Our Nohtawi, 2018.

~ A Collaboration between Namaakii Bear Hat and Richelle Bear Hat for The Bows ~

I Believe in Living: Group Exhibition. The Bows; formerly known as The Bows (Untitled Arts Society), Mohkinstsis, AB.

Project dates: April 21 - June 30, 2018.

Basil AlZeri, Rana Bishara, Christina Battle, Richelle Bear Hat & Namaakii Bear Hat, Rehab Nazzal, Abdi Osman, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Rinaldo Walcott.

I believe in living takes its cue from Assata Shakur’s poem “Affirmation” that begins the activist’s 1987 autobiography. In it, she insists on the gifts of living in spite of the oppressive and violent logics of the state, and writes of the power of loving and imagining as radical counteractions to colonial, racial, sexual, gender and class-based injustices. Accordingly, the artists and contributors in this project carry these actions forward in each their own way, offering tender, caring, creative, poetic and intellectual propositions that examine different forms of living as complicated gestures and lived realities.

Curated by Ellyn Walker.

Photo credit: Katy Whitt