Orange Shirt Day: September 30


Join OCAD U in recognizing Canada's residential school survivors by wearing orange.

 
DateMonday, September 30, 2019 - 8:00am to 11:00pm

Website

orangeshirtday.org

PDF icon Learn more about the experiences of Canada's residential school survivors.

On Monday, September 30, OCAD University invites you join our community in the observation of Orange Shirt Day, held annually in remembrance and recognition of the experiences of residential school survivors.

Orange Shirt Day grew out of Phyllis (Jack) Webstad's story of having her shiny new orange shirt taken away on her first day of residential school. It provides an opportunity to keep the discussion on all aspects of residential schools happening annually, and, in the spirit of reconciliation, come together as a community in remembrance and hope for generations of children to come, with the message that “Every Child Matters.”

How to Participate
Simply wear an orange shirt or an orange accessory, as a symbol of remembrance. If you’re able, join and participate in an Orange Shirt Day event in your community. Stop by the lobby of 100 McCaul St. on September 30 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to pick up a button featuring a design by OCAD U alumna Mariah Meawasige, who is from Serpent River First Nation. Mariah’s work features interlocking hands made to resemble a sweetgrass braid with the message, “Every Child Matters.” 

Orange Shirt Day at OCAD U is generously supported by the offices of the President and Vice-Chancellor, the Vice-President Academic and Provost, the Vice-President Students & International, Campus Life, Copy & Print Services, the Indigenous Student Centre, and the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre. 

Engage with Indigenous Knowledge
Many local events and programs happening this autumn offer opportunities to learn more about the experiences and perspectives of Indigenous communities, including those of OCAD U students, alumni, staff and faculty.

ᐊᕙᑖᓂᑦᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᑦᓄᓇᑐᐃᓐᓇᓂᑦ
Among All These Tundras

September 18 to December 7, 2019
Onsite Gallery, 199 Richmond St. W.
Wednesday, September 18 from 6 to 9 p.m.: Free public reception with performance by Allison Akootchook Warden
September 21, 2 to 3:30 p.m.: Spoken Word Performance & Writing Activity with Taqralik Partridge
Friday, September 27, 6:30 p.m.: Curators’ Tour with Heather Igloliorte, Amy Dickson and Charissa von Harringa
Among All These Tundras, a title taken from the poem ‘My Home Is in My Heart’ by famed Sámi writer Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, features contemporary art by Indigenous artists from around the circumpolar world. Together, their works politically and poetically express current Arctic concerns towards land, language, sovereignty and resurgence. Artists from throughout the circumpolar north share kinship with each other and their ancestors, love for their homelands, and respect for the land and its inhabitants. Yet they also share histories of colonialism and experience its ongoing legacies and are united in their desire to protect northern ecologies, languages, peoples and knowledge from the nefarious effects of climate change, encroaching industry and competition. These resistance efforts do not merely express, they give shape to a collective ecology of care, a “decolonial love” (in the words of Leanne Simpson and others) that is both generous and generative. These works invite viewers to contemplate relationships between textual and embodied Indigenous knowledges, innovation and sustainability, humour and resilience, and our collective responsibility to northern life and land.

Arctic/Amazon Symposium
September 19 to 20, 2019
Co-hosted by OCAD University (OCAD U) and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
The purpose of this event is to gather established and emerging scholars, curators, and Indigenous artists primarily from North American regions of the Arctic and Amazonian zones to meet person-to-person to exchange ideas, share works, and to develop collaborative strategies that centralize traditional Indigenous knowledges for the survivance and thrivance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities amidst tumultuous environmental times. In this 2019 symposium, all of the presenters are Indigenous in order to establish that the overall vision of the Arctic/Amazon project is grounded upon Indigenous ways of knowing and making. At the same time, the symposium honours the significant conceptual and research contributions made by artists to address complex issues regarding climate change, globalized Indigeneity, and political contact zones.

Shapeshifters
September 19 to 23, 2019
Opening Reception, Thursday Sept 19, 6 to 9 p.m. 
Beaver Hall Gallery, 29 McCaul St.
Curated by Amanda Amour-Lynx and featuring work by OCAD U students and alumni.
Shapeshifters centres the work of two-spirit artists in context with queerness and explores how identity can mould and shape itself in fluid, atemporal ways. Artists will examine the relationship to body, self and others as queer, bisexual, pansexual, fluid, variant, non-binary, trans and two-spirit people. Selected artists work in a variety of mediums including material arts, textiles, traditional craft, ceremonial objects, paintings, photographs, sculpture, mixed media, video, installation, sound and performance, including experiential or time-based explorations.

Vanessa Dion Fletcher: Curiosity and Quillwork
Until September 20
Ada Slaight Gallery Room 225, 100 McCaul St.
Vanessa Dion Fletcher's solo exhibition Curiosity and Quillwork demonstrates an appreciation for repetition and pattern-making using and diverging from traditional quillwork forms. The exhibition is a part of Vanessa's year-long residency at OCAD University. Curated by MFA Candidate Adrienne Huard. 

Land-Based Learning
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 1 to 4 p.m.

Facilitators: Sheila L. Maracle and Lauren Williams from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Location: Baby Point, along the Humber River, Toronto
Fee: $30
Registration Required by Monday, September 16, 2019 (limited space available)
The land acknowledgement is just a start in working towards reconciliation. This workshop will share how the Haudenosaunee view their relationship to the land and waters through an understanding of the Thanksgiving Address. Participants will be taken out of the classroom for some land-based teachings from two Mohawk educators, Sheila L. Maracle and Lauren Williams, both educators based in Hamilton, and from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Through traditional knowledge-sharing, personal stories and activities, participants will begin to develop their own understanding of having a connection to the land.

Artist Talk by Julius Poncelet Manapul
September 25, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium (MCA 190), OCAD University, 100 McCaul St.
Erasing a Country: An Ongoing Series of Research 
From Decolonizing Diasporic Queer Bodies to Decolonizing Academic Pedagogy

Dr. Marie Battiste: 
“Cognitive Justice and Transsystemic Change: Indigenization in the Academy”

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Auditorium (MCA 190), OCAD University, 100 McCaul St.
Presented as part of the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre’s Indigenous Education Speaker Series. Dr. Battiste is Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia’s Potlotek First Nation. She is most well-known as an author and educator with immense contributions to the field of Indigenous education and an unflinching commitment to traditional languages and knowledges. Currently a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, she holds a Master's degree from Harvard and a PhD from Stanford University.

OCAD U Community Circles:
October 1, November 5 and December 3 

4 to 5:30 p.m., MCC 512, 113 McCaul St. 
Facilitated by the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre’s Nadia McLaren, on every first Tuesday of the month, OCAD U faculty and staff will have the opportunity to gather together in a drop-in, low-stakes community circle to discuss and get to know current issues important to the hearts and minds of the community.

Red Embers
Until October 4, 2019

Allan Gardens, Toronto
Red Embers, a public art installation honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women is on display at Toronto’s Allan Gardens. Commissioned featured artists include five OCAD U alumni: Catherine Tammaro, Hannah Claus, Hillary Brighthill, Lido Pimienta and Lindsey Lickers.

The Land on Which We Gather
Until October 18, 2019
Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, New York
Melanie Hope, Graphic Design faculty at OCAD U is in a group exhibition featuring New York State region Indigenous peoples contemporary works.

Peripheral Vision(s)
Until December 20, 2019
McMaster Museum of Art, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton
Wednesday, September 25, 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.: Curator’s Tour by Rhéanne Chartrand
Thursday, September 26, 7 to 9 p.m.: A Night of Indigenous Music | Cris Derksen and nêhiyawak
Wednesday, November 20, 6 to 9 p.m.: Panel Discussion with Janet Berlo, Gerald McMaster, Jeffrey Thomas and Rhéanne Chartrand 
Perspectives on the “Indian” image by 19th century Northern Plains warrior-artists and 20th century American artists, Leonard Baskin and Fritz Scholder
Curated by Rhéanne Chartrand and Gerald McMaster
This project arose from the curators’ mutual interest in interrogating the “Indian” image, applying gaze theory and the praxis of survivance to the critical analysis of Indigenous art, and building Indigenous art histories from an Indigenous perspective. It will generate insights on image-making, self-representation, misrepresentation, naming, and the overall intent of portraiture. Gerald McMaster is a curator, artist, author, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair of Indigenous visual culture and curatorial practice at OCAD University. 

Visiting Elder Series
Details to be announced soon 
As we work to employ the priorities of OCADU’s Academic Plan, visiting Elders guide us through teachings, stories and share knowledges rooted in Indigenous Community perspectives, helping us to learn more about Indigenous ontologies, cosmologies and ways of being. Facilitated by the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre.

Niigaan Sinclair
Friday, November 22, 2019

OCAD University (details to be announced)
Presented as part of the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre’s Indigenous Education Speaker Series. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter's/Little Peguis) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba. He is a regular commentator on Indigenous issues on CTV, CBC, and APTN, and his written work can be found in the pages of The Exile Edition of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, newspapers like The Guardian, and online with CBC Books: Canada Writes. Niigaan is the co-editor of the award-winning Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water (Highwater Press, 2011) and Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories (Michigan State University Press, 2013), and is the Editorial Director of The Debwe Series with Portage and Main Press. Niigaan Sinclair's father, The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, was chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. “Reconciliation is about the hard work of sharing. It's about resources, time, space and land. This means commitment to change, in all its complicatedness.” Quote by Niigaan Sinclair, Winnipeg Free Press, 08/17/2018

In the Learning Zone:
Come and check out the OCAD Zine Library's zine display with a focus on Indigenous peoples and decolonization, which is a priority for collection development of the zine library. A few highlights from the collection on display include Introducing… Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians for dummies, Indige·zine: Decolonize Love and Survivance : Indigenous poesis

In the Library:
Check out a display from the Library’s collection of Indigenous authors. Some of the library’s latest acquisitions include:

  • All our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, the CBC Massey Lecture series by Tanya Talaga
  • Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities edited by Sweeney Windchief and Timothy San Pedro. 
  • Indigenous Repatriation Handbook prepared by Jisgang Nika Collison, Sdaahl K'awaas Lucy Bell and Lou-ann Neel. 
  • Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, edited by John Borrows, Larry Chartrand, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, and Risa Schwartz

Connect with The Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge at OCAD U

Connect with OCAD U’s Indigenous Visual Culture program on Facebook and Twitter.

Connect with OCAD U’s Indigenous Student Centre on Facebook

 

DateMonday, September 30, 2019 - 8:00am to 11:00pm

Website

orangeshirtday.org

Orange Shirt Day at OCAD U
Monday, September 30, 2019 - 8:00am to 11:00pm

On Monday, September 30, OCAD University invites you join our community in the observation of Orange Shirt Day, held annually in remembrance and recognition of the experiences of residential school survivors.

Orange Shirt Day grew out of Phyllis (Jack) Webstad's story of having her shiny new orange shirt taken away on her first day of residential school. It provides an opportunity to keep the discussion on all aspects of residential schools happening annually, and, in the spirit of reconciliation, come together as a community in remembrance and hope for generations of children to come, with the message that “Every Child Matters.”

How to Participate
Simply wear an orange shirt or an orange accessory, as a symbol of remembrance. If you’re able, join and participate in an Orange Shirt Day event in your community. Stop by the lobby of 100 McCaul St. on September 30 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to pick up a button featuring a design by OCAD U alumna Mariah Meawasige, who is from Serpent River First Nation. Mariah’s work features interlocking hands made to resemble a sweetgrass braid with the message, “Every Child Matters.” 

Orange Shirt Day at OCAD U is generously supported by the offices of the President and Vice-Chancellor, the Vice-President Academic and Provost, the Vice-President Students & International, Campus Life, Copy & Print Services, the Indigenous Student Centre, and the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre. 

Engage with Indigenous Knowledge
Many local events and programs happening this autumn offer opportunities to learn more about the experiences and perspectives of Indigenous communities, including those of OCAD U students, alumni, staff and faculty.

ᐊᕙᑖᓂᑦᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᑦᓄᓇᑐᐃᓐᓇᓂᑦ
Among All These Tundras

September 18 to December 7, 2019
Onsite Gallery, 199 Richmond St. W.
Wednesday, September 18 from 6 to 9 p.m.: Free public reception with performance by Allison Akootchook Warden
September 21, 2 to 3:30 p.m.: Spoken Word Performance & Writing Activity with Taqralik Partridge
Friday, September 27, 6:30 p.m.: Curators’ Tour with Heather Igloliorte, Amy Dickson and Charissa von Harringa
Among All These Tundras, a title taken from the poem ‘My Home Is in My Heart’ by famed Sámi writer Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, features contemporary art by Indigenous artists from around the circumpolar world. Together, their works politically and poetically express current Arctic concerns towards land, language, sovereignty and resurgence. Artists from throughout the circumpolar north share kinship with each other and their ancestors, love for their homelands, and respect for the land and its inhabitants. Yet they also share histories of colonialism and experience its ongoing legacies and are united in their desire to protect northern ecologies, languages, peoples and knowledge from the nefarious effects of climate change, encroaching industry and competition. These resistance efforts do not merely express, they give shape to a collective ecology of care, a “decolonial love” (in the words of Leanne Simpson and others) that is both generous and generative. These works invite viewers to contemplate relationships between textual and embodied Indigenous knowledges, innovation and sustainability, humour and resilience, and our collective responsibility to northern life and land.

Arctic/Amazon Symposium
September 19 to 20, 2019
Co-hosted by OCAD University (OCAD U) and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
The purpose of this event is to gather established and emerging scholars, curators, and Indigenous artists primarily from North American regions of the Arctic and Amazonian zones to meet person-to-person to exchange ideas, share works, and to develop collaborative strategies that centralize traditional Indigenous knowledges for the survivance and thrivance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities amidst tumultuous environmental times. In this 2019 symposium, all of the presenters are Indigenous in order to establish that the overall vision of the Arctic/Amazon project is grounded upon Indigenous ways of knowing and making. At the same time, the symposium honours the significant conceptual and research contributions made by artists to address complex issues regarding climate change, globalized Indigeneity, and political contact zones.

Shapeshifters
September 19 to 23, 2019
Opening Reception, Thursday Sept 19, 6 to 9 p.m. 
Beaver Hall Gallery, 29 McCaul St.
Curated by Amanda Amour-Lynx and featuring work by OCAD U students and alumni.
Shapeshifters centres the work of two-spirit artists in context with queerness and explores how identity can mould and shape itself in fluid, atemporal ways. Artists will examine the relationship to body, self and others as queer, bisexual, pansexual, fluid, variant, non-binary, trans and two-spirit people. Selected artists work in a variety of mediums including material arts, textiles, traditional craft, ceremonial objects, paintings, photographs, sculpture, mixed media, video, installation, sound and performance, including experiential or time-based explorations.

Vanessa Dion Fletcher: Curiosity and Quillwork
Until September 20
Ada Slaight Gallery Room 225, 100 McCaul St.
Vanessa Dion Fletcher's solo exhibition Curiosity and Quillwork demonstrates an appreciation for repetition and pattern-making using and diverging from traditional quillwork forms. The exhibition is a part of Vanessa's year-long residency at OCAD University. Curated by MFA Candidate Adrienne Huard. 

Land-Based Learning
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 1 to 4 p.m.

Facilitators: Sheila L. Maracle and Lauren Williams from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Location: Baby Point, along the Humber River, Toronto
Fee: $30
Registration Required by Monday, September 16, 2019 (limited space available)
The land acknowledgement is just a start in working towards reconciliation. This workshop will share how the Haudenosaunee view their relationship to the land and waters through an understanding of the Thanksgiving Address. Participants will be taken out of the classroom for some land-based teachings from two Mohawk educators, Sheila L. Maracle and Lauren Williams, both educators based in Hamilton, and from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Through traditional knowledge-sharing, personal stories and activities, participants will begin to develop their own understanding of having a connection to the land.

Artist Talk by Julius Poncelet Manapul
September 25, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium (MCA 190), OCAD University, 100 McCaul St.
Erasing a Country: An Ongoing Series of Research 
From Decolonizing Diasporic Queer Bodies to Decolonizing Academic Pedagogy

Dr. Marie Battiste: 
“Cognitive Justice and Transsystemic Change: Indigenization in the Academy”

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Auditorium (MCA 190), OCAD University, 100 McCaul St.
Presented as part of the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre’s Indigenous Education Speaker Series. Dr. Battiste is Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia’s Potlotek First Nation. She is most well-known as an author and educator with immense contributions to the field of Indigenous education and an unflinching commitment to traditional languages and knowledges. Currently a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, she holds a Master's degree from Harvard and a PhD from Stanford University.

OCAD U Community Circles:
October 1, November 5 and December 3 

4 to 5:30 p.m., MCC 512, 113 McCaul St. 
Facilitated by the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre’s Nadia McLaren, on every first Tuesday of the month, OCAD U faculty and staff will have the opportunity to gather together in a drop-in, low-stakes community circle to discuss and get to know current issues important to the hearts and minds of the community.

Red Embers
Until October 4, 2019

Allan Gardens, Toronto
Red Embers, a public art installation honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women is on display at Toronto’s Allan Gardens. Commissioned featured artists include five OCAD U alumni: Catherine Tammaro, Hannah Claus, Hillary Brighthill, Lido Pimienta and Lindsey Lickers.

The Land on Which We Gather
Until October 18, 2019
Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, New York
Melanie Hope, Graphic Design faculty at OCAD U is in a group exhibition featuring New York State region Indigenous peoples contemporary works.

Peripheral Vision(s)
Until December 20, 2019
McMaster Museum of Art, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton
Wednesday, September 25, 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.: Curator’s Tour by Rhéanne Chartrand
Thursday, September 26, 7 to 9 p.m.: A Night of Indigenous Music | Cris Derksen and nêhiyawak
Wednesday, November 20, 6 to 9 p.m.: Panel Discussion with Janet Berlo, Gerald McMaster, Jeffrey Thomas and Rhéanne Chartrand 
Perspectives on the “Indian” image by 19th century Northern Plains warrior-artists and 20th century American artists, Leonard Baskin and Fritz Scholder
Curated by Rhéanne Chartrand and Gerald McMaster
This project arose from the curators’ mutual interest in interrogating the “Indian” image, applying gaze theory and the praxis of survivance to the critical analysis of Indigenous art, and building Indigenous art histories from an Indigenous perspective. It will generate insights on image-making, self-representation, misrepresentation, naming, and the overall intent of portraiture. Gerald McMaster is a curator, artist, author, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair of Indigenous visual culture and curatorial practice at OCAD University. 

Visiting Elder Series
Details to be announced soon 
As we work to employ the priorities of OCADU’s Academic Plan, visiting Elders guide us through teachings, stories and share knowledges rooted in Indigenous Community perspectives, helping us to learn more about Indigenous ontologies, cosmologies and ways of being. Facilitated by the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre.

Niigaan Sinclair
Friday, November 22, 2019

OCAD University (details to be announced)
Presented as part of the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre’s Indigenous Education Speaker Series. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter's/Little Peguis) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba. He is a regular commentator on Indigenous issues on CTV, CBC, and APTN, and his written work can be found in the pages of The Exile Edition of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, newspapers like The Guardian, and online with CBC Books: Canada Writes. Niigaan is the co-editor of the award-winning Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water (Highwater Press, 2011) and Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories (Michigan State University Press, 2013), and is the Editorial Director of The Debwe Series with Portage and Main Press. Niigaan Sinclair's father, The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, was chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. “Reconciliation is about the hard work of sharing. It's about resources, time, space and land. This means commitment to change, in all its complicatedness.” Quote by Niigaan Sinclair, Winnipeg Free Press, 08/17/2018

In the Learning Zone:
Come and check out the OCAD Zine Library's zine display with a focus on Indigenous peoples and decolonization, which is a priority for collection development of the zine library. A few highlights from the collection on display include Introducing… Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians for dummies, Indige·zine: Decolonize Love and Survivance : Indigenous poesis

In the Library:
Check out a display from the Library’s collection of Indigenous authors. Some of the library’s latest acquisitions include:

  • All our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, the CBC Massey Lecture series by Tanya Talaga
  • Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities edited by Sweeney Windchief and Timothy San Pedro. 
  • Indigenous Repatriation Handbook prepared by Jisgang Nika Collison, Sdaahl K'awaas Lucy Bell and Lou-ann Neel. 
  • Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, edited by John Borrows, Larry Chartrand, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, and Risa Schwartz

Connect with The Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge at OCAD U

Connect with OCAD U’s Indigenous Visual Culture program on Facebook and Twitter.

Connect with OCAD U’s Indigenous Student Centre on Facebook

 

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