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Collaborative walking tour for art, activism and inquiry in Toronto’s financial district - October 5th, 2019, 1-5pm. Organized by Walkinglab and ReImagining Value Action Lab with the support of the Toronto Biennial of Art.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-bank-the-mine-the-colony-the-crime-a-collaborative-walking-tour-tickets-72465453121

An itinerant gathering including performances, talks and interventions by individuals and collectives including:

Alvis Choi
Vanessa Gray
ICE, Eva-Lynn Jagoe and Imre Szeman
Zannah Madson and Christopher Alton
Jamie Magnusson
New Mineral Collective
The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network
Sherry Ostopovich and Anita Castelino
Christopher Smith

We will assemble at the RBC Plaza at 200 Bay St at 12:45pm.

Toronto’s financial district, built on stolen Haudenosaunee and Mississauga lands, is home to many ghosts, notably those dispossessed by the global extractive industry headquartered on the city’s infamous Bay Street. The violence of (neo)colonialism haunts the corporate towers and cleansed streets of the financial district; it also haunts the pensions and savings of millions of Canadians who, knowingly or not, are invested in the industry via the neighbourhood’s preeminent financial institutions.
This glass, metal and concrete zone is a reactor of the imagination, where the abstract codes of global finance fuse with the settler colonial logics of racialized extraction and neoliberal capitalism. But what else might the imagination generate if we assembled ourselves otherwise? What resilient pasts, rebellious presents and radical futures flow beneath the surface, ready to erupt? How can we imagine and enact the complex solidarities we need to overturn the financialized global order of deadly inequalities and the fascistic spectres it unleashes?