Symposia Series: In My Element: Akvo |Water (Online via Zoom)

ABOUT ArtworxTOArtworxTO: Toronto's Year of Public Art 2021–2022 is a year-long celebration of Toronto’s exceptional public art collection and the creative community behind it. Working closely with artists and Toronto’s arts institutions, ArtworxTO is delivering major public art projects and commissions, citywide, from fall 2021 to fall 2022. Supporting local artists and new artworks that reflect Toronto's diversity, ArtworxTO is creating more opportunities for Torontonians to engage with art in their everyday lives. This September, the City of Toronto invites the public to discover creativity and community–everywhere. Visit artworxTO.ca for full details.HOME(LAND)’ s projects and programming invites the possibility of opening diasporic discourses for perspectives of reconciliation. Holding space where artists from diverse backgrounds and indigenous peoples are able to share their experiences and commonalities in relationship to the land, as it encompasses a deep sense of community, spirituality, and identity for both.

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This symposia is a series of gatherings for refugees/newcomer/immigrant artists to learn more about Indigenous history, culture and more.

ABOUT:This symposia is a series of gatherings for refugees/newcomer/immigrant artists to learn more about Indigenous history, culture, and celebrate their contributions to humanity as well as sharing their ancestral knowledge. The main audiences for this program are newcomers and immigrants artists who have the desire to learn more about Indigenous Heritage while playing a more active role in the Call to Action. The use of Esperanto (Akvo, Water; Tero, Earth; Vento, Wind; and Fire, Fajro) is related to the need to be connected through the same language. Something that can unite us and prevent us from being apart from each other.BIOGRAPHY:Julián Carvajal (he/him) is a multifaceted, colourful and vibrant queer Latinx Colombian Canadian Arts Manager/Producer with over 20 years of experience managing and delivering arts festivals and cultural events. He has worked across the city and internationally leading large high-level events, producing shows, developing marketing concepts and has significant experience budgeting, managing staff, and building a strong community and media relations across cultural boundaries. He worked for over 5 years at Art Starts as a Special Projects Manager. He is the Event Producer of the largest PanAmerican Food and Music Festival in Canada. Julian is a mentor in residence at the Neighbourhood Arts Network while working at North York Arts and the producer of In My Element(s) Symposia.Lindsey Lickers is a Haudenosaunee/ Anishinaabe woman whose belief in interconnectedness and natural law informs all that I do, whether that be my professional career to my relationships, but most of all this way of life informs my creative process. Through many years of cultivating an Indigenous arts practice, receiving teachings from community Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Helpers as well as participating in ceremony, I have developed a style that authentically speaks to the visceral experience of life, dreams, teachings and stories as I have encountered. My work is rooted in the traditional style of the Woodlands movement, but takes on a contemporary dialogue through my use of aerosol, acrylic, and medium transfers. I create similar traditional themes and experiences, however I generate my work through a new generational lens.The utilization of aerosol has been developed, and reworked to visually interpret cosmos, space; the place in which all our creation stories begin, in sky world where our creator rests. Stipple work has been integrated into my paintings and developed from my exploration of kinetic energy, orbs, and quantum theory (the only science that comes close to the Indigenous worldview and the explanation of spirit). I aim to create multi-dimensional pieces, using layering techniques and flowing line work that mimic the multi-faceted and circular beliefs of life that lay at the core of Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe traditions.For me, creating is a visual manifestation of messages from my ancestors, helpers and more broadly the essence that is creation. It is a release of energy from my spirit, then interpreted and actualized by the body, released into the world, eventually coming back as new learnings, renewed energy.Maria Montejo (Deer clan) is a member of the Jakaltec/Popti’ (Mayan) community of Indigenous people who reside in the Xajla’ territory of Iximulew (Guatemala). In addition to her formal schooling, Maria has been mentored from a young age by various Elders, Medicine people and Traditional Teachers on Turtle Island and from Central and South America. Maria has had the privilege of being exposed and participating in various ceremonies and traditional cultural practices that have fueled her passion to develop programming that will bridge the Newtonian/allopathic model of wellness and an Indigenous/multidimensional approach. Maria is a traditional knowledge holder and carries the Deer Dance, Corn/Seed and Creation Stories for her community.Maria has over a decade of experience working in community development in priority neighborhoods and with Newcomer and refugee families. Maria has also worked for many years as a mental health and addictions treatment worker and provides education and consulting to various organizations and institutions in Canada. Maria also facilitates the R.E.A.L School Youth Leadership and Native Wilderness Survival Skills Development program in various Indigenous communities around the world and is the manager of Dodem Kanonhsa’ Indigenous Education and Cultural Facility in Toronto.Photo credit: Daniel Galecio.In My Element(s): Akvo | WaterWednesday, November 17th, 202110:00 AM to 10:30 AM | Opening Remarks10:30 AM to 10:45 AM | Lindsey Lickers 10:45 to 11:55 | Q&amp;A Lindsey10:55 AM to 12:25 PM | María Montejo 12:25 PM to 12:45 PM | Q&amp;A12:45 to 1:00 PM | Closing RemarksAccess information: Zoom Platform, will be provided upon booking. For accessibility needs or accommodations, please contact: julicarvajalto@gmail.com.

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