AFRO-INDIGENOUS FUTURES – REFLECTIONS ON (POST-)COLONIAL PASTS, PRESENTS AND FUTURES
Tiohtià:ke, commonly known as Montréal is a historic gathering place for many First Nations. However, the city’s monuments and street names, mainly reflect the French and British colonization of the city – Black and Indigenous representation is missing in the cityscape. Our programming focuses on overlooked Black and Indigenous Montréal biographies and imagines possible urban Black Indigenous Futures for the city, through the healing, dream work and by means of imaginative world building.
Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures immerses visitors in a conversation that reimagines, reinterprets and reclaims the past and present for a more empowering future for African Americans.
Tiohtià:ke, commonly known as Montréal is a historic gathering place for many First Nations. However, the city’s monuments and street names, mainly reflect the French and British colonization of the city – Black and Indigenous representation is missing in the cityscape. Our programming focuses on overlooked Black and Indigenous Montréal biographies and imagines possible urban Black Indigenous Futures for the city, through the healing, dream work and by means of imaginative world building.