Transmissions will open up lines of communication and movements through tensions that appear when the status quo is overturned, and how such ruptures can be a catalyst for difficult dialogues and changing our community with the creation of culture-based knowledge for generations to come. Collaboration and allyship will be explored with arts leaders and artists Mark Stoddart, Noor Bhangu, Ashley McKenzie-Barnes, Ravi Jain and Liisa-Rávná Finbog.

Memory and belonging will explore the waves of people connecting to new homes and the creative interventions that allow for people to communicate their own sense of place. Telling their stories through their own perspectives and lived experiences. With artists Caroline Monnet, Yung Yemi (Adeyemi Adegbesan), Director X, Amrita Hepi, and Rah.

Unsettling place will unpack ideas of colonialism and slavery as the grounding foundation of the creation of cities with critical thinkers Dr. Ngarino Ellis, Dr. Jolene Rickard, Odario Williams, Natasha Henry, Public art can memorialize narratives and each city has its own histories of development and ways of knowing these contentious histories of space and place. 

A home for our migrations will ground you within the sense of place that has transformed over time to which is rooted in Indigenous stories of place. With over 3 million people living in the City of Toronto with little knowledge of Indigenous contributions to its living history. This first podcast episode will explore concepts of home and history with artists Duke Redbird, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Shelley Niro and Michael Belmore.