Toronto Craft Alert

Too Cool For School
Art & Science Fair

Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, May 8, 2010

The Too Cool For School Art & Science Fair is an interdisciplinary project in which people from all walks of life come together in a convergence of art and science. The event is structured just like a school science fair participants will display their projects on rows of tables, and will be on hand to discuss their work with the public. The difference is that this event is as much as art as it is about [...]

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Methinks Presents
NYC Roadtrip 12

NYC Roadtrip is a collective act of discovery. Put more broadly, it’s an artist-run travel service, relational art project and psychogeography experiment designed for cultural explorers of all kinds who want to make genuine social connections, find inspiration and experience everyday urban existence in unusual ways.

Limited tickets quickly disappear. Act now!

DEPART:
Feb 23, 11:45pm

DAYS IN NYC
Feb 24, 25, 26, 27

RETURN
Feb 28, Back in Toronto approx. 10:00pm

COST
414.95 (tax included)

PAYMENT METHODS
Cash, money order or certified cheque, made payable [...]

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Bring your unwanted clothes and unwanted supplies to City of Craft on Saturday, December 12 between 12 noon – 3:00 p.m. or email or call to arrange for drop off or pick up ahead of time.

I am creating an installation during the event, made of Unwanted Clothes. We are also getting crafty  and making things with the scraps or leftover supplies for the installation. If you have something made of scraps you would like included in the installation, bring it to the event and it will be used.

On Sunday, December 13 the [...]

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CUT & PASTE
Photo Collage Animation Project
September 12 – October 17, 2009

A co-presentation by:
The Toronto Animated Image Society & Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

TAIS and Gallery 44 have commissioned eight local artists to create new photo-based animations exploring the subject of “feeling photography”, the title and theme of a conference hosted by the Toronto Photography Seminar in October 2009 in Toronto (www.torontophotoseminar.org).

New works by:

soJin Chun
Paola Denegri
Koko Kurunathan & Ambereen Siddiqui
Christine Lucy Latimer
Sue Lloyd
Kathleen Mullen
Elena Potter

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Attention all knitters and would-be knitters! Breeyn McCarney is a fashion designer and textile artist. Her next collection, entitled Hard-Boiled Wonderland will reflect themes of community, resourcefulness and hand-made textiles. In this spirit, she is inviting knitters of all skill levels to contribute to the project. Excellent knowledge of knitting is NOT a pre-requisite. Beginner, intermediate and expert are all welcome. Any colour, any stitch size, any tension – any fibre! Even if it’s made of old shoe-laces, she wants it. Pieces should be no smaller than three [...]

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COME UP TO MY ROOM 2010
The Gladstone Hotel’s 7th Annual Alternative Design Event
January 21-24, 2009 (Coinciding with IDS)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Expression of Interest Deadline: July 24, 2009 (no later than 5pm)

The Gladstone Hotel seeks “Expressions of Interest” for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary design and installation-based projects for The Gladstone Hotel’s annual alternative design event, Come Up To My Room. The seventh installment of CUTMR will take place from January 21st to 24th, 2010 at the historic Gladstone Hotel in downtown Toronto. [...]

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