Shoreline to Story: Community Clean + Speculative Writing Workshop

Shoreline Cleanup + Speculative Writing Workshop

This two-part participatory program begins with a community clean-up on Lake Ontario at Marie Curtis Park West. Guided by Jill Price’s practice of collecting and recontextualizing or upcycling shoreline debris, participants will help gather discarded materials and reflect on how processes of production, packaging and consumption impact shared ecosystems.

To build empathy and encourage imaginative engagement with environmental narratives, participants will then return to the gallery for a speculative writing workshop, in which they will be invited to write from the perspective of the objects they collected or from the viewpoints of the lake, shoreline, or other more-than-human bodies.

* Objects collected during the shoreline clean-up can be kept by participants or donated to the artist for future installations or to the gallery for use during the upcoming "Indigenous Engineering Lab" on Thursday, July 9th.
****PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TWO-LOCATION PROGRAM*****

12:15 PM: Bus Ticket Holders depart the AGM
Those who register for a BUS TICKET will depart the Art Gallery of Mississauga to Marie Curtis Park. Guests may arive at noon and tour the gallery until the bus leaves. Please note the bus will leave no later than 12:20 PM. Please do not be late.

1:00 to 2:00 PM: Shoreline clean at Marie Curtis Park West (Forty Second St. and Lake Promenade)

• We will meet at Marie Curtis Park West at 1 PM at the sign for the park (pictured below)
• Meeting spot is the corner of Forty Second St. and Lake Promenade (see images below for location, coordinates will be sent via email the day before)
• The bus will depart for the Art Gallery of Mississauga at 2:00 pm.

2:30 to 4:00 PM: Workshop at Art Gallery of Mississauga

• After the cleanup, we will return to the gallery for the speculative writing workshop and discussion
• If you're unable to come to the shoreline clean-up, you are welcome to come for just the writing workshop
  

Funding for this workshop is supported through chartitable iniviatives from Rama Gaming House Mississauga and Charitable Gaming, Community Good.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Marie Curtis Park, 2 Forty Second Street, Toronto, Canada

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