🎉It's Giving Tuesday 🎉

Today is November 29th, also known as Giving Tuesday! As the opening day of giving season, Giving Tuesday is a day dedicated to supporting your favourite organizations and the causes closest to your heart.

This year we're using Giving Tuesday as an opportunity to support our upcoming Clark Centre Art Market and programming. From December 3-18th, 2022, Akin will be hosting a public arts event at the Clark Centre for the Arts in Scarborough, featuring art by local artists around the GTA. Artists of all levels of experience and expression will be exhibiting and selling work through the Winter Arts Market and Group Exhibition.

Our artists are currently preparing their works to be shown and sold and we want to centre them by making this event as accessible as possible for them. Your financial contribution will make that possible.

This Giving Tuesday, with a goal of $5000, we are asking you to give to artists; to support their practices, their work, and to join us in our determination to make space for them in our city.

Visit our link to donate or email info@akincollective.com with any questions or to discuss alternatives to donating online.

It's Giving Tuesday!

Today is November 30th, also known as Giving Tuesday! As the opening day of giving season, Giving Tuesday is a day dedicated to supporting your favourite organizations and the causes closest to your heart.

Our community supports us in countless ways and the past 20 months have cemented our belief in the transformative power of artists coming together when we need them most. We saw it in our Akin Rent Relief Fund, our virtual events, our studios, and amongst our very own members and team. 

[Image Description: On a white background is text that reads How have we allocated resources from the Akin Rent Relief Fund?. A pie graph breaks down three sections: the biggest slice in the darkest orange has text that reads $20,389 distributed out to over a 100 artists." The second slice in orange has text that reads, $1,159 Akin's admin, and the final darker orange slice has text that reads $1640 left in funds. In the right upper corner is the Akin logo.]

Our Akin Rent Relief fund is our pride and joy, supporting over a 100 artists and counting. Providing Akin artist members with anonymous one-time emergency grants towards their studio membership costs, the fund provides short term financial aid in unexpected situations or times of financial instability.

For the next 24 hours, we are hoping to reach a goal of $5000, funds that will allow us to support at least 5 artists per month for the next 5 months. These funds will be placed directly in the hands of our artist studio members.

Image Description: Text that reads Help us reach our goal! $5000. This amount can support 5 artists for the next 5 months. Akin’s logo is at the top right.

This Giving Tuesday, we are asking you to give to artists; to support their practices, their work, and to join us in our determination to make space for them in our city.

We’re grateful for you, and for the effort you put into showing us how essential it is to uplift each other during times of need.

Support Akin Projects 2018 Programming Schedule this #givingtuesday

Today, Giving Tuesday, Nov. 28, you can help support our city's artists.

Your contributions to Akin Projects provide vital funding for our ambitious programming calendar of activities and initiatives. Throughout the year our community work, workshops, exhibitions and educational programs provide free or low-cost opportunities and services for artists and creatives across the city- including paying professional artist fees to Canadian artists.

Akin Fundraiser T-Shirts designed by Billy Franklin of Akin Dupont and Cierra Frances of Akin Sunrise

This #GivingTuesday we ask you to consider supporting our community programming by donating or making a contribution through a purchase in our fundraising online shop! We have limited edition artist designed fundraiser T-Shirts for sale ($20 each, see below!) as well as amazing deals on our artist made colouring books, 'Akin' enamel lapel pins and our Benefit Edition Prints!

Akin Projects would like to extend a huge thank you to those of you who supported our programming initiatives throughout 2017. To everyone who attended an event, bought Akin merchandise, or donated funds to our non-profit: your support means the world to us! 

We hope to see you at the  Akin Holiday Party on December 16 at Akin Lansdowne from 12-5pm where you can drop off a donation to our clothing drive, pick up merchandise and artist's work (and have a couple of mugs of mulled wine).

Click Here to Visit the Online Shop

Click Here to Donate Now

Click Here to RSVP to the Akin Holiday Party

Interested in supporting Akin and our community programs in other ways? Learn more here or get in touch by emailing michael@akincollective.com

Thank you!
Love, Akin