Visual Arts & Design

As a celebration of the Saagajiwe centre opening in the Rogers Communication Centre, an indigenous mural has been painted on the outside of the centre’s new space.

When Keosha Love was growing up, she felt like people didn’t listen to her. “That’s not really because I’m a woman, but it’s because I’m a black woman,” she said. “People were ignoring me and my experience didn’t matter.”

The works of immigrants and refugees and their experiences moving to Canada were highlighted at an art showcase on campus last week. It informed the public about the difficulties in establishing a home and the barriers that many people encounter, when searching for a new place to settle down.

Canada’s identity as a northern nation has largely been shaped by the Group of Seven’s depictions of an uninhabited Canadian North. But an exhibit at Ryerson’s Modern Literature and Culture (MLC) Gallery is attempting to break down this northern narrative, which it says disregards Canada’s Inuit communities.

I’m standing in a hospital hallway. My middle-aged son, Bobby, speaks in a cheerful voice with an undertone of stress to a nurse who shakes my hand and introduces herself as Barbara.