20 October, 9 am–5 pm (time may shift if it rains)
Outside Hoopla Press and Gallery, 120 Princess Street

 21 October, 9 am–5 pm (time may shift if it rains)
Outside Hoopla Press and Gallery, 120 Princess Street

3 November, 10 am–3:30 pm
Inside Queen’s Athletics & Recreation Centre, 284 Earl Street

4 November, 1–5 pm
Inside Agnes’s Atrium

Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities is a series of performance pop-ups that looks to activate Kingston’s rich history of Black life. Each day focuses on a person or family and their history in the city. Gesturing toward abundant print histories and archives, a mobile printing press moves around the city. The public is invited to print t-shirts and pick up a brochure that explains the life behind the images. In this way, the performance responds to a hidden history and scrutinizes both visible and invisible pasts.

Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Alejandro Arauz and Agnes’s Associate Curator, Arts of Africa Qanita Lilla. The mobile printing press was fabricated by Arauz, whose practice explores issues of identity and diaspora through the vernacular of print media, performance, and video. Lilla’s curatorial work looks to provide alternatives to exclusionary museum practices.