Saturday, June 1, 2024:

Exhibition Opening + Sharing Circle

5-9pm

Location: BAAA! (Back Alley for Art and Architecture) - 300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114

Refreshments provided, sounds by dj kenji

Join the Learning with the Land contributors in a sharing circle where we will listen to contributors speak about their work, and what they hope to learn from their participation in the exhibition. Visitors will also be asked to introduce themselves and participate in the discussion. We will then open the gallery space up for mingling and interaction with the installations.

Please register for this event via this form.

Sunday, June 2, 2024:

How to Tie and Untie a Knot

Skill sharing workshop with Mona Dai + Redistro Collective, 1-3pm

Location: BAAA! (Back Alley for Art and Architecture) - 300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114

Participants will learn techniques of making the knots from waste materials, while engaging in discussions on the themes of material re-use, waste colonialism, the lines between craft and kitsch, and the labour involved to re-purpose textiles and other used things.  Participants and visitors will add their knots to the installation during this workshop and the duration of the exhibition.  At the end of the exhibition, the knots will be untied and returned to their former roped forms, for use in future textile projects.

Please register for this event via this form.

Tuesday, June 4, 2024:

Re-imagining with satoyama and satoumi

A conversation with Nancy Ji, Sarah Mahoney, and Julia Nakanishi, 7:30pm-9pm, in person and Zoom

Location: BAAA! (Back Alley for Art and Architecture) - 300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114

Zoom link will be provided upon registration.

Learning from Nancy, Sarah, and Julia's architectural and anthropological fieldwork, we will discuss alternative economies of exchange which are emerging in rural Japan that provide insight into what post-capitalist societies could look like. Satoyama and satoumi - translating to village-and-mountain or people-and-mountain, and village-and-sea - refer to a broad framework of landscape management methods across the archipelago that emphasize human connection to land. We will discuss our explorations of abandoned forests as capitalist decay, and the ways in which land mediation processes within satoyama and satoumi are strengthening communities and multispecies relations. This event will be hybrid, and a zoom link will be sent to registered attendees. Please feel free to join us in person or online. 

Please register for this event via this form.

Saturday, June 8, 2024:

Salvage Show + Tell

Workshop with Redistro Collective, 1-3pm

Location: BAAA! (Back Alley for Art and Architecture) - 300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114

Redistro Collective will host a “Salvage Show and Tell”, with members bringing physical objects and stories to talk about how they’ve intervened in the “waste” stream to meet needs for themselves and their communities. Guests are invited to bring similar salvage objects and stories to share, or to come with questions and ideas for the waste in their lives and neighborhoods. Light refreshments will be served.

Please register for this event via this form.

May the Mushroom Lead

Communal dinner and conversation facilitated by adwoa toku, 6pm

Location: BAAA! (Back Alley for Art and Architecture) - 300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114

May the mushroom lead will be an intimate and interactive communal dinner in honour of mushrooms, in particular fungi that can only grow in landscapes previously disrupted and destroyed by humans. Based off of themes from Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World,  this gathering's intention is to move us to explore how our senses might help us reach into what's possible when we connect to those who, like mushrooms, know that when there is nothing to return to we can become more than we ever imagined. 

*This event has limited capacity. Please inquire with Julia Nakanishi at learningwiththeland2024@gmail.com if you are interested in attending. 

Sunday, June 9, 2024:

Humber River Lodge Native Plants Restoration

Discussion and gardening work facilitated by Sam Wong, 1pm, Humber River

Location will be shared with participants closer to the event.

Participants are invited to spend an afternoon of discussions and gardening work at the Humber River Lodge. We will start with a conversation about the historical significance of the river and how the lodge came to be, and then dive into a tour of the Native plant restoration work that has been happening at the site. The Humber River lodge has become an emerging place of urban Indigenous land stewardship, in which our different teachings are shared and realized. In the second half of the gathering, we will be harvesting invasive species of trees and plants and repurposing them into fencing to support the restoration of the land. Please bring gardening gloves.

*This event has limited capacity. Please inquire with Julia Nakanishi at learningwiththeland2024@gmail.com if you are interested in attending. 

Sunday, June 23, 2024:

Holding Place

Group art workshop facilitated by Faizaan Khan and Marie Sotto, 1pm in Malvern, Scarborough

Location will be shared with participants closer to the event.

This workshop is a group art workshop that aims to honour and preserve the memory of Malvern in Scarborough. We will invite folks to gather together to create and exchange hand drawn illustrations of their favourite places in Scarborough and to share their stories. This workshop is open to folks of all ages, no experience in art is required to participate.

*This event has limited capacity. Please inquire with Julia Nakanishi at learningwiththeland2024@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.