Name: exChange Intergenerational Dialogue & Artmaking Event
Start: 2024-05-04T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-04T15:00:00-04:00
Location: MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises

Join us in our ongoing series with teaching artists, as we connect, converse, and create art across 2SLGBTQI+ generations.
About this Event

exChange Intergenerational Dialogue & Artmaking Event

Welcome to our exciting event where generations come together to engage in meaningful conversations and creative artmaking! Join us at MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises for an exciting event where we celebrate and explore our diverse 2SLGBTQI+ identities! Through daring dialogue and creative expression, we aim to foster intergenerational connections and promote understanding.

Join us for discussions, facilitated art making, and brainstorming for future events...and a free catered lunch.

About the project

exChange is an Intergenerational 2SLGBTQI+ daring dialogue arts project. Our aim is to bridge the gap between 2SLGBTQI+ youth and the elders who paved the way. This intergenerational exchange through art hopes to create spaces where 2SLGBTQI+ youth can learn the stories of how their freedoms have come to be, and where older folks from the 2SLGBTQI+ can learn new terminology and gain a deeper understanding of the current evolution of the community. The goal of this initiative is twofold: to establish intergenerational reciprocal relationships through art making, and to document the storytelling of the English-speaking 2SLGBTQI+ communities in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke, which are often stories unheard.

This project is sponsored by a generous anonymous donor who is inspired by the lifetime of ministry and social justice work of Rev. John Arlen Bonnar of St James United Church who is part of the 2SLGBTQI+ community himself. This special projects fund is dedicated to supporting people who are refugees, Indigenous people, and 2SLGBTQI+ communities and organizations. The project is managed by Melissa-Ann Pereira Ledo, local queer community arts organizer, consultant and facilitator, in partnership with Social Impact Consulting, Gay and Grey and other local 2SLGBTQI+ organizations. This is a non-religious community-led arts project.