Whippersnapper 101 Workshops in collaboration with Akin!
Tuesdays in April @ 6-8:30 PM ET
Join Whippersnapper for a weekly workshop series for emerging artists, sharing practical skills and ethical frameworks for developing your artistic career with intention, integrity, and sustainability. How can artists navigate the cultural industry as workers, especially those of us without institutional access and resources? How do we collaborate rather than compete with each other? How do we use a screwdriver? How do we go about building the practices and relationships we need to materialize our creative and political visions?
Open to all. Free to attend.
Presented in collaboration with Akin.
We encourage participants to attend multiple workshops (101 cohort!) – but this is entirely optional.
Tuesday April 7 (on Zoom)
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.
Tuesday April 14 (on Zoom)
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.
Tuesday April 21 (Remote Gallery)
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.
Tuesday April 28 (Remote Gallery)
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. 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.
Remote Gallery, 568 Richmond St W
