Public program,
SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art 

Various dates between 2022-2023
SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art | Montreal, Canada
Musée Ilnu de Mashteuiatsh | Masteuiastch, Canada 
Parc L.-O.-Taillon | Masteuiastch, Canada 

Role:
Co-curation and coordination

Co-curator:
Daniel Dinato

Artists:
Movimiento dos artistas Huni Kuin,  

Collaborators:
Vicky Tremblay and Tania Jourdain 
(Musée Ilnu de Mashteuiatsh)

The project is a proposal co-curated by Daniel Dinato and Carla Rangel as part of a long-term collaboration between the MAHKU collective, Daniel himself and the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. 

Thought as an extended public program, the project begun with the public program for exhibition Vende tela, compra terra (2022), and continued throughout 2023 with the Assi sheueiau / Mai Kemaname Kani / Echoes of Territories, a public program and artistic exchange in collaboration with the Ilnu Museum of Mashteuiatsh, and Hawe henewakame, a public mural in the neighbourhood of Mercier-Est, in Montreal Canada. 

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Hawe henewakame

In the summer of 2023, MAHKU transformed the song Hawe henewakame, meaning The Great River, into a large-scale mural on the walls of the Paul-Émile Sauvageau Pool in Parc L.-O.-Taillon in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.  
 
The inauguration of the mural was accompanied by a walk along the banks of the St. Laurent River, led by lawyer Inès Benadda from The International Observatory on Nature’s Right in conversation with MAHKU artists Bane Huni Kuin & Pedro Maná, followed by drawing workshop by the artists themselves. 

Project partners:
Milmurs Production

With the support of:
City of Montreal
Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec (MCC) - Programme d’art mural (PAM)
Canada Council for the Arts (CCA)
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
General Consulate of Brazil in Montreal 
Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.

July 11 and Wednesday, July 12, 2023.   

Aiming to open a dialogue between indigenous artists, the program welcomed artists Bane Huni Kuin and Pedro Maná, members of the artists collective Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin (MAHKU), to the Musée ilnu de Mashteuiatsh for a week of exchanges of visual and sound practices. 

Behind MAHKU's practice lie demands for political, cultural and ecological autonomy. MAHKU's actions are in line with the various socio-political mobilizations launched by indigenous communities in the Americas for respect of their ancestral rights and their fight for environmental justice. This meeting explored art as an activist and community practice. To enrich the exchanges (or moments of sharing), ilnu multidisciplinary artists Sonia Robertson, Soleil Launière and Amélie Courtois took part in the two days of exchanges.

Project partners:
Musée Ilnu de Mashteuiatsh  

With the support of:
Canada Council for the Arts (CCA)
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
General Consulate of Brazil in Montreal 
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