Artist collective Gendai in collaboration with Workman Arts invites BIPOC youth (ages 16-20) to participate in a free March Break program about art, activism, and solidarity.
We will hang out, eat, gossip, dream, read, and make art to think about how oppression (like racism, ableism, colonialism, and capitalism) impacts our daily lives, and to collectively envision alternative futures. We will connect you to local artists and youth interested in building pathways towards futures that are more fair and nourishing for all. There’s space to make art together, or simply just be together.
Youth participating in the program will receive:
– a $50/day honorarium
– certificate of completion
– free daily dinners and snacks
– free art supplies
– free transit fare
– fun, learning, community!
No prior experience is expected.
The program is facilitated by Petrina Ng and Marsya Maharani (Gendai Art Collective). We are cis-gendered, Asian-diasporic millennials who love snacks. We nurture friendship and collaboration by inviting racialized artists and allies to hang out, gossip, and build anti-racist solidarity in white-dominant society. We will be joined by our collaborator, emerging curator and collaborative artist, Jasmine Mander, whose work explores the trickle effects of colonial legacies by tracing the roots of ancestral memory.
Every evening, we will provide art-making workshops, led by majority-racialized artist collectives whose work is shaped by collaboration, solidarity, and social justice. These include:
Gendai would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as the Esker Foundation for its commission of the first edition of Gendai GED. We thank Eva Verity for her work in developing this work with us, as well as Adetola Adedipe, Noor Sayadi, and all our youth collaborators.
