October 2nd, 2024 at 6 PM

FLEET: Granville Island

1425 Anderson St, Vancouver

Walk and reflect together along the waterfront places so impacted by colonial industrialization, urbanization, and 'place making' on these Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh lands and waters. What assumptions can we read from the ways these lands and waters have been treated, shaped, decided for? What are the signs of repair, resurgence? Beginning with Debra Sparrow's Blanketing the City, this walk will encourage deep reflection on the built environment and what is beyond the surface. Join Kamala Todd, Métis-Cree Indigenous planner and filmmaker born into these lands, who is continuously learning and unlearning about how to live in relationship and reciprocity in the territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Skwxwú7mesh-speaking Peoples.

This walk will begin at the FLEET Mobile Artist Studio located next to Debra Sparrow’s Blanketing the City mural on Granville Island, and will follow the shoreline towards the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, docked next to the Maritime Museum. The path is mostly level, but will include some gravel and sloped sections.

This event is free and open to the public. Space may be limited, and RSVPs are encouraged. To RSVP, please contact fleetstudios@othersights.ca.

Kamala Todd is a Métis-Cree mother, community planner, filmmaker, curator, and educator born and raised in the beautiful lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Skwxwú7mesh-speaking Peoples, aka Vancouver. She has a Master’s degree in urban Geography (UBC) and is Associate Professor of Professional Practice at SFU Urban Studies. She was the City of Vancouver’s first Indigenous Arts and Culture Planner and she was part of the team who created the Vancouver UNDRIP Strategy. Kamala's media production company is Indigenous City Media and some of her film credits include Welcome to Our Homelands, Indigenous Plant Diva, Cedar and Bamboo, and RELAW: Living Indigenous Laws. In May 2024, Kamala was selected for the Indigenous Arts: Story Sharing residency at Banff Centre. She is a research collaborator on the SAGA project, an international project looking at more-than-English languages of sustainability.

This program is part of the Foreshore Immersive program through Other Sights for Artists' Projects.

Image (above): FLEET: Granville Island at the Chain & Forge Plaza, next to Debra Sparrow's Blanketing the City murals. Photo by Colin Griffiths, 2024.

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