FLEET: Foreshore

October 1-8th 2026 (residency Oct 1-8th, public performance on Oct 6th)

We are thrilled to welcome Love Songs to End Colonization to FLEET: Foreshore! 

Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick share an abiding love for karaoke, music, and performance. Along with curator Tomas Jonsson, over the past 5 years these three friends have developed the artistic collaboration Love Songs to End Colonization, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness and decolonial joy that repurposes popular love songs as critiques of colonization in Canada. Through collective singing, Love Songs to End Colonization transforms and invites a deeper relationship to Land/Territory, “acknowledging the pain of historical violences within Canada that have harmed our communities while utilizing karaoke as a methodology for world-building and social change.” Love Songs to End Colonization acknowledges the inventor of the modern karaoke machine, Shigeiki Negishi. This artwork cannot exist without this gift.

The artists will use this residency time at FLEET: Foreshore for research and dreaming, and offer a performance from the Blue Cabin (a short walk to the water from FLEET: Foreshore) on October 6th. This week is a planting of seeds of sorts - the artists will return for a longer residency in 2027.

Love Songs to End Colonization Performance by Peter Morin, Jimmie Kilpatrick, and Tomas Jonsson

Date: Tuesday October 6
Time: 5-7pm
Location: Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency - floating just north of the Maritime Museum in Vanier Park. Watch for more details closer to the date.
Free - everyone welcome!

Bios:

Jimmie Kilpatrick (b. 1979, Ontario; he/him) is a musician, educator, and interdisciplinary artist based in Brandon, Manitoba. He’s been touring regularly and releasing records on Toronto’s You’ve Changed Records since 2009. Kilpatrick cut his rock & roll teeth in the early 2000’s, as part of the seminal east coast indie outfit Shotgun and Jaybird. He has appeared on recordings by John K. Samson, Christine Fellows, Joel Plaskett and By Divine Right.

Peter Morin (b. 1977, Tahltan Nation/British Columbia; he/him) is a grandson of Tahltan ancestor artists. Morin’s work highlights cross-ancestral collaboration and deeply considers the impact zones that occur between Indigenous ways of knowing and Western Settler Colonialism. Morin’s practice has spanned twenty years so far, with exhibitions in London, Berlin, Singapore, New Zealand, and Greenland, as well as across Canada and the United States. Morin currently holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto.

Tomas Jonsson (b. 1975 Mohkinstsis / Calgary; he/him) has curated, presented, and performed work in Canada and internationally. Tomas’ family came to Montreal from Denmark in 1969, living and travelling west until eventually deciding to stay in Calgary, where he was born in 1975. A large part of his practice has been unraveling and understanding this trajectory, and his relation to a place he now also knows as Mohkinstsis, among other names. Tomas is currently living in oskana ka-asasteki, also known as Pile of Bones, also known as Regina.

Location:

FLEET: Foreshore is located at 1100 Chestnut Street in Vancouver near The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre’s Observatory (“Gordon Southam Observatory”) The Museum of Vancouver, and the Sen̓áḵw Towers. Colonial name “Vanier Park”.

Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency directions here.

FLEET: Foreshore is generously supported by The British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver, and Canada Council for the Arts. Special thanks as well to the Museum of Vancouver and The Blue Cabin for their generous support of this project.

...

Image courtesy of the artists.

‍