EVERYSEEKER takes place in Kjipuktuk, located in Mi’kma’ki which is unceded and unsurrendered Mi'kmaq territory bound by the Peace and Friendship Treaties.

It is crucial to recognize that these Treaties never gave land rights to settlers, that is why it is important to name that Mi'kma'ki is unceded and unsurrendered. As a music festival that has historically used performance spaces in the North End of Kjipuktuk, a traditionally African Nova Scotian and Mi'kmaq neighborhood, we interrogate and challenge the ways that arts spaces and the creative sector at large works as gentrifiers and identify the ways that we benefit from anti Indigenous and anti Black racism. We are actively in processes as an organization to continuously grow, further relationships of mutuality, trust, care, and work within our responsibilities to elevate underrepresented voices and perspectives through our platform.

For EVERYSEEKER 2021, expect to be moved into celebration, to (re)believe in magic and spell-casting of the sonic variety, and called into responding to rhythm - beat - melody - experimentation.

Expect to feel like summer has arrived and like you have been transported to memories of crowded, sweaty dance parties, holding your best friend's hand as you listen reverently to the most exquisite grace note; the joy of watching exuberant dance-offs and witnessing our communities reverberate collectively. EVERYSEEKER 2021 tastes like childhood popsicles in late August, a warm stack of pancakes, too much sugar in your iced coffee, the ripest fruits. This festival sounds like delightful pandemonium, joyful roar, playful sonance, soft orchestra, heartfelt drums, exploratory invitation, poly-dimensional resonance, mystifying timbre, time travel.

POSTAL BROADCAST

this sound is everywhere here right now ~ this sound is everywhere here right now ~ this sound is everywhere here right now

Bridging the digital to the physical, bringing attention to and resisting the challenges of distance, and instilling a sense of connection across borders through creation of sonic works on postcards.

Sheenah Ko | Saguenay River
Still House Plants | i follow the instructions on my phone, they take me where i need to go
standpartners | tubtones: the sanctuary

Visuals by Marissa Sean Cruz

The visuals on each postcard is an arrangement of colours found in the artist's original reference images. The original reference images situated the artists in time/space: pictures of their studio workspaces, the view from windows, rivers, and bubble baths have been reworked.
The pulling of colour information into palettes, along with words from Sheenah Ko’s reflections bring forward ideas of collectivity, mediation, and is hopeful for abundant emergences from this cultural chrysalis.