What Brings You Joy? A Conversation with Visiting Elders Elizabeth (Liz) Osawamick and Catherine Tammaro: Monday February 14 12PM-1:30PM EST
Join ISC Visiting Elders Elizabeth (Liz) Osawamick and Catherine Tammaro for What Brings You Joy? We will be giving away acrylic, heart earrings from Wild Rabbit Beads!
This event will be streamed live on ocadu.ca/live
Elizabeth (Liz) Osawamick is an Anishinaabe Midewiwin-kwe community leader, Water Walker/activist, jingle dress dancer, devoted parent and professional teacher. She is President of Anishnaabemowin Teg, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, teaching and developing Anishnaabe language and cultural pride. A leader of the Kawartha area Water Walks under the guidance of Elders Dr Shirley I Williams and the late Nookomis Josephine Mandamin, Liz has dedicated her life to her people, her language, the lands, and the waters.
Catherine Tammaro (Taǫmęˀšreˀ • date:žátǫ ⁿgyaˀwiš hatiyerunǫˀ, Wyandot FaithKeeper: People of the Little Turtle (Clan) Keepers of the Heavens, Carriers of the Fire ) was born in Toronto and raised in Toronto and the US. She has a 50-year history of multidisciplinary art making. Her multi-media works have been exhibited in traditional and alternative gallery spaces and her written works and musical compositions have been published in various blogs and installations. She is a seated Little/Spotted Turtle Clan FaithKeeper, and a citizen of the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation/Wendat Confederacy. Catherine is Akin Studio’s premiere Indigenous Elder Artist in Residence, is the Elder for the Toronto Indigenous Business Association and an Elder for Ojibiikaan; the Visiting Elder at OCADU, Elder in Residence at Evergreen Brickworks, and one of two at Taiaiako:n Historical Preservation Society. She also served on the Council at the Children's Peace Theatre for two years. She is the Program Manager for the Indigenous Arts Program at the the Toronto Arts Council and is working with many agencies and on may projects city wide and beyond, to advise and facilitate art making/teaching workshops, as well as maintaining her own art practise regarding spiritual and ever changing realities as they pertain to our connection to the sacred multiverse.
This event is part of Indigenous OCAD U Wellness Week 2022 and is organized by the Indigenous Student Centre of OCAD U.