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Field Guide:
Nature & Neighbours
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Field Guide: Nature & Neighbours is a 3-part community art project happening throughout the summer of 2025 in St. Moritz Park / Clair Hills, Waterloo.
Artist Allie Brenner will engage community members in a Nature Walk, creation of a Guide Book and Mural Installation. This project will begin with:
Nature Walk: Art & Ecology Tour.
Read more and register below.
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Nature Walk
Art & Ecology Tour
Experience a guided walk through the trail and creek area with local artist Allie Brenner and Dr. Rebecca Rooney - wetland ecologist and world expert on bio-monitoring and wetland assessment.
Explore creative prompts and ecological insights.
Participants will create drawings, notes, and micro-stories based on their experiences to be included in a printed Field Guide and inspire a mural for the park.
This event is free but please register.
Park Location: 516 St Moritz Ave, Waterloo, ON N2T 0B3
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Tuesday, Aug 5, 2025 | 6-8pm
Free to attend
Open to everyone!
No art / science experience required
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Allie Brenner
Allie Brenner is a multi-disciplinary artist & culture worker. Her work explores memory, time, place, materiality, and community building often drawing on the natural world as a source of imagery and connection. Working across illustration, sculpture, installation and community art practices, she produces work that engages with personal stories, collective experience, and site-responsive narratives.
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Rebecca Rooney
Dr. Rebecca Rooney carries out research in wetland ecology and is a world expert on biomonitoring and wetland assessment. She examines how human-caused and natural ecological disturbances influence wetland communities, including birds, invertebrates and plants.
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Project supported by the
Artists in Neighbourhoods Fund