Tim is active in unearthing Toronto’s hidden histories, through projects like the Missing Plaque Project, and looked for ignored and overshadowed Halifax histories. He created several posters on local Halifax history and put them up in relevant locations as site-specific zines. Tim also taught a Skillshare on investigative research.
James and Jamie are artists who work together as the Dusty Peas team.
Airin will be scouring Halifax's street by bicycle to find and document all kinds of hidden gems and compile them in to a zine. Drool Pool: Halifax Finds compiles found objects, scavenged and thrifted in Halifax. The zine launch was a big success with a reading room, a punch bowl, live music on the roof and many lovely visitors (including the police!).
Shannon will screenprint a series of images that contrast weapons of colonization and native plants of North America, exploring how violence and beauty coexist.
Shannon will work on the third issue of her zine about DIY music called Basements and Living Rooms, while experiencing the DIY scene in Halifax. She also plans to make 3-5 poster style screenprints based on the DIY scenes both in Halifax and Milwaukee to show correlations between different cities and their like-minded DIY scenes, and to celebrate them both. She plans to base these projects on her experiences with both music and social centres – specifically Roberts Street Social Centre, and Cream City Collectives in Milwaukee.
Robin’s project while here is to create a biographical zine and poster about revolutionary activist and organizer Grace Lee Boggs. Robin believes it is important to connect with older generations of activists to learn from their experience and this will be at the heart of Robin's project.
Christopher Lee Kennedy will transform the Robert Street Social Center into a living mushroom collaboratory for the ID of fungi specimens, mushroom foraging adventures, and mycological print making. You're invited to join for a community mushroom hunt and free advice on how everything is connected to everything else (like a rhizome of course).
After learning about the wild seaweed harvest in Maine, Jesse hopes to connect to seaweed lovers in Halifax and share what she's learned via a zine and a seaweed-themed event.
Joshua will produce screen-printed poster series and accompanying zine outlining the historical relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Canada and to raise awareness of the troubling current state of affairs today. The posters and zine will present grassroots initiatives that are already in place in some communities today that promote peaceful healing between the two groups and present ways we can work towards decolonizing within our own community to move forward and reconcile together.