A forum that critically engages the intersections between collaborative artistic practices, class, and working conditions for community engaged artists. Co-curated and moderated by Florencia Berinstein and Anna Camilleri, Work in Progress features Mahlikah Awe:ri (Red Slam Collective) speaking about individuality and collectivity, Greg Frankson a.k.a. Ritallin (Cytopoetics) speaking about disparity and difference, Leah Houston (MABELLE Arts) speaking about the artist as worker, and Loree Lawrence (Ontario Arts Council) speaking about art as commodity. Each panelist brings a wealth of expertise and experience to share and will provide case studies. Interaction and discussion will be encouraged with those in attendance.

Kim Jackson will present: Gentrification in the Junction: erasure, displacements and the marketization of space past and present

Local organizations often deploy historical narratives to sell their neighbourhood to potential home buyers and business owners in an effort to reinforce gentrification processes. Taking the Junction as a case study, this research looks at historical continuities between colonization, as primitive accumulation, and gentrification as ongoing primitive accumulation strategies to continue the marketization of space. The increased marketization of both space and sociality rifts the community into those who participate and are therefore valorized, and those who do not and are therefore excluded, made vulnerable and considered expendable.

The public is invited to a free book launch/celebration of "¡VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas

This event features performance, art and video from the international contributors to ¡Viva! There will be programming at 7:00 and 8:00p.m.

You are invited to participate in a community art project called The Dinner Plate Project. The purpose of the project is to encourage humainty to support locally grown food through the worldwide circulation of an aerial picture of a large, colourful dinner plate formed by 400 people in a field. This community art project is designed to generate widespread public awareness of the need to:

Eat locally grown food

Grow local food in a sustainable way

Protect farmland and green spaces

Reduce humanity's footprint

We are inviteing you to join 399 people to form the symbol of a large dinner plate.