Oluseye's CROWN ACT: Collaborative Community Installation

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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.

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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.

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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