We are so excited to again be working with ReDefine Arts (formerly Red Dress Productions) to create a pebble mosaic art piece honouring survivours of domestic violence in Mississippi Mills.
In 2019, we paired up with ReDefine Arts to create a pebble mosaic in Carleton Place at Town Hall Square Park (15 Mill Street). The permanent art installation, part of the Countdown Public Art Legacy Project, remembers and honours victims of sexual violence, survivors of sexual violence and those who are no longer here.
The Countdown Public Art Project is a province-wide initiative that creates outdoor monuments in public spaces to honour survivors of gender-based violence and to imagine, or count down to, a world without gender-based violence. These pebble mosaic public art monuments aim to increase the public’s understanding of gender-based violence, bring private conversations out into the open reminding us that gender based violence concerns us all, and provide survivors positive ways to (re)connect with the community.
“Working with ReDefine Arts on the Countdown Project has been a journey that has had fair reaching impacts; it has been rewarding for our community, healing for man and an amazing opportunity to come together through the art medium to honour, remember and reflect on violence, those taken, those living with and those who are at risk. We are forever grateful and humbled,” said Erin Lee, Executive Director of Lanark County Interval House.
The project is to be completed through community collaboration. ReDefine Arts has put together activity kits with everything you need to get involved. The collaborative design happens through note taking a photography. Ideas shared in the activity kits and workshops are documented and then lead artist, Anna Camilleri, puts all of the ideas into a big pot and listens and reflects and produces a design that amplifies the creative ideas that are unique to your community.
Lanark County Interval House will be hosting a virtual community workshop night: we will come together to hear about the project from ReDefine Arts and then will have an opportunity to create together in a cafe style. It will be like working on a project at your favourite local coffee shop, but from the comfort of your own home! The event will take place on Thursday, May 13 at 6:30 p.m. To register for the event, please sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/151830929397
If you are interested in participating in the art project but are unable to make it to the virtual workshop, please email emma.kinsman@lcih.com to arrange to receive an activity kit. All questions can be directed to this email as well.
