PUBLIC CREATION

Infrastructures for Survival: Pollinator Wisdom in the Bend of the Equinox -FREE (registration required)

Climate crisis workshop that will make you feel good.

March 9
2:00PM-4:00PM
Visitor Centre

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When the ever-urgent but continually abstracted climate crisis is met with infrastructural resistance: what’s next?

If you find yourself wondering what is possible and in your hands to do, this workshop offers some thoughts and actions to take, while getting your hands dirty in soil. Together, over two hours, we will co-develop a text rooted in the principles of speculative fiction, grounded in a “close reading” of plants.

With humility for the season of the vernal equinox, we will seed native pollinator plants together, learning the many ways they graciously play host in urban environments, reminding us gently, of what survives beyond us.

Registration required, all materials provided. 15 spots are available. Recommended for ages 16+. We’ll have our hands in the dirt, so keep that in mind when dressing for the event.

Shalaka Jadhav is a writer, researcher, and curator who spent their childhood between cities in India and in Dubai, before moving to a neighbourhood spitting distance from Ontario’s largest mall. Shalaka’s research interests on spatial positionality and critical geographies of grief, public memory, and queer ecologies can be evidenced in exhibitions they have curated in Halifax, Winnipeg, and Toronto. Shalaka has held roles at OCAD and The Blackwood, and is the co-director of Textile, a hyper-local arts collective in Waterloo Region that supports writers and artists through mentorship, publishing, and curation. Shalaka splits their time on Haldimand Tract and Treaty 1 territory and always orders dessert.

 

Instagram: @shalaks_j

 

Shalaka Jadhav is a writer, researcher, and curator who spent their childhood between cities in India and in Dubai, before moving to a neighbourhood spitting distance from Ontario’s largest mall. Shalaka’s research interests on spatial positionality and critical geographies of grief, public memory, and queer ecologies can be evidenced in exhibitions they have curated in Halifax, Winnipeg, and Toronto. Shalaka has held roles at OCAD and The Blackwood, and is the co-director of Textile, a hyper-local arts collective in Waterloo Region that supports writers and artists through mentorship, publishing, and curation. Shalaka splits their time on Haldimand Tract and Treaty 1 territory and always orders dessert.

Instagram: @shalaks_j