Art Topics: Sonja Boon: Migrations, Memory, Identity & Art
Date: Mar 4
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Where: Theatre
Engaging Evening
Join Professor Sonja Boon from the Department of Gender Studies at Memorial University for a discussion about her recent memoir, What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home, and how its themes of complex migrations, memory, identity, and history intersect with those of the art gallery exhibition What Carries Us. ASL/English Interpreting Services are available through NLAD by request only to ASLservices@therooms.ca or 709-757-8090. We will do our best to accommodate requests made within two weeks of the scheduled event.
Events & Programs
Reimagining the classic bedtime story, Matthew-Robin Nye explores how spaces of imagination can transcend categories like child and adult, inviting reflection on how we learn, feel, and connect to artwork across generations.
Through this work, he asks what it means to build environments that are open, attentive, and alive to shared experience—places where visitors can simply be, and where curiosity and presence unfold at their own rhythm.
This is a free program but a ticket is required. Please reserve your free ticket online or call 709-757-8090.
Beaumont-Hamel and the Trail of the Caribou
In this exhibition, find out about the impacts of the First World War on Newfoundlanders and Labradorians and how events overseas dramatically altered our lives at home.
Each tour is approximately 30 – 40 minutes and is included in the cost of admission. Free for Rooms members.