Come out and
share your dreams!
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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
Territories of Dreams
Opening Celebration
KOAC is excited to announce the arrival of the unique, new, temporary and participatory project Territories of Dreams.
The opening celebration is free to the general public and we hope you can join us:
on June 17, 2023
at KOAC sculpture park
244034 Horizon View Rd, Springbank, Alberta
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Opening remarks and blessing from Elder Harley Crowshoe will begin promptly at 2:30 pm. Light snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be served.
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The Territories of Dreams project, by Franco-Albertan artists Patricia Lortie and Sabine Lecorre-Moore, of the Collective Conversation, is a temporary and participatory art installation anchored in nature. The two artists have assembled a crochet tapestry created by a group of seniors from the Bowness Community Association (through a partnership with CARYA —Creating Strong Families and Communities in Calgary), a student and a school principal, to tie together the dreams of Alberta’s Francophone, Indigenous and Anglophone communities. This spring, they traveled from northern to southern Alberta to visit five schools (La Vérendrye Francophone School in Lethbridge, De la Source in Calgary, Boréale in Fort McMurray, West Island College in Calgary and Kapawe’no Nêhiyawak school in Grouard) where, to collect students’ dreams, they offered writing-on-fabric workshops.
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Sabine Lecorre-Moore, Georgina Hawitt (emerging artist) and Patricia Lortie
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The Collective Conversation worked under the guidance of Elder Harley Crowshoe, a respected and well-known First Nations mediator, and Territories of Dreams was selected as part of Dialogues: Encounters with Riopelle’s Oeuvre from Sea to Sea. The artists were honoured to accomplish this project alongside the Foundation Jean Paul Riopelle and its partner, Culture pour tous. On the eve of the celebrations surrounding the centenary of the Canadian artist Jean Paul Riopelle, the artists are part of a major pan-Canadian cultural mediation project made possible by Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation with the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage. In response to the Foundation Riopelle's call to “move closer to nature,” Lortie and Lecorre-Moore installed the tapestry on a circular wooden structure that will be in place for KOAC's 2023 season.
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The artists, the Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation and KOAC invite the public to come join us for the opening celebration of Territories of Dreams and to add your own dreams to this unique installation!
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R.S.V.P. is encouraged as parking is limited. Those with accessibility needs will be directed to a closer drop-off vehicle point.
For more info on the artists of the Collective Conversation:
Sabine LeCorre-Moore
Patricia Lortie
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