mAPPing the Territory - Opening Reception

You’re invited – to the opening reception of ‘mAPPing the Territory’. This exhibition is the culmination of a month-long project where the creative studio Department of Unusual Certainties (DoUC) mentored a group of Rexdale students from Pathways to Education, a program of Rexdale community Health Centre, in developing content for the exhibition from concept to completion. These youth grew up online and mobile ready, but are they really thinking critically about the virtual space they inhabit and how it relates to the physical and social reality of their community? What can they learn about what equality, access and privacy mean in the virtual world vs. the real world? What location-based stories can they tell through Google, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.? By storytelling through data mapping and social media, they are envisioning their neighbourhood at the porous intersection between the physical and virtual. RSVP HERE (bit.ly/2l8yFyi)  Date: March 7, 2017 Time: 4-7 p.m. (remarks will begin at 4:30 p.m.)  * Light food and refreshments will be served This project is generously supported by Humber College and is a part of Myseum Intersections. Myseum Intersections is an annual festival of exhibits showcasing different perspectives of the city’s natural, cultural and historic diversity.