MOTH GARDEN
Moth Garden is a long-term project by artists Lisa Hirmer and Christina Kingsbury.
Moth Garden is an artist-made garden for moths and other nocturnal pollinators. In a world where attention, care and conservation efforts have a bias towards creatures who align with human perception—the big, the beautiful, the colourful—Moth Garden is a project that wonders how we can relate to beings that are harder for our bodies to perceive. It is a poetic gesture that attends to the tiny and the barely visible around us.
Moth Garden invites visitors to spend time in the dark with nocturnal beings and hopes to offer embodied, sensory experiences at the edge of one’s capacity for perception: perhaps the flicker of moonlight off an iridescent wing, a fluttering felt on the skin, or a rhythmic thrum in the eardrum as a moth flies by.
2024 GARDEN EVENTS
SEED COLLECTING
Moth Garden’s annual seed collecting event
October 26th 2-4PM (drop-in)
Meet at the Farm Workshop parking lot at 1:45pm to walk over with us or follow the map to join us at the garden any time.
Access Information is available here
If the walk is an access barrier please get in touch as we have alternative options.
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This event is supported by the City of Guelph, Guelph Arts Council and Guelph Neighborhood Support Coalition Activating Community Micro-Grants program.
ULTRASONIC MOTH SONGS
with Lucy Rupert + Ben Finley
August 20th 7:30PM
With the support of The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI)
BIPOC OUTDOOR GEAR LIBRARY MOTH EVENING
July 28th 8:30PM
Supported by ParkPeople
Workshop: Gardening For Moths
June 18th 4-6pm
Supported by ParkPeople
Moth Viewings
June 23rd + July 6th 9-10:30pm
Hosted by the Art Gallery of Guelph
Workshop: Gardening For Moths
June 18th 4-6pm
Supported by ParkPeople
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Moth Garden grows on land that is the ancestral home of the Chonnonton, the Anishinaabe, and the Haudenosaunee peoples and the Between the Lakes Treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
The Moth Garden project gratefully acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Eramosa Herbals, OPIRG, ParkPeople, Pollination Guelph, Art Gallery of Guelph, CEDaR Lab, and the Culture and Animals Foundation.