To be guided by and in conversation with place. To come to terms with the original history of the areas at intersections of water and land. Where we are on Turtle Island. Then to practice a mindset of reciprocity with the waterways and their many living spiritual beings, a group of artists has been meeting at key sites in Kingston and the Rideau Lakes watershed to focus on land-based artistic practices and to witness the land from the perspective of First Nations and the clan animals, to hear the stories from the legacy of cultural inter-relation spanning 1,000’s of years on these waterways.

This summer (2023), artists Michelle Bunton, Sebastian De Line, Sadiqa de Meijer, Shelby Lisk, JP Longboat (lead artist), Marney McDiarmid, Andrei Pora and Clelia Scala close their circle, ending three years of seasonally timed activities with three public, site-based events. These take place at the Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS), No.9 Gardens and Arbour Ridge Park, Kingston.

WITH THE LAND: CLOUD 9 ECO-ART EXHIBITION
29 July–1 October 2023
No.9 Gardens, 1516 Summers Rd., Lyndhurst, ON

DISCUSSION GROUP: QUBS SUMMER SEMINAR
2 August, 7 pm
Queen’s University Biological Station, 280 Queens University Rd, Elgin, ON

RELIGHTING THE FIRES—
A PLACE OF AN ANCESTRAL HAUDENOSAUNEE LONGHOUSE
9 September, 11 am
Arbour Ridge Park, 453 Dolshire St, Kingston, ON

The playgroup is a partnership-building project with QUBS and the City of Kingston, Cultural Service and is facilitated by Sonia Nobrega, Senior Manager, QUBS, and Taylor Norris, Public Art Coordinator, City of Kingston, along with Agnes’s Curator of Contemporary Art, Sunny Kerr. We are grateful to the Ontario Arts Council’s Arts Response Initiative: Project Grants for Organizational Partnerships. JP Longboat thanks the Ontario Arts Council Artist-Presenter Collaboration Projects for their support of Along the Way.