PROJECT FUTURE
Children’s Peace Theatre celebrates the voices of Indigenous and Black artists while offering mentorship and tools for a new future. Working with an incredible line up of leading artists from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, Project Future was a pilot project that conducted 20 weeks of land-based creative development and permaculture earthwork for young Black and Indigenous artists.
The Peak Magazine Article by Project Future artists Savannah Clarke, Alana Siloch and Kaya DaCosta
LANGUAGES OF THE LAND
Project Future culminated in the Languages of the Land Festival September 21st-23rd, 2017 and featured free public permaculture workshops, interactive tours, discussions and daily performances on the beautiful land that is stewarded by the Children’s Peace Theatre.
TALKING TREATIES
Project Future participated in learning about Treaties with the amazing Ange Loft and took part in
Jumblies Talking Treaties Spectacle
Talking Treaties is a participatory multi-arts project, with the goal of artfully sharing local Indigenous knowledge and awareness. Talking Treaties engaged over 300 participants in its research and development, generating symbols, poetry, and expressive maps, which have influenced and are now featured as content in the production. This project strives to expand meaning, knowledge, and personal relationships to encompass the historical and contemporary responsibilities we share as treaty people.
Lead Artist, Director, & Co-Writer: Ange Loft
June 23 – June 25, 2017
Fort York National Historic Site
250 Fort York Blvd
More info about Talking Treaties Here
Jumblies Talking Treaties Spectacle
Talking Treaties is a participatory multi-arts project, with the goal of artfully sharing local Indigenous knowledge and awareness. Talking Treaties engaged over 300 participants in its research and development, generating symbols, poetry, and expressive maps, which have influenced and are now featured as content in the production. This project strives to expand meaning, knowledge, and personal relationships to encompass the historical and contemporary responsibilities we share as treaty people.
Lead Artist, Director, & Co-Writer: Ange Loft
June 23 – June 25, 2017
Fort York National Historic Site
250 Fort York Blvd
More info about Talking Treaties Here
PERMACULTURE
Thanks to the Mashkikii;aki’ing (Medicine Earth) Squad In partnership with The Stop Community Food Centre Project Future has been learning about medicines and getting to know plant relations on the land around Peace Theatre. We Planted the Three sisters and are lovingly watching them grow! Volunteers welcome to come
PUBLIC PERMACULTURE WORKSHOPS
Led by the Mashkikii;aki’ing (Medicine Earth) Squad In partnership with The Stop Community Food Centre
Re-Indigenizing and Space Sharing -Tuesday July 11 5-8pm
We will spend much needed time asking why. Why does our landscape look the way that it does, has it always? Why can re recognize certain plants and not others? Why have we determined some as undesirable and others as desirable? Taking an introductory look at what it might look like for plants to share space and how we may prevent, hinder or support plants to do so.
Soil Health and Regeneration and Composting -Tuesday August 8 5-8pm
Often overlooked, we will be taking time in close experience with the soil itself. What do we notice? What do we wonder? We will take the opportunity to experience the soil using whichever parts of our bodies and senses we have access to, exploring soil health, structure, and the plants that "volunteer" in spaces that have been damaged. How might we witness, support and mimic the lands' regeneration efforts?
Wild Crafting & Honorable Harvest -Thursday September 21 5-8 pm
Are we each consumers or reciprocators? How might we take a decolonial look and practice of attaining the things that we need - specifically around food and medicines in this case? How might we begin to move away from the reliance of this food-insecurity and scarcity model of capitalism? An introduction and knowledge sharing space around plant recognition and wild crafting, as well as the urgent responsibilities of Honorable Harvest, an Indigenous covenant between humans and the land. (As borrowed from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
Re-Indigenizing and Space Sharing -Tuesday July 11 5-8pm
We will spend much needed time asking why. Why does our landscape look the way that it does, has it always? Why can re recognize certain plants and not others? Why have we determined some as undesirable and others as desirable? Taking an introductory look at what it might look like for plants to share space and how we may prevent, hinder or support plants to do so.
Soil Health and Regeneration and Composting -Tuesday August 8 5-8pm
Often overlooked, we will be taking time in close experience with the soil itself. What do we notice? What do we wonder? We will take the opportunity to experience the soil using whichever parts of our bodies and senses we have access to, exploring soil health, structure, and the plants that "volunteer" in spaces that have been damaged. How might we witness, support and mimic the lands' regeneration efforts?
Wild Crafting & Honorable Harvest -Thursday September 21 5-8 pm
Are we each consumers or reciprocators? How might we take a decolonial look and practice of attaining the things that we need - specifically around food and medicines in this case? How might we begin to move away from the reliance of this food-insecurity and scarcity model of capitalism? An introduction and knowledge sharing space around plant recognition and wild crafting, as well as the urgent responsibilities of Honorable Harvest, an Indigenous covenant between humans and the land. (As borrowed from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
THANKS TO OUR PROJECT FUTURE PARTNERS
Produced in partnership with the City of Toronto's Cultural Hotspot project
The Stop Community Food Centre
The Stop Community Food Centre
Funded by Canada Council for the Arts
