ArtWorkX July 14, 2018, Celebration Square, Mississauga

A scant week after Toronto Outdoor, I took part in the second annual ArtWorkX, a live art-making aspect of the After Dark Earth Market: a multi-faceted event put on by the City Of Mississauga to raise awareness of ecological concerns and the cities' initiatives to address them. Working alongside Claudio Ghirardo, Nisreen Askar and Gaya Kairos, we each made work along environmental themes using pieces of discarded city infrastructure we had selected earlier at the public works yard. (I got to choose a ton of road signs – yay!) At the end of the evening, we assembled all our pieces together into a conglomerate that was then also (due to Claudio's tireless efforts) exhibited in the lobby of the Living Arts Centre. 
Culture never happens in a vacuum – thanks to:
• Claudio for the inviting me to participate and for organizing everything from the artists' end.
• Nisreen and Gaya for their good natures, hard work and artistic inspiration.
• Michelle Charbonneau and Victoria Kramkowski at the city for doing so much to help wacky artist's ideas fit within city rules, regs, health and safety, etc. and all your planning, facilitating and day-of helping hands from start to finish!
• Curator Lee Petrie for finding a way to  exhibit our glorious contraption at the Living Art Centre! See photo below by Claudio.
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