Artasia at Supercrawl
Art Zone - corner of James North and Mulberry
September 13 & 14, 2025
🕸️ Keeper of the Hundred Languages 🕷️
This summer, Artasia 2025 invited children across Hamilton to explore Protest as a Principle of Art — to claim their hundred languages of expression through movement, colour, questions, and bold acts of making.
One day, a spider appeared in their imaginations.
Strands of tape and cellophane became shimmering webs, gifts for the spider to eat.
The children wanted to know its name, its colour, its story.
An artist drew it, another revealed it, and the spider became real — a quiet presence watching over the threads they wove together.
Wooden structures rise to anchor a city-sized weaving of tape, cellophane, and tissue paper — materials transformed by children’s hands and imagination into webs of connection. Above it all, a giant spider rests in the trees, watching.
The spider is not here to frighten.
It is a keeper of stories.
It is the witness to the hundred languages —
to the ways children protest invisibility by making themselves visible,
to the ways they transform ordinary things into offerings of beauty,
to the ways they insist that imagination has a place in our public life.
Because the hundred is there.
And in these webs, you can feel it watching,
waiting to be seen.
Thank you to Cameron Kroesch and the Ward 2 Community Grant for supporting Artasia at Supercrawl!
Header Photo by Noor Butt in collaboration with YMCA Westmount
Timelapse by Naseem Anvari in collaboration with HWCCCC – St. Patrick