ILSA 2025 Annual Gathering,
in Tkaronto at George Brown College from June 2-4, 2025

Please access our English Program here and our French Program here.

Territorial Acknowledgement: George Brown College is located on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and other Indigenous peoples who have lived here over time. We are grateful to share this land as treaty people who learn, work and live in the community with each other. When ILSA gathers, we recognize also the many Nations and homelands that nourish us and whose storied worlds we honour in our work.

Reconnaissance territoriale : Le Collège George Brown est situé sur le territoire traditionnel des Mississaugas de la Première nation de Credit et d'autres peuples autochtones qui ont vécu ici au fil du temps. Nous sommes reconnaissants de partager ce territoire en tant que personnes visées par un traité qui apprennent, travaillent et vivent dans la communauté les uns avec les autres. Lorsque l'ILSA se réunit, nous reconnaissons également les nombreuses nations et patries qui nous nourrissent et dont nous honorons les mondes historiques dans notre travail.

Program Cover Art:

  • About the Artist: Melanie Redman (Cree/Saulteaux/Settler) is a watercolourist and Native Seed Specialist for Nupqu (Ktuxana First Nations). See more of her work at: www.melanieredman.ca 

  • On the cover image she created for ILSA and the theme “Re-Visiting,” she has this to say:

    • My earliest memories are with the land—barefoot in long grass, sheltered by Her whispers, eating berries from Her branches. When I moved from the farm to the cirty, I felt a deep and profound loss. Through study, work, art, and ceremony, I’m re-visiting Her. My watercolours honour the beauty and strength She lends to all life.

      I work with native plants to support land restoration for the Ktunaxa Nation. Yarrow (q̓u¢a¢qatuna), a resilient species, is a successional starter for land reclamation. It survives where systems have failed—an emblem of strength, renewal, and Indigenous knowledges.

      Now, as a mother, with my own children, I am so grateful for the moments they are barefoot. I’m grateful to ILSA for supporting this journey. Your work in this “re-visiting” is vital—you, too, are yarrow.