Toronto, please accept this gift – to treasure for years to come.
In collaboration with the Museum of Toronto, I have had the privilege to co-curate "Home Game: Toronto Loves Basketball," a new exhibition tracing Toronto's deep connection to basketball! This exhibit explores the deep roots of basketball history, culture, and life in this city – and its presence in a country turning to the game over the decades.
There is a main exhibit site, at the Harbourfront Centre (due to launch this month!), a mobile app developed with my co-curator, Professor Sarah Bay-Cheng, and a team from York University, and event programming that is on the way over the rest of 2025!
This has been a two-year-plus effort, after the Museum reached out to collaborate several years ago. After consultations with community members, and lots of fruitful conversations about history, culture, racism and built space, I hope you can bring your friends and family down and around the city to absorb and interact with.
"Home Game" feels like a physical manifestation of my first book, Rebound, but it goes so much further – and brings in so much more texture and context. This is a living exhibit, and we are hoping visitors contribute their own oral storytelling to our archives!
At the outset, this was always about reminding folks of the city at its best and ensuring we have that city as it evolves over the coming years. I hope this is as fulfilling an experience for you as it was for me!
I would like to thank the Museum staff for just an amazing undertaking: Heidi, Bria, Davin, Kayla and Katie, and a slew of others especially Nadine, who was my first point of contact, mere months after my first book was published in 2021.
Onward! Learn more about the exhibit here: https://museumoftoronto.com/collection/home-game-exhibition/