March 6-14, 2017

Please join us on International Women’s Day at the greenhouse artlab at The University of Winnipeg. We are on the fifth floor of the library. Helene Vosters will lead us in her art project. We will read and embroider the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. I would love to see you.

the greenhouse artlab: a feminist space for making and thinking on the 5th floor of the UWinnipeg library, is pleased to be hosting Helene Vosters in the lab from March 6 through to March 17.

TRC Report: Reading Group/ Sewing Circle
Wednesday, March 8, 2-4pm – join us for International Women’s Day
Tuesday, March 14, 2-4pm

“Reconciliation: A Call to Action” engages a labour aesthetic that brings together two necessarily care-filled and time-demanding tasks—embroidery and critical reflection. A work in progress, Reconciliation’s unfinished status is critical to its meaning. It is a reminder that reconciliation, as part of a praxis of redress, requires ongoing, sustained labour.

All are welcome to come participate in reconciliation’s labours of critical reflection and action. Together we will read aloud from TRC’s 388-page summary report, embroider sections of the report’s 94 Calls to Action onto Canadian flags, and share reflections.

Experience not necessary. All welcome.

HELENE VOSTERS is an artist, activist, and scholar who is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Manitoba). Her work explores issues of state violence, social memory, and the role of performance and aesthetic practices in mobilizing resistance. https://helenevosters.com/

In collaboration with greenhouse artlab, a feminist artlab for making and thinking on the 5th floor of the UWinnipeg library.

The greenhouse is wheelchair accessible but does not have a power door at the entrance.

Supported by the University of Winnipeg Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (IWGS) and Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas (CCPPA).