Date and Time: Saturday, February 25, 2:30-3pm
Location: Third Floor Galleries
Free with gallery admission
Date and Time: Saturday, February 25, 2:30-3pm
Location: Third Floor Galleries
Free with gallery admission
This exhibition brings together artists whose works explore the importance of water from Indigenous perspectives. Through their works, they explore how water is a sacred, living entity in need of care and protection. In bringing these works together, this exhibition calls attention to the need to care for the earth’s most sacred resource. Water Protectors pays special tribute to those who take up that important work and honours all Water Protectors across Turtle Island.
Muriel N. Kahwagi works across writing, research, and programming. She has held editorial roles at both the Sursock Museum (2015-2021) and the Arab Image Foundation (2021-2022) in Beirut, and since 2022 has been a programmer at the Toronto Arab Film Festival. Her first edited volume, Al Qasid: The real and imagined histories of sung poetry, brings together contributions from scholars, artists, and composers, exploring the politics of archiving sung poetry, and the mediation and transmission of memories and folkloric traditions. This publication, released in November 2022, was supported by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and Hammana Artist House.