About this Event
What can we know about a people when the clearest record of their history is found in the objects they made, used, and passed down?
This lecture begins with the idea that objects can hold evidence. A tattoo, a quilt, or a ceramic object can tell us how people marked land, remembered home, moved through place, and preserved knowledge when written records were limited or missing.
In this lecture, Monique Lizardo will show how historic artifacts can help us understand places that no longer exist and lives that were never fully documented. Filipino tattoo systems can trace topography on skin. African Nova Scotian quilts can show patterns of movement and settlement through fabric. Mexican ceramics can preserve traces of buildings, courtyards, vessels, and domestic life in clay.
The evening asks guests to look at craft as a form of historical evidence. These objects can tell us where people lived, how they moved, what they valued, and how they passed down information across generations.
When buildings are gone, maps are incomplete, and archives leave gaps, art can still help us understand the people who lived there.
Monique Lizardo is a BC-born architectural educator and Instructor in CADD Technologies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her work focuses on historic artifacts, speculative landscape visualization, and the use of craft to recover histories of place that were never fully preserved.
Agenda
6:00 PM doors open. Guests are welcome to arrive early, order drinks, meet other attendees, and grab the best seats before the lecture begins.
7:00 PM lecture begins, followed by Q&A.
8:15 PM wrap up, 1:1 with the lecturer, drinks, and conversation. Guests are welcome to order another round.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Oria on King, 220 King Street West, Toronto, Canada
CAD 27.96 to CAD 43.93
