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TAPESTRY represents who we are, what we make of our lives is a series of moments, identities, and experiences we weave together in a tapestry of sorts. As a theme practically it is a call to artists to work with multiple mediums, and to reach into the corners of their lives to put seemingly disparate moments into conversations with one another.

In addition to the core theme, a challenge is presented to artists to re-purpose old projects/works and think eco-consciously when creating new works for the festival.

#ARTSIDEOUT2023

ARTSIDEOUT takes place on this sacred land on which the University of Toronto operates. Toronto (from the Haudenosaunee word Tkaronto) has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and celebrate arts and creativity on this territory.