifQl0

Friday, March 8, 2024 9:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Land Acknowledgement Workshop

Collectively led by the Office of Indigenous Relations and the Department of Communication Arts, this workshop will guide participants through the history of the land we call Canada and demonstrate the reasons we make Territory Acknowledgements. Using interactive exercises sharing of Indigenous perspectives, the session will also include knowledge sharing about Treaties in the Kitchener Waterloo region.

Register via Google form by March 1.