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How to Draw a Tree: Site-Specific Sound Walk with Dawn Matheson
In-person
Nature & outdoors Physical activity & movement Self-guided TourDate and time
Location
University of Guelph Arboretum
Guelph, ON
Directions: University of Guelph Entrance to the Arboretum (small parking lot and Kiosk there).
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
About
Dawn Matheson's participatory art project has brought individuals living with mental illnesses together with trees for a yearlong creative, care-taking engagement culminating in a site-specific public sound walk at The Arboretum. The work aims to reflect the parallel crisis of mental illness and the environmental crisis by expanding ideas around art practice as caretaking, and the interdependency between humans and our natural environment.
Matheson will walk with attendees and be available for reflections and questions after the 2-kilometre walk through field and forest.
Please note: participants need cellular data to access audio via QR code at the site, or can download the audio in advance of the walk.
How To Draw A Tree audio is available at https://howtodrawatree.ca/tours/sound-walk/, for the walk plus for those who would like to access the virtual accessible version of the audio project from home.
Links
- Access Map and Soundwalk Audio Here howtodrawatree.ca
Organizer
Dawn Matheson
Dawn Matheson is a multimedia artist, podcast producer and writer. She writes for national publications and broadcasters plus directs community art projects.
This event is part of a hub:
That's So Guelph!
City of Guelph Guelph, ONWhere art meets heritage meets a passion for the natural environment, That's So Guelph! Our creative community embodies values that define Guelph - curiosity, compassion, innovation, collaboration, diversity, environmentalism, and activism....