Performance / Opening Reception / Karaoke
In the FOFA Gallery’s Outdoor Courtyard
1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
From 7:00 PM – 9 PM
Free
Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization / Kanorónhkhwa’tshera Karenna’shón:’a Taká:taste ne Aionkhiia’tó:rarake, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change. Listeners are invited to perform a song, sing along, clap, dance, or simply witness and soak in love and music to dismantle colonialism, one love song at a time.
“For those three minutes you are a star, and you feel like a star. And the people watching realize that they are watching a star. This performance is guided by those three minutes, and in those minutes, we offer the singer a chance to reframe their relationship to colonization and the act of decolonizing in Canada.” — Peter Morin & Jimmie Kilpatrick
This performance opens the exhibition Love Songs to End Colonization / Kanorónhkhwa’tshera Karenna’shón:’a Taká:taste ne Aionkhiia’tó:rarake in the Gallery’s indoor vitrine from June 19, through August 9, 2026. Curated by Tomas Jonsson, it features ephemera and documentation from past performances. The exhibition is open to the public every day, from 7 AM to 11 PM on the ground floor of the McConnell Library Building, at 1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.