Toronto Craft Alert

Become a TOAE Volunteer!

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE) is always looking for committed, energetic, passionate and friendly volunteers. TOAE would not be possible without the support of numerous enthusiastic volunteers.

Are you interested in becoming part of TOAE’s 49th volunteer team?  Please review the categories below and let us know how and when you can contribute. If you have any special skills or experience, please let us know, as that additional information will be helpful.

Various positions are available leading up [...]

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A Toronto-based consumer product company is in need of an experienced at-home seamstress/sewer. The job involves very simple cutting following a template, and sewing zippers into vinyl material (that tends to warp/stretch with machines) so experience/knowledge with vinyl is a must. The first run will be a smaller quantity of approximately 100 with needs of up to 1000 in the near future.

If interested, please contact Steph at: stephguo@gmail.com

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A growing Toronto based soap company is hiring a part time individual to make soap and natural skin care products. The job involves working with lye, a caustic substance, as well as essential oils and fragrances. Approx 15 hours/week.

If interested, please contact: ella@ellasbotanicals.com

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Creative Works Studio is looking for mentors to work with its members.  This is an opportunity to share your skills and experience with someone struggling with a mental illness.

Creative Works Studio is a community art outreach program whose mandate is to provide an oasis from the daily rigors and challenges of life for people living with mental illness and addiction.  The Studio was established in 1995 as a unique initiative spearheaded by St. Michael’s Hospital Inner City Health Program.  Open five days a week, the Studio provides healing [...]

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I’ve been thinking about how best to contribute to Haiti Aid efforts (with, I’ll admit it, a limited budget), and was really glad to see this info come through from Nathalie-Roze on this craft show/rummage sale/bake sale/etc. she is hosting in Leslievile next Saturday.  This one is the second “Shop for the Cause” event she is hosting, the first one being for the 2005 Tsunami, during which  over $16,000 was raised (Amazing!).

For those of us who are not flush with cash to donate, this is a great & effective way [...]

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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 ASSISTANT
FILE # 12-09 (Visual and Media Arts Program Assistant)

The Program Assistant position provides key administrative support to the Ontario Arts Council’s granting processes by being responsible for data entry, sorting and filing, mass mailings and correspondence, cheque requisitioning, making hotel, travel and meal arrangements for meetings, answering general inquiries by phone or e-mail, uploading information to the web, and taking notes and [...]

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