Event Details
Dancing with our Ancestors poster by TMIN |
| Exhibition: | Dancing with our Ancestors: Weaving Connections between Communities |
| Description: | Join us on Red Dress Day (May 5th) for the opening of “Dancing With Our Ancestors: Weaving Connections Between Communities”, a collective exhibit that features artists across the globe with lived experiences of disappeared people and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit people (MMIWG2S+).
In this multi-site exhibit, the Transformative Memory International Network and Butterflies in Spirit stitch together different, yet parallel, experiences of denunciation, resistance, togetherness, searching for loved ones, and seeking the truth. To reflect upon the aftermath of settler colonialism and prolonged violence, while also illuminating the diverse ways artists and communities can weave spaces to dialogue, contest, and reimagine memory/futurities as a way of collective action. The exhibition will feature pieces from Uganda, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Indonesia, Colombia and Canada.
Dancing with our Ancestors: Weaving Connections Between Communities is a transnational commitment to knit together and recognize the poetics of everyday memories of human beings, who otherwise would be forgotten by dominant history. The pieces that comprise this exhibit are expressions of the numerous resourceful, embodied, and intimate ways in which memory, as a creative force, is articulated by people worldwide who have experienced systemic violence.
The exhibit also includes three window installations by local artists at Decolonial Clothing and the Butterflies in Spirit Studio (Chinatown), Union Cooperative Initiative/Love Intersections (Chinatown), and the windows at UBC Robson Square. |
| Commissioned by: | Vancouver TMIN Travelling Exhibit |
| Date(s): | 5th May 2025 - 21st May 2025 |
| Venue: | UBC Robson Square
800 Robson Street Vancouver, BC V6Z 2E7 Canada |
| Curator: | TMI organizing team & Conflict Textiles |
| Facilitator: | Butterflies in Spirit & TMI team |
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| Documents: |
• Dancing with our Ancestors - Statement - view
• Dancing with our Ancestors - Poster - view
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