We are proud to announce that Brook McIlroy and Field Operations have been selected as the design team for The Bentway Islands, the next hub proposed by The Bentway Conservancy. This new regenerative landscape for play, shared experiences, and community is an exciting new chapter for the conservancy and for the City of Toronto at large–we cannot wait to start work with our partners on this landmark project.

Brook McIlroy is honoured to sponsor Radical Stitch at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. Beading is a defining medium of contemporary Indigenous art in North America and this exhibition highlights some of its most innovative and talented practitioners. Curated by Sherry Farrell Racette, Michelle Lavallee, and Cathy Mattes, Radical Stich showcases how knowledge transfer and cultural adaptation have enabled these artists to use traditional techniques and materials to create contemporary works of celebration and resistance. As part of the Gallery’s programming around this exhibition a Symposium including community beading events are planned in the new year – stay tuned!

We are honoured the Saugeen First Nation GZHE-MNIDOO GI-TA-GAAN (Creator’s Garden and Ampitheatre) Master Plan has been selected as one of the recipients for the Vision Award: Planning Process for OPPI’s PlanON Awards! The Master Plan was prepared by Brook McIlroy’s Indigenous Design Studio in association with medicine plant educator Joseph Pitiwanakwat & Elder Duke Redbird guided by a series of community workshops & feasts held at the site.

Brook McIlroy solemnly acknowledges and honours the 215 children found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, and the many others, known but yet uncounted. We pay our respects to these children, their families, and their communities, including Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation. Our support extends to all survivors of residential schools, who carry the lived experience of atrocities that First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children and families were subjected to in the attempt to erase their diverse languages, cultures, practices, and worldviews.