ECH Bulletin March 2026

This is an emergency ECH March bulletin...

View this email in your browser This is an emergency ECH March bulletin. NO TO WAR! NO TO SILENCE! NO TO COMPLICITY! Protest at Victoria Park, March 8th, 2026 Photo credit: Ahmed A. Khan Incé Husain, Yet I Dance, 2023, Ink on paper Inspired by a poem, This is Why We Dance by Mohammed El-Kurd 2021 Upcoming ECH Event Please join us for an event featuring Embassy Cultural House on Sunday, March 15th, 2026, at Lake House Books in Port Stanley. See the flyer below for more details.  We hope to see you there! Other Upcoming Events Thursday, April 30 - Critical Distance, Toronto, ON, Check out the Embassy Cultural House on the CDCC website Thursday, May 15 - Sunday, May 17 - Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver, B.C Image: ECH Postcards by Olivia Mossuto, Incé Husain, Shelley Niro, Jamelie Hassan, Ron Benner, Diana Tamblyn and Mireya Seymour. Photo credit: Ron Benner The postcards are now available at Shop Museum London, Little Wren Books and are coming soon on the ECH website. Price: $3.00 each/5 for $10.00 + postage in Canada Mireya Seymour, Ron Benner and Diana Tamblyn at the ECH book table, Rock / Paper / Scissors Book and Print Fair with PS Guelph, February 22nd, 2026, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON Photo credit: Jamelie Hassan Art Now!: Sanaa Humayun Photo credit: Department of Visual Arts Website, Speaker's Series March 12th, 2026 7pm Western University, WIRB 1170  Sanaa Humayun (she/her) an artist, writer, & curator, living and working in Hamilton, ON, where she is the Programming Director at Hamilton Artist Inc. She was formerly the Executive Director of the New Gallery, Calgary, AB. Her practice thinks about gossip, secret sharing, and play and joy as acts of resistance. Primarily working in textile and paint, she is passionate about playfully (and sometimes spitefully) investigating the systems that oppress us. The Embassy Cultural House is pleased to partner with SASAH and the Visual Arts Department, Western University, London, ON. The 2026 Duncanson Lecture: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Photo credit: Western University events page The 2026 Duncanson Lecture March 12th, 2026 5pm Conron Hall, UC3110, Western University   Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and academic. She is the author of eight books, including several nationally and internationally recognized nonfiction bestsellers. Leanne’s new work, Theory of Water, a national bestseller, was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe and has over twenty years’ experience with Indigenous land-based education. Leanne holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is a member of Alderville First Nation.  Register Here ECH Online Shop Coming Soon Looking to purchase publications, print materials and artists' multiples directly through ECH? Soon, we will launch an online website that will include not only our current publications, such as Not/For the Money and An Alternative Cultural History of London Ontario, but also artwork from the ECH archive and ECH contributors. More details to come! Quote from Darat al Funun In light of the recent escalations in the region, we remain deeply attentive to the weight of all that is unfolding. We will continue our programming and keep our doors open to the public, monitoring the situation day-by-day and guided by public safety advice. We hope for the safety and well-being of everyone during this time. From the Khalid Shoman Foundation Darat al Funun, March Newsletter, 2026 Durat al Funun Website Relevant and Related Links   The Guardian, Owen Jones, The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous - and shames the complicity      https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/13/palestine-action-ruling-vindicates-courageous-shames-complicit Zeteo, Citizens in a Democracy Must Be Allowed to Criticize Isreal  https://zeteo.com/p/democracy-criticize-israel-netanyahu-iran-trump?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2325511&post_id=190386344&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1x6a7d&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email  Counterpunch, MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/maga-aesthetics-and-fascist-power-spectacles-of-white-supremacy/  miscellanea, Stephanie White, Is this the life we really want?https://onsitereview.substack.com/p/is-this-the-life-we-really-want?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1437774&post_id=190306291&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1x6a7d&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email The Conversation, Author Saeed Teebi writes beyond exile in his memoir of Palestine https://theconversation.com/author-saeed-teebi-writes-beyond-exile-in-his-memoir-of-palestine-and-writing-in-dark-times-270130  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 © 2026 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? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.