Akin's Winter Art Crawl at 401 Richmond

Akin Projects invites you to join us for special tours of current creative spaces and resources in 401 Richmond- an Akin Art Crawl focused on organizations providing services and supports for artists!

Come along as creative directors, curators and staff provide special walkthroughs and tours of their current exhibits, projects and spaces.

Crawl Schedule
12:45PM - Meet at 401 Richmond Street West (northeast corner of the building)
1:00PM - Visit Vtape
1:30PM - Visit Akimbo
2:00PM - Visit GALLERY 44
2:30PM - Visit Open Studio
3:00PM - End the crawl with visit to Tangled Art + Disability

Free to attend. All are welcome, open to the public. The more the merrier!

Any attendees who wish to explore other parts of the building after the art crawl are free to do so. Please be advised that not all areas of the building are open to the public.

Our route will take us all over 401 Richmond. Should you lose the group at any point or will be joining us late please see the directory in the lobby for each organization's location within the building.

Accessibility Information:

401 Richmond is an accessible venue. It has a step free access to the building at it's northeast entrance and each floor is level throughout. Elevators are available on site to provide access to all floors.

There are fully accessible washrooms on the 1st and 4th floors.

Please let us know of any other accessibility needs so that we can do our best to assist you. Please email janet@akincollective.com at least one week before the event and we will do our best to accommodate. Thank you!

Art Intersections Meetup with Adrienne Crossman and Thirza Cuthand - May 16

You are invited to join Adrienne Crossman and Thirza Cuthand for a presentation and Q&A at Akimbo's Art Intersections Meetup on Tuesday, May 16 from 6:30pm to 9pm at Gamma Space Collaborative Studio (862 Richmond Street West). Free! Wheelchair accessible. Please RSVP.

Schedule:
6:30pm - Doors Open
7pm - Guest presenters Adrienne Crossman and Thirza Cuthand, plus Q&A
8pm - Networking, Food & Beverages

Adrienne Crossman is an artist, educator and curator. Her practice involves the manipulation and deconstruction of digital media and popular culture in order to create new artifacts through formal re-interpretations. In the pursuit of creating a queer aesthetic, Crossman's work is concerned with the exploration of non-normative and non-binary spaces, while attempting to locate queer sensibilities in the everyday.

Thirza Jean Cuthand has been making short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, youth, love, and race, which have screened in festivals internationally. In the summer of 2016 she began working on a 2D video game called A Bipolar Journey based on her experience learning and dealing with her bipolar disorder. It showed at ImagineNATIVE and she is planning to further develop it. She has also written three feature screenplays and sometimes does performance art.

Art Intersections Meetup is a meeting place for artists, moving image-makers, gamers and technologists who are experimenting with art-related digital content and how the moving image is presented in a connected world. Digital culture, social media and networks encourage new ways of storytelling, image making, idea sharing and collaboration. This Meetup celebrates artists and innovators who are embracing change leading the next wave of creativity.

Gamma Space Collaborative Studio is a not-for-profit arts organization, and community of 200+ members making, playing, and talking about videogames. They strive to be a welcoming and accessible space for everyone interested in games as art.