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Lalande + Doyle Exhibition Space (L+D), Shenkman Art Gallery

Sunday, April 3, 2022

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Ria Links Salon 11 was the first Salon to be held in person since the beginning of the pandemic.

 

Recording https://youtu.be/3Sw6YR4g9eo

Ria Links Artists for Systems Change wants to connect artists with activists through this exhibition.  We need to hear stories from artists such as Daniel, who is an activist clearly focused on direct local action. Please have a look at his memoir, Art, Anthropology, and Activism. https://www.artivismcan.net/,  which includes quite a bit of his art from his earlier days. Yet far from insular, Daniel’s interests and actions reach beyond our city to national and international Climate Justice. On the same site, you will find videos and albums from his years of travel as an anthropologist. He still maintains personal connections and provides support to some of the people and causes in faraway places such as Bangladesh and Burkina Faso.
 

Daniel writes:
My talk will outline some of the critical threats to greenspace in Ottawa, and make the connections to developer influence, administrative incompetence, and the urgent need to change the composition and orientation of Ottawa’s City Council. I will also show what direct action can do in your own neighbourhood, highlighting depaving initiatives, trees planting, and pollinator gardens as ways to open up new greenspace and create a refuge for biodiversity. 
 

Bio:
Daniel Buckles has been a visual artist, an anthropologist and an activist for many years, combining local action with analysis of national and international environmental and political trends. He has a Fine Arts degree from the Institute Allende in Mexico, and, in 1980 received a grant from the Canada Council to produce a body of visual art on the people and lifestyles of the Yukon. He also has a PhD in anthropology and has published 9 books on Indigenous land rights in India, turning back the influence of tobacco companies on small-scale farmers, and other topics.

Trinity Art Gallery     Galerie d’art Trinity
Lalande+Doyle Exhibition Space    L’espace d’exposition Lalande+Doyle
Shenkman Arts Centre 
245 Centrum Blvd.
Ottawa, ON K1E 0A1
613-580-ARTS (2787) 
shenkmanartscentre@ottawa.ca      Centre des arts Shenkman
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