Akin Winter Gallery Crawl on Saturday February 24

Saturday, February 24 /  Meet at Koffler Gallery at 1pm - Suite 104-105, 180 Shaw Street (Artscape Youngplace) / FREE & family friendly

Akin Projects invite you to join us as we kick off our 2018 Gallery Crawl series as we spend a little bit longer visiting galleries and artist spaces in Artscape Youngplace, beginning with an exhibition tour at Koffler Centre for the Arts.

Free to attend. All are welcome, open to the public.

1. Meet at tour of Koffler Centre for the Arts at 1:00pm. (Suite 104-105, 180 Shaw Street)
2. Tour the Stairwell Galleries with Koffler Gallery
3. Curatorial tour with the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) (Suite 302, 180 Shaw Street).
4. Tour the 1st floor Hallway Galleries and hallway video with CDCC.

Accessibility:
Koffler Gallery and Critical Distance Centre for Curators are all located within Artscape Youngplace (180 Shaw Street). Artscape Youngplace is fully accessible by Ontario standards, with a wheelchair ramp at the 180 Shaw Street doors, an elevator servicing every floor and a fully accessible washroom on every level. The nearby 63 Ossington bus on the TTC is wheelchair accessible. More information can be found here

Please let us know of any other accessibility needs so that we can assist. Email michael@akincollective.com with advance notice and we will do our best to accommodate you! Thank you.

Free Contemporary Art Bus Tour on February 26

The tour starts at Koffler Gallery (Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street) at 12 PM, and then departs for GBlackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Doris McCarthy Gallery, returning to the Koffler Gallery by 5 pm. Guided tours will be offered at each venue.

Please RSVP by February 24 by emailing dmg@utsc.utoronto.ca blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca or 905-828-3789. This event is free.

FieldTrips003 to Tangled Art + Disability with OCADSU in collaboration with Access Ryerson

About FieldTrips003
To celebrate the annual International Day for Persons with Disabilities on December 3, OCADSU and Access Ryerson will visit Mad Room by Gloria Swain with an exclusive artist talk and gallery tour. Please arrive at Student Union Office (6th floor, 230 Richmond St.) at 2:30 and we will walk together to be at the show for 3pm.

ACCESSIBILITY:
(Please message us if you have additional accessibility needs)
- The gallery is wheelchair accessible and all work is hung at an accessible level
- All visual work includes audio description
- Service animals are welcome at the gallery
- All exhibits include touchable art

In case we miss you, our exclusive trip is from 3-4pm at:
401 Richmond St. W S-122
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8

Contact: equity@ocadsu.org

INFO:
Mad Room is an exhibition on the theme of mental health to raise awareness, open conversation, and promote effective coping strategies and self-care through art. It features images and installations that symbolize institutionalization, forced medication, domestic abuse, sexual abuse and the stigmas that come with depression.

ARTIST BIO:
Gloria Swain is a multidisciplinary artist (painting, photography, poetry, installations) whose work stimulates an understanding of mental illness. She is currently completing her Masters in Environmental Studies.

Gloria holds a Certificate in Community Arts Practice and is a recipient of the York University Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Award. Her work has shown at the Toronto Gladstone Hotel and various other venues. She is recipient of the Canadian International Black Women’s 100 Black Women to Watch.

Gloria’s practice includes work as a community arts facilitator and she coordinates art making spaces. Using art to explore mental health and (intergenerational) trauma, her art is an opportunity to share her own stories of mental health and create dialogue to remove the stigma. As a Black woman artist, she recognizes the lack of economic resources for marginalized people living with mental health issues and hopes to reduce the stigma of mental illness. Website:

About FieldTrips00
“FieldTrips00” is the first of the OCADSU's series of outings. The idea behind FieldTrips00 is this offers an opportunity for you to attend great events around the city with a friendly crew. This way, you don’t have to show up at events alone if you don’t want to, you can meet other OCADers across disciplines, and you have people to find the location with you - so if you get lost, we all get lost together.