🌈 🌈 KAPWA WALK IS BACK! 🌈 🌈
To celebrate Montreal’s Pride season, Centre Kapwa is partnering with @wildpridemonteal for a community walk through Le Village.
Kapwa Walk is a monthly community walk that began during the cold Montreal winter months, with the lack of physical activity and connection among the community. Its stated goal is to foster the mental and physical wellbeing of the community by bringing people to explore different Montreal neighbourhoods, connect to local communities, and move together. Since November 2022, we have roamed around in neighbourhoods like Mile End, Pointe-Saint-Charles, Verdun, Shaughnessy Village, Chinatown, Uptown, Old Port, and NDG.
Wild Pride MTL is a queer, grassroots, anti-corporate alternative to mainstream Pride. Born out of frustration with pinkwashing and tokenism, it creates space for radical joy, resistance, and community care.
This special Kapwa Walk invites participants to explore the Village through the experiences of the communities who have shaped it, with a focus on stories that are often overlooked in mainstream narratives. Rather than centering the Village as an entertainment district, we will engage with social, political, and community histories, exploring questions of belonging, exclusion, displacement, activism, and resistance.
The walk will be led by @joyridermtl, Marbella Carlos (she/her), a burlesque artist, creative arts therapist, Ph.D. student, and Centre Kapwa’s Research and Advocacy Fellow. Her creative and scholarly work explores the intersections of identity, art, healing, and joy.
Come and join us! Free and open to everyone. Free coffee provided.