WhereWeStand Project Premiere
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About the Event
The Canadian Museum of Immigration is proud to partner with WhereWeStand, a collaborative project that brings together Indigenous and newcomer undergraduate and graduate students in the co-creation of artistic works expressing their identities and experiences. This innovative event is the premiere of the final projects and will include multiple art forms.
Doors open at 5:00 pm with presentations beginning at 5:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served.
About the Project
In May 2023, CERC Migration embarked on its next multimedia storytelling collaboration WhereWeStand. The project brings together a cohort of Indigenous peoples and newcomers to co-create expressions of identity on the colonial construct of Canada, situated on Turtle Island.
WhereWeStand pairs an Indigenous participant with a newcomer participant and supports their process towards creating a story that will be widely shared with a public audience. Participants may choose any form of expression – including dance, music, film, theatre or installation – to produce their creative work.
WhereWeStand invites participants to reimagine the Land that sustains and shelters Indigenous peoples and newcomers. WhereWeStand is the third iteration of the inaugural "i am…" project, which opened the door to the shared experiences of displacement, which fuels the expression that frames the creative outcome. Identity and belonging are not fixed but ebb, flow, and evolve as the land beneath us shifts.
