General Festival hours:
1:00 PM - 12:00 AM Saturday, September 24
1:00 PM- 10:00 PM Sunday, September 25
‘parkdale past’
Ongoing
"archival digital dispatch coming to us from an imagined, liberated, queer future. a breath of strength; real memories of recent; the purpose in community; a reminder of the compelling power of local organizing and grass-roots activism in claiming social justice.
a summoning of sorts, for us to continue imagining, building and fighting for a future we dream of - a just and abundant future for all. "
A01&UnoHu: Andrew Owen A01 & Sheila Yihua Hu
‘#A01UnoHu’ #NineRiversRomance’
Nine Rivers Romance Giant Folding Screen
Ongoing
Located at parkette on south side of Geary Ave. directly south of Westmoreland Ave.
*Public Debut* of the Nine Rivers Romance Giant Folding Screen: Nine large 8 x 5 ft wildflower paintings created over 6 years with an innovative *brush-less* process outdoors, en plein air at each of the GTA's "nine rivers" that flow into Lake Ontario. The nine large paintings are joined together as a massive folding screen zigzagging 2.5m H x 1.2m D x 10m W -- 8 ft high by 4 ft deep by 33 ft wide! Come feast your eyes on giant wildflower landscape paintings and say hello to artists A01&UnoHu.
‘xyz gallery’
Ongoing
4 Geary Ave.
A collection of art that has been translated into metal, and epoxy resin by machine. Various subtractive machining techniques were used to re-create canvas art. Original canvas art was produced by collaborator Cristiano De Araujo (Mural Artist).
‘Making house music from garbage’
1-3pm and 6-7pm Saturday, 4-7pm - Sunday 1-3pm Saturday, 4-7pm Sunday
92 Geary Ave.
Bobby invites you to break a plate or crunch a beer can into a mic. These sounds will be looped and finessed to make a deep house track in real time! Experience how any sound can be turned into a beat, and what we throw away is a rich source of sounds!
‘Deeply Livable Neighbourhoods’
Saturday and Sunday, sunset - 12:00 a.m.
259 Geary Ave.
"Deeply Liveable Neighborhoods" refers to the details that create culturally rich neighborhoods, which contrasts with the monetization of city buildings. proforma corps presents a live writing station and projection event, welcoming all to share their memories, desires and dreams of a Tkaronto that is liveable beyond the market.
‘Look Up!’
Ongoing
62 Geary Ave.
Look Up! is an immersive installation consisting of multi-coloured balloons, creating a disco daydream. These paper balloons are coated in a metallic, colour changing film that reflects facets of light throughout the space. This installation represents a future of optimism, imagination and reflection.
‘Foam Home’
Ongoing
‘GUH’
SATURDAY - SEP 24
4-5 pm
92 Geary Ave.
Live music with one of Toronto's longest running bands. GUH loves to play music outside for you!
Schmeki Noamson
‘Halalalalula: The Schmeki Noamson’
Music set times: Saturday and Sunday 3 pm and 7pm
76 Geary Ave. - Charles Street Video
"Schmeki Noamson is a Canadian artist working in video, music, and performance art. He calls his work secular prayers for a broken and beautiful world, satirical psalms, and loving celebrations of our cultural dreams about how we got here. Schmeki is the great grandson of four institutional religious men: a Buddhist monk, a Jewish rabbi, a Christian priest, a Muslim imam.
Four of the videos (Oh Oh Canada, USA Make My Day, Calice Tabernak, My Prayer) in this show are rough drafts of songs and performance videos Schmeki created, playing all the characters in the band, and all the instruments. The song Messiah Blues was recorded and produced with Dexter Nash; video production assistance from Annette Mangaard. The entire project is online at schmeki.com"
Evangeline Brooks & Adam Hedman-Murray
‘Good Morning!’
Ongoing
Lane W Bristol N Geary
Good Morning! is a series of digital images printed on fabric with a supporting soundscape, documenting morning routines through abstracted visuals. Fabric is hung to mimic public intimacy of laundry on a clothesline.
‘Evolving soundscapes’
Saturday and Sunday 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
183 Geary Ave.
"Evolving soundscapes" is an immersive quadraphonic audio installation. The soundscapes of each speaker interact with each other in unique ways depending on where the public is listening.
‘Tree of Creation’
Ongoing
4 Geary Ave.
The art installation we are looking to create is called "Tree of Creation". It will be a visual masterpiece.
Jacqueline Fernandez
‘Friendly Cat’
Ongoing
4 Geary Ave.
A giant friendly sculpture, made with the most beautiful material in the world: recycled plastic!
‘This way up’
Installation
Ongoing
Geary Ave. / east of Dufferin St. (north side)
Duct tape on tarpaulin 2022.
Jenn Goodwin with Francesca Chudnoff, Sarah Doucet, Kate Nankervis, Carina Reeves, Danah Rosales
‘CLOSER’
Sunday 7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Lane W Bristol N Geary
An outdoor dance piece with live music (cello & violin) that moves from far to close to the audience. This project explores concepts around solidarity, justness, the feminization of space, and a myriad of related experiences from resilience, vulnerability, protection, radiance, anger and exhaustion.
Justyna Werbel and Joy Broadbent
‘Man In The Moon’
2:00pm-8:00pm
62 Geary Ave.
On September 10th, 2022, artists Joy Broadbent and Justyna Werbel began their forge during the bright full harvest moon, which occurs in the transition between summer and fall.
Their gaze was focused on the local plant species and natural forms, in a whimsical field study.
One would expect a sort of diary of scenes, collected flora, objects, and overheard conversations - a database of a moonlit day - but the journey takes them down to unexpected tensions and anxieties.
'Man In The Moon’ was specifically crafted for the Geary Art Crawl and includes a harvest installation, film and visual arts."
‘The Spontaneous Prose Store’
Interactive
BOTH DAYS
13:00 - ALL DAY
Suggestion: Grassy Park west of Dovercourt Rd. (see exact location here)
The Spontaneous Prose Store is an interactive community poem generator. Pick a subject, get a poem typewritten on a sticker, before your very eyes!
‘Cosmic Warriers’
Saturday and Sunday 1-7pm Saturday weather permitting
Westmoreland and Geary Ave. (Parking lot fence) Outside (we don't have access to the inside)
live painting recreations of photos I've taken of Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def and Sandy De Almeida
‘Open Canvas’
Installation
Ongoing
“Open Canvas” is a large-scale interactive installation that cultivates community through public participation in spacial design, inspired by the Geary Avenue neighbourhood. Art Crawl Attendees will become the artists themselves by being provided an accessible forum for expression that engages physical design, visual art, and experimental music.
‘nothing matters and everything matters’
5:55pm onwards
A visual and auditory chronological journey using the written word (and its limitations) from March 2020 to present exploring sense of time + place in a disorienting time + place.
Carlo Cesta and Lisa Neighbour
‘Stucco Four One Six Five Three Seven Five Two Four Four’
‘Showdown’
1. 1:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m, 2. 7:30 p.m - 11:00 p.m
16 Geary Ave.
A visual art exhibition in the Beauty Supply Gallery, along with a video projection at night.
‘eyes wide shut’
SUNDAY 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
190 Geary Ave at main stage bar
"Every day people work from a place of impairment, putting themselves and perhaps others at risk for example working in a repetitive manner can lead to a tiresome monotonous lifestyle at work. This occurs to many people at different times in their lives. From the monotony a lack of focus and attention can occur. Additionally, some use different vices to escape the madness and be able to keep up with the long intensive hours that the body and mind have to go through. This type of desensitized reasoning make us forget about the only thing we really own that is our body. In various fields accidents can or could happen if reasoning, consciousness, awareness are not fully engaged. This piece demonstrates the danger of impairment by covering my eyes with a blind fold while I work. "" Eyes Wide Shut"" "" presents the idea that many work appearing to be fully present and functional, but are often emotionally and mentally elsewhere putting themselves and others at risk."
‘Someone Else’s Dream’
Ongoing
“Someone Else’s Dream” is a dancing self-portrait in the form of an animated film. The project uses digital rotoscoping and editing techniques to animate doppelgängers of the artist.
‘Geometric City: Islamic Art in Public Spaces’
Saturday and Sunday 2:00 p. M - 1:00 p.m.
Geary Ave. / west of Dufferin St. (north side)- On the street
Geometric City: Islamic Art in Public Spaces
‘Generations’
Ongoing
62 Geary Ave.
Generations is an immersive audio-visual installation that invites the audience to follow the migration of different family stories and folktales as they migrate through different family heirlooms suspended in space. The piece speaks to the diversity and multiculturalism of this city and how, through migration and time, we all come together to form a homogenous sound.
‘Change of Destination’
Ongoing
Shipping Container - container already have a projector and a speaker
Change of Destination brings to the streets of Toronto the work of artists in Latin America and the Caribbean creating work in port-cities and in relationship to the ocean.
‘Projeto 4Seasons - Tropical Body Spring / Summer’
Ongoing
"In the midst of the pandemic, between life and death, a female Tropical Body finds itself trapped miles away from its natural habitat. How to deal with the loss of a beloved and present father, how to survive physically and mentally in a cold, hard, and lonely place? How to make this distance closer and less painful? From this provocation comes the ""Projeto 4Seasons"" , with the performance ""TROPICAL BODY"" filmed at High Park/ Lake Shore Boulevard in Toronto, which was the place of contact for the performer, creator of the project. The creation began in the middle of the Lockdown, from the observation of the passage of time, observed in the seasons, giving rise to performances - Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall - with the body placed in front of the sensations caused by the environment of nature."
‘STINGLESS BEE’
Ongoing
Mattie owes the world (and specifically Bebe Rexha) an apology for pretending to be someone she wasn’t. But she’s still a really good person. The proof is in this film.
‘A REST-PORTAL’
Saturday and Sunday 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
183 Geary Ave.
A REST-PORTAL: a contained space for folks to reset and ground from the festivities of the crawl with scheduled experiences of soundbath and breathwork meditation, live ambient music, as well as free-time to lounge on cushions and blankets and bliss out to the calming environment and other communal activities.
Eric Diotte ‘Where there is Smoke’
Sofia Escobar ‘Intervals of thread & the optics of space’
Connie Oreamuno/ Steve Niilo ‘AV Palette’
Julia Salerno ‘History of Fire’
Saturday, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m, music starts after 5pm
302 Geary Ave.
OKpeople x Onaire x Bodyshop Studios are teaming up to organize a talented group of artists, DJs and musicians for a fun day of community building and art and music! Expect large eye-catching installations and murals and projection-mapped audio/visual displays. Live music begins at 5 pm until 8 pm when we will open up the space into a DJ-centred dance party until 2 am. We will also be running a pop-up cafe with non-alcoholic drinks + bar will be available to those 19+
‘Selectress Sunshine's Sunshine Hi Fi’
Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Bartlett Parkette
Surani will be playing records on a portable mini sound system built out of reclaimed wood, to clean up, and warm up the sound of a rechargeable speaker, to highlight the beautiful sound of vinyl. Surani plays reggae and other music from the 60’s and 70’s.