"Habibiz" — a group exhibition by Way Past Kennedy Road, opening February 7th
Following the Shisha Ban which came into effect on April 1st, 2016 and has since forced nearly
70 predominantly Black and Brown migrant-owned businesses to close and/or restructure their
livelihoods, the owner of Kennedy Road’s Very Own Habibiz Shisha Lounge asks, “Where else
is there for us in this city?”
HABIBIZ is a group exhibit by Way Past Kennedy Road taking up Toronto’s Shisha Ban to consider what it means to illegalize already hypersurveilled spaces and extending a conversation on radical traditions of placemaking across the GTA.
Habibiz is curated by Jessica Kirk and Mitra Fakhrashrafi of Way Past Kennedy Road, and features work by:
Amani Bin Shikhan with Sisterhood Media
Mahdi Chowdhury
Idil Djafer
N. Fatima
Noor Khan
Maymuna Mohamed
Tania Peralta
ABOUT WPKR
Way Past Kennedy Road is a collective of multidisciplinary emerging artists based in Scarborough and other rejected but resilient corners of the GTA. We build spaces for ourselves both online and offline, and use art as a means of resisting the borders, boundaries, and (un)belongings that define each of our lives and our work in distinct ways.
Opening Reception
February 7th, 2019 from 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates
February 8th – February 23rd
Gallery Hours
Wednesday to Friday from 12-7pm
Saturdays from 12-5pm
Curator’s Talk + Free Button Making
February 14th from 4pm - 7pm
“The Feeling of Being Watched” Screening
February 15th from 6pm - 9pm
Digital Justice Lab Workshop
Saturday February 23rd from 2pm - 5pm
To guests with scent sensitivities or asthmatic symptoms: there will be tobacco smoke in Margin of Eras Gallery for the later part of Habibiz opening reception, on February 7th between 8pm - 10pm.