2022 ArtsEverywhere Festival

The ArtsEverywhere Festival is the place where conversations, ideas, and artistic experiments presented on ArtsEverywhere.ca come alive in our home community of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Typically held over four days, the festival offers lectures, conversations, music, artistic performances, circle gatherings, literary readings, exhibitions, and much more. For 2022, we held our January events online, with The Guelph Lecture—On Being taking place in person May 6th. By bringing to the gathering a diverse, informative, creative, and sometimes unlikely combination of people, the festival offers a program that connects to the ongoing work and needs of many organizations and individuals who wish to make the world a better place.

Click on the links in the Program section below to view our 2022 events

Background image: Alex Pentek. Unity, (Detail), 2021, Stainless steel, height 16ft. Washington DC, USA. Image: Don Gregory.

Program

January

Conversation

Three Conversations: Land in Practice/Practice in Land

Friday, January 28, 2022
9:00 am - 3:00 pm • Free • Zoom

Speaker

Big Ideas in Art & Culture: Alex Pentek

Saturday, January 29, 2022
11:00 am - 12:30 pm • Free • Zoom

Conversation

Thinking Together in the Present

Saturday, January 29, 2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • Free • Zoom

May

Performance

The Guelph Lecture—On Being 2022

Friday, May 6, 2022
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm • $25.00 • RRC

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Highlights

For 2022 The Guelph Lecture—On Being came back with a live event at the River Run Centre that blended live music, spoken word, and urgent dialogue. Happening May 6th in Guelph, Ontario, the 2022 Guelph Lecture featured a keynote conversation between bestselling author and climate activist Naomi Klein and Indigenous leader Chief Ninawá Huni Kui of the Amazon forest, who discussed the future of our rainforests, the climate warning signs in Brazil and Canada, and the implications that political decisions can have for the rest of the world. Their full conversation is presented below.

JUNO Award winning duo Digging Roots performed songs from their recent albums, and to kick off the evening we heard a spoken word performance from Ontario’s poet laureate Randell Adjei, who delivered a set of poems exploring the power of creativity, community, and commemoration.

Elder Peter Schuler offered an opening to the evening, and professor Vanessa Andreotti moderated the keynote conversation and Q&A, and provided translation.

Our programming for January 28 and 29 began on Friday with three online conversations between pairs of artists from three broad geographic regions: the Circumpolar North, Southern Ontario, and the Global South. Curated by Elwood Jimmy, these events include artists familiar to our festival audience including Taqralik Partridge, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, and Lisa Hirmer. Two of these conversations are presented in full on the event page.

Saturday’s events featured the Big Ideas in Art and Culture lecture from artist Alex Pentek. Pentek presented a talk titled “Challenging Collective Remembrance,” which addresses different approaches and challenges to sculptural memorialization, and his presentation will be followed by a Q&A. In the afternoon we hosted a conversation between editor Matthew Stadler and author Simon(e) van Saarloos, whose new book Take ‘Em Down also presents a critical investigation of historic memorialization. Watch their conversation on the event page.