
Material Stargazer is an intergenerational project bridging community work and experimental art through workshops and a performative exhibition. This project is a collaboration with community centers around the island of Montreal and invites locals, many from underserved populations, into a multidisciplinary artistic process to imagine more creative and just futures. Facilitating the projects are six artists and community organizers between the ages of 22 and 89 years old.
In conversation with experimental art lineages and interactive community methods, Material Stargazer uses creative media, time-based art practices (performance, sound, voice, etc.) as well as material culture and everyday interests redefined and showcased as art, story and social engagement.
This is an iterative project, with the first iteration taking place at the Suspicious Fish community center in Verdun in 2024.
This version of the project engages with the Milton-Parc neighborhood and its multiple communities.
Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, project lead for the Milton-Parc edition.
Performance: Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Eric Crave, Sophia Borowska, Nien Tzu Weng, Louise Jack, Hanako Brierley
Lighting Design: Nien Tzu Weng
Set Design: Sophia Borowska, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Nien Tzu Weng
Sound Design: Eric Craven, Hanako Brierley
Community participants: names to come
Co-production : Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Danse-Cité, Le Radeau, MAI - Montréal, arts interculturels
Financial supports: Conseil de Arts de Montréal, Bourse Trellis (ELAN)
Partners: Association Récréative Milton-Parc, Yellow Door
September 19, 2026: Going Public, open to the public
📍Montréal, arts interculturels - Gallery
3680 Jeanne Mance Street
Montréal, QC, H2X 2K5
November 21 — 26, 2026: Performative exhibition, open to the public
Opening: November 21, from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Finishing: November 26, from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm
📍Association Récréative Milton-Parc
3555 Saint-Urbain Street
Montréal, QC, H2X 2N6
Free events.