Imagine Action Youth Council
presents
Imminence: A protest for equity,
diversity and inclusion
Centre Wakefield La Pêche Studio
Thu., May 25, 5:45-6:45 pm – Vernissage
Fri, May 26 – 6:00-7:30 pm
Sat, May 27 – tbd
For this installation we have created 12 larger-than-life characters that are on a mission to foster positive change. Through imaginative processes and by re-thinking inclusive spaces, each character expresses a list of actions and demands.
We invite you to consider these and imagine how you can make an impact.
IAYC members
Leia Shea Ranger-Drouin (she/her)
Nico McArthur (she/her)
Shayla Landry (she/her)
Eman Laboudi (she/her)
Finlay Drake (he/him)
St. Michael’s High School Students
Violet Young (she/her)
Emmett Scott-Williams (he/him)
Quinn Oliver-Hendsbee (she/her)
Arden McArthur (he/they)
Shaylee Maloney (she/they)
Deacon Lamarche (he/him) & Payton Hetherington (she/her)
Nevel Karsidag (she/her)
Hazel Gillean-Brady (she/her)
Lauryn Bowie-Jamison (she/they)
Theo Beaudet-Robertson (he/they)
Kristy-Anna Amos (she/her) & Katherine Routliffe (she/her)
Facilitated by Geneviève Cloutier (she/they).
In collaboration with St. Michael’s High School Art Department
Place des Artistes de Farrellton’s Imagine Action Youth Council is a youth-led organizing committee that develops, initiates and facilitates pop-up community events. Gatherings offer a democratic, responsive, playful and sensitive space geared towards fostering creative, critical and participatory citizens of the world.
Writers Fête is honoured to support IAYC in this creative community youth initiative.
GENEVIÈVE CLOUTIER is a settler living on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabeg territory. They have a Media Arts degree from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and a MA(Ed) from the University of Ottawa, where they received funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council to complete their PhD on emergent, transdisciplinary, and relational art/research.
They have extensive public art and curatorial experience, and have shown their artwork at VIVO Media Arts Centre. They employ video, performance, digital drawings, sculpture, and social practice to work through public space, deconstruction, rhizomatic pedagogy, and emergence.
Geneviève is a full-time teacher for the Western Quebec School Board at St. Michael’s High School, and a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa where they have taught How to Teach Visual Art, Schooling and Society, and Gender, Sexuality & Diversity. They are a co-op member at Place des Artistes de Farrellton, and the founder of the Imagine Action Youth Council.
