Garden of Resilience
24 May - October 2026
Organized by KWAG Curatorial + Public Programs Departments
Located in the Sculpture Garden, KWAG’s Garden of Resilience is designed to empower local residents by providing individual beds for growing organic produce, flowers and herbs.
As a model, it is a decolonial gesture that inverts capitalist expectations of land value and outdated conceptions of aesthetic value and landscaping. As a gallery, the garden will be regularly programmed, activated and cared for, just like our internal gallery spaces. KWAG seeks to learn from the garden and understand how we can best position ourselves to care for our immediate neighbors and local ecologies.
This hybrid platform explores the model of the community garden as a space of radical sustainability and mutual aid on a community level. In a place where 10% of our neighbor’s face food insecurity on an annual basis, the Garden of Resilience will be a refuge of direct action, grounding the possibilities of small-scale, urban food production and community strength through intergenerational exchange and learning.
RELATED PROGRAMS:
Garden Launch and Celebration
Sunday, 24 May, announcement of 2026 Gardener-in-Residence at 11:00 a.m.
More weekend activities are coming soon, including a free outdoor concert, workshops, and more.
Images: Feature and header, Garden of Resilience, 2025. Photo by KWAG.
The Garden of Resilience is funded by WRCF’s Community Grants program. Garden events connected to KWAG's 70th anniversary are supported by Stantec and the City of Kitchener.
