July 27, 2019
Port Credit Memorial Arena, 40 Stavebank Rd., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.
Reading the River: Session 2
Joy Xiang and Julien Gordon
July 27, 2019
Port Credit Memorial Arena, 40 Stavebank Rd., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
The second Reading the River session will begin at the Port Credit Memorial Arena, where we will walk along the riverbank through Port Credit Memorial Park to gather for a reading and discussion with Joy Xiang. Participants will discuss Xiang’s text “This, Too, Will Contaminate” from Issue 03: BEARING of our SDUK broadsheet series, which considers how pollution and contamination permeate within and throughout our bodies. Extending this conversation, Julien Gordon, Ecosystem Goods and Services Technician, Credit Valley Conservation, will discuss watershed and community health through the lens of ecosystem services. All SDUK issues can be found online at workofwind.ca/broadsheets.
Presented as part of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge public programming series, part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.
Joy Xiang is an arts writer, poet and cultural worker based in Toronto. She researches and engages themes of migration, desire, material flows and media nostalgia/futurity. Her critical texts, reviews, and poetry have been published in venues like Canadian Art, KAPSULA, Looseleaf, Hamilton Artists Inc., and Mercer Union.
Julien Gordon is the Ecosystem Goods and Services Technician for Credit Valley Conservation (CVC). CVC is a community-based environmental organization, dedicated to protecting, restoring and managing the natural resources of the Credit River Watershed.
The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea is presented by the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga in partnership with the City of Mississauga.
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded in part through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
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