Beth Helmers is a theatre artist working in community-engaged arts. Based in Toronto, she has worked as a director, actor, playwright, and artist educator. In this episode we join Beth as she describes her border crossing experiences while leading a community engaged arts project in a predominantly South Asian neighborhood in Scarborough.

An author, artist educator, spoken word artist and land artist talks about crossing borders with a Persian poetry art-form the "Ghazal" and creating sacred spaces through Land Art with making and unmaking "Mandalas". In this episode she talks to us about navigating between permanence and impermanence, perfection and imperfection as artists.

Toronto based artist and illustrator Sid Sharp plays a "word-image association game" as they share the first visuals that come to their mind when presented with a word. Be prepared for an organic audio treat! Share your word-image associations with us as [email protected]

Toronto based artist and illustrator, Sid Sharp talks to us about sharing their trans journey during the course of illustrating for and conducting workshops for the border crossings project

"Listening Wall" is a curated narration of stories collected by the border crossings community exchange lab at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.

Qurat Dar, a spoken word poet explores her relationship to faith and religion in this narration of her poem "Manna".

Qurat Dar is currently part of the Art Gallery of Mississauga's EMERGENCE artists' collective funded by the RBC Foundation. As an emerging author and spoken word artist, Qurat talks about her border crossing experiences from being an Engineering student at the University of Guelph to holding her own as an artist. She was also recently a finalist in the 2018 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) and the 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (CIPS), placing 4th and 6th in the country, respectively.

Métis curator and creative producer, Rhéanne Chartrand, talks about the emergence and development of Indigenous curatorship, key themes, issues, and about bridging the gap between the artist and the community and curation as facilitating a dialogue between artists and their works.

border crossings is an interactive community engagement lab that uses the transformative power of art to challenge preconceived ideas around both literal and metaphorical boundaries. Through the podcast we explore curiosity and conversations around border crossing experiences. The show unfolds themes that are rooted in The Art Galley of Mississauga's mission - First, New and Next. In this episode, we introduce to the project to you.