Field Research

Moe Pramanick

“I wish we’d met someone who knew us, to remind me that you and I existed beyond our bubble – for better, were we to forget ourselves, and for worse, were we to think that this was all there is.” — Yasmine Haj

Field Research invites South Asian youth to unearth, investigate and share their families’ migration stories. Over the course of four gatherings, participants will use arts-based approaches to navigate the questions: How did you arrive here? How can we work together to document our collective histories? How will this inform where we want to go next? The project will culminate in a public group exhibition showcasing works and works-in-progress developed throughout the workshop series.

Solidarity Seeds

Anélia Victor and Fatin Ishraq

Solidarity Seeds engages precarious urban agricultural workers across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) — those growing food under conditions that rarely feed them back. Despite meeting urgent needs for local, healthy food access, these workers continue to navigate hostile environments: ongoing discrimination, exploitative workloads, and workplace retaliation, particularly for queer and trans growers. Insights from a full-day gathering focused on co-learning urban agricultural and land liberation practices will be transformed into a collective zine and a series of ceramic seedling pods — vessels that carry both story and seed — to be shared with the public through an exhibition.

Griefs and Glimmers: Creating the Pandemic Archives

Harmeet Rehal

Griefs & Glimmers brings together high-risk, covid-aware 2SQTBIPoC artist-organizers to reflect on five years of care work in the pandemic. Through collaborative collage-making and archival practices, participants will explore the textures, griefs, and glimmers of harm reduction and community care. Rooted in accessibility and relational facilitation, this workshop series responds to an arts sector increasingly hostile to immuno-compromised communities. The project culminates in a group exhibition honouring the need for safer, creative, and immuno-accessible spaces to gather, connect, and co-create.