An artist-led immigrant collective and platform connecting voices shaped by movement, identity, and layered cultural roots.
I was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, and moved to Toronto 12 years ago. Like many immigrant families, mine wanted to create a better life for their kids. For countless reasons, Toronto is where we chose. For several other reasons, I would end up making the trip alone.
Toronto became a second home in no time. Not so much because of the city itself, but because of all the people that made me feel that way – all the other immigrants that were on their own journey finding a place they could call home.
I didn’t know exactly what I was doing but I knew I wasn’t alone in not knowing. And that brought so much precious comfort in the cultural limbo that we were all in.
I can honestly say that I used to take my culture for granted, and I didn’t fully appreciate it until I started bringing parts of it here.
Funny enough, by the time I started appreciating it, a new culture was becoming a significant part of me.
Two thirds of me grew up in Sofia and one third in Toronto. I know that a big part of me belongs here. But I’ve never felt like all three thirds of “me” entirely belong here
or in Sofia. So there’s always a part of me that’s uneasy. A part of me that’s disconnected. A part of me that’s in between.
So now that I have embraced that in-between state, I see it as something beautiful worth celebrating.
A one-night exhibit and a celebration of embracing that funny feeling of disconnectedness from the places we call home. We told visual stories of immigrant Torontonians navigating the various cultures woven within them, through all sorts of mediums and experiences.
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