DAMBANA 2023


Dambana is a Scarborough-based creative development and leadership program in collaboration with the Scarborough Museum engaging a team of five youth artists in Scarborough interested in rituals of creative, spiritual, social, and environmental enchantment and stewardship

FINAL GATHERING
FRIDAY SEPT 1 2023 @SCARBOROUGH MUSEUM

 

Dambana

Altars. Ancestors. Art.
Climate Care. Land Stewardship

2023 Artists

Dhiviya Prabahara
Niya Abdullahi
Share Joy Tung
Shammah Salwa
Talin Wright

Healing in Creation

The goal of Dambana is to facilitate art-creation that honours our unique and collective creation stories, engaging storytelling that stewards relational and environmental healing

Dambana has been supported in collaboration with the Scarborough Museum through Toronto Arts Council’s Animating Historical Sites program 2021 & 2023.

Co-creators



Program Coordinators:
Kristen Jordan Alaan Sison
Bennette Baguisa
Shaina Agbayani

Workshop Facilitators
Sania Khan
Jen Maramba
Natoya Hall
Sharrae Lyon
Zainab Amadady

Videographer + Photographer
Nautica Simone
Ferdinand Orlain

Many thanks to the Toronto Arts Council and the Scarborough Museum for your support for Dambana