GardenShip.ca is a Timely Project for a Just Recovery

1/30/2021

Please visit GardenShip and State, 2019-2021, an exciting project that includes as participants ECH co-founders, Ron Benner and Jamelie Hassan. This interdisciplinary research project is co-curated by award-winning artists/educators/activists, Patrick Mahon and Jeff Thomas.

An exhibition related to GardenShip research and workshops will be presented at Museum London and other locations throughout the city of London in September 2021. The contributors to this project address, in various contexts and formats, urgent issues related to the climate crisis and decolonization as intertwined.

Please visit the GardenShip website for more details and information on other participating artists and contributors.

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CURATORIAL ADVISORS: Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner
WEB DESIGN: Tariq Hassan Gordon & Jade Williamson
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Andreas Buchwaldt, Charlotte Egan, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Mackenzie Smith, Jade Williamson
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE ADVISORY CIRCLE:
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner and Lucas Stenning

OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White.

In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.