Toronto

“We Miss You” is an interactive community art installation and public memorial to bring together those impacted by the grief of losing a loved one to overdose and also to highlight the preventable nature of these losses. Folks are invited to weave or tie a piece of purple fabric to the chain link fence surrounding the woven message “We Miss You” at Trinity Bellwoods Park tennis courts on Saturday August 31st, International Overdose Awareness Day. We invite our communities and the general public at large to write their name(s) or a message on each piece of fabric, representing a loved one taken too soon by the toxic drug poisoning crisis, someone they know that is at high risk of overdose death, or someone who has been harmed by this ongoing public health crisis. Our aim is to bring our experiences out into the open, to support each other in our grief, to share with the public the prevalence of overdose/drug poisoning in our communities, and to bring awareness to the ways we can prevent these losses from continuing. Please join us for 2 pm for speakers and a grief sharing circle.