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EXHIBITION // Sydney Wreaks | Tewaktsi’nehtarà:ron (I have beaded something) Onónhkwa (Medicine) / December 2021-January 2022
WORKSHOPS // WHOLESOUND PRESENTS: THE BASICS OF SOUND / Facilitated by Kirsten Taylor (Kwento) and Nick Dourado (Budi) / November 2021
KREAM RESIDENCY // Paolino Caputo | Giving Birth to My Mother / November 2021
EXHIBITION // Arjun Lal | Fruits of the Forest / October 2021
WINDOW EXHIBITION // Secrets Are Reparations For Microaggressions | Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet + Sanaa Human / August-September 2021
EXHIBITION // TOIL HERE: Works From Rural Mi’kma’ki / July 2021
SPECIAL PROJECT // Will You Write Me A Poem? with Shane Keyu Song and Jenny Yulia Shi / Ongoing until December 2021
UPCOMING // Apply for December 15, 2021. Share proposals for exhibitions, special projects, KREAM, the CARE project, and the Window gallery.

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Last couple of days to come see Tewaktsi’nehtarà:ron (I have beaded something) Onónhkwa (Medicine) by Sydney Wreaks. This work is on view 24/7 until January 03, 2022 in the Khyber's window gallery at 1880 Hollis St.

STATEMENT:
What does a reclamation and reconnection to medicine look like? Access to community knowledge and medicine's intrinsic tie to ways of being is limited within the cityscape.

While learning to bead, this has been something I am constantly thinking through. Acts of beading are a way for me to reclaim my roots, cultural knowledge, wellness, and a way to reconnect.

Óhonte Wenserákon (Sweetgrass) is my way of expressing gratitude to those who have shared knowledge, as well as to those who live within the urban landscape and have little access to medicines.

Nia:wen

ARTIST BIO:
Sydney Wreaks is an interdisciplinary visual artist of Kanien’keháka and euro-settler descent, currently living as an uninvited guest in Mi’gma’gi. They graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in 2020, and are currently working on their MAED. Their art practice uses painting, field notes, archiving, text, and more recently they have started connecting with community and culture through beadwork. Within their beading practice, they integrate upcycled textiles and other materials.
@sydneywreaksart

This is part of a series of Khyber window installations coordinated in collaboration with NSCAD students Excel Garay (@excelecious) and Ivan Flores (@ivxnflores) <3

www.khyber.ca/window

📸 @v.meetsworld courtesy of @khybercentre

[ID: Three images of the interior window gallery space. The first is a corner of sweetgrass on a white wall, the second is the beading representing sweetgrass, and the third shows a tv monitor, wall vinyl, and the other components of the installation.]

Come by our window to see Tewaktsi’nehtarà:ron

Come by our window to see Tewaktsi’nehtarà:ron (I have beaded something) Onónhkwa (Medicine) by Sydney Wreaks. This work is on view 24/7 until January 03, 2022 in the Khyber's window gallery at 1880 Hollis St.

STATEMENT:
What does a reclamation and reconnection to medicine look like? Access to community knowledge and medicine's intrinsic tie to ways of being is limited within the cityscape.

While learning to bead, this has been something I am constantly thinking through. Acts of beading are a way for me to reclaim my roots, cultural knowledge, wellness, and a way to reconnect.

Óhonte Wenserákon (Sweetgrass) is my way of expressing gratitude to those who have shared knowledge, as well as to those who live within the urban landscape and have little access to medicines.

Nia:wen

ARTIST BIO:
Sydney Wreaks is an interdisciplinary visual artist of Kanien’keháka and euro-settler descent, currently living as an uninvited guest in Mi’gma’gi. They graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in 2020, and are currently working on their MAED. Their art practice uses painting, field notes, archiving, text, and more recently they have started connecting with community and culture through beadwork. Within their beading practice, they integrate upcycled textiles and other materials.
@sydneywreaksart

This is part of a series of Khyber window installations coordinated in collaboration with NSCAD students Excel Garay (@excelecious) and Ivan Flores (@ivxnflores) <3

www.khyber.ca/window

📸 @v.meetsworld courtesy of @khybercentre

[ID: Four images of artwork behind a window with reflections of the sky and buildings on the glass.]

Come by our window to see Tewaktsi’nehtarà:ron

Come by our window to see Tewaktsi’nehtarà:ron (I have beaded something) Onónhkwa (Medicine) by Sydney Wreaks. This work will be on view 24/7 until January 03, 2022 in the Khyber's window gallery at 1880 Hollis St.

STATEMENT:
What does a reclamation and reconnection to medicine look like? Access to community knowledge and medicine's intrinsic tie to ways of being is limited within the cityscape.

While learning to bead, this has been something I am constantly thinking through. Acts of beading are a way for me to reclaim my roots, cultural knowledge, wellness, and a way to reconnect.

Óhonte Wenserákon (Sweetgrass) is my way of expressing gratitude to those who have shared knowledge, as well as to those who live within the urban landscape and have little access to medicines.

Nia:wen

ARTIST BIO:
Sydney Wreaks is an interdisciplinary visual artist of Kanien’keháka and euro-settler descent, currently living as an uninvited guest in Mi’gma’gi. They graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in 2020, and are currently working on their MAED. Their art practice uses painting, field notes, archiving, text, and more recently they have started connecting with community and culture through beadwork. Within their beading practice, they integrate upcycled textiles and other materials.
@sydneywreaksart

This is part of a series of Khyber window installations coordinated in collaboration with NSCAD students Excel Garay (@excelecious) and Ivan Flores (@ivxnflores) <3

www.khyber.ca/window

📸 @v.meetsworld courtesy of @khybercentre

[ID: Two images of braided sweet grass, one with a red tie, on a white wall. An image of a beading of sweet grass on canvas with green, off-white, brown, and blue beads.]

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