Snaps from Discover Agincourt, an ArtworxTO Walking Tour
Much thanks to the folks in our community that made our Discover Agincourt arts & culture walking tour with the Tamil Archive Project, as part of ArtworxTO: Toronto’s Year of Public Art 2021-2022, so special. 🍂✨🏘
Created in 1987, the perimeters of the neighbourhood were expanded in the 2000s. The top three languages spoken in this area are Chinese, English, and Tamil according to the last census. Together we’ve spent the last two weekends within Agincourt, learning about how the people, and not the buildings, have come to shape this neighbourhood’s history.
Last Saturday, we met in Dragon Centre Mall to hear from local illustrator, Wandy Cheng, about how the role of community feeds into her artistic practice. And after spending time within the mall we viewed public artworks including Eliscer Elliot’s Mural and some “Poems for Your Path” pieces by Ontario’s Poet Laureate Randell Adjei, amongst other stops.
A special thank you to the City of Toronto, Cultural Hotspot, and Local Discoveries for supporting this tour. Want to take it yourself? The ArtworxTO Agincourt Tour, co-mapped by Dr. Vasuki Shanmuganathan, Krish Dinesjkumar, and Gnanushan Krishnapillai, is now available on the Driftscapes App to take at your own leisure. Find it online here.
“Thank you Tamil Archive Project and Scarborough Arts for an amazing tour. People often think the suburbs aren’t walkable or that culture isn’t present in the ‘sprawl,’ but Discover Agincourt really shows the rich layers of living heritage in Scarborough and how one can discover a lot on foot!”
Lastly, a major thank you to present and past members of Scarborough Arts for making this happen. Including Derek Spooner, Emily Peltier, Amanda Singh, Tara Dorey, Issaq Ahmed, and Kyle Jarencio. Photographs taken by Kyle Jarencio.
We acknowledge the land we travel on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Meìtis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.