2021 Multifaith Calendar - Living Legacies
Proudly celebrating its 35th year, the 2021 Multifaith Calendar’s theme is ‘Living Legacies.’
Published by the Multifaith Action Society (MAS), the Multifaith Calendar (MFC) is a unique educational resource that facilitates understanding of religious occasions and festivals integral to a wide spectrum of cultural and faith communities.
The 12 month, full-sized wall Multifaith Calendar offers insight into the world's major faiths - a window that gives not only accurate information on each of the major holidays and festivals, including their dates and significance, but detailed historical information of these faiths and their relationship to time – giving us a better understanding of many varied cultures.
The MFC is also a carefully selected collection of art work. Each year a theme is chosen and artists from across North America as well as Internationally submit art for consideration. We are proud to say that these images are original works from a wide variety of visual artists.
Living Legacies...
What do we want to leave our children? Do we want to leave polluted air, ravaged forests, dying oceans and toxic garbage dumps, or do we want to clean up our act and create natural beauty and wonder in every landscape? Do we want to leave a world in conflict or a world that values peace, cooperation, and respect? How do we create living legacies for our children, friends, neighbours to inherit and cherish?
Let’s think about and imagine the living legacies we could leave - so our children can walk freely in nature, grow food in their own back yards, swim in pristine oceans, and foster enduring respect and love for our communities as well as each other no matter the culture or creed and ensure that we extend dignity and respect for all.
The 2021 Multifaith Calendar offers the opportunity to visually reflect on what living legacies can be left for current and future generations.
2021 MFC cover artist: Damian John : 'Salmon and Bear'
'Salmon and Bear', a title kept simple on purpose, speaks to the idea of living legacy by looking to nature as a wisdom keeper. The various circles and connections that deepen as we begin to find and sit in our essence is depicted by those beautiful beings around us that by the simple fact of living hold their place in the universe.
Bear and Salmon have an ancient relationship that has evolved over millennia, each with a deep knowing of the other. Their relationship is a living legacy and the wisdom in it is truly deep and profound.
...Damian John
Digital painting; 12" x 18"
Artist's Bio... Damian John (Ymir, BC) is a Tl’azt’en artist who loves to explore big colours, bold characters, and story. He incorporates the visual styles of native artists that were so prominent in his childhood, having some of the sensibilities of those artists show up in his work, but in a distinct style that is his own. His goal is always working towards art that expresses the beauty he sees in the world, to engage in fun and joy and whimsy and portray that to those who see his work.
His work is in private and corporate collections across Canada, the First Peoples Cultural Council and has recently been commissioned for a 20’ x 10’ back-lit digital piece for in front of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.
