Walking and Talking Treaties
A Space Windows
April 14 – May 7, 2016
Walking and Talking Treaties is a collaboration between GINKGO SISTAS, ALPHA Alternative School and Jumblies Theatre for Images Festival 2016. Comprised of 30 individual pairs of handmade shoes, a video and four fabric hangings, it focuses on the legacy of treaties. One shoe per pair shares the student’s learning about indigenous history and experience with treaties, and the second represents their own family’s history.
Collectively, Walking and Talking Treaties demonstrates commitment to make visible connections as accomplices between indigenous, immigrant and settler communities.
GINKGO SISTAS is a collective by Anishnaabe artist Maria Hupfield and Chinese Canadian educator Emily Chan in Toronto. We create socially engaged projects that highlight the responsibility of voice and necessity of communal dialogue. Our name comes from the Ginkgo tree: a ‘living fossil’, and the sole survivor of an ancient group of trees.
