REBECCA BELMORE to speak in Kitchener as part of the Big Ideas in Art & Culture
Lecture Series, November 20, 2012, 7 PM, City Hall Rotunda, Kitchener, Ontario.
Admission: Free

Musagetes and CAFKA - Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area are pleased to announce
that Rebecca Belmore will be speaking as part of the Big Ideas in Art & Culture Lecture Series.
The lecture will take place in the Kitchener City Hall Rotunda on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
at 7 p.m. The lecture is wheelchair accessible and admission is free.

Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized Anishinabe artist whose work draws on
history, place, identity and justice through sculpture, installation, video and performance. She
has an extensive resume of exhibitions and honours, which includes being Canada’s official
representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale as well as having been awarded an honorary
doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design in that same year. She has recently been
commissioned by La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario and Musagetes to undertake a research and
production residency this fall and spring in Sudbury, Ontario.

“My way of working is largely based on immediate experience,” Belmore has written. “The
performances I have created over the years often directly responded to the place in which I
found myself. Location and memory are key elements in my approach to making art. I have
always had a strong interest in trying to imagine where we have been.”

Born in Upsala, Ontario, Rebecca Belmore attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in
Toronto. In 1993 she moved from Toronto back to her family’s home territory in the Sioux
Lookout area of Ontario, marking the beginning of an intense search to gather knowledge of the
land, the language and the history of the Anishinabe people that she felt she’d missed. Rebecca
Belmore currently lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

There will be a complimentary shuttle from downtown Guelph to Kitchener for the lecture,
departing from 193 Woolwich St. (Macquarie House) at 6 PM. Seats will be reserved on a firstcome,
first-served basis. Please contact Danica Evering at danica@musagetes.ca or call 519
836 7300 x 103 to reserve your seat, or visit rebeccabelmorebus.eventbrite.com.

To learn more about this lecture, please visit cafka.org/lectures.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gordon Hatt
Executive Director, CAFKA
519 744 5123
gwhatt@cafka.org
musagetes.ca / cafka.org


 
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