Joseph Sagaj is Anishinaabe, a residential school survivor, and an artist. A few years ago, he took up gardening as well and joined a group of Indigenous tradespeople and Elders known as the Earth Helpers who made it their mission to bring biodiversity and native species back to Paul Martel Park. As Sagaj weeded and put plants in the ground, he would look up at the bare wall of the TTC station that bordered the park and conjured scenes of what could be there.

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The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival takes place in May in galleries throughout the city—it’s a great time to delve into the raw realism this medium has to offer.

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ief that she can be an effective voice for her constituents, and that the Ontario Liberals can get Doug Ford out of office.

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If you are a shoe fanatic, Sundays are particularly good days because the Bata Shoe Museum (BSM) is FREE on Sundays.

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lass? Never fear — this month there’s a lot that you can catch up on, particularly in commemoration of Black History Month. Prepare to explore the stories you thought you knew alongside the ones you were never told through books, movies, and coins. 

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To build and improve upon this project, the city’s parks department wants to make five more washrooms operational and increase the number of park pathways and trails that get ploughed following a snowfall. High traffic areas and pathways that link parks and community centres to major roadways and TTC stations will be prioritized by this plan.

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The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction and Fantasy, as it is officially known, has grown to include more than 80,000 items and is recognized as one of the world’s premier collections of the genre. It covers parallel worlds, dystopias, epic fantasy, horror, space fiction, ESP and more.

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The Gardiner Museum for Ceramic Art sees museums as more than buildings, but also as communities, that’s why they’re offering free exhibitions, public art projects, family clay activities, outdoor dining, wellness workshops, performances, and more all summer. Better yet, they’re all outside.

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Your May 2021 Arts Brief By Meribeth Deen  May 16th, 2021 is a Sunday, and in all likelihood, you will not be going anywhere, certainly not to a museum or concert. Maybe, maybe… you will go to a park.  So why not eat carrot-zucchini bread covered in cream-cheese icing, just because you can? And because […]

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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library offers a deep dive into “one of the most dramatic adventures in the history of medicine” which offered the world a “miracle cure.”

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Digitally speaking it’s wide open to explore By Meribeth Deen  Is 2021 everything you’d hoped it would be? Sure, you would crave a face to face conversation with a perfect stranger, but your pyjama pants are basically glued to your body at this point and who can keep up with what you’re allowed to do […]

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Yes, we are still in a global pandemic, but you can leave your house now and become re-acquainted with the city’s public spaces.

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