The Ontario Historical Society

Myseum Intersections 2021: Akanzyla (Durational Performance)
2021-06-25 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | online
A virtual livestream performance on the future of Women’s work where audience members can drop-in anytime to watch and interact.
About this Livestream Performance
Synopsis
Akanzyla is an Indian climate refugee living in T’karonto, located in the Northeast region of Turtle Island, on the shores of Lake Ontarí’io in 2050. The government has offered climate refugees housing in the run-down condos that flooded the land’s infrastructure in the early 2000s. Akanzyla is a polyworker, offering spiritual caretaking services for online communities, participating in algae cultivation and transformation experiments as a creative biologist in the Almanac Cooperative, all while being the second parent to two children conceived through hybridized surrogacy in a nurture pod and making content to increase the value of her namesake coin. Given the climate circumstances, she is only able to safely venture outdoors 1-2 times a week, leaving her physically isolated, yet weaved through digital realms of care and collectivity.
In this 7-hour live durational performance (attend for as little or last long as you’d like) you are invited into her apartment to witness a work day from a possible future where feminine principles such as interspecies communication, ancestral intelligence, ecological healing, care and cooperation reign, but conflict with the residue of destructive legacy systems including colonialism, white supremacy and capitalism.
Audience members will be invited to participate in collective work throughout the day, sensing into what futures of how we labour are available to us.
This work is informed by Memory Work, a foresight research project on the future of woman’s work led by FromLater and At The Moment (ATM).
*Please note as this is a durational performance you can tune-in/watch for as long as or as little as you choose. Join during a break or have a window/tab open throughout the day. There is also a participatory option while you watch, which isn’t required but recommended.
For further information and to register please visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/myseum-intersections-2021-akanzyla-durational-performance-tickets-150972104629.

Port Hope & District Historical Society 2021 Three-Day Fundraiser Yard Sale
2021-06-26 08:00 - 15:00, 2021-06-27 08:00 - 15:00 | Dorothy’s House Museum, 3632 Ganaraska Rd., Port Hope, Ontario, L0A 1B0, Canada

Changes to the Ontario Heritage Act: What it Means for You
2021-06-28 13:00 - 14:30 | online
A presentation and Q&A session about recent changes to the Ontario Heritage Act.
Heritage staff from the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries will explain recent legislative and regulatory changes to the Ontario Heritage Act and what they mean for you.
This is a technical briefing for practitioners familiar with the Act. An additional session has been added for June 28th.

Hastings County Road Trips: In Search of Historic Plaques
2021-06-29 15:00 | online
The back roads of Hastings County are sprinkled with historic sites, if only you knew how to reach them.
Fortunately, the Hastings County Historical Society has created an on-line guidance system to show you the way.
Orland French, the Society’s “historic sites man”, will present an illustrated on-line discussion on at 3 p.m., Tuesday June 29 to lure you into the deepest recesses of Hastings County. His talk will feature descriptions of road trips into Hastings County in search of historic plaques.

Coming to Halifax: A Conversation with Italian Women
2021-06-29 18:00 - 19:00 | online
ICAP invites you to attend the Pier 21 launch of Coming to Halifax: A Conversation with Italian Women. This is in support of our ICAP member, Nancy Spina.
Beginning with a screening of the short documentary, Coming to Halifax, and followed by a conversation with filmmaker Nancy Spina, join us via Zoom Webinar for an evening of film!
Coming to Halifax is a closer look at female Italian immigration experiences, focusing on those settling in Halifax. Opening remarks provided by Carrie-Ann Smith, Vice President of Audience Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, and Maria Cioni of the Italian Canadian Archives Project.
Partnered with the Italian Canadian Association of Nova Scotia and the Italian Canadian Archives Project.

Caledon East & District Historical Society June 2021 Presentation
2021-06-30 19:00 | online
Topic: Major Dave Borrett Presents ​The History of ​the Sandhill Pipes & Drums
