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SUMMARY:“Local” Food\, Migrant Labour: Residency Reflections
DESCRIPTION:As part of the WAHC Artist-in-Residence program\, Creative Food Research Collaboratory members Anahí González and Katie Lawson have spent the summer months conducting research together at the intersection of migrant workers’ rights and food systems.This program will feature reflections from their residency and invite attendees to collectively intervene in the migrant worker contract between Canada and Mexico by adding text\, questioning its language\, and sharing stories and reflections around labour.The evening will continue over tamales provided by Mexican Kitchen\, alongside a postcard activity featuring a new special edition produced by designer Laura Rojas\, inviting participants to draft messages to the Prime Minister. Registration required. Register below.						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n					\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												About the Artists\n					\n					The Creative Food Research Collaboratory (CFRC) germinates collaborations at the intersection of art and food studies\, exploring how the arts can imagine—and therefore help to achieve—food security\, food sovereignty\, and food justice in Canada. Our work includes academic research\, public events\, teaching and workshops\, as well as fundraising for community food initiatives. Initiated in 2022\, the collective is comprised of Amanda White\, Zoë Heyn Jones\, Anahí Gonzalez\, and Katie Lawson.  Anahí González is a Mexican photographer and artist based in London\, Ontario. Through photography\, installation\, and participatory practices\, she explores migration\, labour\, identity\, and everyday systems of exchange\, with a focus on Mexican labour for/within Canada. She holds a Doctorate in Art and Visual Culture from Western University\, with previous studies in Canada\, Mexico\, and Spain. In 2021\, she received Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte grant\, Jóvenes Creadores program. Her work has been exhibited and screened across Canada\, Mexico\, the United States\, Norway\, Spain\, and France. Katie Lawson is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She is currently a SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at Western University\, where she works with the Centre for Sustainable Curating. She has curated exhibitions for a wide range of institutions\, including the Toronto Biennial of Art\, regional galleries\, municipalities\, and artist-run-centres in Canada. She contributes to a range of print and online publications. She has recently written for Esse\, BlackFlash\, Momus\, and CBC Arts. \n				\n								\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							For more information\, please contact Sylvia Nickerson\, Programming and Exhibitions Specialist\, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or sylvia@wahc-museum.ca. Image credits: Laura Rojas\, Migrant Workers Harvest Our Food\, stickers\, 2019.  WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council\, the City of Hamilton\, the Province of Ontario\, the Canada Council for the Arts\, CUPE National\, Canada’s Building Trades Unions\, OPSEU/SEFPO\, the Provincial Building and  Construction Trades Council of Ontario\, and Teamsters Local Union 879 for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.
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