Belle Park Project

10/29/2025

Thursday, October 30 marks the opening of Working Ground, an art exhibition and initiative of the Belle Park Project. The exhibition brings artworks produced in and about the site’s changing landscape into dialogue with the space and collections of the Queen’s University Miller Museum of Geology. The exhibition was developed by Dorit Naaman (Queen's Department of Film and Media), Laura Murray (Queen's Department of English Literature & Creative Writing), and PhD student, architect and artist Noah Scheinman (Film and Media).

10/29/2025

Tomorrow is the opening of Working Ground! Please join us at the Miller Museum of Geology

An exhibition by Noah Scheinman and the Belle Park Project at the Miller Museum of Geology Opening Reception: Thursday October 30, 5:00 pm Miller Museum of Geology, 36 Union Street, Kingston, Ont. Join the artists for the opening of this exciting new

10/21/2025

Join us on 30 October at 5 p.m. at 36 Union Street for the opening of an intriguing exhibition!

09/06/2025

Come on out to the Broom Factory today for Noah Scheinman's project White Pine Travels: Ecotones and associated programming!

2:00 pm: Blasted Pine Speakers with Matt Rogalsky and Laura Jean
3:30 pm: Timber: Design and Engineering with Duncan Bourke
5 p.m. artist talk
7 p.m. screenings of short poems about the poetics of forests!

Saturday, September 6Broom Factory 12:00 pm - workshops5:00 pm - artist talk5:30 pm - opening reception7:00 pm - ECOTONES screening RSVP HERE Join us at the Broom for the opening of Noah Scheinman's White Pine Travels: At The Broom Factory. There will be free events all day, starting with workshops....

11/01/2024

Check out these very informative interviews with local activists and experts concerning housing issues, drug criminalization, and other socioeconomic challenges in Kingston!

A series looking at Kingston's social divisions, including food security, housing, addiction and drug poisonings. What are the solutions and hopeful ...

11/01/2024

Zoe Dodd will be giving a talk on Nov 14 at 7 pm at the Broom Factory titled "Casting the Drug War Net Wider -- the Creation of Patient Prisoners." Dodd has worked in harm reduction for almost 20 years as a program coordinator, organizer and advocate. Her talk will offer an understanding of the current political climate and our desperate need for solidarity. The event is co-presented by Studies in National and International Development at Queen's (SNID) and Mutual Aid Katarokwi Kingston (MAKK). For more information contact Mutual Aid Katarokwi-Kingston. Come one come all!

Dodd was named MAP’s inaugural Community Scholar for 2021/22. The program brings community experts and scientists together to develop and test solutions that directly address community priorities and needs. For a one-year period, Community Scholars work with MAP scientists, staff and students, and...

10/27/2024

We're delighted to share a blog post by Vince Ha about "Can I Rest in Your Shade?", his remarkable art piece you may have seen (or sat in) among the willows for our show Unearthed in August 2023. Vince is a PhD candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen’s and a 2024-2025 Fulbright Fellow at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University.

What does it mean to be, and is it possible to be, a non-native entity and also a generous caretaker of the land where one finds oneself?

09/13/2024

For a fuller perspective, read this:

09/13/2024

Yesterday appalling violence happened near the encampment at the park. Two people have died.

The response of the mayor as reported in the Whig was reprehensible. He had not a word for those who died, or the residents and workers caught up in the shocking situation and reeling in its aftermath -- all of them his constituents.

He instead said that the encampment has to be cleared and the care hub and safe injection site closed. As if it is the source of the problems. Yes, providing better housing and services is obviously needed, but closing the existing resources until (and if) that exists is a horrifying idea. It will lead to more deaths. In no way will it clean the mayor's hands.

Instead of blaming those who are living with addiction and poverty, or those who are working in extremely challenging circumstances to keep others safe, we need to support them now more than ever.

08/05/2024

“I’m trying to imagine how my ancestors must feel after all these years,” she said. “I look forward to being able to have people from all over the world come and enjoy that place. I hope we are able to maintain the cultural significance of it, and that people are able to realize how magnificent and intelligent the ancestors who built these wonderful earthworks were.” Chief Glenna Wallace, Eastern Cherokee Tribe of Oklahoma

A golf course built on Native American ceremonial earthworks will be removed after a private country club reached a financial settlement.

07/20/2024

Give this video a watch -- it's really good to hear from the people at the Hub telling it how they see it.

Learn more about the people and impacts of the work at the Integrated Care Hub in Kingston, Ontario