Doors Open Toronto

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[music plays throughout] [Tom Haxell] Today we're- we have four events. Uh, so we have four different areas. We have the Centre for Justice Leadership is doing "Can You Solve the Crime?" The Fashion Institute is doing "Fashion Through the Ages." The L Space Gallery is doing "Visualizing Absence." And we're doing the ever popular tunnel tours as well. [Rocky] Today is Doors Open. So we're bringing in people from the street, and we're coming in, and we're showing them the crime scene lab and the forensic studio. So we have a scenario set up in the crime scene lab with a murder mystery, and we have three suspects. They're gonna look at the wine bottles, they're gonna look at the glass, right? They're gonna come here, and they're gonna look at the fingerprints, and they're gonna decide who did the crime. [Tom] It's important for us to engage with the community. You know, we wanna be part of the community and, and not just a college here with the students, but a college for everyone here to come and visit, and, and explore the area, and get to know the history, too. [Tara Mazurk] This is "Visualizing Absence," which is memorializing the histories of the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital grounds. We worked with Anne Zbitnew and a collaboration with a bunch of different artists including students from Humber's Arts Administration program. So we've decided to really focus on a patient perspective. So what is written about the patients, what had the patients experienced that haven't been told about the history of Humber College's Lakeshore Campus, which used to be the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital. [Tom] The East side of the campus is- kinda gets the, the big buzz, and that's because we have the cottages here and the tunnels. [Brittany] Um, so we've set up a, uh, vintage fashion exhibit, um, with fashions from the 1890s all the way through to the 1980s, um, as part of Doors Open Toronto. [Sandeep] They come to know about their history, the children and youngsters. So it is good for them to know what their history was and what, like, fashion is repeating itself. [Brittany] Um, well it's a really great networking opportunity to get a chance to meet, um, you know, industry preme- professionals, as well as, you know, just people from the community. [Tom] So this area, uh, you know, has a lot, uh, wetlands, I would say, grasslands, uh, which is very important to the community around here. Colonel Samuel Smith Park is right near by, and we're only, like, a stones throw away from the water down below. So we have a lot of people who just come for walks here. And it's, it's a beautiful campus. [music fades out]