Banner Making for the (End) Start of the World

Join Syrus Marcus Ware for “Banner Making for the End Start of the World”: an afternoon of collective banner making and radical textile creation punctuated by shared conversations about Black trans worldbuilding, abolition, and radical futurities.

Free and open to the public! Registration is required.

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About the Facilitator

Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier Scholar, visual artist, activist, curator, and educator. Syrus works with social justice frameworks and Black activist culture. His works Antarctica, Ancestors, Do You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future), and MBL:Freedom were featured in the Toronto Biennial of Art in both 2019 and 2022.

Syrus holds a doctorate from York University in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Syrus is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter – Canada and the Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism. He is the co-editor of the best-selling Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (URP, 2020), Marvellous Grounds: Queen of Colour Formations (BTL, 2018), and Queering Urban Justice (UTP, 2018). Syrus is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts, McMaster University.

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Image: Hangama Amiri, A Tree Cutter (detail), 2022. Photo: LF Documentation.

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