Hiba Abdallah
Letters to Eatonville Library
– Book Launch & Online Artist Talk
Ontario Culture Days @ the Library
Online via Toronto Public Library’s Crowdcast platform.
October 12, 2021 at 6:30pm
Libraries are quiet buildings, filled to the brim with stories loud enough to reverberate into the hearts of a community. What is the meaning and possibility of libraries as beacons of community gathering, curiosity and public importance? In the process of creating an installation and book for presentation during the festival, Hiba Abdallah has been investigating the importance of Etobicoke’s Eatonville Library to its staff, community, and visitors.
Artist’s bio:
Hiba Abdallah is an artist and educator whose practice explores the structural legacies and futures of cities by researching the intersections of collaboration, communication, and disagreement as productive frameworks for re-imagining public agency.
Letters to Eatonville Library
Watch the book launch featuring Hiba Abdallah and Eatonville Library Staff, below:
Articles
Life of a Library
Hiba Abdallah, 2021 Ontario Culture Days Creative in Residence, visited Toronto Public Library’s Eatonville branch in Etobicoke to reflect on the role of the library and its impact on staff and surrounding communities.
A Conversation with Communities: Hiba Abdallah
Kicking off the first of our Creatives in Residence profile series is Hiba Abdallah. A text and design-based artist, her work focuses on the intersections of collaboration, community and disagreement as productive frameworks for re-imagining public agency.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of Ontario and the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund a program of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, administered by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund Corporation.