Partners in Art is proud to support the Luminato Festival project Built on Genocide, a large-scale installation by multidisciplinary artist Jay Soule | CHIPPEWAR, reflecting the events and policies throughout Canada’s history that have deliberately undermined and destroyed Indigenous livelihoods. 

The work is influenced by the mass genocide of the buffalo as a result of the colonial railway expansion. The buffalo decimation is an underacknowledged but foundational aspect of “Canadian” history, with consequences that persist today. 

Built on Genocide will address the direct correlation between the genocide of the buffalo and the genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. 

Luminato Festival will take place in Fall 2021. Dates to be announced in the near future.