In conjunction with the exhibition Jeff Thomas’ Indians on Tour: Exploring Indigenous Experiences, Creative Campus Galleries and the Centre for Indigenous Learning and Support has produced a weekly Lunch & Learn series to learn about contemporary Indigenous discourse. This timely series provides space for dialogue between leading artists and thinkers and Sheridan students, staff, and faculty to question official histories, think about issues surrounding historical and contemporary representations of Indigenous peoples, and consider modes of decolonizing in our personal and professional lives. These events are free and catered by Nish Dish.
Don’t miss the last two Lunch & Learn sessions:
Screening: Six Miles Deep (2009)
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, March 28
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Creative Campus Galleries, HMC B-234
On February 28, 2006, members of the Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouse) blockade a highway near Caledonia, Ontario to prevent a housing development on land that falls within their traditional territories. This documentary by Métis filmmaker Sara Roque follows a group of women who play a crucial role in leading their community, Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, in an historic blockade to protect their land.
Guest speaker: Jeff Thomas
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, April 4
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Creative Campus Galleries, HMC B-234
Exhibiting artist Jeff Thomas will close this series and talk about his illustrious career as a leading artist, writer, and curator. Thomas is nationally and internationally recognized for groundbreaking scholarship and innovative practice in the area of contemporary Indigeneity at the intersections of Native and non-Native cultures.
Thomas’ artwork is in major collections in Canada and internationally, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada and The British Museum. He is most recently featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Canada 150 responsive exhibition: Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood. In 1998, he was awarded the Canada Council’s prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Award in Photography, and inducted to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. In 2008 he received The Karsh Award in photography, and in 2017 received a REVAL Indigenous Art Award.
Contact
If you require accommodation to participate, would like to book a class visit, or request more information, please contact:
Marsya Maharani, Assistant Curator, Creative Campus Galleries
marsya.maharani@sheridancollege.ca or x8119
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Images, from top: Lunch & Learn session with Chief Stacey LaForme, photo by Sheridan student Sammy Gormley. Installation view of exhibition Jeff Thomas’ Indians on Tour: Exploring Indigenous Experiences, photo by Sheridan faculty Toni Hafkenscheid.