Signs for Palestine: A Banner Making Workshop with Aram Sifuentes
Drawing on revolutionary signage, symbols, and slogans shaped by Palestinian resistance to Israeli apartheid, the CFMDC and Whippersnapper Gallery host a protest banner-making workshop led by multimedia artist Aram Sifuentes. This gathering took place in conjunction with the Israeli Apartheid Month.
PEERS
PEERS is a horizontal mentorship for emerging artists/collectives looking to build their skills in creating consent-based, ethical and rigorous community engaged and public art projects. PEERS spans seven intensive months of workshops led by a different artist-facilitator, collective or grassroots group, working with a mentor, and community testing from February to September 2024. Selected IBPOC artists and collectives Harmeet Rehal, Wend Yasen, Nala Haileselassie, Fatin Chowdhury and Anélia Victor, Emkay, and Moe Pramanick experiment with new approaches to facilitation, community-engaged art, and social practice. We will document the approaches resulting in a toolkit of resources which emerged from the program, as a foundation for ongoing community-centered arts practices shared publicly with the wider community.
We delve into topics: ethical considerations in community archives, sensory facilitation techniques, trauma-informed interviewing, community agreements, and access intimacy, among other topics. Projects span the realms of non-language based sound explorations, collage-based workshop series - including mailing kits out to participants, storytelling and gentrification in Flemingdon Park, and racialized urban farm workers’ labor rights.
See below to learn more about the artists and their research projects.
Anélia Victor & Fatin Chowdhury
Emkay
Wend Yasen
Nala Haileselassie
Harmeet Rehal
Moe Pramanick
Gaza is Resistance: Tatreez Workshop with Amnna Attia
Join Palestinian artist Amnna Attia this Saturday at SKETCH Working Arts for an immersive Tatreez workshop. Delve into Gaza's rich history, symbols, and resilience as we learn the art of embroidering this powerful Palestinian tradition, spanning 3,000 years. Bring your own kuffiya to embroider a symbolic Gaza motif through the art of Tatreez. 🪡
Artists Storefronts
With Artists Storefronts we are exploring the storefront as a space that can delineate certain codes: a window, a storefront, a pop-up, a fundraiser, a pocket, a community favorite, a teeny-tiny hidden gem. With week-long installations, artists’ projects intersect with commerce in playful, engaging, and subversive ways. Featuring: Cleopatria Peterson, Deniz Bodi, Anahí González, FOREVER Gift Shop by Agnes Wong, Ananda Gabo, Seden’s Workshop, Priscilla Williams, and Wearable Art by Jam.
Objects of Nourishment
Objects of Nourishment is introductory clay-making workshop inspired by the current Whippersnapper exhibit, Within and Without.
a stitch for you, a stitch for me
In many Caribbean households’ quilt making is a communal practice where folks embroider quilts for various home uses while sharing stories, laughs and bond through the quilt making process. Learn to naturally dye fabric and make a quilt in our one-day workshop with mixed media textile artist Anélia Victor. In this communal workshop, you will learn how to dye fabric using natural plants and various hand stitching techniques to make a quilt while sharing stories with other participants.
Dreaming Otherwise Info Session
Dreaming Otherwise is a series of six weekly digital poetry workshops for a cohort of sick/disabled/Mad queer people, generating writing through embodied practice and ritual, and culminating in an anthology of individual and collective works.
CV + Statement Writing Workshop
Ever wonder what the difference between a CV and resume is? No clue what tense to use when writing your artist statement? Intimidated to submit your work? Worried about “what galleries are looking for”? Being able to articulate your artwork through an artist statement and CV is a daunting task. We are asking leading arts organizations about the dos and don’ts of submitting art proposals for review.
Partnership: Glory Hole Gallery
Glory Hole Gallery is happy to announce we will be expanding from our original miniature exhibiting format! For the next five months we will be hosting a series of exhibitions in the Whippersnapper Gallery space featuring 2SLGBTQ+ artists from Toronto, and from across what is known as Canada. Stay tuned to the Glory Hole Gallery website at www.gloryholegallery.com and Whippersnapper Gallery website www.whippersnapper.ca for announcements about upcoming exhibitions and featured artists!
Gendai MA MBA
Gendai MA MBA (Mastering the Art of Misguided Business Administration) is a year-long think tank and workshop series for art collectives to improve capacity-building skills in a co-learning environment. Addressing sector-wide challenges of precarity and isolation, this project creates a network for collectives to resource-share, co-learn, collaborate, and improve workplace sustainability.
HORIZON Project
THE HORIZON initiative, funded by the Toronto Arts Council (TAC), is a two-year exploration and ideation project to better understand the perceived needs and expectations of artists from arts organizations. There are ten partner organizations predominantly non-collecting contemporary art and film/video organizations—are collaborating.