About Greenwood UTM

Founded in 2019, with the support of the The Blackwood, Greenwood began as a student-run initiative made up of Work-Study students, with a mandate to promote sustainability awareness on the University of Toronto Mississauga campus. This programming, including our continued involvement in the annual UTM Trashion Show, followed the close of the Blackwood Gallery’s The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea exhibition in 2018.

While continuing the promotion of sustainable practices, Greenwood has broadened their horizons since its conception, with a focus on programming in support of emerging and mid-career artists. As a group of students, in flux from semester to semester, our interests change with us, but we feel it is our responsibility as fellow students to provide an outlet to amplify the voices of our peers. Through these student-organized projects, we support partnerships, workshops, and events that use art and culture to promote critically engaged thinking in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

With Greenwood’s continued growth, we are dedicated to providing accessbile avenues for those with specified needs to be bale to reach our content. We have done this through providing closed captions on our content. In moving forward, we hope to have our programming become accessible to all with exceptionalities by creating a safe and accessible space.

More of our programming can be found on our Instagram, Facebook, and Vimeo pages.

To reach us, please email us at greenwoodutm@gmail.com. 

Land Acknowledgement 

Greenwood continues to consider the role that academic institutions, like the University of Toronto, play in the extension of colonial legacies. As students in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, we at Greenwood would like to recognize the many traditional territories upon which our work takes place and benefits from. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississauga’s of the Credit River. Many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island continue to protect and remain in relationship with this land. We are grateful to have the opportunity to continue collaborating in this space - to work, teach, listen, and learn.     

A territorial acknowledgement is an important reminder that we are all treaty partners. It is not only an opportunity to share our thanks to be living and learning in these lands, but a call to continue recognizing our commitments to each other. Within the past year we have seen these agreements challenged by settler institutions - most recently by 1492 Land Back Lane, pipelines in Wet’suwet’en traditional territory, and the Mi’kmaw fisheries along Canada’s east coast among others. These acknowledgements are not to commemorate the past, but to recognize our commitment to the present and to the future. They are living and will continue to live in all of us. 

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