Have been working all week to get ready for the exhibit - it's a balancing act. Daughters want dinner and i am not certain that is part of the balance! But it has to be. I am excited and nervous - it is anticipatory dread. There is much to do. Have to take the show down at ZigZag and get it up at OISE. The same night we will be at Sneaky Dee's with Street Health and Rock for Humanity - a group who is donating their fundraising efforts to help Street Health. We were at the Horseshoe about 3 weeks ago doing the same thing. It was fun to talk about the work in this environment.
I am hoping that anyone who is reading this makes it out to the opening at OISE, comes to see the work at Sneaky Dee's, or the Brampton Independent Arts Festival - more on that one later. Because there is also the EcoArts Festival... and others. They will all make their appearance here.
But my main priority is to do the fundraising to start the next project, in/vulnerabilities. We have only had one camera donated to date ...
And we need more. The project will be to work with Street Health again and to work in a cultural production workshop using photography to tell more of the stories using text and image. We have been blessed with funding from the Toronto Arts Council, Access Grant, but we need our material costs to be covered.
the homeless and the insecurely housed
are now appearing in documents coded with the language of corporate
strategies where millions of dollars are spent insulating silos
and this morning one of them will wake up
dead from some unanticipated opportunity taken by
exposure or dehydration, which has targeted this one for
confusion. For upon awakening he (or she) will surely determine that death
was not an annotation in their daybook. There were the other things listed: put an end to hunger, find love, vote for housing. She (or he) was certain that finding a graceful exit strategy was a practiced skill for use in the short-term.
an increasing flutter of white papers darkening your corner office.
