Toronto Craft Alert

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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Quilters’ Week at the Canadian Stage Company

Celebrate the history of this great art form while contributing to a local charity and seeing some professional theatre. March 1-6 is Quilters’ Week at The Canadian Stage Company’s production of Intimate Apparel—a love story about a gifted seamstress in 1905 New York who sews he savings into a crazy quilt for safekeeping. Bring a square* to contribute to our community crazy quilts at any show during this week and you are able to purchase tickets for prime seats for [...]

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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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The June Callwood Centre for Women and Families, formerly Jessie’s Centre for Teenagers, is looking for some volunteers to help make baby wraps. Baby wraps are a length of fabric parents use to keep their baby close, so they can travel comfortably by public transportation.

The June Callwood Centre is multi-resource centre located in downtown Toronto and has been serving pregnant and parenting teens for the past 25 years.

If you think you’d be interested in helping out young parents by crafting up a baby wrap, [...]

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TCC Event Gallery is thrilled to announce our first annual CRAFT off the Lot Exhibition – Toronto’s first affordable indoor artist exhibition for the Holiday Season!

Off the Lot is seeking volunteers for the areas of exhibition listed below.

POSITIONS:

Installation Hand

Installation hands will assist with the set up and striking of exhibitions. Volunteers do not have to have experience with art installations but must feel comfortable with manual labour and using tools. Installation Hands will also be asked to be available to assist artists and artisans with set [...]

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Toronto School of Art
www.tsa-art.ca

Ryoichi Nakamura, a participant in the Independent Summer Residency, at work in his studio.

Register NOW for SUMMER courses:

8 week term: http://www.tsa-art.ca/Courses/Calendar/98

One week Intensives: http://www.tsa-art.ca/Courses/Calendar/94

New this year – Summer 3 day workshops

July 6 – 8, 613 Powdered Graphite and Acrylic Glazes with Brian Burnett
July 13 – 15, 617 Chinese Brush Painting with Norman Choo
July 20 – 22, 618 Colour Mixing with Martha Eleen
July 27 – 29, Life Drawing 2 – Structural Bodies with [...]

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