This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Oluseye's CROWN ACT: Collaborative Community Installation
In-person
Self-guided History & heritage Interdisciplinary Performance Sculpture & installation Design PhotographyDate and time
Location
Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre, Niagara-on-the-Lake
247 Ricardo Street
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
About
Oluseye will offer a collaborative community installation, inviting participants to consider a path of remembrance, resistance, and cultural resilience. In an installation which responds to southwest Ontario’s history as a part of Underground Railroad— a network of escape routes through which enslaved African-Americans became free people. Participants will engage with the work in which Oluseye shares that the braided hair patterns of enslaved people often contained escape maps, understood by the enslaved peoples but not by their captors. Inspired by these patterns, Oluseye will create an installation created from an enlarged photograph of a young man’s braided hairstyle, inspired by escape maps hidden in the braids of enslaved African Americans.
Presented in partnership with the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre.
This program is part of the Ontario Culture Days 2025 Creatives in Residence series.
Links
- Oluseye - Creatives in Residence onculturedays.ca
Organizer
Ontario Culture Days
Ontario Culture Days is a not-for-profit organization that celebrates artists and cultural groups in our communities.
The Ontario Culture Days Festival is an annual celebration of arts, culture and heritage taking place each fall across the province. Each year, we work with organizers of all disciplines to produce this province-wide festival. Organizers host programs throughout Ontario and invite the public to participate for free.
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