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Queer Joy

Celebrating the Artwork of Queer & Trans folks

Second Floor Gallery

January 8 - April 26, 20244

Exhibition Statement

The LGBTQ+ Resource Centre and the 2SLGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Humber celebrate Pride at the College and within the community. We honour the identities and self-expression of two-spirited, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex members of our community, students, staff, and faculty. 

 

Humber College’s theme for Pride 2023 is “Queer Joy.” Amid growing curbs on the freedoms of 2SLGBTQ+ people in the US and around the world, it is even more important that institutions like Humber College make space for the celebration of 2SLGBTQ+ life. 2SLGBTQ+ people both inside and outside of Humber College ask not just to be accepted or tolerated, but that their celebrations and happiness be an integral and necessary part of the wider community. When faced with forces that seek to restrict, invalidate or erase their lives, queer joy is a radical act. Deployed fully, queer joy can remake Humber College and Etobicoke Lakeshore into a more accepting, healthy and resilient community. 

 

We especially celebrate queer communities of colour, migrant 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, trans, intersex, and disabled queer folks who still navigate intersectional barriers in their everyday lives. We also acknowledge that Pride takes place on Indigenous lands, and that Pride Month takes place during National Indigenous History Month (June). We believe that reclaiming Indigenous two-spirit identities and traditions is central to the ongoing process of reconciliation and decolonization of LGBTQ+ movements.

Through a collaboration with the LGBTQ+ Resource Centre and the 2SLGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Humber, we honour the identities and self-expression of two-spirited, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex members of our community, students, staff, and faculty.  

 

Celebrating the theme of "Queer Joy", join us for a juried art exhibition in January-April 2024 in our newly launched Second Floor Gallery!

 

Email: info@LakeshoreGrounds.ca

Phone: (416) 675-6622 ext. 3801

 

Key Dates

 

Applications open: April 26, 2023

Applications close for review: December 1, 2023

Selected artists contacted: by December 13, 2023

 

Exhibition Launch: January 8, 2024

Exhibition close: April 26, 2024

Selection Process

Jury:

Matthew Travill, Student Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Coordinator

Yanni Thepanya, 2SLGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group

Nadine Finlay, Curator Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre

Prizes:

Three $100 gift cards for winners

Gift cards support Queer owned businesses in Toronto

Visit the Exhibition

anuary

January 8, 2024 - April 26, 2024

Monday - Friday

7:00 am to 6:00 pm

Second Floor Gallery

Student Welcome and Resource Centre

2 Col. Samuel Smith Park Dr, Etobicoke.

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