Mapping Our Stories Art Party

Meet the Artists | Dance Workshops | Interactive Installations | Snacks & Drinks | Music & More

Telling stories through the language of maps is at the heart of this art celebration featuring pop-up projects and interactive installations on view for one night only!!

A fun-filled night inspired by the current exhibition in the FENTSTER window gallery – HAMAPAH (Hebrew for ‘the map’) created by Adam W. McKinney and Daniel Banks with:

> 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 Northern Ontario.

> Meet visiting U.S. artists Adam W. McKinney and Daniel Banks in advance of the Canadian premiere screening on May 24 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 throughout the night with dance Immersion’s Zahra Harriet Badua and DNAWORKS’ Adam W. McKinney and Daniel Banks
Presented by FENTSTER, Prosserman JCC, DNAWORKS, dance Immersion, Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism and Kultura Collective