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Homecoming

Dear Neighbour: Homecoming
February 16th-27th, 2011

Dear Neighbour,

After 12 years of living away, I am interested in finding out what Toronto is made of. I’m hoping we can learn something about it, while spending a little bit of time together as strangers who share a city...

Throughout the Rhubarb Festival I'll be making a series of invitations to audience members and to strangers in the city. My first invitation is this:

Think of a place of significance in Toronto. Sometime between Wednesday Feb 16th and Sunday Feb 20th, mark that place on the city map that I will display in the Ante Chamber at Buddies. (You'll find instructions there.)

In the days that follow, I will go to each place marked on the map.
I'll make something there to share with you...

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'Dear Neighbour' is an ongoing invitation-based project. Each experiment involves taking time, meeting strangers, interrupting the everyday, and elements of chance built in. For ‘Homecoming’, the locations of the encounters were chosen by Rhubarb audience members. From these places, I followed strangers and met the city, collected stories and then shared them in a lecture performance at the end of the festival.

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Nine Homecoming Locations:

St. James Cemetery