Join us for the closing of Aaniya Asrani’s community-rooted exploration of belonging, created in collaboration with those who call these unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories home.
Program activities include an interactive experience exploring Aaniya’s exhibition, a collaborative weaving activity, and opportunities to connect with fellow community members.
Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome!
Weaving Belonging explores and questions social belonging in Vancouver, a place shaped by ongoing settler colonialism. Bringing together a range of perspectives—Indigenous folks rooted in this land and those from distant shores, immigrants seeking new beginnings, generational settlers, and refugees in search of sanctuary—the exhibition negotiates aspects of identity, history and our shared existence on these stolen lands.
This work extends from storytelling sessions Aaniya Asrani facilitated around reconciliation, community care, and shared responsibility on unceded territories. Each collaborator created their own drawing while sharing their stories and Asrani created a drawing in response. The small prints on view represent these individual drawings, while the larger prints reflect the blending of the two. Together, they grapple with personal and collective connections, weaving fragments of their histories, identities, and lived experiences into a collective “placemat of belonging.” This process highlights the fluidity of identity and the interconnectedness of our realities, emphasizing that belonging is continuously redefined through relationships and dialogue.
Weaving Belonging challenges viewers to reflect on their positionality and invites them to engage actively in reshaping their understanding of identity and belonging.
To listen to the storytelling sessions click here.