Crossing Paths

Welcome to the tour!

Crossing Paths presents a number of ways to engage with the selected sites and stories on both sides of the river in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough.

If you are using the project’s paper map to experience the tour, you can visit any or all of the 10 outdoor sites which are accessible day or night by foot, bike, and car. At each site you should find a Crossing Paths poster with a site-specific theme and image. Each poster also includes a reflective question and QR code to scan and link to the Artspace website where you can read a story written by Peg Town about the site’s history, thematic connection, and related images.

If you are engaging with the virtual tour, simply scroll down this page and select any of the 10 site links below for corresponding contents.

Whether you visit every site on your bicycle, contemplate a single reflective question from your vehicle, look at images of the sites online, or read the stories from the comfort of your couch… the experience is yours to design.

We have some tips:

  1. Pick up your free paper map at Artspace, 3- 378 Aylmer Street North in downtown Peterborough, during regular gallery hours: 12 - 4pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 10am - 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

  2. Explore new paths and routes through your community by following the footpaths highlighted on the map.

  3. Follow and use the hashtag #CrossingPathsWithArtspace on social media.

  4. Share your reflections/thoughts/experiences of any or all of the Crossing Paths sites. Whether online or in person, we would like to hear from you!

Site 1: Crossing Paths with History

Site 2: Crossing Paths with Performance

Site 3: Crossing Paths with Community

Site 4: Crossing Paths with Nogojiwanong

Site 5: Crossing Paths with Gardeners

Site 6: Crossing Paths with Collaboration

Site 7: Crossing Paths with Diversity

Site 8: Crossing Paths with Climate Change

Site 9: Crossing Paths with Infrastructure

Site 10: Crossing Paths with Today and Tomorrow

Big Thanks: 

To Leah Buck and Andrea Fatona, for their encouragement, love and support;

To Artspace for supporting this project, and to the Staff, Leslie Menagh for the invitation, Kat Murphy for the technical support, Zwena Gray for the promotion, and my collaborator, Jillian Ackert for the balanced perspective, beautiful drawings, and amazing experience;

To the people connected to the special events and archival projects for the 50th Anniversary, Eryn Lidster, Phil Oakley, Laurel Paluck, Sue Newman, Jeffrey Macklin, Fynn Leitch, Justine-Marie Williams, Bill Kimball, JoEllen Brydon, and Caroline Langill, for your contribution to the conversations and celebrations in 2024;

To Martha Cockshutt, Peter M. Tasse, Brian Nichols, Lynn Beavis, Helen Knibb, Margaret Sinclair, David Bateman, Phillip Barker, Aganetha Dyck, Noreen Stevens, Sheila Spence, David LaRiviere, Iga Janik, Jon Lockyer, Bec Groves, Kirsten McCrea, Jill Stanton, Rob Wilkes, Melanie McCall, Charlie Glasspool, and J.L. Watson, for sharing your inspiring stories, art and ideas; 

To all the other artists, staff, volunteers, directors and community members for their continued support for Artspace;

And, last but not least, to all the other people whose paths have crossed mine and made a difference, I thank you, too!

~ Peg Town, August 2024