Design Your Own Kite

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Join artist Yasmeen Nematt Alla on a journey of creation and reflection. At this drop-in workshop, individuals of all ages are invited to create their very own kite! Guided by Yasmeen, each participant will receive the various components needed to piece together and design a kite that speaks uniquely to them.

At 3:00 pm on October 12, 2024, participants are also invited to join Yasmeen, the Ontario Culture Days team, and fellow participants at the Beaches Pavilion for a one-time kite flying event. As a symbol of freedom, participants can fly their kites together and contemplate the significance of unrealized aspirations.

Through this community event, in which red kites may fail or soar, Nematt Alla will ask: “What does it mean to be a kite that never takes flight? What does it mean to materialize a kite that will never fly, despite an undeniable abundance of wanting, of reaching, of hoping?"

Yasmeen Nematt Alla is an Egyptian immigrant and settler living in Tkaronto, Turtle Island. She has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo and is an MFA candidate and a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Arts. She has most recently exhibited at the Bronx River Art Centre in Bronx NY, Heaven Gallery in Chicago IL, and Xpace Cultural Centre in Toronto ON. She has previously been an artist resident at Haystack, Banff Art Centre, ACRE, STEPs Public Art, UKAI Projects, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, and HXOUSE Creative Think Tank. As an artist worker, she supports art organisations in creating accessible and anti-racist modes of communications in their day-to-day operations.

Thread that Tangles but doesn’t Knot Kite Flying Event by Yasmeen Nematt Alla is commissioned as part of Ontario Culture Days' Creatives in Residence series and presented in partnership with East End Arts, Toronto Public Library and 401 Richmond.

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• Creatives in Residence onculturedays.ca
• Thread that Tangles but doesn’t Knot Kite Flying Event culturedays.ca

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Ontario Culture Days

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.

Ontario Culture Days lives at the local level. We support organizers from the smallest hamlets to the largest cities, while coordinating with other national and provincial Culture Days partners. We support the success of our sector colleagues through resources and network development, while highlighting the breadth and heterogeneity of Ontario’s arts and culture to the wider public.

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