TORONTO—4elements Living Arts and their community partners were presented with a 2017 Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award last Friday in Toronto. The awards recognize individuals, groups and communities for exceptional contributions to conserving Ontario’s cultural and natural heritage.
“These exceptional individuals, organizations, and communities are champions of our past and architects of our future,” said the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdesdell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. “On behalf of a grateful province, I thank them for their exemplary achievements in conserving the best of Ontario from which we may learn and mature.”
“The Ontario Heritage Trust is proud to join the Lieutenant Governor in recognizing these remarkable individuals, organizations and communities for their exceptional achievements in conservation. Their work has made an enduring impact-helping to preserve the irreplaceable heritage of this province-so that it remains for future generations,” said Harvey McCue, chair of the Ontario Heritage Trust.
4elements Living Arts and their community partners were recognized for excellence in conservation for their ‘Billings Connections Trail: Nature. Art. Heritage’ program.
Each year, the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards celebrate individuals, groups and communities for exceptional contributions to cultural and natural heritage conservation, environmentally sustainability and biodiversity, a release notes.
4elements Living Arts and community partners-the Township of Billings, the Old Mill Heritage Centre and Kagawong Recreation Committee-collaborated on the Billings Connections Trail: Nature. Art. Heritage. The walking, cycling and touring trail integrates local heritage and the history of the Anishinaabeg. Artists were invited to create a series of interpretive plaques and outdoor public art sculptures to respond to the relationship between land, the environment and colonization. The trail includes 32 historical interpretive plaques and 10 public sculptures. The public works and plaques have facilitated a deeper conversation and understanding about the complexities of Truth and Reconciliation.
The award was presented by the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdesdell and the Ontario Heritage Trust on Friday, February 23 in the Legislative building in Queen’s Park in Toronto.
