WORKSHOP: Seeding and Listen with Carrie Allison
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Treaty Space Gallery, 1887 Granville St
Join us for this Indigenous plants seeding workshop with Carrie Allison. While listening to Carrie share about her artistic practice and relationships to plants and grasses, participants will be invited to write something to the land, to plants, to the non-human world (a letter, a note, a thanks, a poem, etc.) on seeded paper which they can plant. Each piece of paper will contain a variety of seeds from plants native to Mi’kma’ki. We look forward to sowing seeds and learning with you all! All planting materials will be provided.
Carrie Allison is a nêhiýaw, Métis, and mixed European descent multidisciplinary visual artist based in K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She grew up on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). Her maternal roots and relations are based in maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8. Her practice responds to her maternal nêhiýaw and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss and acts of reclaiming, resilience, resistance, and activism, while also thinking through notions of allyship, kinship and visiting. Concepts and critiques of labour, social, economic and capitalistic vs. community and cultural, are weaved through her practice. Old and new technologies are combined to tell stories of the land, continuance, growth, and of healing.
