The Public

UPCOMING WORKSHOP:
Join us on April 23 for “Making Pieces From Pieces: A workshop on storytelling from found object photography.”

This is a free workshop in collaboration with Sasha Shevchenko (current exhibit) and The Public studio.

🔗 Link for workshop details and registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-pieces-from-pieces-storytelling-through-found-object-photography-tickets-610204918337✨

Swing by our gallery and catch the newest exhibition, Make Pieces from Pieces by Sasha Shevchenko.

Making pieces from pieces is an installation project that uses objects as metaphors for fading memories, places of belonging, and the never-ending task of staying resilient in difficult times.
Assembling objects and materials is a useful strategy to help us envision and create crucial stories and traditions from very little.

As a person of Ukrainian diaspora, Shevchenko is motivated to invent spaces and projects where traditions can evolve and survive beyond the damaging, scattering and permanent events of migration. More-so, she looks to how it can be a source of play and imagination that goes beyond the rigidity of cultural stereotypes and boxes.

Making pieces from pieces is an urgent skill - a call to do with what we have - because what we have often holds meaning deeply rooted in centuries of human life.

We Got This!, is a multi-disciplinary community arts program in collaboration Harm Reduction Peer Workers and in partnership with Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre. The exhibition explores the intersection between transformative justice principles and art, while touching on themes of grief, medicine and healing within transformative justice practices and experiences.

This program is the vision of Rittenhouse: A New Vision, in partnership with Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre. This collaborative art installation was created by participants in the Parkdale community.

This exhibition runs until end of June 2022 at our window gallery on the corner of Seaforth Ave. and Lansdowne Ave.

Welcome to the team Cindy!

Anabel passed on the torch, and we’re super excited to have Cindy join us as our new bookkeeper.

We’re looking forward to more number crunching, impressive excel sheets, and chatting about our baking adventures with you Cindy!

Par Nair's exhibit "dear amma" recognizes and problematizes the effects of assimilation and loss of culture within a migrant experience, centering the body as a fragmented and hybrid archive of dualities. Check it out in our window gallery from the corner of Seaforth Ave. and Lansdowne Ave. 🍃

Through an intimate display of personal objects and poetry, Par Nair's exhibit speaks to the effects of assimilation and loss of culture within a migrant experience, centering the body as a fragmented and hybrid archive of dualities.

"dear amma" is currently on display at The Public's window gallery viewable at the corner of Seaforth Ave. and Lansdowne Ave.!