Toronto Craft Alert

33rd Annual Cabbagetown Festival!

Now in its 33rd year, the Cabbagetown BIA is proud to host another successful event! It’s the best Fall Festival in downtown Toronto! Where else in the core of the city will you find a parade, street entertainers, wine tasting, corn roasts, pancake breakfasts, square dancing, arts and crafts, running side-by-side with sophisticated house tours, an independent film festival, fun runs, theatre and dance…and lots more!

The festival runs all weekend from Friday September 11th to
Sunday September 13th, 2009, 11:00 [...]

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Job posting for Bilingual Program Assistants in both English and French.
Please note the deadline date for the posting is July 24th

The Ontario Arts Council is a publicly funded arm’s-length agency of Ontario’s Ministry of Culture whose primary purpose is to award grants to professional artists and arts organizations.

BILINGUAL PROGRAM ASSISTANTS
FILE # 04-09 (Visual and Media Arts Program Assistant)
FILE # 05-09 (Touring and Compass Program Assistant)

The Program Assistant positions provide key administrative support to the Ontario Arts Council’s granting processes [...]

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Toronto image consultant Wendy Woods, of The Refinery, helps you assess your target market, styles and sizing, and gives you simple advice to improve the success of your line!

Wendy’s experience as an image consultant and personal shopper has given her a unique perspective on the fashion industry. This 3-hour seminar will give experienced and beginner designers a working knowledge of the design styles that flatter specific and diverse body types. The group will also examine target audiences, and how to position the unique qualities of your [...]

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We’re looking for vendors for our next Telephone City art + craft Show happening on August 22nd from 11-5 at The Ford Plant in Brantford On.

4ft Tables are $25 and we’ll provide one chair (or sofa depending)

If interested send a link to Etsy/website/Blog etc. or some images of your work and a bit of info about it to Telephonecity@gmail.com

Facebookers check it out.

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binoculars by sean dreilinger

Ok a bit of nerdy-TCA excitement over here…after months of behaving totally uselessly (ie not returning any results), our search bar is now functional!!!  I know this will make our lives a lot easier, and we hope this will make navigating the site that much more doable for you guys.

Hoorah to Mir for making it happen.

Now go crazy kids, search your hearts out!

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Your art on the street!

Submit by July 31; selected work TBA August 9

39 PIECES

3 age groups (13 of each)
12-
13-19
20+

Submit a 280×600 px art piece in any medium (banner size:  28 x 60 inches)

Combined with a  250 word (max) description of how your concept relates to
the Bloorcourt area

Sign up online

http://bloorcourt.com

email Ghazaleh: projects@bloorcourt.com

This is a project funded by the Bloorcourt BIA, allowing the street’s
banners (from Montrose to Dufferin Ave on Bloor) to be citizen artwork
reflecting relationships to the area and increasing [...]

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The free printed text for print making, paper making, cards, or whatever you can think of… 

A friend has approximately a hundred copies of one book that will be recycled next week unless anyone else would can use them: 

The Morton Years: The Canadian Library Association, 1946-1971.  By Elizabeth Hulse. 

http://exlibris.ischool.utoronto.ca/Shop/Morton/morton.html. 

The book design – paperback cover, small size (141 pages) and the paper is alright weight / quality (off white with black text). 

Anyone interested… 
send a message to painted.tree.design@hotmail.com.

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Children’s Classes

Some spaces still available but going fast!

For ages 5-8 years; Mornings 9:30-12:00

Children will learn important skills and work with a variety of materials while exploring a new theme each week! Exciting projects will challenge and entertain students.

July 6-10: Go Figure! Mixed Media

July 13-17: Little Painters

* July 20-24: Clay Crazy!

July 27–31: Making Faces (Mixed Media)

** Aug 4-7: Clay Crazy 2! (short week)

Aug 10-14: Print & Paste

Aug 17-21: Story Time (Mixed Media)

Aug 24-28: Little Builders

Art Smarts

For ages 8-12 years; Afternoons 1:30-4:00

Students will learn techniques such as drawing, painting, sculpture [...]

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Mariclaro, a store for locally crafted ecofriendly fashion and products is opening on Saturday, July 11th 11-8. Come check out our quality products made right here in Toronto. 
Expect handmade bags of bike tubes, seatbelts, rubber and vinyl, Kepo’s 3D pop-up greeting cards, funky recycled fashion from Embody Clothing, hats from Wear White Cat and more. 
Come check us out Monday -Sunday 11-8 (Closed Thursdays). 

http://www.mariclaro.ca

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