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by Thursday August 31st at 5pm
20 people maximum
About the Event
💙 DAMBANA | ALTARS OF REST 💙
is a community altar, creative portal, artist celebration, and dinner to honour collective healing, rest, and play. We are celebrating thee culmination of a 3-month program for bipoc creators honouring the intersections between art, healing, story, and ancestral connection in Scarborough
💙 SCHEDULE 💙
5pm-5:30pm | Public Land-In and Food
5:30pm-7pm | Formal Opening + Artist Shares
7pm-7:30pm | Portals + Closing
💙 ARTISTS 💙
🌊 Niya Abdullahi
Niya Abdullahi is a Multidisciplinary Artist, Technologist and the founder of @Habasooda, a collective dedicated to sharing the richness of the Muslim experience through a variety of storytelling avenues. Themes of identity, liberation and resistance inform her work. Her films have screened at TIFF Next Wave, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon, Breakthroughs Film Festival, Gallery 44, amongst others. She was a 2021 Hot Docs Accelerator Fellow and currently sits on the Advisory committee for the Nia Centre of the Arts BLACKOUT project and the City of Toronto’s ArtworksTO program
🔥 Dhiviya Prabaharan
with gratitude and deep reverence i acknowledge my ancestors, future descendants, my kin, the artists, activists, freedom fighters, mothers, elders, storytellers, knowledge keepers, leaders, healers, peacemakers, placemakers, the sun, the moon, the stars, the animal and plant nations, creators and all of creation. i acknowledge and offer gratitude to the original caretakers/stewards of the lands and waters that i call home. the anishnaabeg, the haudenesaunee, and the missisaguas of credit river first nation. Though i was born here, i am still landing here. i am still rooting here, finding place here, and building home here. my roots also stretch far to tamil lands, tamil eelam and tamil nadu, home of the people of the karthigai flower. A rising fist blooming into fingers of fire.
🌊 Shammah Salwa
Shammah Salwa (b. 1995) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian multidisciplinary artist; photographer and researcher, based in Tkaronto (Toronto, Ontario). Combining documentary modes with surrealist techniques, her work engages with various environmental justice topics, with a special research focus on food in/security and food waste, and asks broader questions of how the personal or private is connected to larger systems. Salwa studied Environment/Diaspora Studies at the University of Toronto and Photography at Toronto Metropolitan University. With the support of Access Alliance, she has designed a workshop on at-home vermicomposting methods to repurpose food waste. Salwa recently participated in a group exhibition as a part of DesignTO Festival 2023.
🔥 Sharon Joy Tung
Bio to come
🌊 Talin Wright
Bio to come
💙 Attendees >> must RSVP << as there is a maximum capacity by Thursday August 31st at 5pm