There is a certain beauty in the ability that human beings have to create beautiful spaces and share the space with others. However, in our supposed “world of plenty”, the way we use (or rather, misuse) space shows an advanced degree of cultural poverty.

Forests transformed into golf courses, rent-a-cops, surveillance malls, eternal parking lots, regulated green spaces, curfews, polluted spaces…
Space and the use we make of it defines and shows the structure of the city, of our relationships and of our state as it the basis of the nationalist conceptualization: Where one is not permitted (or alienated from) one cannot control!

Picnics are supposed to be fun and natural. But in our current world, we have no choice but to have our picnics in awkward spaces!

Festival kickoff June 17th, 7:30pm, Guilbaut and St-Laurent, bring some food and some to share, 1950s semi-formal dress code, other picnics TBA