

Photo Gallery from Stitch Workshop with Alana McLeod
Thank you to textile artist Alana McLeod for 4 beautiful weeks of stitching!
Photo by Katie Yealland
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Artist Talk: Friday October 9, 2015
Jumblies Theatre, MABELLE arts, and Red Dress Productions welcome
Glen Andersen for an Exploration of Community Engagement, Public Art & Place
On Friday October 9 at 6:30 pm, Glen Andersen will give a free public lecture on
The Spirit of Place, a 45-minute presentation exploring his philosophy of urban aesthetics. Glen explores the visibility of human-scale and handmade environments that can counteract generic contemporary urban terrains.
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ISIS Canada Community Art Weekend
Following The Art of Collaboration, our public lecture on Friday March 28, Tristan and I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a community art weekend with the 40+ staff and students at ISIS Canada.
Through a two day creative process, we adventured through a layered process toward creating and presenting collaborative art, along with meeting some of the challenges and inquiries through discussion, reflection, and consensus building.
Here, we’d like to share some of what emerged:
paper collage
paper collage
The Art of Collaboration | A public lecture/presentation | 7pm, March 28, 2014
On Friday, March 28 at 7 PM, Anna Camilleri and Tristan R. Whiston will give a free public lecture on The Art of Collaboration, a presentation illustrated with images and short video clips that offers an overview of RDP’ s process of multi-phase projects and residencies in Toronto communities.
The presentation – which will touch on models for artistic, and community engagement, consensus building, ethics, challenges, facilitation, partnerships, arts-based research, site-specific and public art, and the creative process – will be followed by time for questions and informal discussion.
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