Micro Meets Macro: Taking Action on Food Insecurity and Housing Instability

Free with registration
Co-hosted with Daily Bread in partnership with YWCA Toronto and Toronto Foundation

Bring your questions, thoughts, and ideas! Join the Gardiner Museum and Daily Bread Food Bank for an evening of action and engagement inspired by the themes in the exhibition Karine Giboulo: Housewarming and Who’s Hungry, a report examining trends in food bank use and food insecurity in Toronto. Artist Karine Giboulo will be present.

Experience the exhibition and discover activation stations coordinated by Daily Bread Food Bank, YWCA, and Toronto Foundation, and learn more about food insecurity, income inequality, and housing instability, including how we can all take action to support the needs of our community. 

About Daily Bread Food Bank
Daily Bread Food Bank works towards long-term solutions to end hunger and poverty, and runs innovative programs to support individuals living on low income and experiencing food insecurity. Daily Bread distributes fresh and shelf-stable food and fresh-cooked meals to 190+ food programs at 130 member agencies across Toronto. Daily Bread also publishes the influential Who's Hungry report - an annual survey measuring trends in food insecurity and poverty in Toronto to educate the public and spark policy change. Learn more

About YWCA Toronto
We help women and girls flee violence, secure housing, find jobs, establish their voices, enhance skills and develop confidence. We offer a range of housing options, employment and training programs, community support programs, girls' programs and family programs; we also engage in systemic advocacy. As part of a national and international movement, the YWCA is a turning point in the lives of 25 million women and girls world wide. We welcome women of all faiths, sexual orientations, races, cultural affiliations and creeds. Learn more

About Toronto Foundation
We are Toronto’s community foundation, building a city of informed, engaged philanthropists committed to accelerating meaningful change for all. We run a donor education program to disrupt traditional philanthropic practices including flowing more money to smaller, local and equity-focused organizations; use an action-oriented and equity-focused research agenda; and strive to responsibly invest more of our assets every year. Each year we produce reports on the wellbeing of the city, including Toronto’s Vital Signs Report and the Social Capital Study. Learn more

About the Exhibition
Enter a world at once familiar and uncanny. Montreal-based artist Karine Giboulo invites visitors into an immersive reimagining of her home. Brought to life by over 500 miniature polymer clay figures, this is no ordinary house. Born of the COVID-19 pandemic, Housewarming is a sculpted documentary of individual and collective experiences grounded in current events. The colourful dioramas furnishing each room prompt reflection about the challenges we face as a society, including connectedness and isolation, aging and care, labour and consumerism, the climate crisis, food insecurity, and housing instability. Learn more