Date and time:
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 12:00pm to
Sunday, July 3, 2011 - 5:00pm
Location:
Beit Zatoun
612 Markham Street (by Bathurst subway)
Toronto, ON
Canada
Alive with Breath
Installation by Jules Koostachin
Reception - Friday, June 17 from 7 to 9 pm
Alive with Breath is a multi-media installation piece that speaks to the beauty of life prior to Canadian Residential School experience. Inspired by Jules Koostachin's mother Rita, the project focuses on five survivors from the James Bay area through photography, audio recordings and video.
Alive with Breath celebrates the lives of Mushkegowuk (Cree) Elders BEFORE they were sent to residential schools.
“My Mother gave me the idea,” says Artistic Director Jules Arita Koostachin. “I asked her what her life was like before residential school and she said that no one had ever asked her that before. I found it sad that no one would be interested in anything but my mother’s residential school experience.”
Rather than defining Elders by the traumas of their lives, Alive with Breath showcases early childhood experiences that breathe life into complex, three dimensional people and their relationships with family, land and Spirit.
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Need to know:
- Doors open at 6:45
- Free Admission
- Accessible on demand via portable ramp; washrooms not accessible
Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and Zatoun oliveoil+za'atar dipping.
Contact
- Email: info@beitzatoun.org
- Phone: 647-726-9500
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