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MetaNexus Hamilton blends oral and scribal literature, visual and oral art, dance, theatre, and music in a context of communal solidarity. The project explores Klyde’s emerging notion of dubpoetryology–the ology of dubpoetry, as it brings art, artist, artistry, and audience together to show, tell, interact, and share ourselves with each other in the spirit of communal oneness ‘Under the Influence of Dub!
Gritty City Theatre Company is a Hamilton-based company whose mission is to create and produce work that explores race and class issues theatrically. This year, GCTC has established a new playwrights collective called the Canadian Slavery Project, as well as a series of film industry and improv workshops that help emerging artists and actors develop their portfolio with hands-on learning and networking.
Red Beti Theatre’s Decolonise Your Ears Festival helps Indigenous, Black, and Racialised women to develop their own brand new stories and new ways of telling them. DYE offers dramaturgical support, compensation, and the infrastructure of a theatre company to enable playwrights to hear their work read aloud. Director Radha Menon will discuss DYE alongside her research on Canadian play publishers and diversity.
This project is the result of the cooperative work between the Green Block Growing (GBG), a local community-led project hosted by Action 13 and the Community Permaculture Lab (CPL), and Authentikos, a project led by cultural worker and filmmaker Abdo Habbani. The name Authentikos is inspired by the Greek root of ‘authentic’, which means ‘”original, genuine, principal.”, hence, Authentikos is about creating communal spaces where differences and what makes us genuine can be explored. It’s about cultivating relationships/connections and bringing together different peoples in an authentic thriving community where everyone’s culture and gifts are recognized, respected, celebrated and allowed to be expressed.
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Two Spirit Indigenous Queer roles and responsibilities have survived the violent acts of genocide on Indigenous people in Canada because our ceremonies, teachings, ways of being and ways of life have been passed down through oral transmission from one generation to another. With the assistance of spirit of our ancestors, traditional helpers, knowledge keepers, and language keepers a Two Spirit Indigenous Queer ceremony will return to this region for the first time in hundreds of years.This ceremony will not only provide an opportunity to share our Two Spirit stories of who we are and our cultural responsibilities but it will also aid in the preservation of them.
Muscle Memory is a collaborative audio-visual performance organized around the notion that capacities for social and political experimentation, while atrophied, are yet present at a deep, subconscious level. Though late settler capitalism is consistent with a five-century war of attempted erasure and systemic forgetting of diverse human capacities for reimagining political and economic structures, Muscle Memory finds hope in our shared human tendencies toward freedom, play and experimentation.