Maiz Barbacoa Corn Roast & Book Launch

Photo: Studio Kuefner Photography

Maiz Barbacoa
Corn Roast & Book Launch

With all ages art making, free walking tours, and live music, for Doors Open Weekend at Museum London

DOORS OPEN. Live. Work. Play: In the Forest City
Museum London
Sunday, September 22, 2024 | 1:00 – 4:00pm
Free

Join London artist Ron Benner at his garden installation, As The Crow Flies. This annual community gathering features fresh roasted corn on the cob with butter, salt, Mexican chili powder and fresh lime juice. Part sculpture, part installation, and part performance, this event will feature Benner’s roving corn-roasting wagon, Maiz Barbacoa. Maiz Barbacoa includes images of corn roasters from around the world and the names of corn in over
50 languages.

Museum London offers all ages art making, free walking tours, and live music.

An Alternative Cultural History of London, Ontario: Art and Activism

An Embassy Cultural House Project
Special Launch Price – $20.00 ($5 off regular price of this anthology on this day)

Front and inside cover of anthology, Star of Bethlehem wildflowers, 514 Pall Mall St., 2023. Photo: Olivia Mossuto

An Alternative Cultural History of London, Ontario: Art and Activism, 2024
Edited by Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and designed by Olivia Mossuto.
Published by the Embassy Cultural House, 240 pages. Full colour.

This anthology reveals the vibrant yet often overlooked cultures of London, Ontario. The history of collective action within the city is narrated through essays, conversations, poetry, and archival images. It includes texts and images by 36 contributors:

Their writings and accompanying images add to the previous histories written about London, Ontario. The emphasis in this anthology is on art and activism and presents a historical perspective beginning in the 1950s through to the present.

An Alternative Cultural History of London, Ontario: Art and Activism is the Embassy Cultural House’s 9th printed publication since 2020. The ECH is grateful to the following for the financial support of the ECH’s programs and for this publication: the London Arts Council, the City of London, Ontario Arts Council, the Province of Ontario, the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, the Forest City Gallery, Arts & Humanities, Western University, London, Ontario, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University, London, Ontario and Museum London.

The editors express their gratitude to the dedication of the ECH team and all the contributors and supporters from across Canada and internationally who are an integral and essential part of the work that has been accomplished. This publication is a tribute to the collective effort of “what solidarity looks like”.

Elders and Knowledge Keepers Dan and Mary Lou Smoke, Welcoming Address, Museum London, 2022. Photo: Studio Kuefner Photography

This event is part of the weekend-long Doors Open: Live. Work. Play: In the Forest City at Museum London including:

Guided Exhibition Tours
Downtown History & Culture Walking Tours
Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration with Flamenco Dancing and Live Music by Simple Reflections
Art making in Imagination Station

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Questions? Reach out to us at embassyculturalhouse@gmail.com.

Land Acknowledgement:
With humility and respect we acknowledge that Museum London sits at the forks of the Deshkan Ziibi on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Attawandaron.