Meadowvale Theatre Public Art: Story Sharing with Jay Havens

Join Jay Havens to learn more about this public art project and share your stories about Meadowvale Theatre and the Meadowvale neighbourhood and community. This info session will be your chance to help inform the stories that will shape the artwork in the newly renovated Meadowvale Theatre!

Complete Mississauga Culture’s online survey to share your stories, photos, and memories of Meadowvale, to help inform and shape this exciting new public art piece!

Jay Havens is a multi media 2Spirit artist of Haudenosaunee and Scottish Canadian ancestry and a proud citizen of the Kanien’keha:ka from Grand River Territory. Jay works throughout Turtle Island creating and producing installations for many kinds of situations such as sets or costumes for live performance (Pacific National Exhibition, City of Stratford, Caravan Farm Theatre), works like murals (City of Vancouver, McMaster Children’s Hospital, Iroquois Museum) as well as objects for display in galleries and public spaces (New York State Museum, Waterfront Toronto, Woodland Cultural Centre, The Reach Gallery). Over the last 17 years Havens has created a wide array of projects working in collaboration with institutions, professional companies and educators from grade school to university level. He enjoys working in teams and has facilitated workshops ranging from 5 to 500 participants.

Havens’ practice embraces re-learning the ways of their Onkwehon:we ancestors and un-learning ways which go against natural cycles as a lifelong adventure and continuous challenge. Their research has focused on Indigenous Methods of Knowledge-building and Wholistic Ways of Being’ applied to creative and logistical processes of contemporary art making. Jay holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance Design + Production from the University of British Columbia (2008) and a Master of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2016). They continue their learning outside of institutions each day through relationships to people, places, land and waters. Currently Jay and his husband share their time between unceded Coast Salish Territories on Vancouver Island as well as Haudenosaunee Territories in modern-day Ontario and New York State. Havens is a member of The Associated Designers of Canada.

Images courtesy of jayhavens.me
@jay.havens

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