Winter Break and Final Update of 2024

The Embassy Cultural House team will be on a winter break from December 8, 2024 to January 13, 2025. 

View this email in your browser The Embassy Cultural House team will be on a winter break from December 8, 2024 to January 13, 2025. Best wishes to you, our community, for a safe, healthy, and happy holiday.  Embassy Cultural House mourns the loss of Patricia Deadman "Reconciliation is about co-existence after all, and a relationship of mutual respect."  This quote by The Honourable Murray Sinclair rings true of our relationships with Patricia Deadman who passed away on Friday, November 29, 2024. Patricia Deadman was a good friend to the Embassy Cultural House and a mentor to many. Patricia Deadman (1961–2024) was a celebrated lens-based visual artist, curator, and writer at the Woodland Cultural Centre (WCC) (Brantford, ON). Born in Ohsweken, Ontario, her passion for art played an instrumental role in the preservation and evolution of Indigenous Art. With a Fine Art Diploma from Fanshawe College (London, ON) and a BFA from the University of Windsor (Windsor, ON), she brought over twenty years of curatorial practice to the WCC. Beginning as Curatorial Intern at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto, ON); Curator-in-Residence at Museum London (London, ON); Curator at MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina, SK) and former Director/Curator at Woodstock Art Gallery (Woodstock, ON). She curated numerous independent projects and was selected for the Aboriginal Curators Delegation to the Sydney Biennale, Venice Biennale, and Basel Art Fair awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2000, she co-curated Dust on the Road with Ron Benner for Hoopoe Curatorial and the McIntosh Gallery in London, Ontario. She participated in numerous artist residencies, including Banff, Alberta; Paris, France; Merida and Oaxaca, Mexico. She exhibited since the 1980s, most recently in Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3/Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York (2012–15), Reading the Talk, organized and circulated by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2015), Resilience, The National Billboard Exhibition Project, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), Winnipeg, Manitoba (2018). Her works are in numerous public and private collections. Since 2021, Patricia had been involved in the Embassy Cultural House as an important contributor to our programs. ​She has contributed work to various Embassy Cultural House exhibitions, including Intercambio/Exchange (2021), Pandemic Gardens: Resilience Through Nature (2022), and Embassy Cultural House: Celebrating 40 Years of Cultural History (2023). From 2021 to present, delegation visits to the Woodland Cultural Centre were organized by Ron Benner with WCC curator Patricia Deadman. Delegations involved visits to the grounds, the collection and temporary exhibitions at the WCC.  For more information on Patricia's life and work, please visit her page on the Embassy Cultural House website.  To read an update about Patricia by Heather George, Executive Director of the Woodland Cultural Centre, please visit the WCC website.  For Patricia's obituary and funeral details, please visit this link.  A candle lit for Patricia Deadman. Photo credit: Jamelie Hassan Forest City Gallery's Members' Show and Sale: In support of FCG and Embassy Cultural House Forest City Gallery Members' Show and Sale  November 22, 2024 to December 20, 2024 1025 Elias Street, London, ON Forest City Gallery (FCG) is excited to announce the opening of its Members' Show and Sale, the longest-running annual exhibition at the gallery, in partnership with Embassy Cultural House. This highly anticipated exhibition, serves as a cornerstone fundraising initiative for the gallery, supporting vital programming that fosters artistic innovation and community engagement. Join the FCG and the ECH in celebrating the creativity and vision of our local arts community while supporting the continued growth of Forest City Gallery and Embassy Cultural House’s programming. This is an opportunity to connect with artists, discover unique works of art, and contribute to the cultural vitality of London. We look forward to seeing you at this year’s Members’ Show and Sale, in FCG’s 51st year! Featuring artists: Ian Indiano, David Merritt, Ale, Eric Mummery, Will Maclean, Mary Donlan, kerry ferris, Robert Fones, Jamelie Hassan, Ron Benner, Larry Towell, Ann Towell, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jenna Rose Sands, Jessica Irene Joyce, Anna Da Silva, Stephen Andrews, Jessie Amery, Maria Awaraji, Doug Mitchell, Jade Williamson, Stephen Best, Patricia Deadman, Ingrid Mayrhofer, Mireya Seymour, Emmy Meredith, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Wilmore, Doug Mitchell, Michaela Lucio, Patrick Mahon, Nanta Dumont, Amythly, Jadhen Pangilinan, Genevieve Buchanan, Kelly Greene, Ryan Pierce, Catherine Morrisey, Niloufar Salimi, Brad Boug, Clark MacDougall, Diana Tamblyn, Joan Brennan, Jennifer Plourde, Alayna Hryclik, Adi Berardini, Sarah Lanteigne, Chloe Serenko, Emil Stoetzer, Kim Ewin-Goebel, Kris Popiolek, Luiza Kaminska, Michael Czupryna, Mike Sloane, Nic Bautista, Steve DeBruyn, Anindita Chakraborty, Sharmistha Kar, Bernice Vincent, Greg Fischer, Moira Hayes, Natali Bravo, Anda Marcu, Vladimir Marcu, Cheri Robinson, Adora Valizadeh, Reilly Knowles, Sebastian Evans, Leigh Jeneroux, Sarah Cowling, Keith Shearsby, Julianna Thompson, Gwenda Dieleman, Samuel Riley Moro, Ben Benedict, Michelle Wilson, Susan Scott, Jay Hodgson, Benjamin E. Robinson, Beth Stewart, Abel Gingerich, Sammy Orlowski, Wyn Geleynse, Zoe Pantazopoulos, Fran Whitney, Georgina Lennard, Rebecca St. Pierre, and Maggie Shook For more information, please visit the FCG website or contact [email protected].  Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys at Museum London Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys November 21, 2024 to May 11, 2025 Museum London, 421 Ridout Street North, London, ON In Conversation: Jessica Karuhanga, Winsom Winsom, and Curator Dr. Qanita Lilla Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM Museum London, 421 Ridout Street North, London, ON Register Now   Guest curated by Dr. Qanita Lilla, Associate Curator, Arts of Africa, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, developed by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, Ontario) and hosted by Museum London (London, Ontario), Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys centres on a display of sixteen extraordinarily diverse traditional West African masks. These masks, part of the Agnes’ Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection, appear in chorus with the contemporary work of five Canadian artists from the African and Asian diasporas: Anthony Gebrehiwot, Jill Glatt, Jessica Karuhanga, Camille Turner, and Winsom Winsom. Employing photography, new media and video, textile installation and more, the artists of Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys reflect on diasporic roots by exploring themes of identity, transformation, the body, belonging, place and regional histories. The exhibition collectively invites us to explore the relationship between the past and present, and how our physical and spiritual journeys shape who we are. For more information about the exhibition, please visit the Museum London website.  In addition, check out Agnes' recent video on artist Winsom Winsom below. This video is part of the series Artists at Agnes, which spotlights the work of artists in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre collection.  Henna Magazine launches Issue One: Resilience and Renaissance of Iraqi Art We are delighted to share the news of Henna Magazine, a new Independent Iraqi Art Magazine. The first issue, Resilience and Renaissance of Iraqi Art was recently launched on June 27 at the French Institute in Baghdad, Iraq. Henna is a magazine that is dedicated to exploring the richness of art, culture, history, and climate change in Iraq, including the pressing challenges facing Iraq's vibrant art scene and cultural community,  To purchase a copy, please reach out to Henna Magazine on Instagram.  FIMS Seminar Series: Archiving the Present with Tania Cañas Archiving the Present: Memory as creative practice, multi-local, and site-specific creative memory work Presented by Postdoctoral Fellow Tania Cañas FIMS Seminar Series 2024/2025 Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00PM FNB Room 4130 or Register on Zoom   Public memory practices are continual sites of struggle and contestation on unceded lands as the nation-state continually functions to relegate and dispossess memory. Archiving the Present (AtP) is a multi-site digital community archive project of "remembering as insurgent practice" (Cusicanqui 2020, p.xxxii) and memory as creative practice, from a Central American, site-specific, and multi-local perspective. The project is made up of artists and community members who are primarily of the Australian Salvadoran community, having arrived in Australia through the refugee and humanitarian program in the 80s and early 90s. Archiving the Present is a grass-roots initiative that seeks to develop alternative practices of remembering in ways that do not conform to whiteness and aesthetics of colonial forms of remembering (i.e. plaques, statues). Archiving the Present asks: who gets to be remembered and what gets to be preserved in settler-colonial Australia? How does memory and embodied archiving occur for sites deemed to have no “heritage significance” by national and state-level heritage organisations? What does it mean to engage in acts of creative remembering that sit outside of heritage regimes? How do we remember within displacement and in the context of ongoing dispossession? For more information, please visit the Western Events Calendar here.  Relevant and Related Links aabaakwad 2024: December 5-7, 2024 co-presented by the aabaakwad collective and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto From The National Gallery of Canada: Jeff Thomas: Origin by Rachelle Dickenson Zeinab Dghaim—Doctoral Public Lecture: A New Method for the Digital Activation of Museum Collections: the Andalusia Collection at the Aga Khan Museum at Western University, hosted by the Department of Arts and Humanities Inside. Outside. Of.: January 25, 2025 - April 13, 2025 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario. Includes work by Ella Gonzales, David Merritt, Émilie Régnier, and Shanie Tomassini From The Breach: "In Canada, UN expert slams Israeli cleansing of Gaza, 'They said it, and they've done it'"—Desmond Cole in conversation with Francesca Albanese Visit the ECH Website Embassy Cultural House is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial. Copyright © 2024 Embassy Cultural House. All rights reserved. Our mailing address: 514 Pall Mall Street, London, ON, N5Y 2Z6, Canada Want to change how you receive these emails? 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