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Biiskaabe Zaa'Emaagan (Return of the Salmon) Community-engaged salmon lantern installation facilitated by Red Pepper Spectacle Arts on the grounds of Spadina Museum in Toronto, Ontario. Photo by Shawn Grey, November 2023.
Biiskaabe Zaa'Emaanag (Return of the Salmon) is a collaborative arts project honouring the annual Atlantic salmon run. Red Pepper Spectacle Arts' production team worked with lead artist, Joseph Sagaj to create the salmon-lanterns. I was part of the concept team in the development of this project. The project received support from Toronto Arts Council, Animating Historic Sites, Canada Council for the Arts, and Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health.
Biiskaabe Zaa'Emaanag (Return of the Salmon) night installation, lantern detail.
Photo by Shawn Grey. November 2023.
I created this cloth banner to welcome Little Amal under the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, in June 2023 in collaboration with Red Pepper Spectacle Arts. Little Amal is a twelve-foot puppet created by The Walk Productions and Hand Spring Puppet Company to share the story of a 10-year old Syrian child in search of their mother, and a new home.
Cloth banner to welcome Little Amal, June 2023, Toronto. Photo by Shawn Grey