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constantly pushing back against colonialism and all the struggles that come with that. I wanted to take a step back and think about like what happens when we stop resisting and just take care of each other. Each of the artists had their own interpretation of what that meant and what I've found interesting as a curator, even though the theme was center around the self, really the self in the community are inseparable, and I like that you come across it without expecting it."
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These murals are located in the pedestrian tunnel under
Wellington Street at the Portage bridge. Arcand explained that she "wanted to address self-care from an Indigenous perspective. Indigenous peoples are always sort of required to resist. We have peoples, we have activists, we have artists who are
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identity. Arcand explores the revitalization of the Cree language through her art and has studied the language her whole life. She said that "Language is culture. There are far too many
Indigenous languages that are either extinct or endangered. Cree has been named one of the three languages that
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Aboriginal-inspired visual art and writings. The magazine focused on decolonization, healing and family. Arcand took inspiration from her involvement in the R.A.I.N. (radical art in nature) collective in Vancouver to found Kimiwan. She has also been published in BlackFlash
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extinct. This realization triggered urgency in me that the time is now to start revitalizing our indigenous languages." Some of her past work depicts a world where
English and French signage is replaced with the Cree language.
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