Artist and Panel Talk with Meegan Lim (Moved to an Online Event)

February 22, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Join PAMA and BAO for an artist talk and panel conversation on the impact of food on cultural and social representation in the Peel Region and the GTA. Together let's think through how we can use food to foster community.

The event will open with a short artist talk with Meegan Lim in conversation with curator Sharona Adamowicz-Clements to share her creative process. Meegan will then be joined by  panelists, artist Em Dial and Ahmed Mirza from Peel Food Action Council. We will dive into the ways food impacts cultural identity and social representation in Brampton, Peel Region, and the GTA. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and envision food as a powerful tool for building community. 

This free event has moved online. Registration required with Brampton Arts Organization.

Connected to the Meegan Lim's Apple a Day banners currently on display at PAMA.

About the Artist: Meegan Lim (b.1999, Brampton, Ontario) is an illustrator and multidisciplinary artist of Chinese-Malaysian descent, based in Brampton. She is known for her detailed illustrations focusing on food and cultural identity, and the vast stories existing within those intersections. Her mission is to create art that is inviting in its aesthetic, thoughtful in its research, and illuminating with its subject matter.

About the Panelists: 

Em Dial - Poet, Performer, Educator, and Grower
Em Dial is a queer, Black, Taiwanese, Japanese, and White writer, grower, and educator born and raised in the Bay Area of California, currently living in Toronto. They are the author of In the Key of Decay (Palimpsest Press, 2024) and an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Guelph. Em is also the Moss Park Garden Coordinator at Building Roots, and has previously worked for and with a variety of urban farms in Toronto and San Francisco. In both her writing and her urban agriculture work, Em believes that collectivity, reckoning with history, and questioning borders of all kinds are tantamount to our liberation.

Ahmed Mirza - Peel Food Action Council
Ahmed Mirza has been one of the leading members of the Peel Food Action Council since 2021. He has experience in urban agriculture, food security and social services and works with diverse communities across Peel Region.