Monday Special Blend
Monday October 21st, 2024 with Nathanael Newton & Maria Hawkins
Sobeys Art Awards & It's funding Drive Time!!
Sobeys Art Awards, Interview with Artist Nico Williams, Memories of Hurricane Hazel, Cynthia Sharp, & The Larose Forest
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| Foxglove Bruce Cockburn - Speechless 
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| Chat with Maria |
| Pre-Recorded Interview with Nico Williams
https://www.instagram.com/odehmin/ https://www.nicowilliams.com/ See video version including closeup of the artworks here: https://youtu.be/BfA_m_gg7mc Based in Tiohtia:ke (Montreal), Nico Williams is an Anishinaabe (Aamjiwnaang First Nation) multidisciplinary artist whose often sculptural works expand on collaborative intergenerational beadwork practices. The sculptures here all depict everyday items and draw on nostalgia, memories, stories and colonial realities. Williams intertwines these ordinary objects with historical and political narratives, observations on culture and materiality, and connections to kinship and place. Bang on Man!!! - a sculpture of a J Cloth - alludes to a reserve garage where vehicle repairs and deer processing happened simultaneously. Scratch tickets are significant tactile experiences, while store flyers reference access to affordable food. Barrier and Caution Tape question access to space and draw attention to the transformation of Indigenous lands through construction and urbanization. Uncle, a plaid jacket associated with settler Canadian culture, also ties into Indigenous hunting and fishing rights. Nico Williams would like to thank the studio team: Molly Chamagne, loana Dragomir, Virginie Fillion-Fecteau, Samuel Guertin, Alex Havenne, Elena Imari, Christy Kunitzky, Selina Latour, (Tata) Yuxin Liu, Emlyne Marchand, Hannah Materne, Caroline Moiny, Sonja Ratkay, Laurel H. Rennie, Lydia Risi, Kuh del Rosario and Aiden Thorne. My voice sounds weird in this because I was sick and wearing an n95 mask :D |
| Tuesday October 15 marks the seventieth anniversary of Hurricane Hazel, Canada’s deadliest hurricane disaster.
On the night of October 15/16, 1954 Hurricane Hazel struck southern Ontario and especially affected the Toronto area. Four thousand people were left homeless throughout southern Ontario and 81 people died – over 30 of those who perished lived on a single street in Etobicoke called Raymore Drive close to the Humber River. Learn more here: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hurricane-hazel |
| Raymore Drive Tony Turner - The Lost Sketches
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| Spirit of Tony Turner Awards
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/spirit-of-tony-turner-award-showcase-tickets-1028882042887 |
| Discussion about Cynthia Sharp's latest book |
| Take Flight Cynthia Sharp - Ordinary Light
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| How to Honor the Moon Cynthia Sharp - Ordinary Light
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| Discussion about the Larose Forest
Nathanael's Drone video: https://youtu.be/dgT60GnBdPc |
| Westport Kerry Fitzgerald - Bitz and Beats
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| Greenwood Girls Kerry Fitzgerald - Bitz and Beats
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