Finding Flowers Project

We are thrilled and honored to be able to gift these beautiful hand made beaded brooches to our wonderful MIIJIM guest speakers! . These were all thoughtfully and skillfully made by the brilliant @beadsagainstfascism and they are all inspired in native plants and pollinators of Turtle Island. Aren’t these gorgeous? Which one would you pick for rocking your early Spring stay-at-home outfits? . #Repost @beadsagainstfascism with @get_repost... Full set for @findingflowersmedia!! From top left clockwise: phlox, swamp rose mallow, comfrey, Michigan lily, deadly nightshade, black-eyed susan, red trillium, Jackman clematis, and fireweed. Centre left is an Eastern tailed-blue butterfly, and centre right is a Little Wood Satyr butterfly See more

Really looking forward to this event in celebration of this wonderful book, Indigenous Food Systems, edited by Priscilla Settee & Shailesh Shukla and published by Canadian Scholars. The launche will happen on April 8th, 4pm EST, and there will be a conversation between Priscilla Settee, Dawn Morrison, and so many other brilliant people! ~~ Registration in the link below ~~

Join us tomorrow, March 16, 2:30-4:30pm EST, for the last session of our MIIJIM series MIIJIM: Carrying Food, Music & Memory, a conversation with Honor Ford-Smith, Jacqueline Dwyer, Noel Livingston and Beny Esguerra, hosted by Lisa Myers. ~~ Register on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link: miijimfoodasrelations.eventbrite.com ~~... Or join us on the YouTube Live Streaming: https://youtu.be/MLcF0XZPfww ~~ We look forward to seeing you there! See more

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday March 16, 2:30-4:30pm EST for MIIJIM: Carrying Foods, Sounds & Memory, a performative conversation hosted by Lisa Myers, with Honor Ford-Smith, Jacqueline Dwyer, Noel Livingston and Beny Esguerra. . Registration Link in Bio! . We are delighted to present Honor Ford-Smith, a fellow @yorkueuc Associate Professor and mentor along our MIIJIM series!... . Honor is Associate Professor in Cultural and Artistic Practices for Environmental and Social Justice in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. Ford-Smith came to voice in the context of the Caribbean social movements of the 1970s devising an approach to performance that focuses on community based, socially engaged, collaboration and that stresses testimony, autobiography and ceremonial and ritual structures. Her most recent work is a performance cycle that commemorates those who have died as a result of state violence and the violence of armed strong men in the Caribbean and its diaspora. Her current research is on decolonization, social movements and performance in the Caribbean and her publications include numerous scholarly articles, 3 Jamaican Plays Kingston, Jamaica, Paul Issa Publications; and My Mother’s Last Dance an anthology of poems available through the University of Toronto Press. . Photo by Marlène Ramirez Cancio, from performance of Honor Ford-Smith’s play Letters from the Dead (2009), at @hemisphericinstitute . Image shows a Black woman, sitting on a chair, with a portrait of a young Black person and some red and white fabrics draping behind her. . #honorfordsmith #foodstories #jamaicantheatre #jamaicancanadian #canadiantheatre @yorkueuc @liiiisamy See more

We are thrilled to be presenting our next speaker for this week’s MIIJIM conversation: Ruben Beny Esguerra, from New Tradition Music @newtraditionmusic ! . Beny aka Dr. Ru lives and works in Jane Finch and arrived from Colombia as a political refugee with his parents, who were receiving threats for their human rights activism. Today, Beny Esguerra is a JUNO nominated musician/producer, poet, arts educator and community worker. As a musician/producer and poet he leads New ...Tradition Music, performing regularly in national and international festivals. As an arts educator he has designed courses taught at Canadian Universities, is a visiting artist in schools across Ontario and recently received the 2021 Artist Educator award from the Ontario Arts Foundation. As a community worker he is the music director of several Jane Finch arts programs including Semillas Latinas and Right Path World Arts while co-leading the NTM Mobile Studio Project which provides free equipment and mentorship to Jane Finch artists across different neighbourhoodsreleasing a yearly volume of albums called Wheel It Studios. Ruben is a PhD (ABD) candidate in Musicology/Ethnomusicology specializing in Colombian traditional music and Hip Hop culture. His upcoming albumA New Tradition VOL 3combines spoken word and hip hop with Latin rhythms and melodies set to be released on the Lulaworld Records label in 2021. . To learn more about Beny’s vital and vibrant work, and to hear him in conversation with Lisa Myers, Honor Ford-Smith, Jacqueline Dwyer and Noel Livingston, join us this Tuesday March 16 for MIIJIM: Carrying Foods, Sounds & Memory. The event will be hosted on zoom and Live Streamed via YouTube. Links in bio! . #Repost @janefinchmall with @get_repost Featured Community Member: Ruben Esguerra. (Read full post from @janefinchmall ) #benyesguerra #rubenesguerra #newtradtitionsmusic #indigenousmusic #musicacolombiana #colombianmusic #foodstories #foodrhythms See more