Published March 5, 2010
by iris_author
Please join us on Saturday, 11 - 3, at the Wychwood Barns for a wonderful array of food and art activities - being organized by my community arts class in collaboration with The Stop Community Food Centre and arts organizations at the Barns. See attached poster.
Art and Food Take Root at Wychwood Barns
Market to Host Artistic Interventions for Food and Social Justice
Toronto, March 2010 – On March 6, the Saturday market at Wychwood Barns will be bustling even more than usual. York University students are teaming up with local groups to host community-building, artistic activities for a neighborhood that brims with creative energy.
As part of York University’s 16th annual Eco Art and Media Festival, the planned agenda community event includes: drumming, story-telling, dance performance, music, art making, seed exchange, and recipe swaps. W and with participating groups such as the York’s Community Arts Practice program, , Eco Arts and Media Festival, The Stop Community Food Centre, Association for Native Development in Performing and Visual Arts, and the Latin American Canadian Arts Project, the event is sure to appeal to a variety of tastes and interests.
With the help of Wychwood’sThe Stop’s artist-in-residencepublic education coordinator, Ash Yoon, organizers have developed a temporary transformation ofwill transform the space to elaborate on some of the key mandates of The Stop Community Food Centre, which focus on food security and social justice. What’s more, the Aactivities are geared towards all ages in hopes of engaging a community that has a rich and culturally diverse heritage.
Drawing on the notion that food can be used The Stop Community Food Centre’s mandate to “build community and health, challenge poverty and fight hunger,” (The Stop Community Food Centre Pamphlet, date?) the activities aree truly aimed at community growth and rootedness—using food as a public good.
Although “good” food and art are often sometimes seen as economically inaccessible— not to mention environmentally unsustainable—on March 6, “Growing Art, Rooted in Communities” dares to see art and food as more than commodities. All are welcome to partake!
Please join us from 11am-3pm at 79 Wychwood Avenue (main intersection at St. Clair and Christie).
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Janna Gordam, Event coordinator, jgordan@yorku.ca 647- 835- 9330
Ash Yoon, Public Education Coordintor at The Stop Community Food Centre ash@thestop.org 416-652-7868 ext 222.
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