On Sunday, September 27 2015, from 2 to 6 pm, The Laneway Project will partner with the Bloordale BIA, the Bloor Improvement Group and the Bloordale CIA to transform Bloordale’s laneways into positive, safe and fun spaces for the whole neighbourhood to enjoy!
The Bloordale Laneway Crawl has three components:
Fun, participative, pop-up activities on the properties beside the laneways
A live-art garage mural program, in partnership with the STEPS Initiative
A laneway route that connects it all together
Come and join us as we transform these underused neighbourhood spaces into a dynamic, vibrant destination! We've got a growing list of activities to tempt you:
Hope you were able to join us for our Spring Gallery Crawl on Saturday. If not, see what you missed below and be sure to join us for our next event! Keep track of them all by joining the Akin Collective Facebook Group or following us on Twitter Huge thanks to Mercer Union, Daniel Faria Gallery, Scrap Metal and Division Gallery! A special thank you as well to Kronenbourg Brewery for keeping our livers happy. You're the best.
Several members of Akin Collective are involved including Julie Phelps in booth J38 showing off her clothing, jewellery and accessories and Natalie Waddell and her beautiful ceramics in G12.
ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Oakville Galleries
Sunday 9 June 2013, 11:30 am–5:00 pm Pick-up and drop-off at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto)
FREE; advance registration required. To register, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 27 by Friday 7 June, 4:00 pm.
Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the summer's best exhibitions in the GTA! Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
The summer ARTbus begins at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery with a tour of Screen and Décor by the exhibition's curator Rosemary Heather. For Screen and Décor the use of pattern and ornament (in the sense of extended motif) in contemporary art is understood as an organizing principle in a world of excessive data. Artworks in the exhibition are resonant of a contemporary visual reality characterized by complex patterning. Within the frame of an all-over exhibition design created by Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthoeft, Screen and Décor proposes to look at this phenomenon through the work of six artists: Shannon Bool, Simone Gilges, Bernhard Kahrmann, Sanaz Mazinani, Kirstine Roepstorff, and Emmy Skensved.
Art Gallery of York University (AGYU)
The ARTbus continues to the AGYU for a special artist's tour of Sara Angelucci: Provenance Unknown, an exhibition featuring two fledgling bodies of work by Toronto artist Sara Angelucci. Inspired by found, anonymous (unattributed) photographic portraits that the artist purchased on eBay, The Anonymous Chorus and Aviary mark a distinct shift in the artist's practice. In these new works, Angelucci moves away from exploring the familiar to interrogating the anonymous; from investigating her own identity (and family lineage) to tracing the history of others. She mixes analogue sources and digital techniques, and combines artistic genres through collaboration with composers, singers and ornithologists. The Anonymous Chorus and Aviary open a temporally suspended space between past and present, where the subjects of these lost portraits may come to life, once again—in a transformed state of being. Provenance Unknown is curated by AGYU Assistant Director/Curator Emelie Chhangur, and is a primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
Oakville Galleries
Finally, at Oakville Galleries participants will visit the group exhibition Auto-Motive: World from the Windshield in Gairloch Gardens and at Centennial Square. Auto-Motive brings together eighteen artists who examine notions of place, perception and emotional experience from the interior of a car. The artworks assembled here explore the material relations and sensations that coalesce behind the windshield. They speak to various outlooks, revealing the car as a driving force for urban change, a site of thought and reflection, and a place for new spatialities and imagined journeys. Artists include Roy Arden, IAIN BAXTER&, Stan Denniston, Christos Dikeakos, Susan Dobson, Fred Herzog, Geoffrey James, Jesper Just, Mara Korkola, John Massey, N.E. Thing Co., Marian Penner Bancroft, Leslie Peters, Martha Rosler, Jon Sasaki, Monica Tap, Jeff Wall, and Paul Wong.
SCHEDULE
11:15 am: Meet at the Barnicke Gallery for registration check-in followed by tour with the curator.
1:00 pm: Art Gallery of York University. Tour with the artist.
2:30 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit Auto-Motive.
3:15 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Continue visit of Auto-Motive. Reception with refreshments.
5:00 pm: Drop-off at the Barnicke Gallery.
In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company