These are dry times. Summer slips away faster than you can catch it – a dime down the drain. The sky hangs damp and icy today. Across the globe, powerful little men toy with the world’s future like it’s a game of chicken. Hurricanes have ravaged large parts of our earth. Families will suffer the effects for years to come. Terrorists won’t let London sleep.
This planet can get so ugly. So broken. So disordered. So many of our mirrors are shattered.
There is order in beauty. A divine order, I believe, but whatever your theology you can feel it. The affirmation of disparate parts falling into place.
Jennifer Berkenbosch’s Cultivar matters because the world needs beauty today. We need to be reminded that there is goodness. There is a solid bed beneath this wild river.
This weekend there are so many good things going on in our city. I’m one of the hosts of CBC RadioActive’s InCrowd, where it’s my job to say ‘here’s what you should check out in the arts scene this weekend’. That job gets a lot harder come summer.
For those of you interested in the power of art for social change, the choice is easy this weekend. Bleeding Heart is involved with not one, but THREE incredible events on Saturday (and beyond) that you won’t want to miss.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
Hopeful stories of healing and reconciliation are being written, right now.
Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are seeing one another, often, as if for the first time, for our strengths and our shared struggles. People are living out answers to questions that seemed impossible–impassible–a decade ago.
I want to hear more reconciliation stories. I think they will bring healing. Momentum. Change.
Maskihkîy Âcimowin / Medicine Stories will provide a context for reconciliation stories to be shared, around a great tree in the centre of a public space, over four weeks this spring.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
This morning, We see project lead Lori Calkins spoke with Edmonton AM's Mark Connolly about We see. And she spoke very well.
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We see missing and murdered indigenous women in this country.
We see a field of bare trees hung with red dresses. We see colourful prayer flags covering those trees throughout February and into March.
We see change. We see healing and we see hope. We will continue to see. And we will act for reconciliation.
http://www.bleedingheartart.space/we-see
Opens February 7 at 2 PM. Closes March 5 at 3 PM.
92st and 118th ave
All are welcome.
This project has been inspired by the REDress project originated by Jaime Black in Winnipeg. Find out more about her original project at http://www.theredressproject.org
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
