Toronto Craft Alert

Pillbox Hat Felting Workshop

Saturday December 5th
12:30-5:30
$95 includes material
www.etsy.com/shop/poupees

Sunday Felting Classes for Children

December 6, 13, 20
11:00-12:30
Ages 9 – 12
($30 per class/includes materials)
Holiday Ornament Workshop…
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17263857

to register…..
www.handworkstudio.ca
or call
Kathie Young
416-304-0647
Harbour Squareto register
www.handworkstudio.ca

416-304-0647

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Come and join us for some Christmas cheer and browse some fantastic gifts made by local talented artists. Every weekend in December will feature up to 15 different artists plus 50 resident artists in the store.

This show is FREE admission and refreshments will be served.

When: December 5 & 6, 12 & 13, 19 & 20

Time: 11am – 7pm

Where: The Purple Thumb, Event Space (lower level of store)
1887 Queen Street East @ Woodbine

Spaces are still available @ $25/day. If you would like to be a vendor contact us at [...]

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Organic Glycerine Soap Workshop for Kids & Caregivers

When: Sunday, December 6, 3 to 5pm

Where: Anarres Natural Health, 12 Ossington CRESCENT
Cost: $25 plus $5 materials per kid ages 3 to 12 yrs
Register here: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/271
for more info, call me at 416 535 9620 or email anarreshealth@gmail.com

Love to use or give those beautiful clear glycerine soaps with flowers, or toy spiders, photos, or secret messages inside?

The vast majority of melt and pour soaps have preservatives and sodium laurel sulphates in them, but Anarres serves up [...]

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Silent Auction, Preview and Bidding
November 21 to December 10
Bids close at 5 PM, Thursday, December 10

Gala Reception, Draw and Awards
Thursday, December 3, 6 – 10 PM

Announcing the 2009 Give Us Your Best Shot Winner
Selected by Bonnie Rubenstein, Artistic Director
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival

Book Launch: Emergence
Celebrating thirty years of emerging artists!
Co-published by Gallery 44 and Ryerson University

Winning bids: payment and pick-up of works
December 11 & 12, noon to 5 PM at Ryerson Gallery

Ryerson Gallery thanks all its [...]

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We will be holding letterpress workshops in our studio/shop. The workshop will introduce you to letterpress printing on a C & P Pilot platen press. You will be able to make your own stationary or cards using wood and lead type – as well you will be able to carve your own lino block or use the ones we have pre-carved. No experience required.

class limited to two people

class dates:
Sunday December 13, 11-3pm
Saturday January 16, 11-3pm
Saturday January 23, 11-3pm

price: $120

a non-refundable 50% deposit is required to [...]

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FINAL VOTE ON BILLBOARD TAX FOR ART NOV. 30 / DEC 1

After seven years of BeautifulCity.ca Alliance campaigning, Toronto City Council will be voting on a billboard tax for art at its next meeting on November 30 and December 1.

The BeautifulCity.ca Alliance is seeking a tax on billboards with the funds going to art in the public sphere (e.g. murals, sculptures, festivals, accessible arts programming, outdoor performances, etc.) as well as enforcement of the new sign by-law that governs billboards. The proposal is endorsed by over 50 Toronto organizations, thousands of signatories and, [...]

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