Response: Remembering Our Futures Opening Celebration

Join The Polygon on Sunday, March 9th for the Response: Remembering Our Futures Opening Celebration.

6:30 pm - Doors Open to Seaspan Pavilion
7:00 pm - Remarks
7:15 pm - Screening of the Response: Remembering Our Futures films

Admission is free with RSVP. RSVP here.

Response: Remembering Our Futures is on view at The Polygon March 5 – April 4, played on a continuous loop, Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 3pm.

About the Exhibition
Response: Remembering Our Futures is the fifth annual iteration of The Polygon Gallery's Response Program, an annual filmmaking initiative that inspires artistic responses to historical and contemporary Indigenous ways of being. Past generations, stories, and histories influence the way we look toward our futures, inciting care and intention as we imagine beyond current realities. By breaking down the dichotomy of past and present, we invite an all-encompassing understanding of the relationships that we hold. Looking forward can feel uneasy during a time where so much seems uncertain, but Remembering Our Futures reminds us that our relationships exist in all directions, and tending to them allows us to see further than ourselves.

Featuring (in order of the reel)

Jennifer Sakeskanip (Mitchell), Kisâkihitin, 2024, 7:17 minutes

Naomi Watkins, Her Stories Have Always Been a Part of Me, 2024, 7:15 minutes

Shayne Hommy, ᓂᐦᑖᐃᐧᐦᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ [nihtâwihcikewin], 2024, 6:57 minutes

Keenan Marchand, The Spiral Trail, 2024, 7:58 minutes

Parumveer Walia, All We Know To Be Real, 2024, 2:42 minutes

Kiera Eustache, Remembering Our Game, 2024, 2:30 minutes

Constance Arden, I have been waiting for hours, 2:31 minutes

Monica Cheema, To Look, And To Look Again, 2024, 5:28 minutes

Vance Wright, Ba'oya Hubuk'esi; I Love Them By The Edge, 8:36 minutes

Melanie Evelyn, Seafoam Diadem, 2024, 7:37 minutes

Kaleb Thiessen (Belak), orange juice and popsicles, 2024, 7:53 minutes

Esther Jungnickel, Sink into Hope, 2024, 2:13 minutes

Presenting Sponsor: TD The Ready Commitment

Fondation Partner: Taylor Taliesin Foundation

Media Partner: APTN

Banner image: Jennifer Sakeskanip (Mitchell), Kisâkihitin, 2024