Collective Spaces at Black Creek

This stroll along the Black Creek Trail brings a latent community resource into conversation. Currently a passive recreation trail, the Black Creek Ravine could instead serve as a space for (re)creation, belonging, and knowledge sharing between humans and non-humans. The stroll imagines a site for resistance, a location for food sovereignty, and a place for insurgent world-making. As we move through the trail, we invoke the claiming of contradictions or gaps in neoliberal space to produce human focused places that run on alternative logics, such as those of care, togetherness, or enjoyment. This walk looks to discuss the potential of the Black Creek as a common location for connection, as it once was, and not solely for passive recreational usage.

The group will be guided down the Black Creek Trail to the insurgent space known as Rudy’s Garden, and then head back up the Black Creek Trail: a process which encourages walkers to take on a new perspective towards the land that was previously traversed.