Common Table: Performative Picnics
Question: What is a park? What does it do? Who is it for? When people are in need, how can parks help? How can we animate public park spaces?
Context: The summer of 2017, MABELLEarts welcomed 1351 people of all ages and backgrounds to Broadacres Park gathering community members from Mabelle Avenue, West Mall neighbourhoods, the Arab Community Centre of Toronto and newcomers from the Quality Hotel (COSTI Immigration Services). Full Report click here
“Broadacres Park was the site of four performative picnics which envisioned this underused green-space as a picnicking site for neighbours and families from nearby and across Etobicoke. West Mall families were joined by Mabelle and Quality Hotel residents to join in singing, miniature-making and natural dyeing, while exploring picnicking as a cultural form and sharing picnic memories and stories from across the city and around the world." - MABELLEarts
Project type: Collaboration with MABELLEarts
Role: Arts Administrator Intern at MABELLEarts
This project is made possible by MABELLEarts Team: Leah Houston, Shifra Cooper, Fiona Raye Clarke, Christen Kong, Daven Seebarran, Fadwa Ghamen, Farah Jibril
Project Assistants: Aseel Mohammed, Nada Johar, Salma Moalim, Tasmeen Syed, Osama Jibril
MABELLEyouth: Albina Wrobel, Anisa Ali
Anne Simpson-Porco, Ava Macanowicz, Ayuub Abdullahi, Chaz Bennett, Habib Seidu, Jaden Bhimani, Krystall Bennet, Mahmoud Mahmoud, Mohamed Mahmoud, Nuha Johar, Omar Jibril, Raniyah Nandha, Safa Mohamood, Salma Mohamed, Salman Mohamood, Shahad Rubaye, Tauhid SyedFor full credits list click here