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Poetic response to event by Vidya Natarajan:
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Poetic response to event by Tom Cull:
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Sweet Labour Art Collective is inviting you to a participatory live performance (socially distanced outside) event Saturday October 9th, 4pm in London, Ontario.
We will be starting at Watson Park parking lot in SoHo (turn east off of Wellington Street, just south of the Wellington bridge, between South Street and Grand Avenue). This event is on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.
We are inviting you to a rehearsal-experiment, meaning each person finds their own way of participating that feels right for you. We are asking the following question: What might this practice, one attempt at decolonizing Thanksgiving weekend, do? How is land threaded through all that we do?
This site specific project was a response to the question, How might we de-colonize Thanksgiving? Throughout the process, Kevin, Montana and Ruth developed choreographic practices to support the project. PDA and guest artists were invited to participate and work with the collective. As part of this project we started working with costume designer Meredith Jones and Musicians Wormwood on developing the sound score. Writers Tom Cull and Vidya Natarajan were invited to participate and write poetic responses. We were able to film this process in collaboration with Indigenous filmmaker Marshall Stonefish. All of this material will all be part of our final film production. Overall the project pivoted to the creative process of making a dance film. We have further filming and audio recording dates with the other collaborators and the symposium will coincide with the release of our film.
This event will be a participatory event where participants will be guided through a visual imaginary. We each will cultivate Walnut tree and forest sense-abilities and sense into histories specific to the land we are on. It is part of our rehearsal process as we create a dance film called “Compost -Recomposing Relations”
This event will be filmed by Marshall Stonefish and footage from this event may be used in our final film project. If you agree to come you are agreeing to be filmed.
Live music by London based Wormwood – Christina Willatt and Andrew Wenaus.
Come with your curious and experimental self. We will use our imaginations and notice how it moves us differently to sense into new ways of being together. The event will be for approximately 1 hour total.