Mindful AF - A workshop on being present

About the Workshop
Raise your middle finger to worries of the past and future. In this workshop we'll go through tactics that help you stay in the moment and reduce stressful thinking patterns. We'll also look at the science behind mindfulness and why it's proven to work.

For Tickets ($30): http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1268185
Note - tickets are limited

About Mind Matters
Mind Matters is a group dedicated to spreading the best practices and techniques of improving your mind. Whether it's helping you become more efficient, learning how to stay calm, or how to have a more productive mind.
 

How to Increase your Art Sales: A Day-long Business Building Bootcamp for Artists and Creative Professionals

An Artists' Network exclusive event:

How to Increase your Art Sales: A Day-long Business Building Bootcamp for Artists and Creative Professionals by Heather Allen, an established expert in helping creative people create business.

If you are ready to take your art business to the next level, this business-building bootcamp is for you. Learn how to increase your profits, cultivate relationships online that lead to more opportunities, and market your art authentically and effectively.

Highly recommended by artist and Artists' Network member, Nadine Prada (www.thepradagallery.com), Heather believes that there's no better time than today for artists and creative entrepreneurs to thrive. Her goal is to help you turn your passions into purposeful, profitable opportunities.

Hailing from Raleigh, North Carolina, Heather will be in Canada for the first time and has offered to deliver this seminar at a substantially discounted rate for the Artists' Network community. To learn more about Heather, visit her website at http://www.heatherallenonline.com/

This workshop is one of the best reasons to join Artists’ Network. We host educational events on grant writing, social media, art show preparation, and portfolio building. If you want to belong to a vibrant artists’ community, LEARN MORE ABOUT membership.

DETAILS:
Saturday, September 17th, 2016, 9am-4pm
Ralph Thornton Centre 765 Queen Street East, Toronto, 2nd Floor

INVESTMENT: $160 CAD for Artists’ Network Members, $195 for Non-Members

Includes:

• A full day of training
• A copy of Heather Allen’s book “3 Essentials for Your Creative Business Plan”, a $24.95 US value
• PDF Workbook (for attendees to print and bring to Workshop)
• A Post workshop live webinar follow-up (approx. 1 month after workshop)
• Coffee and Lunch will be provided

LIMITED SEATING. REGISTER TODAY:
http://www.artistsnetwork.ca/member-site/education

For more information please visit our website www.artistsnetwork.ca

EXERTION / Chris Harms at Hashtag Gallery

Join Chris Harms of Akin Dupont at Hashtag Gallery on August 4 for the opening of his solo show, EXERTION.

Opening reception: August 4th from 7pm-11:30pm.
Show runs August 4th to 14th

About EXERTION
Celebrating the constant construction that shakes and shapes Toronto, Chris creates vibrant sculptures with Plexiglas that resemble earth-moving excavators. Through form and space he invites the viewer to enjoy the unique reflections, surfaces, and layering my works produce while considering the transformative time between what was and what is to become. Harnessing light and colour, Chris' work is intended to build a feeling of expansion and possibility, and functions as an exploration into our urban landscape.

Call for Submissions: Skeir Gallery ‘Salon Show’

Deadline: August 02, 2016

Skeir Gallery is hosting a summer group exhibition at our Queen West Gallery location (1537a Queen Street West) from Thursday August 11 - Sunday August 28, 2016.

Open to emerging, mid-career and established artists who would like the opportunity to gain exposure in the Queen West Arts community, artists are invited to submit up to 10 works in any media for consideration.

ELIGIBLE ARTWORKS
Submissions in all media styles are welcome and up to three (3) works by selected artists will be accepted for entry into the two (2) week long exhibition:

- Up to 10 works can be submitted for consideration
- Works can be up to 24" x 24" (60cm x 60cm) at any price point**
- All works on paper MUST be framed
- All 2D work (paintings, framed works etc.) must be wired and/or ready for hanging before drop-offs

IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: Tuesday August 02, 2016
- Artwork drop-offs: Saturday August 06 & Sunday August 07, 2016 between 1 - 6pm.
- Exhibition dates: Thursday August 11 to Sunday August 28, 2016
- Opening Reception: Thursday August 11, from 6pm - 11pm

SUBMISSIONS
Applicants are asked to include a brief biography OR artist statement, up to 150 words. Artists are also asked to title all submitted works in the the following format:

ArtistFullName_ArtworkTitle_Size_Medium_Date_Price

All artwork images and biographies / statements must be sent as attachments (no zip files or website links please!) by email to: shawnskeir@gmail.com

**Applicants accepted into the group exhibition are required to contribute a non-refundable Hanging and Administrative fee of $80.00. Skeir Gallery will transact all sales of consigned work during the exhibition period and accept a 40% commission on the sale of each work.

Request for Art Donations for Staying Power: A Celebratory Fundraiser for PIH Canada

Partners In Health (PIH) Canada, a non-profit organization relentlessly committed to high quality health care for all has issued a request for donations of art and objects for their 5 year anniversary Gala event on October 1, 2016.

Donations will be auctioned off and used as door prizes at the event. All proceeds will go to support PIH Canada's global initiatives. If you have any questions or would like to donate work, please contact Ashley Mogg at amog@pih.org

About PIH:
"Partners In Health Canada is a non-profit organization relentlessly committed to global health equity. We do whatever it takes to bring lifesaving care to the marginalized poor anywhere we work — because we take the right to universal health care seriously, and because the status quo is unsustainable for those we serve."

Akin Show & Tell #46 (Previously known as the Akin Crit)

Wednesday July 27, 7pm at Akin Lansdowne - 87 Wade Ave, studio 101
*Free for all and open to the public*

On the last Wednesday of every month Akin host’s a relaxed and fun ‘Show and Tell for Artists’ at one of the Akin Collective studios. This is a time for Akin members and other Toronto artists to show completed works or works in progress and get friendly feedback and answers from their peers in a casual studio setting.

Feel free to bring art to share, bring a friend or two, bring snacks or drinks or just bring yourself! Come for the conversation or just to meet people and hang out.

This month we are meeting at Akin Lansdowne at 87 Wade Ave in studio 101. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch! See you there!

www.akincollective.com
www.facebook.com/groups/akincollective/

melannie g campbell / Tangled Art + Disability Presents POINT OF ORIGIN

Tangled Art Gallery launches its inaugural season with Point of Origin by melannie g campbell or Akin Dupont.

Point of Origin, on display: July 15 - September 15, 2016

Opening: July 14, 7 - 9 PM
Artist talk: July 19, 5:30 - 7 PM

Live-streaming of both events available at: https://webinar.ryerson.ca/r7zh4a3tiqq/
Audio description of the materials discussed in the artist talk will be available.

Point of Origin draws on traditional, contemporary and afro-futuristic aesthetics and techniques. Using poetry, quilts and tapestries, campbell carefully examines dynamic embodied relationships - those between trauma and fibromyalgia, between capitalism and ableism, between legacy and wisdom, between Blackness and life, between freedom and place, and between dreaming and staying woke. The exhibit invites the visitor to consider - How would we think about our days if instead of squeezing our complicated bodies into others’ formulas for life, we were encouraged and supported to live our days in pulse to our own rhythm?

This exhibit features audio description for all works and will also have to touchable pieces. All events associated with this exhibit will be barrier-free and will have ASL interpretation. We request that you help us make these scent-free. This is a FREE event.


ABOUT TAG
Tangled Art Gallery (TAG), a unique new exhibition space dedicated to showcasing disability arts and advancing accessible curatorial practices in Toronto’s iconic arts building – 401 Richmond.

Audiences can expect to engage with art that reshapes understandings of disability, encounter disability artists who invigorate the art world, and interact with inclusive technologies that reimagine how we experience art. Point of Origin will be the first show of the inaugural 2016-17 season.

Akin Projects @ Big on Bloor Festival

Visit the interactive Akin Projects booth at the Big on Bloor Festival! Akin will be on-site at Bloor Street West and Brock Ave on Sunday July 24 from 12pm - 3pm, but the festival lasts all weekend!

The BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture, one of Toronto’s best and most loved summer street festivals is a two-day, car-free summer street celebration of arts, culture and small business all in the Bloordale neighbourhood (Bloor Street West from Dufferin to Landsdowne).

Now in its 9th year with nearly 100,000 people attending each year, the BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture runs Saturday, July 23 from 1 p.m. until midnight and on Sunday, July 24 from noon until 6 p.m. Residents and visitors alike can experience a participatory festival with more than fifty original hands-on cultural projects that have been commissioned especially for you! Make something, learn something, engage and enjoy hundreds of distinct musical and theatre acts, art projects, games, poetry, architecture inventions, one-of-a-kind exhibitions and shops. 

AKIN & XPACE SUMMER GALLERY CRAWL

Saturday, July 23: 12- 5pm, 1286 Bloor St. W

Akin Projects and Xpace invite you to attend a special summer edition of the Akin Gallery Crawl followed by drinks at Xpace Cultural Centre

All are welcome, open to the public.

1. Meet at Mercer Union at 12:00pm - 1286 Bloor St. W
2. Visit Scrap Metal Gallery
3. Visit Daniel Faria Gallery
4. Visit Robert Kananaj Gallery
5. Visit Gallery TPW
6. Visit Xpace and have some summer fun/drinks.

www.akincollective.com
www.xpace.info
https://www.facebook.com/events/1125687520832050

FORGE: FREE Tax Workshop for Artists and Creatives

July 6, 6:30-8:30pm, Committee Room #1, Toronto City Hall (100 Queen St.W)

Presented by Akin Projects and Xpace Cultural Centre

Register HERE:
www.universe.com/forgefreetaxworkshop

Be better at doing your taxes next year! What can I claim on my taxes? How do I deal with donating artwork? How do I handle my grants and T4s? What receipts do I hold onto? Led by ArtBooks, participants will discuss financial management, getting organized for next year's tax season and then preparing yourself for the future!

Participants will learn how to organize T4 slips, deal with RRSP receipts and investments to save for the future; various book keeping strategies, expense declarations and write offs; tax installments and much more to help get you organize your finances and focus on your passion.

Questions? michael@akincollective.com

Akin Projects at the Toronto Art Book Fair

Join us at the inaugural Toronto Art Book Fair at Artscape Yongplace (180 Shaw Street). Akin will be in Studio 107 - stop by and say hello and check out all the amazing stuff we have to share with you from our incredibly talented members!

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW PARTY:
THURSDAY, JUNE 16 | 6pm - 9pm

FAIR HOURS:
FRIDAY, JUNE 17 | 11AM - 7PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 | 11AM - 7PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 19 | 11AM - 6PM

The Toronto Art Book Fair (TOABF) is a free public event taking featuring curated exhibitions, 75 Canadian and international vendors, and community programming that includes a speaker series, readings, talks, launches and workshops. In its inaugural year TOABF will highlight over 150 national and international artists, publishers, designers, curators, bookmakers, writers, and performers.

More details: http://www.torontoartbookfair.com/

*TONIGHT* Everything You Thought You Knew / Celia Moase & Julianne Ess

Join Julianne Ess of Akin Lansdowne and Celia Moase of Akin Dupont for an evening of
short films and poetry on the back patio of Tango Palace Coffee Company.

Wednesday June 8
Short film screening @ 9:30 (after nightfall)

Featuring
Analogue collage works by Julianne Ess

Animations and video work of
Julianne Ess, Celia Moase, and Dason Johnson

Poetry by
Ulysses and Ryan Van Winkle


Tango Palace is located on the corner of Queen St East and Jones, across from the 7-11. Also, this venue is not licensed, but plenty of coffee, tea, and delicious treats are available for purchase. Everyone is more than welcome to come by as early as they like, and the cafe's regular closing time is 11pm. Oh, and attendance is free.

Radiance in Uncontrollable Worlds / Jordan MacLachlan at the Art Gallery of Burlington

Radiance in Uncontrollable Worlds is an exhibition of sequential terracotta figures by Jordan MacLachlan of Akin Dupont with an accompanying stop motion film commissioned by the Art Gallery of Burlington.

Exhibition: June 11 - September 5, 2016
Opening Reception: June 15, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Preview the film here: https://vimeo.com/169172312.

Art Gallery of Burlington, Perry Gallery
1333 Lakeshore Rd

Akin at The Collage Party

Saturday June 4 / 2-4pm / Division Gallery - 45 Ernest Avenue / everyone welcome! / FREE

This Saturday come join Akin at Division Gallery for THE COLLAGE PARTY. Scissors, tape, glue and all other collage materials are provided. Come out for a casual afternoon of cut-and-paste, create and enjoy in Paul Butler's beautiful collage paradise!

Akin Collective members and friends will be gathering between 2-4pm but feel free to show up earlier and stay later as it is the LAST DAY to enjoy the collage fun at Division Gallery.

ABOUT PAUL BUTLER'S COLLAGE PARTY:
The Collage Party is a touring studio open to the public, where people come together and make art in a social setting. Over the past two decades, Butler has staged The Collage Party throughout North America and Europe, in museums, private residences, public schools, universities, hospitals, department stores, and community centres. Butler considers The Collage Party as his studio, where he is able to draw from participants’ ideas, energies, and more specifically, the scraps they produce. Butler invites participants (friends, artists, community groups), supplies materials (magazines, scissors, adhesives), and leaves out instruction. Display and production synchronize in a choreography of tearing, pasting, shuffling, searching, tacking and ripping that negates the precincts of personal space or private ownership. For this iteration at Division Gallery, Butler has restaged his Winnipeg studio in the gallery so that disparate realms—Winnipeg and Toronto, studio and gallery, labour and commerce—are folded into one another, cancelling the gulf that once maintained their seeming separation.

Forge: DIY Tote Bag Screenprinting w/ Alicia Nauta

Join us for a fun evening of screen printing with artist Alicia Nauta. Learn new (or improve) screen printing skills and techniques (screen preparation, ink mixing, printing and clean up) to create your own unique designs on two tote bags using fabric ink!

$25 per person.

Purchase tickets here:
www.universe.com/forgescreenprinting

*Materials and two tote bags included!*

June 22, 6:30-9:30pm.
AKIN Collective Dufferin- 444 Dufferin St. Unit E

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Alicia Nauta is a Toronto based artist whose practice is made up of collage, art prints, bookworks, posters, screenprinted wallpaper and installation, costumes and a growing collection of found oddities for a future museum. She is a member of Punchclock, a Toronto screenprinting studio and has taught DIY workshops, including screenprinting, at the AGO.

www.alicianauta.com

BEES (& the Birds) at Graven Feather Gallery

BEES (& the Birds) is a salon style art show to raise funds and awareness for our bee friends. A group of 38 artists coming together to use their art to help the bees including Jen Pilles of Akin Lansdowne.

The second annual show is once again at Graven Feather Gallery. The show runs from May 18 to 29, 2016 and the OPENING Reception will be held on Thursday, May 19 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Each of the artists participating in the show want to make a difference and help the bees. The works are bee inspired pieces that explore the role of this alchemist insect in our world.

These artists felt their work could play a big role in raising awareness and money - offering solutions for individuals - for our community - and for our world.

That's why 10% of all show proceeds - including sales - will go to the David Suzuki Foundation's efforts to save the bees.

Organized by artist Christine Pensa (Art That Moves) and Erin Candela and Pam Lobb (Graven Feather) the show features painting, prints, drawings, and photographs on the theme or bees and other pollinators.