Ottawa Bluesfest at Zibi: Development at Sacred Site Poses Questions of Responsibility

By Greg MacDougall, Counterpunch, August 9, 2020

The ‘Zibi’ development-in-construction is situated at a sacred site – the area at what is known in English as the Chaudière Falls, on the river between Ottawa and Gatineau, an area named Akikodjiwan or Asinabka in the Algonquin language Anishinabemowin.

These first two August weekends, the RBC Bluesfest Ottawa drive-in concerts – livestreamed online with #CanadaPerforms, a federal program to support artists during the COVID pandemic – are being hosted at a venue that may raise eyebrows to anyone supporting the current protests against racism and monuments to a racist-colonial past.

(...)Ecology Ottawa chose to stop taking sponsorship money from the development company in 2015, to maintain a clear distance from the developer.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/ottawa-bluesfest-at-zibi-development-at-sacred-site-poses-questions-of-responsibility/

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