When: Tuesdays in April @ 6-8:30PM ET
Where: online and at Remote Gallery (568 Richmond Street West, Toronto, ON)
Join us for a weekly workshop series for emerging/underdog artists, sharing practical skills and ethical frameworks for developing your artistic career with intention, integrity, and sustainability.
Open to all, and free to attend. Workshops capped at 20 participants. Presented in collaboration with Akin.
We encourage you to attend multiple workshops if you can!
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
April 7 (online): Sustaining Your Arts Practice through Disability Justice, facilitated by Harmeet Rehal
This workshop is a gentle exploratory space to learn how to embody our arts practices in more meaningful, accessible and more community rooted ways, that are informed by Disability Justice culture and tenets. While this workshop welcomes all, including artists new and familiar to disability justice, there will be a specific focus on how to sustain our practice, especially as Disabled or newly Disabled artists.
April 14 (online): Everything's on fire, and I'm chasing invoices! facilitated by Sahra Soudi
A collaborative and practical survival guide for artists and cultural workers working both within and outside of institutions. This workshop invites participants to reflect on the things they’re most impassioned by, and use those values to develop guiding principles for resourcing their practices. Together, we’ll think about how these principles can act as a compass while navigating the challenges, tensions, and possibilities of creative labour.
April 21 (in-person): Reading/Learning/Studying Together, facilitated by Zoe Imani Sharpe
This workshop looks broadly at how collective study (reading, listening, moving, talking, being in the same room) is crucial for artistic collaboration.
We’ll look at a few recent and historical examples of collaborative practice; including the work of Anna Martine Whitehead, DAWA (Diasporic African Women’s Art), Theory, A Sunday, and others. We’ll reflect on ways to practice collective research, sometimes in spaces not usually deemed “artistic.” What do we want to learn with and from one another? What can emerge, now, from what’s already been done?
Participants will also leave with a set of practical, relational questions to help navigate agreements/contracts, conflict, working styles and communication. Bring your own experiential knowledge and a spirit of generosity.
April 28 (in-person): DIY Basics: How to install your work, facilitated by Lamis Haggag
This workshop will help you start building the skills you need to get through installing your work in an exhibition space and bring your work to life. We will discuss the role of an installer and how to work together to optimize your install time. We will also be sharing practical tools for visualising your work within a space especially when working with limited institutional access and resources.
Access information: Online workshops will be hosted over Zoom - participants will receive a Zoom link the week of the workshop. In-person workshops will be hosted at Remote Gallery. Detailed accessibility information for the space can be found here: https://www.akincollective.com/remoteaccessibility. Live captioning and ASL interpretation available on request. Please let us know about any additional access needs you have that might support your participation, and we will do our best to coordinate with you!
If you have further questions about these workshops, or encounter any issues filling out this registration form, please contact Jody Chan at programming@whippersnapper.ca.