Stone & Sky | Music & Arts Series, Coming Together: Coming Together: collaborative arts based reconciliation celebration

June 9 @ 10:00 am - June 14 @ 4:00 pm

Cost: 0

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As we approach the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s final report and 94 Calls to Action, and with the deepest respect for recently deceased the Honourable Murray Sinclair, who led the Commission, we feel it behooves Stone & Sky to revisit Call to Action #83:
“We call upon the Canada Council for the Arts to establish, as a funding priority, a strategy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to undertake collaborative projects and produce works that contribute to the reconciliation process.”

Coming Together: a collaborative arts based reconciliation celebration will take place June 9th–15th, 2025, the week prior to Indigenous Peoples Day on Pelee Island, Lake Erie, and include artists’ residencies, live performances, workshops, an artists’ market, and the dissemination of research undertaken. Christine Friday, Gord Grisenthwaite, Nathan Adler, & JP Longboat (all professional Indigenous artists) have committed to partaking of residencies, facilitating workshops, and performing at Coming Together.

Christine’s workshops inspiring and activating land based traditional artistic practices to awaken storytelling rooted in land and individual creativity, connection and healing will be rounded out by her live performance. Gord’s week-long creative writing workshops geared to emergent Indigenous writers, will culminate in his live reading performance.
JP’s workshop will focus on somatic work on the land energy to connect to deep experiences with the land and the landscape of place.

Various other inspirational and voice-finding workshops will be offered throughout the gathering by multiple artists including WhiteEagle Stonefish, Linda Brogan, and April Manderson. Traditional land-based teachings will be offered by Carrie Ann Peters of Caldwell First Nation. The artists’ market will include artists’ wares, workshops, and a collaboration registration table to introduce Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists who would like to collaborate with each in other.

The long term goal of Stone & Sky is to replicate this model in future years with multiple collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. To encourage engagement and ensure accessibility, all Coming Together events are free.

Please go to stoneandsky.org for workshop times, dates, and details.

The Quarry on Pelee Island

20 East West Road
Pelee Island, ON, N0R 1M0

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