Maroon Town is an immersive exhibition by Kjipuktuk (Halifax)-based artist Tyshan Wright. Maroon Town (re)imagines, (re)creates, and (re)claims the lived experience of Maroons in Nova Scotia in 1796, in 2023, and in the future. Following their forced exile after the Second Maroon War with the British, Jamaican Maroons were exiled to Mi’kma’ki and the British colony of Nova Scotia in 1796. While a majority of Maroons departed Nova Scotia centuries ago after sustained resistance and protest, many Maroon descendants still live in this province where the legacy of Maroon culture endures. In this exhibition, Tyshan Wright creates a parafictional staging of a Maroon house and settlement that includes expertly handcrafted iterations of the ceremonial and everyday domestic objects that Maroons were forced to leave behind in Jamaica as well as those they use today. Through this exhibition, Tyshan Wright poses a powerful Afrofuturist intervention to connect historic Maroon resilience and resistance on this land, with the resurgent sovereignty enacted today, toward creating future Maroon cultural and social thrivance connected across land and sea. (Source: MSVU Art Gallery website)