Toronto Craft Alert

Come decorate a sleeping mask before catching some Z’s in downtown Toronto!

The residents of Toronto are invited to come personalize a sleeping mask using simple crafting techniques before covering their eyes and dozing off in the city. By creating a safe sleeping zone on the site of a proposed park in the Queen West neighbourhood, Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton seek to legitimize public napping under the aegis of art – just sweet public dreams!

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Do you design unusual or unexpected pieces of needlepoint? If so, you should design a pattern for Hoopla, The Art of Unexpected Embroidery, to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2011.

Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery rebels against the traditional notions of quaint embroidery with motifs of flowers and songbirds. The book will feature unusual stitch work on a variety of [...]

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COME UP TO MY ROOM 2011
The Gladstone Hotel’s 8th Annual Alternative Design Event

January 27 to 30, 2011
(Coinciding with Toronto International Design Festival and the Interior Design Show)

Deadline: Monday, May 31st, 2010.

Call for Submissions

ATTENTION: DESIGNERS, ARCHITECTS, VISUAL ARTISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, SCULPTORS, WRITERS, MUSICIANS, SET DESIGNERS, PROP MAKERS, SOUND ENGINEERS, CERAMACISTS, TEXTILE ARTISTS, CRAFTS PEOPLE, FILMOGRAPHERS, PRINT MAKERS, NEW MEDIA ARTISTS and ALL CREATIVE MAKERS:

The Gladstone Hotel seeks Expressions of Interest for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary design and installation-based projects for The Gladstone Hotel’s [...]

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Project 165 is seeking rental proposals for exhibitions and events in its exhibition site in Kensington Market, for its Spring, Summer and Fall programming periods.

Project 165 is an artist-run hub that exists to catalyze community and genuine collectivity; support the social, creative and professional development of emerging and early-career cultural producers; and challenge the ways in which culture is produced, perceived and consumed.
Project 165 encourages experimentation, innovation and fun!

Exhibitions are scheduled for one- or two-week periods. Project 165 is also available for
one-night events, such as performances, [...]

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The Rage is an independent boutique in Kensington Market featuring clothing, accessories and art from new local talent. For The Rage 5th Anniversary, we want to celebrate with a unique opportunity for designers, artists and crafters alike who all share a special love for this city we call home.

For more information, please visit:
The Rage
2 Kensington Avenue
416-599-5177
info@ragetoronto.ca
www.ragetoronto.ca

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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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