Poet, performance artist, and Joyce Foundation Fellow Moheb Soliman is tracing the entire Great Lakes coastline by land for four months–due in Toronto July 15-17, hosted by The Theatre Centre. Come for a meet-and-greet, participate in the creative protocols he’s enacting region-wide, or just contribute your own view of our corner of the Great Lakes to this unique work-in-progress.

Thursday, July 16, 5pm – 7pm at The Theatre Centre: Meet-and-greet with wine & snacks, presentation and installation, and a group walk to the lakeshore to end the event.

Moheb will share some of his interdisciplinary Great Lakes work, where the subjective stands in for the objective in a overlays of images, language, and gesture, presented in the context of a low-fi installation which visitors can interact with and involving a tent, an overhead projector, and artifacts and materials accumulating in his travel.

He’ll also discuss his on-going project circling the Great Lakes, hoping for an exchange with our locality in exploring the place of nature and the sublime in modernity and identity, the differing narratives of belonging in the region, and the extent to which the wild, populous Great Lakes borderland has a coherent culture rooted in geography, history, and economy.

Come to Theatre Centre, engage with the artist and be a part of this interdisciplinary project as it weaves Toronto into a new conception of the vast Great Lakes region.

Monday-Wednesday July 15-17, sign up with Moheb: Participate 1-on-1 or as a small group in excursions on one of his protocols, such as:

 “Feeled trips”–Go feel out a stretch of the lakeshore through inhabiting a favorite place, taking a walk in water, capturing a conversation or interaction through audio/video

 “Poem of sublime proportions”–help with an on-going epic poem being written into/erased by the entire Great Lakes shoreline

 “Tidings”–help with an on-going performance/installation piece where natural and cultural materials and excess from other Great Lakes locations “wash up” here temporarily through your placement, and collect others on-site for tidings in Moheb’s future destinations

Have another idea for what to do or where to go? Boat? Fishing? He’d love to hear it. And he’ll be developing other ideas too to pitch as options.

TO SIGN UP FOR AN EXCURSION: [email protected] or 315-746-0093