Love Songs to End Colonization
August 28, 2026 September 5, 2026 Co-organized by Open Space Arts Society and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, curated by Doug Jarvis, Open Space Executive Director, Tomas Jonsson, Tour Dad, and Toby Lawrence, AGGV Curator of Contemporary Art.Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change. Listeners are invited to perform a song, sing-along, clap, dance, or simply witness and soak in love and music to dismantle colonialism, one love song at a time.
“For those three minutes you are a star, and you feel like a star. And the people watching realize that they are watching a star. This performance is guided by those three minutes, and in those minutes we offer the singer a chance to reframe their relationship to colonization and the act of decolonizing in Canada.” — Peter Morin & Jimmie Kilpatrick
Performance
Friday, August 28 | 6-8pm
Cameron Bandshell, Beacon Hill Park
Artists Conversation
Saturday August 29 | 2pm
Open Space Arts Society, 510 Fort Street
Exhibition
August 29 to September 5, 2026
Open Space Art Society, 510 Fort Street
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