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Welcome to the Nature of Cities Festival 2024! A gathering to get inspired, to learn, to present, collaborate, or to meet hundreds of new best friends and urban nature co-conspirators. The Berlin segment is an all-inclusive multi-day experience featuring field-trips, in person talks, workshops, art interventions, a film festival, Farm-to-Table dinners, various opportunities for socializing, and much more. All of it takes place at the Atelier Gardens venue, and various other locations around Berlin.

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VENUE ADDRESS:
Oberlandstraße 26-35, 12099 Berlin
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Anna Jane McIntyre

Montreal, Canada

I am a Black visual artist with a practice combining drawing, installation, printmaking, costume, storytelling, performance and micro-activism.  My projects explore and celebrate the ways in which people decipher experience, belonging, create and maintain culture and senses of self.  My work prioritises centring the experience and negotiation of culture, space, time as a Black body.


Recent projects include working with the Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC) on the animation of the book project of Where They Stood:The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal, commissioned projects for the Canada-wide exhibition of While Black, curated by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques and Denise Ryner with consultations by Pamela Edmonds, Alyssa Fearon, Dominique Fontaine, Sally Frater, Bushra Junaid, Crystal Mowry and Allison Yearwood, a banner-composition, Bouteille à la mer/Postcards from the Edge, honouring Black history in the Eastern Townships installed at the United Church of Philipsburg, an Underground Railroad station stop for fugitive enslaved Black people escaping the United States, a tea service created in support of dr. rosalind hampton’s academic research Plotting Black Studies in Canada: Montreal and Toronto, images for the newly named Toronto Metropolitan University Dr. Mélanie Knight Advisor to the Dean, Blackness and Black Diasporic Education, commissioned bookwork design  and illustrations highlighting 12 labour activists for the Coaltion of Black Trade Unionists, commissioned fabric pattern design for costuming a character for Anishaabe-French artist Emilie Monnet’s play Marguerite Le feu, designing a large wall mural for the QTBIPOC community and student coalition at Queen’s University amongst others.


My art practice ranges from kinetic sculptures, to touring 3200 square foot multimedia immersive forest installations, giant emojis, feminist-foosball-tables, intergenerational community workshops, parade floats, commercial signage, choose your own adventure tales, Afropresent truths & fictions, colouring books for those with complex, shifting and fluid identities, urban ecology forest school cahiers for BIPOC kids, Speaker's corners, love-letter-services and homages-for-the-forgotten.  


My artistic aesthetic combines my cultural influences (Trinidadian, British, Canadian) through the juxtaposition of familiar materials in novel usages and forms.  The playful mash-up of materials acknowledges the active nature of negotiating culture and belonging, as well as the contradictions that may exist within our self-definitions.  Projects explore the spoken, the historical, the contemporary, the imagined, the unexpected, clichés, the mundane and extraordinary realities of modern day living.  I seek to create work acknowledging the past and present, as well as imagine a beautiful dream of what is to come.