Talking Treaties Workshop with Ange Loft
Ange Loft facilitates activities from "A Treaty Guide for Torontonians" by Talking Treaties Collective, regarding council meeting locations, ongoing relationships between Indigenous nations and land-based mnemonics. Create a graphic illustration, responding to visuals surrounding the Eternal Council Fires/Yellowhead wapum belt (circe 1696-1701), as recountedat an 1840 council between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee. Generate graphic representations of the Five Fires, Clan anaimals, and the path linking the territories mentioned in this regional agreement!
Ange Loft (Kanien'kehá:ka, from Kahnawà:ke, QC, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) is an interdisciplinary performing artist. Her collaborations use arts based research, voice, wearable sculpture, theatrical co-creation and Haudenosaunee history to facilitate workshops and community-engaged spectacle. As a performer, Ange has graced international stages with musical act Yamantaka//Sonic Titan and as an interpreter of Indigenous lead theatrical narrative, experimental composition and performance.
This workshop is open to OCAD U students in Turtle Island Visual Culture IVCV-1001 (Fall or Winter) and Indigenous OCAD U students. Space is limited. Click here to register!