This session will centre the power of creative, collective action in public spaces to amplify marginalized voices. Focusing on The REDress Project and its impact on grassroots community organizing and looking into other women/2S led community art action projects that disrupt colonial narratives by reclaiming power and place.
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Date: Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 (PST)
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:30 am
About the Presenters:
Jaime Black-Morsette is a Red River Métis artist and activist, with family scrip signed in the community of St Andrews, Manitoba. Jaime lives and works on her home territory near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Founder of The REDress project in 2009, Black-Morsette has been using their art practice as a way to gather community and create action and change around the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls across Turtle Island for over a decade. Black-Morsette’s interdisciplinary art practice includes immersive film and video, installation art, photography and performance art practices. Her work explores themes of memory, identity, place and resistance.
Resources
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REDress Art, Action, and the Power of Presence by Jaime Black-Morsette – Website
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The Book of Jessica – Website
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