• .:
  • Projects
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    • A List of Antagonisms: Kitchener, ON
    • 100 years then and hereafter
    • we remain profoundly and infinitely connected
    • Declarations for a Different Future
    • In Retrospect
    • Neighbourhood Trust
    • The Egyptian
    • A List of Antagonisms: Hamilton, ON
    • Rehearsing Disagreement
    • Everything I Wanted to Tell You
    • Dear Scarborough
    • This Place
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    • Everything Is Happening Right Here
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    • Something Written to the White House
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    • Trying to Find a Way to Tell You
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    • Flagged for Review
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    • A Record of the Rivers
    • The Memory Cookbook
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    • An Etymology of Things
    • The Cycles of Stupidity
    • 1W3KND
    • How to Forget the Border Completely
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    • Nuit Blanche Scarborough
    • PLUS
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    • Letters to Scarborough
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    • Poetry in the Streets
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Hiba Abdallah

  • .:
  • Projects
    • Same Difference
    • Reconnecting to the Bow
    • Minor Stipulations
    • A List of Antagonisms: Kitchener, ON
    • 100 years then and hereafter
    • we remain profoundly and infinitely connected
    • Declarations for a Different Future
    • In Retrospect
    • Neighbourhood Trust
    • The Egyptian
    • A List of Antagonisms: Hamilton, ON
    • Rehearsing Disagreement
    • Everything I Wanted to Tell You
    • Dear Scarborough
    • This Place
    • Souvenir Shop: Scarborough, ON
    • The Rights of Nature
    • Everything Is Happening Right Here
    • Souvenir Shop: Mississauga, ON
    • Something Written to the White House
    • Something Written in the Arabic Language
    • Welcome to Guelph
    • Utterance
    • Trying to Find a Way to Tell You
    • Varying Proximities
    • Flagged for Review
  • Collaborations
  • Writing & Publications
    • Dear Scarborough
    • A Record of the Rivers
    • The Memory Cookbook
    • The Rights of Nature
    • An Etymology of Things
    • The Cycles of Stupidity
    • 1W3KND
    • How to Forget the Border Completely
  • News
    • Call Calgary's Bow River
    • Belonging to a Place: Episode 1—Holding Ground
    • The Art of Change Podcast: Episode 11—Art and Social Change
    • Neighbourhood Trust: The Housing Crisis
    • Capilano Review: Winter 2019
    • A List of Antagonisms
    • Nuit Blanche Scarborough
    • PLUS
    • Bow River's Emotions
    • Nuit Blanche Makes Mark in Scaborough
    • Letters to Scarborough
    • Field Trip: Toronto
    • Refugee, immigrant women collaborate
    • Welcome to Guelph
    • The Bow River
    • Life Inside the Broken City
    • Poetry in the Streets
    • Everyone's the Best
  • Contact
  • Broken City Lab
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Rights of Nature

September 30, 2017

CLOSING CEREMONY: PUBLIC STUDIO

September 30, 2017
4:30pm
The Grange Park, Toronto, ON

In unison we declare that nature be afforded the same rights as people. We demand the end to extraction and colonial destruction, to war and displacement driven by economic greed. We demand this day that the earth be recentered together with people, we demand that the Canadian government include the Rights of Nature into the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We say this, we chant this, and we demand our future together. The revolution is coming.

I got to join artist Ange Loft to lead a Public Studio performance of choral voices declaring the Rights of Nature. Creative Time Summit attendees participated.

The closing ceremony included with traditional Haida song and prayer led by Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, a vocalist and well-known lawyer representing the Haida Nation in the area of aboriginal-environmental law.

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