Artist, Educator, Pub Quiz Host
I am beyond thrilled to announce that I have been named to the 2024 class of Craig Dobbin Legacy Scholars by the Ireland Canada University Foundation. These annual scholarships promote collaboration and engagement between Irish and Canadian scholars and universities. Continue Reading …
So happy to announce I’ll be living a personal dream and hosting a pair of walking tours for Heritage Toronto this summer – and you’re invited ! Entitled “Monumental: Fifty years of Creative Memory Activism in Toronto,” aka Monumental Interventions Tour, Continue Reading …
It’s been a wonderful Fall 2023 semester at Toronto Metropolitan University so far, filled with fantastic opportunities to speak to some of the best students I’ve yet to encounter! Big thanks to Dr. Blake Fitzpatrick and Eliot Wright for the Continue Reading …
I’m absolutely thrilled to be presenting this workshop with my friend and colleague Tricia Enns in just a few weeks, here in Toronto. Tricia and I met this year at the HASTAC 2023 Conference at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Continue Reading …
It was so exciting to be invited to HASTAC 2023 at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, to discuss my in-process research-creation project Twenty-Three Kilometres and the campaign to rename Dundas Street in Toronto. It was so great to Continue Reading …
As Toronto prepares to elect a new Mayor in a few weeks, the Toronto Star’s Francine Kopun looks again into why Toronto City Council voted to rename the street in the first place. An excellent article that fairly represents the Continue Reading …
Now available for FREE world-wide – Season 3, Episode 4 of VeraCity, “What’s in a Name?” This documentary produced and directed by Chalmers Fellowship winning artist Nadine Valcin, explores the power of toponymy and why place names matter. Drawing on Continue Reading …
I’m so thrilled to have my research and community work around the Rename Dundas Street Campaign featured as part of Season 3 of CityTV’s VeraCity, in a documentary entitled What’s in a Name? Produced by OYA Media and written and Continue Reading …
For Rubix 2023 I worked again with my colleagues at SORCE to create an interactive scavenger hunt game based on our experiences coordinating and reflecting upon our Parallaxes: Research-Creation Un-conference! Also io hezel ulthiin, Ellie Chesnutt and I, designed and Continue Reading …
If you missed Sam Howden and I’s “Reclaiming & Renaming: Indigenous Placemaking at X University” walking tour this past September as part of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Social Justice Week don’t despair! Thanks to the amazing support of the Unifor Canada Continue Reading …