About this Event
Our latest exhibition is a colourful, tactile, and unique reflection on Torontonians’ relationship with urban wildlife.
Why are coyotes such dedicated parents? What do wasps’ nests and apartment buildings have in common? When will raccoons become our urban overlords?
Toronto Gone Wild explores the city as a multi-layered habitat — starring the animals, plants, and insects that call Toronto home.
This is your chance for a must-see tour with the two curators of the exhibition — geographer and award-winning writer Amy Lavender Harris, and historian and professor Jennifer Bonnell.
Meet the Curators
Jennifer Bonnell is a historian of public memory and environmental change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at York University, where she teaches courses in Canadian, environmental and public history.She is the author of “Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley” and the editor, with Marcel Fortin, of “Historical GIS Research in Canada.” She is currently working on a new book project, titled “Foragers of a Modern Countryside: Honeybees, Agricultural Modernization and Environmental Change in the Great Lakes Region.”
Amy Lavender Harris is a geographer based in Toronto, with a keen focus on the intersection between culture and nature in urban environments. Her book, “Imagining Toronto,” received the 2011 heritage Toronto Award and was shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism. As a contributing editor with Spacing Magazine, Harris has contributed to various books, journals, and exhibitions exploring place and culture in Canadian art. After teaching for 25 years at institutions including York University, Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University, she retired in 2022. Harris is currently working on projects including a novel called “Acts of Salvage” and a non-fiction work, “The Space Between Us: Commentaries on a Divided Culture,” co-authored with her husband, Peter Fruchter. Beyond her intellectual pursuits, Harris is an avid gardener, composter, kayaker, cyclist, and explorer of back alleys and ravines.
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This event is a part of Toronto Gone Wild, Myseum of Toronto’s latest exhibition. This free exhibition is open at 401 Richmond Street West until August 3rd.
In collaboration with Myseum of Toronto, this exhibition is co-curated by geographer and award-winning writer Amy Lavender Harris, and historian and professor Jennifer Bonnell.
Myseum of Toronto is made possible with the generous support of Diane Blake and Stephen Smith.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Myseum of Toronto, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada
CAD 0.00 to CAD 50.00
