Media Coverage:
Stanley Wany interviewed on CTV Morning Live, with Rosey Edeh, February 28, 2022: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2391960
CBC Best Comic Books of 2021: Stanley Wany, Helem, 2021.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/helem-1.6127149
Helem is available for sale in the OAG Shop.
Resources and Research:
Ashley Parks. In Memory of Those Who Chose the Sea, 2020. First featured in Theatre TCU Black Excellence’s “BLACKOUT: A Cabaret Honoring Black Lives.”
https://www.ashleyparks.com/parkspoetry/in-memory-of-those-who-chose-the-sea
Desmond Cole. The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2020.
An Evening with Desmond Cole, Canadian Museum of History. February 18, 2021. Accessible online:
https://www.historymuseum.ca/event/an-evening-with-desmond-cole/
Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man. New York, NY: Random House, 1952.
Free reference in The Living Room.
Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 2021. Produced by Samuel L. Jackson. CBC Gem.
https://gem.cbc.ca/media/enslaved/
Frantz Fanon. Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. from 1952 original, Richard Philcox. New York, NY: Grove Press. 2008.
Tom Feelings. The Middle Passage: White Ships / Black Cargo. Penguin Young Readers Group, 2018.
Available for sale in the OAG Shop, and free reference in The Living Room.
Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation. Trans. Betsey Wing. Ann Arbour, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America. Curator Okwui Enwezor. Exhibition February 17 to June 6, 2021. New York City, NY: New Museum, 2021. https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/grief-and-grievance-art-and-mourning-in-america-1
Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Halifax, NS and Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery
https://nscad.ca/research/institute-for-the-study-of-canadian-slavery/
Slavery’s long shadow: The impact of 200 years enslavement in Canada, Parts 1 and 2. 2018. Host Kyle G. Brown. CBC Ideas.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/slavery-s-long-shadow-the-impact-of-200-years-of-enslavement-in-canada-1.4733595
Stanley Wany’s interactive structure is built with the exact dimensions of the spatial conditions endured by African peoples aboard the Portuguese slaving ship Veloz. The dimensions are drawn from an eye-witness account recorded in 1829 by Irish abolitionist Reverend Robert Walsh, when he boarded the vessel bound for Brazil:
Understanding Slavery Initiative (USI): Supporting the teaching and learning of transatlantic histories and legacies. Website. 2021.
http://archive.understandingslavery.com/index.html
Amel Zaazaa and Christian Nadeau, eds. 11 brefs essais contre le racisme. Pour une lutte systémique. Montréal, QC: Éditions Somme Toute, 2019 [in French].
Free reference in The Living Room.