In September at The Gallery, five artists explore the horizons of our local area (and lives), and Barbara Zimmerman takes us to the Brazilian Amazon where the Kayapo Indigenous people fight to protect their land.
Exhibit Reception: Horizons
August 31 | 2 pm-4 pm
Don’t miss the opening for The Gallery’s September exhibit, Horizons, on August 31 from 2-4 pm!
Whether it’s a farmer’s field stretching into the distance, a vast apple orchard, or the shimmering waters of Georgian Bay, this is a place of big skies and far horizons.
Five painters- Dorothy Embacher, Michelle Languedoc Fleming, Brian Fray, Dean Raeburn-Bell, and Paula Rivers- have all been captivated and inspired by this beautiful area. Not only have they been motivated by the horizons around them, but also by the internal horizons that inspire and challenge each of them to create their art
“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
ACC Presents: Barbara Zimmerman & the Kayapo Story
September 26 | 7pm
The Arts & Culture Council for the Gallery at L.E. Shore is pleased to present Barbara Zimmerman and the Kayapo Story: Large Scale Amazon Forest Conservation with Indigenous Peoples.
After completing her MSc and PhD in tropical ecology, Barbara Zimmerman became involved with the struggle of the Kayapo Indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon to defend their traditional territory in the face of the rapidly advancing frontier. Since 1992, she has worked with conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Kayapo communities to strengthen Kayapo's capacity for protecting over 100,000km of their legally ratified territories from encroachment, invasion, and deforestation in the lawless southeastern Amazon. The Kayapo territory represents the last large block of intact primary rainforest in the high deforestation region of the southeastern Amazon.
Join us and hear the story of the Kayapo Project from Barbara L. Zimmerman, PhD, Officer of the Order of Canada (OOC), Director, Kayapo Project with The International Conservation Fund of Canada and Environmental Defense Fund (USA)