Atelier Céladon

Brunch: a fluid merging of the breakfast and lunch time+space, dedicated to the refuelling of our needs and an opportune context of checking in with our well-being; of sharing and accepting, with nourishment involved. Yet brunch can also be a practice that reproduces exclusive subcultures of white, colonial-capitalist classist excess. What is at stake in sharing food in a settler colonial context? How can we connect with brunch as a time to co-create communities of care and accountability in a way that is attentive our colonial contexts? How can we connect more broadly with sharing food as a practise that allow us to regenerate our connection to our ancestries and the land?

Let this brunch be open to all positive serendipitous exchanges, with the intention of exploring what self-care,  collective care, and landcare might look like in Montréal / Tio’tia:ke. Yes, this can be your priority.

Priya is an artist/yogi interested in the process of artistic practices and their potential as forms of creative therapy. Her own practice experiments with: collage, mandala making, conversations around the dinner table, interventional rituals and performances, and ephemeral medium such as wax and fire to create spaces of meditation for the viewer. Her most recent collaborations include projects through: articule, Société des Arts Technologiques [SAT], Place To B, Sustainability Action Fund Concordia, Pervers/Cité, Maison de l’Architecture de Québec, The House of Intuition Montréal, and Art Matters. Priya’s main focus throughout her work is about creating accessibility across disciplines, community engagement, mindfulness, and promoting collective care - especially for people who are racialized and for those who struggle with mental health challenges. She is co-founder of H.E.R.E  (Healing Each-other Radically Everyday) and ACHAAR (an ongoing series addressing the role food plays in triggering and resolving cultural identity crises).

sha is a queer femme butterfly broom-wielder & co-creator of beat:root & re:bodies, collectives honouring ancestral connection through the body, spirit, land, and food. The lands of Quezon, Batangas, Romblon, Mindoro & Ilocos Sur hold the earth, waters, and air that gave life to my most recent an-sisters. For my first 17 years in this life, i was born and regenerated by the lands of Tkaronto, in traditional Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabek, Huron-Wendat territories. Since then, I’ve resided mostly in Tio’tiah:ke, in Kanien’kehá:ka & Haudeonsaunee lands. I keep offerings on queererth.wordpress.com/