Walking as Remapping: Slow Walk to Nowhere Part II
The Green Path with Dawn Matheson

Join us for a walk guided not by intention or destination, but by the world around us.

Jul 16.2025

Time

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location Starting point: Kiosk at east entrance on Arboretum Road

Price Free

Open to all ages and abilities, including those using assistive devices. Dress for the weather and come ready to wander!

Join us for the second in a two-part series of experimental walking programs led by artist Dawn Matheson, presented in the context of the exhibition 155,578. Slow Walk to Nowhere Part II: The Green Path invites participants to engage in a walk guided not by intention or destination, but by the world around them. Set in the University of Guelph Arboretum, each walker will follow only external cues—a bird call, a shifting breeze, the direction of a falling leaf, a scent on the wind, or the orientation of a branch. These subtle signs become wayfinders in a slow drift shaped by the natural world.

Note that The Arboretum has two porta potties available in the evening, located at the east end of the closed washrooms. One is wheelchair accessible.

Sponsors

Walking as Remapping is presented by the Art Gallery of Guelph and The Arboretum University of Guelph with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council – an agency of the Government of Ontario – and TD Friends of the Environment.

About the facilitator

Dawn Matheson

Dawn Matheson is a writer and interdisciplinary artist whose socially engaged practice transforms civic and social spaces through participatory and experiential works. Her work is currently on view in 155,578, featuring 55 artists with ties to Guelph.

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