Workman Arts

Congratulations to Workman Artist Apanaki Temitayo M! Artwork from her Femme Le Fleur Collection will be featured at Harbourfront Centre as part of the Nia Centre for the Arts presentation of "She Went, We Thrived!" from Feb 20 to April 11. The artwork will be viewable in the Craft & Design Studio Windows, Bill Boyle Artport, 235 Queens Quay West, East Side which is accessible 24/7 and free to the public. For more info, see: https://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/visual//femme-de-fleur/

We are pleased to announce that registration for Aroba: A Room Of Black Artists is now open! Click below to view or share the Facebook event. To register and view the full symposium program, visit https://workmanarts.com/even/aroba-a-room-of-black-artists/.

We're excited to announce that Episode 2 in the Bruised Years Choir's Soul Series, "I'm Not a Tech Giant", premieres Monday, February 15! In the meantime, check out this preview: https://youtu.be/FpuHJUtMbNo

New program from The AFC - the lifeline for Canada's entertainment industry to help entertainment industry professionals experiencing career challenges during the pandemic. Participate in hands-on workshops, small group sessions, self-directed learning, and personalized career counselling to build career resilience in the challenging job environment. The program is free for industry members, and applications are due by February 12, 2021. http://bit.ly/39OWmnZ.

This year’s Toronto Black Film Festival - TBFF kicks off in a few days and we are excited to co-present The girl that looks like me by Ewurakua Dawson-Amoah. Share this post for your chance to win tickets to the streaming. For more info about the film, see https://torontoblackfilm.com//to-the-girl-that-looks-like/. #TBFF21

Our recent workshop on Trauma-Informed Boundary Setting and Conflict Resolution with Sheila Wilmot was so over-subscribed that we decided to offer a second workshop! If you missed out on it the first time around, we hope you can join us on February 11. For more information and to register, please visit: https://workmanarts.com//trauma-informed-boundary-setting/.

Our friends at Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, whose mission is to celebrate beauty through music of the past, are currently airing their Sing-Along Messiah on Screen for a one-week period between starting tonight at 7 PM, and running through December 26! Click here for more info: https://www.tafelmusik.org/sing-along-messiah-on-screen If you'd like to receive news of other things happening at Tafelmusik, you can sign up for their newsletter here: https://my.tafelmusik.org/account/create/brief

Exciting news! The deadline for submissions for our Being Scene exhibition has been extended to January 8! For full details, visit https://workmanarts.com/being-scene/call-for-submissions/

Congratulations to director Mike Holboom and Judy Rebick on the film Judy Versus Capitalism being named to TIFF's list of the 10 best Canadian feature films of 2020! We are thrilled to have had Judy Versus Capitalism open our Rendezvous With Madness Festival this year.

In the spring, we put forward a statement of solidarity with the BIPOC community with a promise that we will do more. The events that unfolded reminded us that change is not happening quickly enough and we need to actively dismantle colonialism and white supremacy. We promised to hold ourselves accountable and change racist practices that are embedded in our organization. Our commitment to change began two years ago when we held some roundtable sessions to learn from our com...munities as we built our strategic plan. At that time, the community rightly identified that while we had a few BIPOC members, we were a majority white staff and board. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion became one of the five main pillars of our strategic plan and accordingly, we have been working to make real change within our organization. We have outlined our commitment on our website at the link below. This commitment is a beginning and we will keep you informed as we continue to address inequities in our organization. We welcome your input and feedback to these commitments. To read the full plan, see: https://workmanarts.com/diversity-equity-inclusion-plan/ See more

The #21Cmusic Festival returns to Koerner Hall in January 2021, with a spotlight on the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet! The eighth edition of the The Royal Conservatory’s 21C Music Festival will include eight concerts, one film screening and over twenty-one premieres from Friday, January 15, 2021 to Friday, January 29, 2021. VENUE: Koerner Hall DATES: Jan 15 - 29, 2021 LEARN MORE: https://bit.ly/3gyIM88

We're currently accepting submissions for our annual Being Scene show! This exhibition is open to all Workman Arts members, and any artist who has accessed CAMH services. Due to COVID-19, Being Scene will be presented digitally this year. In addition, because this is the 20th Anniversary of Being Scene, we'll be presenting a Being Scene retrospective, and we invite anyone who has ever participated in past Being Scene exhibitions to send any and all photos/videos of their exhibited artwork, memories, and experiences of Being Scene. The deadline for submissions is December 18. For more info visit: https://workmanarts.com/being-scene/call-for-submissions/

Learn more about the programming we're offering at the Rendezvous With Madness 2020 in this ASL interpreted video. All festival events will have ASL interpreters and all films will be captioned. Thanks so much to our friends at Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Service for helping us with this ASL preview! #RWMFest20 #RWMFest #ASL

We’re excited to share this preview of what the 2020 Rendezvous With Madness Festival has in store for you! Tickets are available now - see www.workmanarts.com/rwm for more info. #RWMFest20 #RWMFest

We are thrilled to be co-presenting this event with Singapore Mental Health Film Festival on October 10, World Mental Health Day. This event will go live here on Facebook at 9 AM Toronto time on October 10 - we hope you can join us!

Tonight we lit our building red at Workman Arts in solidarity with 650 art venues across Canada as part of the #LightUpLive campaign raising awareness for an industry that is still dark. This red glow is made even more stunning by the @summerworksto @healthandsafetysocial project by artist Mark Reinhart. @sweeneyimages #iMissLiveTheatreTO

Tonight we light the sky red at Workman Arts in solidarity with 650 art venues across Canada as part of the #LightUpLive campaign raising awareness for an industry that is still dark. This red glow is made even more stunning by the #Summerworks2020 Health and Safety Notes by artist Mark Reinhart. #IMissLiveTheatreTO

Tickets are now available for Rendezvous With Madness 2020!!!

We're having a garage sale! As you may know, we're moving soon, and have some things we'd rather not pack or dispose of - art and craft supplies, lots of books, and other weird and wonderful things! All items are by donation to Workman Arts. The garage sale is Thursday, September 24 from 12-7 PM at 651 Dufferin St (St. Anne's Parish Hall), but if you are in the area, feel free to drop by any weekday between 10 AM - 4 PM. Please note that masks are required and social distancing measures are in effect. If you'd like to see some of the items we have available, check out our Craigslist post: https://toronto.craigslist.org//toronto-ar/7198461363.html

Rendezvous With Madness 2020 October 15 25, 2020 Tickets on sale September 21 http://workmanarts.com/rwm

We are thrilled to announce the programming for Rendezvous With Madness 2020! The Festival runs October 15 25, 2020 and showcases a range of feature and short films from around the globe, as well as the Re:Building Resilience Exhibition, a full-building activation of Workman Arts (651 Dufferin Street) featuring visual, media and performance art installations. All tickets are Pay What You Wish (PWYW) and there will be both in-person and virtual options for engaging with the ...festival, so all patrons can enjoy the festival safely. Tickets go on sale September 21! For the full line-up, see https://workmanarts.com/rwm. #RWMFest20 #RWMFest

Come support Workman Artists at this year’s Queen West Art Crawl Virtual Online Festival 2020 which goes live tomorrow! Due to COVID-19, the 2020 festival will be held entirely on line. QWAC is a charitable corporation that drives a number of initiatives publicly benefiting artists and residents of Toronto through art, music and multiculturalism, including a two day multidisciplinary arts festival stretching along Queen Street West from Bathurst to Roncesvalles in Trinity Bellwoods Park in September of each year. With attendance at 65-85k the Queen West Art Crawl has developed over the years from an art crawl to becoming an all-inclusive arts and multicultural festival.

Creative Coping Kits are a new initiative from Chill N Do Art to support the mental well being of Black and Indigenous single-parent families as a response to the needs of the community (and a reaction to COVID-19 quarantine). Each kit contains a Creative Coping Binder, art supplies, and crafting materials. As of September 1, 2020, enough funds have been raised to produce 100 kits. They are now reaching out to the community for volunteers, art material donations and submissio...ns for the Creative Coping Binder., which will feature activities aimed at nurturing positivity and wellness, such as colouring pages for both parents and children, writing prompts, and guided activities for families to do together. To get involved or for more information, follow Chill N Do Art here on Facebook or @chillndoart on Instagram, or contact [email protected] to submit to the Creative Coping Binder. To donate art supplies or volunteer, visit: https://forms.gle/9JzkYG7cm6Yy25bm8 See more

The 16th Montreal Black Film Festival will run online for the first time ever from September 23rd to October 4th! This year, we are thrilled to be co-presenting the Canadian Premiere of the feature film MARCUS by J.R. Poli. For more information and to get your tickets, visit http://montrealblackfilm.com/en/movie/marcus-2/ Synopsis: Marcus has a checkered past and an unstable present. As he struggles mightily with mental illness, unexpected news brings a new opportunity for him to right old wrongs and make amends. He leaves his life behind and sets off on an adventure to find purpose, forgiveness and redemption. But Marcus will have to face the consequences of his past life and overcome the greatest obstacle of all in order to find happiness: Himself. #MIBFF20

We're looking for a guest Curator or team of Curators to develop and curate the 20th anniversary of our annual Being Scene visual art/multimedia exhibition! We are looking for proposals that speak to the current social climate as it relates to mental health, celebrate Workman member artists and artists with lived experience, that incite conversation, and promote a range of intersectional narratives. The deadline for proposals is September 21.