The Practice Of Visiting

Spending time together on the land, especially within urban city centres, is incredibly important in these trying times, and this gathering intentionally creates room to slow down and enjoy food, joy, and laughter in kinship.

Saturday May 30

1pm-2pm

High Park

Guests are invited to gather for a relaxed afternoon of visiting at High Park. Grounded in relational practices, the gathering offers intentional time for connection and community. Spending time together on the land, especially within urban city centres, is incredibly important in these trying times, and this gathering intentionally creates room to slow down and enjoy food, joy, and laughter in kinship. Alex Jacobs-Blum will share about her artistic practice and participants are welcome to share their own stories, listen, and simply spend time together without pressure or expectations…except having fun!

Alex Jacobs-Blum will share about her most recent body of work, Living and Lost Connections, which documents her return to her ancestral homelands and reflects on the responsibilities that come with carrying ancestral Haudenosaunee knowledge. The land holds memory and history, and her artistic practice has become a way of listening and paying attention to those teachings while visiting the territory of her Gayogohó:nǫʼ ancestors. Through visual storytelling, her work explores how spending time on land can guide us to remember, reconnect, and carry knowledge forward for future generations.

Curated by Holly Chang

Facilitated by Alex Jacobs-Blum

This workshop is offered in conjunction with Soil Study by sarah koekkoek