SAY YOUR PIECE: CREATING CULTURE THAT SPEAKS TO YOU
Ontario Hall 207/ 5:30pm/ Free
Ste-Emilie Skill Share
Provided by Ste-Emilie Skill Share: Based in Montreals South-West, the Ste-Emilie Skillshare is a politicized community art space run by a collective of trans people, queers and people of colour. We are artists and activists, working together within an anti-oppression framework and moving towards social transformation. As historically marginalized people, sharing our art and skills are revolutionary acts as the art we produce can be used as a tool for political
change.
Functionally, the Skillshare hosts a paper and fabric silkscreen studio, a black and white darkroom, sewing machines and a multifunctional space that plays host to meetings, vernissages and parties. These facilities are available to all on a pay-what-you-can, sliding-scale fee. We also play host to workshops throughout the year on a variety of skills, including regular workshops on how to use the equipment. Everyone is welcome.
Say Your Piece: Creating Culture that Speaks to You
In the past, the Ste-Emilie Skillshare has presented workshops on cultural appropriation--also know as the process of colonizing cultures and peoples. As part of our broadening analysis on this topic, we need to start
incorporating a constructive component into these workshops. Its important to move beyond the discussion of theft and erasure in order to figure out what were going to do with these genocidal and/or marginalized legacies.
This workshop aims to make the discussion of cultural appropriation understandable to people unfamiliar with the concept. From there, we will ask participants to examine their own histories and cultures to find those
stories that the world needs so badly. All of our lives are full of intersecting oppressions, and where that shit piles up highest is where we can meet the rest of the world on even footing. Participants will leave
with a piece of art they've made.
