A MULTI-MEDIA ART PARTY CELEBRATING
STORIES & JOURNEYS
Tuesday, May 23
6-10pm
@FENTSTER & Makom – 402 College St (map)
Free – no registration required
MEET THE ARTISTS | DANCE WORKSHOPS | POP-UP PROJECTS | INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS | SNACKS & DRINKS | MUSIC & MORE
Inspired by the current exhibition in the FENTSTER window gallery, HAMAPAH (Hebrew for ‘the map’), FENTSTER presents pop-up projects on view for one night only! All inspired by the form and metaphor of maps, these works intertwine personal narratives, memory, migration and place, mapping individual stories through the languages of dance, sound and visual art.
Presented outdoors for the first time, Naomi Daryn Boyd’s BLOOD, WATER & BATHURST STREET is an interactive, hand-made 18-meter long wool map of Bathurst Street that engages with their Jewish roots in Toronto, stories of Toronto’s Jewish community and the little known narratives of the Indigenous Peoples that have dwelled, gathered, and journeyed through these lands for millennia. Boyd’s embroidered Memory Map, w/ sounds (2021-2022) will also be in view. Meichen Waxer’s Looking at Two Poems (2022) incorporates a found hand-drawn map that references the history of her family in the small Jewish community of Kirkland Lake in North Ontario. And, meet visiting U.S. artists Adam W. McKinney and Daniel Banks in advance of the Canadian premiere screening of HaMapah / The Map Dance-on-Film, which inspired their site-specific FENTSTER installation that maps Adam’s narrative as a Black, Jewish, Indigenous Queer man in the United States.
DANCE WITH US!
Join all level, all ages dance classes through out the night with dance Immersion’s Zahra Harriet Badua-Baffoe and DNAWORKS’ Adam W. McKinney and Daniel Banks
Presented by FENTSTER, Prosserman JCC, DNAWORKS, dance Immersion and Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism with support from Kultura Collective