What does Diversity mean to you? (Approximately 100 words) diversity is excitement. whatever culture your from its natural i think to assume "we are the boring one" because all other cultures seem more interesting than our own. and yet this is really just relative. as two people who are happy to explore each others cultures, each thinking others are the most exciting of all. with the melting pot of Toronto, the cultural diversity is greater here than anywhere in Canada. this i think sets the stage and all the pieces are there for something very similar to the birth of the renaissance era in Florence in the 1590s. it was diversity ion Florence 500 years ago that created a millennia long art movement and i see signs of this being recapitulated in the cultural landscape of Toronto in the 20th century.
What is your connection to Oakwood Village? (Approximately 100 words) I live around the corner from Oakwood village, and find myself there almost every day. I like to support the small grocery stores, and try a little bit of everything from each restaurant. it's always a good day when I get to visit my friends and shop in Oakwood. I'm grateful to live here and I get to try new things like gelato and local-made chocolate, served by my favourite shops. I think this community is growing in success by supporting each other, and I would like to contribute to the community with an artwork to bring smiles to the local people.
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Exhibits to look out for

Crack in the Case (top 10)
Room 222, 110 Bond Street, Downtown

Your Wish is Your Command
66 Wellington Street West
A large-scale semi-functional magic lamp that invites audiences to question whose wishes are granted in Toronto's financial district.

The 'Living' Room (top 5)
130 Adelaide Street (near University, 400m from 199 Richmond)
A post-civilizational installation that suggests the eventual life of our discarded items, reclaimed by nature.

Breaking the Mold: A Multi-Sensory Art Experience
101 Richmond Street East
A fusion of tradition and technology as fine art is transformed into moving, life-size 3D art, accompanied by a boundary-pushing light installation.


Future Blocks (top 10)
7 Queens Quay East
“Future Blocks” is an interactive installation consisting of handmade plastic quilts, melting ice, and notes from you to your future self. Drake, stackt market.

ECLIPSE
100 Queen Street West
Eclipse is the final chapter of Naomi Rincón Gallardo’s Tzitzimime Trilogy and will screen alongside a new animatronic butterfly prop inspired by the video.


XO (top 10)
470 R Lake Shore Blvd W Under the Gardiner Expressway
XO uses the movement of light to express itself as both a means of bidding farewell and a welcoming to development and growth in Toronto.

Submerge
401 Richmond
This interactive installation will enable you to be immersed into the beautiful, sublime, and eerie world below — with no escape…

Onsite Gallery, OCAD - Tarralik Duffy | Up Front: Inuit Public Art @ Onsite Gallery (top 5)
199 Richmond
A presentation with the Inuit Art Foundation, Up Front: Inuit Public Art @ Onsite Gallery is a series of commissioned digital murals by Inuit artists.

Art Gallery of Ontario - Wolfgang Tillmans: Moon in Earthlight (top 10)
Experience Wolfgang Tillmans’s first full-length album, “Moon in Earthlight” (2021).
401 Richmond - Built For Art
Twelve hours, countless experiences! Nuit Blanche at 401 Richmond Street is a tour de force of creative offerings in a venue Built For Art.
A Void
190 McCaul Street
Meditations on a boring dystopia.
Gladstone House - Mycorrhizal (A Long Story VIII)
Long, soft arm forms lit from within emerge from the floor of Gladstone House’s Robinson Room, wrapping around and embracing each other, filling the windows.

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