Portal to Another Dimension
Do portals to other dimensions exist on Earth? Have you heard of ancient megaliths or gateways transforming to portals? Through the use of projection, fog and sound, our gateway blurs the line between reality and fantasy. Maybe you will be lucky to see this portal come to life. Are you willing to take a step through it?

Saturday ✴ 7 pm - 11 pm
📍 62 Geary Ave

Ashthapadma

"Ashthapadma" or The Eight Legged is a speculative creature, a mix of arachnids, plants, and plastic hybrids, imagined having emerged near a landfill outside Toronto. This artwork explores a future where new life forms evolve from things we throw away—plastic waste, weeds, expired food—into something that defies labels.

Both Days ✴ 3 pm - 9 pm
📍 62 Geary Ave

Look Up

‘Look Up!” is an immersive installation consisting of multi-coloured balloons, creating a celebration for the senses. This installation represents a future of optimism, imagination and explores the theme of play which is often neglected in daily life.

Both Days ✴ ongoing
📍 62 Geary

By Shari Kasman

A colourful site-specific installation brightens the atmosphere on Geary Avenue. The design is formed using material meant for marking boundaries, trees, and hazardous areas.

Saturday ✴ 1 pm - 11 pm
Sunday ✴ 1 pm - 8 pm
📍 226 Geary Ave

By Thiago Mazza
A self-taught painter, Mazza was introduced to graffiti in 2010 and began painting murals. One of his most popular works at the time was a giant heart. Today, Mazza is one of the leading figures in contemporary Brazilian muralism and has participated in major urban art festivals around the world. He is widely recognized in the contemporary urban art scene for his mastery in representing flora, especially tropical plants. His current focus of study is tropical plants, their exuberant structures, and dense foliage. Over the past three years, Mazza has been creating images for his murals based on plants he collects, arranging them into compositions and photographing them in natural light. For this installation, he employed his collection process to create a heart-shaped plant to captivate the audience in Belo Horizonte.

*About the Artwork:*  
This inflatable installation, created by Minas Gerais-based painter and muralist Thiago Mazza, is inspired by recent scientific discoveries that plants, even without muscles, pulse ("The Revolutionary Genius of Plants," Stefano Mancuso). Plant movements occur when they receive stimuli such as light, water, gravity, etc. Plants respond through movement to external stimuli. It is also known that plants emit electrical signals to respond to their environment and to communicate with certain animals, like bees collecting pollen.  
For the design of the inflatable, Mazza painted the Caladium, a plant native to the forests of South and Central America, also known as tajá or heart of Jesus. It gets its name from its heart shape and its varied foliage colors, such as green, purple, pink, white, and red. The texture of its leaves and veins resemble those of a heart, reminding one of blood vessels and tissues. The heart of Jesus plant is also tied to indigenous superstitions, believed to ward off evil.

Saturday ✴ 1 pm - 11 pm
Sunday ✴ 1 pm - 8 pm

📍 226 Geary Ave

The Human in Us All

The Human In Us All is an audiovisual storyscape illuminating voices and experiences of Black and Indigenous women in the incarceration system. Spoken word artist Gloria O’koye (aka Glowz) draws on narratives based in lived experience to shed light into what goes on behind prison walls. She seeks to bring increased awareness to barricades experienced prior, during and post incarceration, and how each stage is fraught with challenges, stigma and misunderstandings.

Accompanying the spoken word, Ayonti Mahreen Huq provides visual imagery showing two women with their braids intertwined, holding on to each other for strength. Their wombs are reflected using a vulvar shape showing the inner child crying. The cut braid of the Indigenous woman represents her isolation from communities, culture, traditions and teachings. The artists envisioned the women in an open-field with fresh green grass, beautiful sky and winds, to counter the cold realities of incarceration.The work seeks to resist the ways in which people’s voices get shunned or judged the moment they open up about these journeys. And to open doors on how incarceration impacts loved ones and communities.

Both Days ✴ ongoing
📍 226 Geary Ave

By Janine Miedzik

During the art crawl the front porch and entryway of # 7 Bristol will be filled to bursting with a newly constructed work, Bloat, by Janine Miedzik. It is comprised of three inflated coloured tape covered tarpaulins forms.

Saturday ✴ 1 pm - 11 pm
Sunday ✴ 1 pm - 8 pm
📍 226 Geary Ave

Jetée

In the deep of July, I visited the High Park labyrinth. Without reading the plaque or ever having walked a labyrinth before, I knew that I was being invited to enter it with a question. In their design, but more importantly, in the movement they provoke, labyrinths act as tools for consciousness. Delineating space, they condition entry while simultaneously creating and protecting their centre. Jill Purce, author of The Mystic Spiral, infers that labyrinths are symbolic iterations of spirals that themselves occur in plants, animals, the cyclicality of seasons, galaxies, and so on. Spirals are the structure that hold against the otherwise unchecked flow into the unknown. They cosmosize what is otherwise chaos. It is with this interest in the potency of spiral symbol that Nicole has created the works in this exhibition. The bamboo in Nicole’s jetty light is taken from pre-assembled blinds, while the guides that hold the threaded bamboo strands are in painted blue plywood. As with the individual pieces of basalt in Spiral Jetty, here the elements of bamboo, plywood, and LEDs unify as one work through the persuasion of the spiral form. The plywood guides are placed according to the progression of a logarithmic spiral.2 This type of spiral feels as though its speed increases outward from the point of centre. Nicole’s jetty light achieves an emotive feeling of accelerating, kinetic energy. The materials, though static, evoke a path of movement through the tension they are put in by the guided, superimposed form of the spiral.

Saturday ✴ 12 pm - 6 pm
Sunday ✴ 12 pm - 6 pm
📍 226 Geary Ave

Measuring Beyond Extraction

Measuring Beyond Extraction' is an installation interested in the relationship between water, data, and our global responsibility to water justice. Using original footage of Canada's natural springs, Touch Designer, and pattern recognition, it visualizes the mesmerizing flow of water and caustics, prompting a deeper contemplation of hydrology and bodies of water. Projected onto cascading fabrics the installation blends art and science, challenging how computers quantify and interpret the natural world.

Both Days ✴ ongoing
📍344 Westmoreland Ave. N

Flying Home for the winter

Our architectural firm is excited to migrate to our new home on Geary Avenue, set to open in the new year. Like the geese in our installation, we’re in motion—bringing with us creative designs and innovative ideas that will take flight in this vibrant community. Our work emphasizes creativity, sustainability, and collaboration, and we look forward to engaging with our new neighbors, fostering dialogue, and contributing to the artistic and cultural landscape of the area. This installation is just the beginning—stay tuned for what’s to come as we make this neighborhood our new nest!

Both Days ✴ ongoing
📍22 Geary Ave