Ground breaking ceremony launches Embassy Commons affordable housing project in London

8/1/2020

On July 29, 2020, Indwell, a Hamilton-based organization, held a ground breaking ceremony to launch it's Embassy Commons affordable housing project on the site of the old Embassy Hotel at 744 Dundas Street in London, Ontario. The 72-unit apartment building will be geared towards people struggling with addiction, mental health or finding a stable place to live.

Jamelie Hassan participated in the the groundbreaking ceremony and an image from one of her watercolours of the former Embassy Hotel will be installed on the new building's façade. Read the CBC's news story here.

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Jamelie Hassan is a visual artist and activist based in London, Ontario. Since the 1970's, she has exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. She is also active as a lecturer, writer and independent curator and has travelled and worked globally.

In 2001 she received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in recognition of her artistic achievement. Her activism, curatorial work and contributions to the artist-run centre movement in Canada were also mentioned by the jury in their statement.

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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