Micro Meets Macro: Taking Action on Food Insecurity and Housing Instability

Date: Feb 1, 2023

Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm

Location: Gardiner Museum - Map

Bring your questions, thoughts, and ideas! Join the Gardiner Museum and Daily Bread Food Bank for an evening of action and engagement inspired by the themes in the exhibition Karine Giboulo: Housewarming whose clay miniatures depict the societal issues captured in Daily Bread Food Bank’s Who’s Hungry 2022 report.

At this free with registration event, discover activation stations coordinated by Daily Bread Food Bank, YWCA Toronto, and other Toronto-based organizations, and learn more about food insecurity, income inequality, and housing instability, including how we can all take action to support the needs of our community.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Enter a world at once familiar and uncanny. Montreal-based artist Karine Giboulo invites visitors into an immersive reimagining of her home. Brought to life by over 500 miniature polymer clay figures, this is no ordinary house. Born of the COVID-19 pandemic, Housewarming is a sculpted documentary of individual and collective experiences grounded in current events. The colourful dioramas furnishing each room prompt reflection about the challenges we face as a society, including connectedness and isolation, aging and care, labour and consumerism, the climate crisis, food insecurity, and housing instability. Learn more

Daily Bread will be accepting both cash and tap donations at the event.

Photo Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid