Love the Stranger: Curating, Telling & Celebrating our Community’s Stories

In honour of 100 years of Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, the Ontario Jewish Archives worked with JIAS Toronto to curate Love the Stranger, an exhibit recalling and celebrating 100 years of Jewish immigration to Canada and of Jews welcoming and supporting immigrants and refugees.

Museum Studies graduate student Avi Margolis took the lead on this project, starting at ground zero and diving deep into literally hundreds of boxes of JIAS files at the OJA, searching for archival gems to highlight and celebrate a century community history. How do you embark on a project like this? How do you pick and choose from 100 years of archives? When does the mundane cross over and become interesting and even extraordinary through the lens of history? How do you gather and organize materials to tell a compelling story?

Join us to see Love the Stranger and explore/discuss the process of curating, telling and celebrating our community’s stories.

Drop-in. Registration not required.

Accessibility
Toronto Public Library is committed to accessibility. Please call or email us if you are Deaf or have a disability and would like to request an accommodation to participate in this program. Please let us know as far in advance as possible and we will do our best to meet your request. At least three weeks’ notice is preferred. Phone 416-393-7099 or email accessibleservices@tpl.ca