No one is illegal – Halifax/Kjipuktuk’s (NOII-Hfx) is excited to participate in Antigonight 2022: Art After Dark Festival! This year’s theme is Rurality.
Our art installation for Antigonight consists of 5 portraits of migrant community members, painted on 8x11 ft plywood boards. The portraits seek to capture the agency, dignity and joy of migrant farm and fish plant workers, asylum-seekers, migrant students and undocumented people, who are part of rural towns and villages throughout Nova Scotia. Due to precarious or temporary immigration status, migrant community members do not have access to the same rights and essential services such as healthcare as Nova Scotians do, and may be separated from family. For this reason, migrants across the country are calling for full and permanent status for all migrants.
These portraits will be accompanied by informational panels speaking to the realities faced by each of these migrant communities, and why the call for status for all is urgent and necessary. Members of NOII-Hfx will be on hand to speak with participants about our work.
This project was facilitated by a working group consisting of 10 volunteer members of the migrant justice organization No One Is Illegal-Halifax/Kjipuktuk. Sofia Alarcon (she/her) is the primary artist who produced the initial illustrations and painting was undertaken by a group of over 40 volunteers.
No one is illegal - Halifax/Kjipuktuk is a community-based migrant justice organization.Through our Migrant Workers Program, NOII-Hfx is engaged in outreach, accompaniment, public education, and advocacy, in solidarity with migrant workers throughout the province.
