Chantal Gibson Writer-Artist-Educator
@ chantalgibsonartist Vancouver BC
MOA UBC Reading
Decolonizing Voices: A Celebration of Canadian Black HERstory
Thursday February 2, 2020
Join MOA for a celebration of Black Canadian Womxn as part of Black History Month events across the UBC campus.
MOA pays tribute to the contributions of Black Womxn Canadians with an evening of academic and artistic performances. The night (free with museum admission) features readings and artist talks from artist, poet and award-winning educator, Chantal Gibson; founder and director of BlackArt Gastown, Nya Lewis; and arts curator and producer Barbara Chirinos. Each of these womxn will explore how we can decolonize institutional prejudice and evaluate how colonialism has woven its way into our every day lives through their own unique perspectives and forms of artistic and intellectual expression.MOA pays tribute to the contributions of Black Womxn Canadians with an evening of academic and artistic performances.
OCAD University Key Note August 28, 2019 1:00pm
How She Read: So, what does it mean to Decolonize your mind?
A talk by artist/author Chantal Gibson
I’m in the on-going process of decolonizing my thinking—that makes me feel very uncomfortable at times, so, right now, I’m sitting still in the discomfort and listening to the Intersectional, Indigenous and LGBTQ2 voices that are informing my life and my work. ~Chantal Gibson
In the process of decolonizing her thinking, teacher, artist, author Chantal Gibson believes we can’t change institutions without looking back, ‘loosening our tongues,’ and critically evaluating how colonialism seeps into our classrooms. In this hybrid lecture/reading/artist talk, Gibson will share her book How She Read and discuss how looking back at the classrooms of her past helped her reimagine her current teaching practice.
Faculty Workshop August 28 2:30pm
"The Other James Baldwin" Creative Workshop: Using the past to rethink today's curriculum.
Vancouver Public Library January 22, 2020
Incite: Vancouver Writer's Festival Poets in Conversation
Ethnographic Terminalia November 23, 2019
Poetry Reading at The Hangar at the Center for Digital Media
SFU Lunch Poems Series November 20, 2019
How She Read: Public Reading 12:00pm SFU Harbour Center Teck Gallery
Emily Carr University October 30, 2019
Wa Na Wari Arts Center Seattle Oct 18 - Dec 28, 2019
What does it mean to decolonize
your mind? Lecture and
OJB Faculty Workshop
Wa Na Wari Arts Center Seattle Oct 18 - Dec 28, 2019
Wa Na Wari Arts Center Seattle Oct 18 - Dec 28, 2019
Wa Na Wari Arts Center Seattle Oct 18 - Dec 28, 2019
Group art show, OJB Public Workshop and Franklin High School workshops
Afrocentrism Conference September 22, 2019
Wa Na Wari Arts Center Seattle Oct 18 - Dec 28, 2019
Wa Na Wari Arts Center Seattle Oct 18 - Dec 28, 2019
Other James Baldwin Workshop
SFU Harbour Center campus
Eden Mills Writers' Festival September 8, 2019
Reading and interview with
Madhur Anand,
Sunday September 8th at 12:30pm
OCADU Key Note Talk August 28, 2019
OCAD University Key Note and
Faculty Workshop
Wednesday August 28, 2019
Sunshine Coast Festival August 17, 2019
Sunshine Coast Festival August 17, 2019
Poetry reading with co-presenter
Chelene Knight, Sechelt
Saturday August 17th at 2:30pm.
Growing Room Literary Festival March 2019
Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-Op Radio Feb 27 2019
Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-Op Radio Feb 27 2019
Panel/Readings Sunday March 10th Writing on the Wall, Storytelling in Visual Art at 10:30am and Black Voices Raised at 7:30pm--Red Gate Review Stage.
Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-Op Radio Feb 27 2019
Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-Op Radio Feb 27 2019
Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-Op Radio Feb 27 2019
RC Weslowski interviews poets
Chantal Gibson and Cicely Belle-Blain about their work and the upcoming Growing Room Festival.
CBC North by Northwest February 24 2019
Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-Op Radio Feb 27 2019
How She Read Book Launch Open Space Feb 19
Interview with Khalil Akhtar and reading from How She Read.
Click image to go to interview.
How She Read Book Launch Open Space Feb 19
How She Read Book Launch Open Space Feb 19
Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 pm
Book launch and reading from Gibson’s forthcoming book of poetry, How She Read, at Open Space.
Open Space Victoria Exhibit & Residency Jan 12-Feb 26
Open Space Victoria Exhibit & Residency Jan 12-Feb 26
Saturday, Feb. 16 at 2:00 pm
Artist talk and panel discussion on confronting the romance of empire in education and cultural institutions, alongside Victoria-based educators, curators, and artists.
TOME McPherson Library UVIC Jan 12 -Feb 26
Open Space Victoria Exhibit & Residency Jan 12-Feb 26
Thursday, Feb. 14 at 3:00 pm Reading from How She Read at the University of Victoria’s McPherson Library, Room A003.
CBC On the Coast February 13th 2019
Vancouver Public Library February 13th 2019
Interview with Gloria Macarenko for Ladies Night: Reading Women in the City and How She Read. Click image to go to interview.
Vancouver Public Library February 13th 2019
Vancouver Public Library February 13th 2019
Ladies Night: Reading Women in the City 6:30pm to 8:30pm with Chelene Knight, Juliane Okot Bitek and guest Whitney French.
Ross Creek, Canning, NS Feb 10 - Mar 25, 2019
How She Read: (re)Visiting my Mother's Nova Scotia. Virtual artist talk February 10th at 2pm.
Vancouver Public Library M October 2018 - April 2019
Vancouver Public Library M October 2018 - April 2019
Morph: Change the Story
Vancouver Public Library's inaugural exhibition. 8th Floor
October 2018 to April 2019
In Conversation with Lawrence Hill 2018
Vancouver Public Library M October 2018 - April 2019
In Conversation with Lawrence Hill 2018
Chantal Gibson in Conversation with Lawrence Hill
April 27, 2018. SFU Dean's Lecture on Information and Society.
Here We Are Here 2018 ROM and MBAM
Vancouver Public Library M October 2018 - April 2019
In Conversation with Lawrence Hill 2018
Souvenir (2018). Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
January 26-April 22, 2018
Musee des Beaux-Arts Montreal
May-September 2018