{"id":114968,"date":"2022-09-08T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=114968"},"modified":"2022-09-09T09:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:17:52","slug":"metis-artist-brings-hopeandhealingcanada-to-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/metis-artist-brings-hopeandhealingcanada-to-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9tis artist brings #hopeandhealingcanada to Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">M\u00e9tis site-specific artist Tracey-Mae Chambers continues to bring her #hopeandhealingcanada installation across the country. She made her 108th stop at St. Lawrence College\u2019s Kingston campus on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAt the beginning I was trying to figure out how to express how I was feeling about being sequestered at home during COVID\u2026 the first graves were identified at Kamloops and I wasn\u2019t sure how to express that. I\u2019m a sculptor, but wasn\u2019t sure how to address that through sculpture without being very confrontational. So this medium lends itself to being non-confrontational\u2026Yarn is the right choice and red is the right choice, it\u2019s a powerful colour,\u201d says Chambers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chambers says she was thinking about connections.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-114968-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/STRING-CLIP.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/STRING-CLIP.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/STRING-CLIP.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commenting on the name of the installation, #hopeandhealingcanada, \u201cI don\u2019t have to put a capital \u2018C\u2019 on Canada, there\u2019s no capitals in hashtags, I don\u2019t have to make Canada something I don\u2019t think that it is,\u201d says Chambers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She adds, \u201cIf you don\u2019t have hope then you can\u2019t heal, you just stay in that cycle of pain. But if you are hopeful, yes you still have the pain but you can move forward,\u201d says Chambers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chambers says that while creating she is always thinking about separation from her own culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was adopted out of my family and adopted by a Scottish family. I would have lost all of my culture and wasn\u2019t able to gain that back again until much later in my life,\u201d says Chambers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The installation will be on Portsmouth Avenue in front of St.Lawrence College until October 30th. Helena Neveu, Knowledge Keeper at St. Lawrence College says this is leading up to Truth and Reconciliation Day on September 30th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s about talking about truth and reconciliation, about decolonization\u2026this art exhibit will bring up this conversation not only for students but for community and family\u2026We wanted to have Tracey here and her exhibit to talk about reconciliation, what it means is to repair damage between two parties. In native education we really want to get that across in our circles,\u201d says Neveu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tracey-Mae Chambers will be completing the #hopeandhealingcanada installation at St. Lawrence\u2019s Cornwall campus on Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CFRC interview with Tracey-Mae Chambers below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9tis site-specific artist Tracey-Mae Chambers continues to bring her #hopeandhealingcanada installation across the country. She made her 108th stop at St. Lawrence College\u2019s Kingston campus on Thursday. \u201cAt the beginning I was trying to figure out how to express how I was feeling about being sequestered at home during COVID\u2026 the first graves were identified&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":114972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16830,3265],"tags":[18563,14154,12280,18564,8174],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115065,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114968\/revisions\/115065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114968"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=114968"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=114968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}