EVERYTHING STILL RESONATES

December 11 - 9am - 5:30pm

December 12 - 9am - 5:30pm

Event in French, English and Spanish

We invite you to a gathering where territories, memory, and healing come together, a space dedicated to dialogue, art, and resistance across diverse forms of knowledge and geographies.

Voices of the Earth: Dialogues and Healing invites us to reflect on the histories of territories shaped by extractivism and violence, yet also alive with creativity, solidarity, care, and hope. Guided by a sensitive approach, these study days prioritize listening, dialogue, and situated storytelling, encouraging participants to feel-think (sentipensar) their connections to the territory across different geographies. The program draws on practices led by Indigenous Peoples, diasporas, and allies, envisioning decolonial and relational ways of living together.

PROGRAM SUMMERY
*detailed program coming soon

December 11
9:00 AM – Reception and registration
9:15 AM – Welcome remarks
9:30 AM – Opening ritual
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Dialogue: Healing and Territory
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM – Workshop: Innu Traditional Medicine
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM – Artistic interventions (no registration required)

December 12
9:00 AM – Reception and registration
9:15 AM – Welcome remarks
9:45 AM to 12:00 PM – Workshop: Collective Score: Composition of River Soundscapes
2:00 PM to 2:45 PM – Artistic lecture
3:00 PM to 4:15 PM – Roundtable: Connecting the Voices of Territories
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM – Resonances and Trajectories: Collective synthesis and future directions
5:30 PM – Closing ritual

This project is a collaboration between SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, the Laboratory of Art and Research in Decoloniality (LabARD), the Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Traditions and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples, and the School of Leadership, Ecology, and Equity at St. Paul University, with the support of Alternatives, the FRQSC, and the CALQ.

This event is part of the program Everything Still Resonates

Co-created by SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art with Colectiva Polea, the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Self-Determination, and the Laboratory for Decolonial Art and Research (LabARD), this program brings together Indigenous, diasporic, and settler voices proposing alternatives to socio-ecological crises and sharing tools for healing, transformation, and resistance. From November 27 to December 12, workshops, gatherings, and performances invite participants to imagine new ways of making together.

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COLLABORATORS

Arts Research Laboratory in Decoloniality (LabARD) is a multidisciplinary group that employs decolonial approaches in the artistic, scientific, cultural, and educational fields. Our laboratory analyzes power dynamics in these areas to question how artistic, social, and cultural practices are thought, created, and disseminated. We strive to transcend geographic and cultural boundaries and to highlight local histories marginalized by the West.

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