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Love Songs to End Colonization

Join us at the Cameron Bandshell in Beacon Hill Park for part of a multi-day off-site exhibition.

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

Co-organized by Open Space 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.

Presented alongside their Artists Conversation on August 29, 2026, 2pm at Open Space, 510 Fort Street, and exhibition running August 29 to September 5, 2026, at Open Space.

Feature Image: Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick, Love Songs to End Colonization, 2022, participatory karaoke performance, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg. Photo by Matt Horseman, courtesy of the artists.