Calling all artists, community organizers, and storytellers we invite you to join us this Hamilton Arts Week for a 3-hour masterclass in community-based oral history practices. Presented in collaboration with visiting artists-in-residence Jen Sungshine and David Ng of Love Intersections.
Rooted in Love Intersections’ ongoing work with racialized and queer communities, this workshop shares tools, ethics, and methods for gathering oral histories with deep care and cultural accountability. Participants will be introduced to Love Intersections’ story-weaving ethos, centering lived experience, intergenerational knowledge, and the embodied wisdom of queer, trans, and racialized communities. Whether for personal exploration, artistic creation, or archival work, this masterclass nurtures your capacity to listen and record stories as an act of love, resistance, and cultural preservation.
Reservation for this event is required. Sign up below.
This event is part of Hamilton Arts Week and made possible through support from: Hamilton Arts Council, The City of Hamilton, Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada.
Jen Sungshine is a queer Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist, community facilitator, and cultural producer based in Vancouver, BC. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections, and the Outreach Curator at The Polygon Gallery. Her works include “Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny”, “Drag is for Everyone”, both winners of the Gerry Brunet Memorial Award for best BC Short; and “The House of 9 Dragons”, an oral history exhibit in Chinatown. She loves hotpot and wants to know what your favourite hotpot ingredient is. jensungshine.com
David Ng is the Co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections. His work has also recently included collaborations with Primary Colours / Couleurs primaires, which is an initiative to decolonize the Canadian art system by putting Indigenous arts practices at the centre, through the leadership of Indigenous artists, supported by artists of colour. David has been a filmmaker for 22 years, and more recently through Love Intersections, he has produced over 15 short films, which have screened internationally at over 60 film festivals. His last film, Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny screened at the Academy Award Qualifying festivals: The Leeds International Film Festival, and the Aesthetica Film Festival. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. davidng.art
Love Intersections is a media arts collective made up of queer artists of colour dedicated to using collaborative art-making and relational storytelling to address systemic racism in our communities. We produce intersectional and intergenerational stories from underrepresented communities of colour – centering the invisible, the spiritual, the metaphysical and the imaginary. We believe in deep and meaningful relationships, that intersectionality is a verb and a call to action, that we must cultivate social trust through collective care and community responsibility. Our desire is to provoke (he)artful social change through the lens of love. https://loveintersections.com/
