Picnic At The Park

Raised within an intercultural family in Hamilton, I have fond memories of picnics at the park. Many of these picnics involved traditional foods like Filipino pancit and lumpia. Yet until this day, when I envision “picnic at the park” I imagine a red and white table cloth, a wicker basket and sandwiches on an open green field.

A person’s experience of a picnic in a park can vary from one culture to another. My vision is a mural of families having a picnic at park, from a variety of lenses. A Filipino family having rice and lechon, an Arab family barbecuing chicken and kebabs, a Croatian family enjoying chevapi and burek. The list goes on. As people walk by this display, it looks like diverse groups having various picnics at the same park (a Hamilton park) and as you walk by each diverse individual group you can hear chitter chatter in their language through a speaker. The purpose of this mural would be to provide representation of the diverse groups here in Hamilton.

Who doesn’t love a picnic, especially when it’s with the people and food you love, in the city you love.