"No Other Land" Screening, Call for Indigenous Art, Annual Theory Centre Conference, and More!

Screenings of "No Other Land" will take place on April 17 at Huron County Museum. Embassy Cultural House will be co-hosting the 2PM screening.

View this email in your browser No Other Land Film Screening at Huron County Museum No Other Land Film Screening  April 17, 2025 at 2:00PM and 7:00PM with post-film discussions Huron County Museum, 110 North Street, Goderich, ON $12 admission   For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation. He builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist from the other side, who joins in his fight. Screenings of No Other Land will take place on April 17 at 2PM and 7PM at Huron County Museum. Embassy Cultural House will be co-hosting the 2PM screening and moderating a post-film discussion. The discussion following the 7PM screening will be moderated by David Heap, Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario and human rights advocate. This film is unrated. Viewer discretion advised for violence, disturbing images, and language. Buy Tickets Not/For The Money-- Upcoming ECH Online Exhibition Kelly Greene, Changing Currency: Prototype Kanata 151 $10 Bill, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist Money is a very urgent issue for many artists. An aspect of this issue is the general public’s inability to value the arts and cultural workers’ vital role and impact within any community. There is a lack of understanding in the way cultural workers survive and build meaningful lives, often with a minimum of resources. The issue of money, the impact of economic disparity, and insecurity dominates many of our lives. Without a stable income, most people struggle to afford basic necessities that are required for quality of life. The theme of money is addressed frequently within the art world, but usually it is in the context of the art “market,” commercial auctions, and wealthy collectors. Many artists work to imagine and engender new relationships, value systems, and ways of being. As journalist Eric Reguly wrote in The Globe and Mail business section, “You don’t necessarily need buckets of money to succeed. Sometimes imagination and the courage to break the rules can do the trick. The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism  Annual Theory Conference 2025 The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism  Annual Theory Centre Graduate Conference: Worlding beyond the end of the world Friday, April 25 – Saturday, April 26, 2025 Western University, University College, London, ON Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, this year’s Annual Theory Conference gathers scholars and artists to explore the possibilities of world-making amid ecological, social, and political collapse. The theme, Worlding Beyond The End Of The World, invites critical reflections on how theory, art, and activism can imagine futures beyond dominant narratives of crisis and despair. We are pleased to share that Dr. Qanita Lilla, curator and researcher, will be presenting and attending the conference.   For more information, please visit Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism website.  The Last Song? A Tonal Exchange The Last Song? A Tonal Exchange April 26, 7:30PM/Sundown Ball's Bridge, 38199 Little Lakes Road, Goderich, ON The frogs are too cold to sing this weekend. They’re waiting for warmer weather. Please join us in singing for the frogs!  We will gather together in chorus, welcoming the awakening of the frogs Joining them in their seasonal trance We will show our love to our amphibian neighbours and their threatened home Through reciprocating song  The Little Lakes community has been fighting hard for 5 years to protect this habitat from an open pit below water level aggregate mine. In the centre of the proposed gravel mine there is a fertile and thriving wetland, home to a variety of species. If the mine is approved, this complex ecosystem that is the home of an abundance of frogs will dry up and become uninhabitable, resulting in the death of these frogs and countless other creatures. This project has been coordinated by Rebecca Garrett and Liv Kanoa Hussey interdisciplinary artists working with the Friends of Ball’s Bridge and Little Lakes community. Big Ideas in Art & Culture with Wanda Nanibush ArtsEverywhere Festival 2025 Big Ideas in Art & Culture with Wanda Nanibush: May 3, 6:30–8:00PM River Run Centre, Woolwich Street, Guelph, ON Join the ArtsEverywhere Festival on Saturday evening for a Big Ideas Lecture with curator and community organizer Wanda Nanibush. Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior from Beausoleil First Nation, Canada. Based in Toronto, Nanibush is the founding director of aabaakwad, an international yearly gathering of over 80 Indigenous curators, writers and artists for talks and performances that recently met at Venice Biennale. She has published widely on Indigenous art, politics, history, feminism and sexuality.   For more information, please visit the ArtsEverywhere website.  UP with ART—Culture, Compassion and Community UPwithART – Culture, Compassion, and Community Arty-party Launch: Saturday, May 10, 2024 May 1 to May 10, 2025 Museum London, 421 Ridout Street North, London, ON   The arty-party silent art auction launches online May 1 with a weeklong exhibition of artworks leading up to the lively celebration of culture, compassion and community at Museum London on May 10, 2025.   For more information, please visit Museum London website.  Hanny Hassan to receive Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Victoria University Hanny Hassan before receiving his Honorary Doctorate at Western University in 2023. Photo courtesy of Western University Victoria University Convocation Graduation in the University of Toronto Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 3:00PM The Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria University, 93 Charles St. W, Toronto, ON RSVP Required   Hanny Hassan, BESc’64, has had an enduring career in consulting engineering and is a long-time dedicated university volunteer and philanthropist promoting understanding between cultures and religions.   Hassan was the founder and president of Alef Consulting Inc, an independent consulting engineering practice in London, ON. and has been involved in interfaith and community service for the past 60 years. He was honoured by Western’s Alumni Association in 2019 with the Dr. Ivan Smith Award, its highest award to an alum for significant and sustained contributions to the university and society.  In 2011, Hassan was named to the Order of Canada for his community service work. Western’s Faculty of Engineering conferred the L. S. Lauchland Engineering Alumni Medal on Hassan in 2013 for outstanding contributions to the engineering profession, business leadership and service to the community. Hassan was appointed by Western’s Alumni Association to the university’s Board of Governors in 2009, where he served on several committees and as the chair of the Board from 2016 to 2017. He retired from the Board in April 2018. In 2023, Hanny also received an Honorary Doctorate from Western University.  For more information, please visit the Victoria University website.  RSVP Here Indigenous Art 2025: Call for Submissions Indigenous Art 2025 at Woodland Cultural Centre June 21–September 30, 2025 Woodland Cultural Centre, 184 Mohawk Street, Brantford, ON   The Indigenous Art 2025 exhibition at Woodland Cultural Centre, now in its 49th year, showcases multidisciplinary works by Indigenous artists from across Turtle Island. Featuring painting, sculpture, textiles, and digital media, the show highlights themes of personal history, language, land, and cultural resilience—continuing an ongoing dialogue around decolonization and Indigenous creativity.   Submissions for the upcoming exhibition are now open, and the deadline for submissions is May 10, 2025.  For more information, please visit the Woodland Cultural Center website.  Ecologies in Practice Podcast: Now Streaming Season 1 of Ecologies in Practice brings together thinkers, makers, and doers from art, science, theory, and practice to explore today’s most urgent environmental issues. Hosted by Ashar Mobeen and produced by Amanda White and Elysia French, the podcast features lively conversations on soil regeneration, Indigenous land stewardship, water, textiles, plastics, and more. This public program is inspired by the 2024 book Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), edited by Elysia and Amanda. Whether you're an artist, researcher, or engaged listener, this series offers powerful reflections on the intersections of creativity and ecology.   For more information, please visit the Ecologies in Practice website.  Thank you to ECH Contributing Editors Mireya and Venus! Over the past five years, the Embassy Cultural House has worked with many students through the internship program with Western University's Visual Arts Department. This winter semester, we are grateful to Mireya Seymour and Venus Tsao for the significant work and energy that they have brought to ECH programs  We appreciate their continued work with ECH and we look forward to their continued cultural work in Canada and abroad!  Relevant and Related Links From London Environmental Network: Earthfest London 2025 at CitiPlaza and Central Library, London, ON From CBC News London: Fanshawe fine art students say program cut will hurt city, emerging artists by Kendra Seguin From The National: Location of Scottish Palestine Museum revealed—see the opening date by Laura Pollock From Mondoweiss: Yemen is acting responsibly to stop genocide and the U.S. is bombing them for it by Craig Mokhiber From CBC Music: Nemahsis wins Breakthrough Artist of the Year - 2025 Juno Awards Call for articles for on site review issue 47: stand still and fix things From CBC News: Fashion History Museum in Cambridge packs up as city terminates lease by John Dalusong 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. 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