Location: Fogo Island Inn Cinema

Join Jean-François Bélisle, Director, National Gallery of Canada, Zita Cobb, Shorefast, Founder and CEO, and Kitty Scott, Director, Fogo Island Arts, for a discussion of the NGC's National Engagement strategy and the significance of place in contemporary Canadian culture.

The conversation will highlight two key artworks, Sharon Lockhart's WINDWARD (2025) and Liam Gillick's A Variability Quantifier (The Fogo Island Red Weather Station) (2022), which emerged from deep engagements with the island's landscape, community, and climate.

These works connect art, place and ecological thinking in exemplary manners while embodying the National Gallery's mission to create visual-arts experiences that deepen our understanding of art and expand how we see the world and our shared place in it.