# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-06:00)
- **Event Description**: Location: Professional Development Centre Room 103

Join us for an afternoon Visual Arts talk with Paris-based artist-scholar Maïa Tellit Hawad.

What does it mean to inhabit the Sahara nomadically today?

How are futures dreamed and invented from territories marked by environmental catastrophe and territorial dispossession?

Drawing on Tuareg nomadic imaginaries of land and relation, this talk focuses on counter-fields, expressed through gestures of ambush, camouflage, and the mending of a wounded desert. Through decolonial literary and artistic works that reclaim confiscated horizons, it examines Indigenous gestures of resistance, resilience, and fugitivity as ways of resignifying the desert as a space of possibility, creativity, and transnational solidarity.

Hawad is on faculty for Nomadisms, a project-based residency that provides mentorship and studio time to visual artists working in a wide range of possible mediums, including ceramics, digital media, painting, performance art, and sculpture.

The residency invites artists to engage with the theme of nomadism as both a critical and aesthetic framework. Across their collaborations and creations, participants approach nomadism as a site of inquiry and a form of attentiveness to the earth. 

This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.

Visual Arts is supported by Fondation DRG and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/banff/visual-arts-open-lecture-series-maÏa-tellit-hawad/200029989610110
- **Event Categories**: Art, fine-arts, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Banff
- **state**: AB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada, Alberta T1L 1H5
- **lat**: 51.17394
- **long**: -115.5598
- **full address**: 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada, Alberta T1L 1H5

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad being held?
  - **A:** Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad takes place on Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 at 04:00 pm to Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 at 04:00 pm at 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada, Alberta T1L 1H5.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad?
  - **A:** Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad is organized by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Banff, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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