Biidaaban: First Light VR Experience

In Partnership with Guelph Film Festival

Rooted in the realm of Indigenous futurism, Biidaaban: First Light is an interactive virtual reality time-jump into a realistic and radically different Toronto of tomorrow. View it at our Tech Bar!

As part of Guelph Film Festival's Pocket Series, view Biidaaban: First Light by Lisa Jackson and Mathew Borrett at the Tech Bar during its regular hours from November 1st to 9th! This 15 minute VR experience will take viewers on a tour of a futuristic Toronto. As viewers explore this altered city now reclaimed by nature, they must think about their place in history and ultimately their role in the future.

Time:

Monday to Thursday 9am to 8pm

Friday and Saturday 9am to 5pm

Sunday 1pm to 5pm

About Biidaaban: First Light:

Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square is flooded. Its infrastructure has merged with the local fauna; mature trees grow through cracks in the sidewalks and vines cover south-facing walls. People commute via canoe and grow vegetables on skyscraper roofs. Urban life is thriving.

Language carries the knowledge of its speakers. Indigenous North American languages are radically different from European languages and embody sets of relationships to the land, to each other, and to time itself. But as Indigenous languages face the risk of disappearing, we risk losing what they have to teach us.

Rooted in the realm of Indigenous futurism, Biidaaban: First Light is an interactive VR time-jump into a highly realistic—and radically different—Toronto of tomorrow. As users explore this altered city now reclaimed by nature, they must think about their place in history and ultimately their role in the future.

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