Shore Lunch: Listen To This
SUNDAY, JUNE 29 1pm to 2pm
TUESDAY, JULY 1st 1pm to 2pm
AT CANADA SQUARE: outdoor event, just east of the EnWave Theatre
As the final performance for Shore Lunch
/Listen to This/ features a musical performance by Melody McKiver and Lisa Myers presenting songs created to acknowledge food from the Great Lakes watershed.
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/theatre.cfm?id5933
More about Shore Lunch:
Shore Lunch is a multi-site art venue that takes the form of a camp kitchen. Inspired by stories of my Mother's fishing skills and her love for pulling up on an island and frying up fish over a fire, I created this project to think more about the layers of history around the Great Lakes from an Indigenous perspective and to camp out for a while to acknowledge the different kinds of sustenance we get from this place. - Lisa Myers
Bios:
Melody McKiver is an Anishinaabe musician, interdisciplinary media artist,and writer based in Ottawa. Melody is Anishinaabe of mixed heritage, with ancestry in Obishikokaang Wemitigoozhiiwitigwaaning Lac Seul First Nation. Melody holds an MA in Ethnomusicology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland 2014 and an Honours BFA in Music, Minor in Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity from York University 2010. Melodys musical practice spans across viola/violin, drums and percussion, and guitar, drawing upon a broad set of influences that includes hip hop, electronic, contemporary classical, jazz, and blues. Melody works with digital video and photography to capture images of Indigenous resurgence, and uses this footage editorially and within video and sound art. http://www.melodymckiver.com
Lisa Myers is an independent curator, artist, musician and chef with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. In 2011, Myers earned an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial practice from OCAD U. Previous to this, Myers cooked for many years at Enaahtig Healing Lodge and Learning Centre. Her community work included coordinating and editing the Enaahtig community cookbook, and designing and facilitating an art and food programme for youth at the Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre. Musical projects include bands Chicken Milk, Venus Cures All and Adaptor 45. She has exhibited her artwork in venues including Urban Shaman Winnipeg, Art Gallery of Peterborough and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is a member of Beausoleil First Nation and is based in both Toronto and Port Severn, Ontario. http://lisarosemyers.com/home.html
Shore Lunch is presented by Visual Arts Harbourfront Centre Fresh Ground New Commissions
