This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Beach cleaning is always more fun with friends.
From There to Here :Community Beach Cleans with Artist Jill Price
In-person
Visual arts Physical activity & movement Nature & outdoors Climate Action InterdisciplinaryDate and time
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Location
Johnson's Beach, Centennial Beach, Minet's Point Beach, Tollendale / Tyndale Beach (Barrie) (Barrie)
65 Lakeshore Drive
Barrie, ON
Directions: Look Jill Price pulling a black wagon filled with orange buckets and wearing a white ball cap and UN/making Network t-shirt to grab shirts, gloves, and garbage picking tools.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
Individuals can work at their own pace to help clean up a small or large section of the beach. There is no pressure to stay for the entire time and people with mobile devices can choose to stay on paved paths close to the beach to help clean up.
About
Once referred to as "shining waters," there is a deep cultural and spiritual history of Lake Simcoe pre-British colonial settlement and naming. Once a gathering place for trade and leisure, this ecologically rich region—home to 68 wetlands, vast forests, and hundreds of species—now faces increasing pressures from development, tourism, and resource extraction.
Working to help protect, care for, and repair what should be considered the commons, join Ontario artist Jill Price on Sunday evenings as she embraces the long history of maintenance art and walking as an artform to help protect shorelines and their respective living bodies of Land and Water.
An extension of Price's current exhibition at the MacLaren Art Centre that runs until October 26, 2025, the artist will supply reusable buckets, gloves, protective UN/making Network t-shirts, and garbage pickers.
September 21: 1:00 - 3:00 pm - Kitchener Park (Orillia)
September 21: 4:00 - 6:00 pm - Johnson's Beach (Barrie)
September 23: 9:00 - 11:00 am - Bayview Memorial Park (Hawkestown)
September 28: 4:00 - 6:00 pm - Centennial Beach (Barrie)
October 5: 1:00 - 3:00 pm - Oro Beach (Oro Station)
October 5: 4:00 - 6:00 pm - Minet's Point Beach (Barrie)
October 12: 4:00 - 6:00 pm -Tollendale / Tyndale Beach (Barrie)
Rain-or-shine events, participants are encouraged to wear protective footwear and will be notified by email of cancellation one hour before start times upon the occurrence of hazardous weather events or warnings.
Organizer
UN/making Network
Initially supported in part by Queen's University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the UN/making Network is a Cultural Studies PhD research-creation project inspired by creative thinkers and makers who undertake temporary, unexpected, necessary or durational acts of un/making to acknowledge the liveliness and agency of human and more-than-human beings often othered or rendered absent through anthropogenic perspectives and approaches to land.
Always at risk of encouraging the creation and consumption of more “stuff" or "unhappy objects", practitioners and practices featured on the UN/making Network site often engage at the intersections of art, ecology, post-colonial studies, geography, aesthetics, race theory, gender studies and activism to disrupt colonial, capitalist, patriarchal, and extractive systems that reify Euro-centric values and industrialist processes.
Partners
MacLaren Art Centre maclarenart.comThis event is part of a hub:
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