In the Autumn of 2019, the co-directors of BRIDGE, Jade Manbodh and Zach Ropel-Morski, had the first of many meetings with the Cambridge Art Galleries to plan out what was to be their second collaborative art project. After bringing on Kate Brownlie, Nicole Rak and Zaven Titizian, the team spent five months spent developing a vision for the project, releasing a call for submission, reviewing proposals, conducting interviews, finalizing artists and writing up contracts, we...
A group of White People are barbecuing. Music plays on their stereos as they pass burgers around picnic tables. Men drink beer, children play cricket. When the ball rolls down to the nearby lake, a young White Boy chases to catch it. That is when he spots a small power-boat of uniformed Black People approaching the shore. He runs to his parents in fright. The Black People land on the beach, walk steadily by in...
Treaty Lands, Global Stories has always operated on the premise that storytelling is a powerful tool through which we can learn. Stories transport us and show us unreachable perspectives. They confront us with realities we have never considered before. Our bias towards storytelling is frankly obvious: the word story is our name, after all! (more…)