border crossings

border crossings Stories

Legacy Project

Project Team

Conference

border crossings Stories

Legacy Project

Project Team

Conference

border crossings

border crossings, is an interactive community engaged arts project that uses the transformative power of art to challenge preconceived ideas around borders. By using stories and narratives as our main resource, we aim to fuel alternative ways of seeing across a broad range of physical and cultural contexts.

The project celebrates the Art Gallery of Mississauga’s commitment to bringing people and communities together using art as a common denominator.

The stories are personal and powerful, giving the audience access to personal histories and realities. Connecting our past to our present, these stories are being treated as media art pieces, rather than simple stories. They highlight, reinforce and challenge both traditional and contemporary world views as they relate to our relationship to land, to one another through sharing and connecting through laughs and heartbreak.

The border crossings’ first iteration in 2017 culminated in an interactive multimedia installation, through a combination of documentary audio, photographs, text, collage, objects and songs. Gallery visitors were invited to explore the participants’ stories and share their own.

Continuing into the GROW phase (2019-2021), the project continues to extend increased access to unique experiences for Mississauga residents and visitors, collaborations and newer ways to present art to new audiences.

border crossings

border crossings

border crossings, is an interactive community engaged arts project that uses the transformative power of art to challenge preconceived ideas around borders. By using stories and narratives as our main resource, we aim to fuel alternative ways of seeing across a broad range of physical and cultural contexts.

The project celebrates the Art Gallery of Mississauga’s commitment to bringing people and communities together using art as a common denominator.

The stories are personal and powerful, giving the audience access to personal histories and realities. Connecting our past to our present, these stories are being treated as media art pieces, rather than simple stories. They highlight, reinforce and challenge both traditional and contemporary world views as they relate to our relationship to land, to one another through sharing and connecting through laughs and heartbreak.

The border crossings’ first iteration in 2017 culminated in an interactive multimedia installation, through a combination of documentary audio, photographs, text, collage, objects and songs. Gallery visitors were invited to explore the participants’ stories and share their own.

Continuing into the GROW phase (2019-2021), the project continues to extend increased access to unique experiences for Mississauga residents and visitors, collaborations and newer ways to present art to new audiences.

Funders

The border crossings project is generously funded by the
Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) through the Grow Grant.

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and the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Mississauga’s Cultural Division

Some of Our Collaborators

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Indigenous Network
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Mississauga Writers Group
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Community Youth Programs

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300 City Centre Drive
Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1
(905) 896-5088

Admission

Free Admission | Donations Appreciated

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Gallery Hours

Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 10am – 5pm
Thursdays: 10am - 8pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12pm – 4pm
Monday & Holidays: Closed

 

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