Objective

This festival organized by the Multicultural Artists Coalition (MAC) will celebrate and visualize immigrant, refugee and racialized women artists living in the National Capital Region. The festival will frame a three-day art exhibition, screenings, concerts, performances, a poetry recital, workshops, artist talks, and an academic lecture.

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Since the festival will explore the concept of intersectionality[1], this time we will focus only on women of our community. Through the different activities of the festival, we hope to introduce, analyze, and spread the intersectional theory and how it unveils our intersected identities, opening the possibility to acknowledge our own privilege and providing examples of solidarity beyond self-interest.

 

Also, we have identified the patriarchal foundation of western art as one of the main obstacles for the decolonization of art and culture. Thus, this festival stands as an initiative to visualize their work and invite the Ottawa art community for a cultural exchange that will enrich our notion of art.

 

[1] Intersectionality is a framework derived from black feminism that attempts to identify how interlocking systems of power and authority impact the most marginalized people in society. It considers the various forms of social stratification (class, race, gender/sex, age, abilities) as interwoven together.