Windsor-Essex Jane's Walk Festival
2021 Lineup
Environment
Food & Entertainment
Advocacy
Art & Architecture
History & Culture
Social
Justice
Infrastructure
Digital Live Walks
Register on Eventbrite for all live digital walks
Friday, May 7
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Friday, May 7
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Friday, May 7
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Holiday Beach Pine Forest Walking Tour
Join certified Woods Wizard ™ Gerry Hedges on an exploration of the west end of County Road 50, and a look inside an unmaintained Pine Forest near Holiday Beach Conservation Area.
Host: Gerry Hedges
Available on Facebook Live
A Spin Through Spring Garden
Meet us (online) at the Capri Sports Complex. We're going to navigate you through some of Windsor's interconnected trails to get to the Ojibway Nature Center. Along the way, we'll show what makes our neighbourhood so unique.
Hosts: TJ & Jess Bondy
Available on Zoom / Register on Eventbrite
Where We Once Were:
Detroit River Across Time
A virtual walk through narratives of Indigenous, colonial, industrial, civic, and domestic space along the Detroit River revealing sites of architecture, ritual, production, contestation, speculation, and culture.
Host: Tom Provost
Available on Zoom / Register on Eventbrite
*Note: this presentation will not be recorded.
Saturday, May 8
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Alleys to Opportunity
There are over 80km of alleyways in the City of Windsor and they are slowly disappearing. Not all alleys are made equally, some should disappear, but the question is how can we better use these space to have positive impact in the City.
Host: Frazier Fathers
Available on Facebook Live
Audio/Video Walks
Premiering May 7 - 9
The Electric Slide(Show): A Tour of the Windsor's Electrical Grid
Do you know where your electricity comes from or where the wires that connect your home end up? Take this big-picture tour of the invisible and in-plain-sight electrical grid that connects us to the power that we rely on, to find out.
Host: Mita Williams
Wild Foraging for everyone ~ recontextualized for accessibility & ecological resilience
Wild Foraging is becoming more widely discussed. We will offer a critical lens for examining our ecological responsibilities and social justice impacts, as well as information about incorporating feral and invasive foods into your everyday life.
Hosts: Naali Holmes & JC Bitonti
Art Space / Art Walk
The Art Gallery of Windsor will guide an art walk through the city, highlighting window displays that can be seen from the street at 4 cultural institutions, including Artcite Inc., one ten park, the Arts Council Windsor and Region and the AGW.
Host: Sophie Hinch
Art Gallery of Windsor
Illustrated Feature: Echo Building
The Doors of Heritage Podcast present an illustrated feature about the Echo Building. Built for the Amherstburg Echo, the building was their home from 1915 until they closed their doors in 2012.
Host: Robert Honor, Stephanie Pouget, Cindy Hazael-Gietz and Sarah Haefling
Architectural Conservancy of Ontario Windsor/Essex Branch
Ep 7: The Greatest Steel Town That Never Was
The former municipality of Ojibway, Ontario was planned to become the Canadian Steel Wonder of the 20th century. What happened? This episode dives into that history. Episode 7 of the local history podcast Life in a Border Town.
Host: Walter S. Petrichyn
Pathways to biodiversity - where ecological restoration and local food resilience meet in your neighbourhood
How self-sustaining biodiversity can be cultivated through community efforts ~ co-creating food and habitat corridors for species impacted by urban development and a future of local food resilience for our families and community.
Hosts: Naali Holmes & JC Bitonti
The Art and Architecture of Assumption Church
Walk through Our Lady of Assumption Church with Fr. Steven Huber. The current structure was built in 1845, was the one time See of the Diocese of London and is the home base of the oldest Roman Catholic Parish west of Montreal.
Host: Fr. Steven Huber
Architectural Conservancy of Ontario Windsor/Essex Branch
401 West: Portrait of the Region
The Art Gallery of Windsor will host a video tour of works from the permanent collection showcasing works depicting historical and social documentation of the region though industry, trade, technology, and art.
Host: Sophie Hinch
Art Gallery of Windsor
Chanels and Channels
In the early 1920's Antoinette Chanel (sister of Coco) married Oscar Edward Fleming, son of former Mayor, Oscar Ernest Fleming. We will visit some of the sites that she would have seen and talk about the scene in the years after the war.
Host: The Book Girls
Downtown Windsor: What If?
What if Windsor never amalgamated? What if Downtown Windsor banned blight? Or actually built that canal? What if the next border crossing solution was a zip-line? Join an hour of exploring what Windsor could have been and what Windsor could be next.
Host: Sarah Morris