New Exhibitions at the Interpretive Centre
Tags: Vol. 4, June 2024, Issue 2
The Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre enjoyed a busy Winter 2024 semester marked by events, guided history tours, new and existing exhibitions, and exciting announcements!
Winter 2024 welcomed over 500 visitors to our main gallery space featuring the exhibition Grace: One Story of Thousands, which shares the story of a woman named Grace and her time in institutional care through an EDIB lens. Two new exhibitions launched in January 2024: Witnesses of the Past and Queer Joy.
Witnesses of the Past brought renowned photographer Sherry Prenevost and two youth mentees, Amber Briden and Emily Briden, to the former Psychiatric Hospital and Cemetery to document changes made to the sites over time through their artwork. An impactful visual display, the artwork shared is a small portion of the images recorded for documenting the land in the Interpretive Centre’s archive.
Queer Joy, a collaboration between the Interpretive Centre, Humber’s LGBTQ+ Resource Centre, and Humber’s 2SLGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group (ERG), offered a celebration of Queer and Trans artists. From June to December 2023, the Interpretive Centre welcomed submissions from Queer and Trans artists across Canada to be displayed in our Second Floor Gallery, to acclaim from both the Humber and external community.
Through the month of February, the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre hosted A National Crime: Canada’s Indian Residential School System, a travelling exhibition on loan from the Legacy of Hope Foundation. A National Crime provided visitors with an introduction to the residential school system in Canada, its impact on Indigenous People, and political action, healing, and the importance of reconciliation action today. The exhibition was visited by over 800 people over its four-week loan and incorporated across fourteen FSCS classes.
A National Crime: Canada’s Indian Residential School System” was loaned to the Interpretive Centre from the Legacy of Hope foundation for four weeks in January and February of 2024.