No Flyers Please

AKIN has just started a new project called No Flyers Please. We're sick of cleaning up flyers that we never use but, that get dumped everyday on our doorsteps. So... we thought we'd get 12 000 static cling vinyl No Flyers flyers designed by our dear Nicole Tarasick and printed by our also dear Casey (both Akin members) at Lithocolor Services. These pieces of thin vinyl and their cardboard backings were themselves headed for the garbage can as they were excess material from another printing job, but Casey managed to salvage them. By the magic of static cling they stick to any flat surface... So we've started putting them in peoples' mailboxes around our city so that people can put them up and avoid having flyers dumped on their doorsteps too. Here are some examples:






Here is the design by Nicole Tarasick that's been printed on all 12 000 of our No Flyers Please clings.
If you like our idea and would like to help you can:

a] click on the image above, print it and put it on your mailbox or front door,

b] get in touch with us and we can send you clings,

or...
even better

c] get in touch with us and help us distribute these No Flyers Flyers around the city.

Thanks,

AKIN Collective

Abell St. Revue

Hi there,
Please come out this friday to Akin Collective for an evening of solo performances by local singers and songwriters.

Start Time:
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 9:00pm
End Time:
Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 2:00am
Location:
Abell Lofts
Street:
48 Abell Street - Loft 202


Who:
Paul Macload
http://www.myspace.com/macleodpaul

Lucas Stagg
http://www.myspace.com/lucasstagg

Tanya Philipovich
http://www.myspace.com/tanyaphilipovich

Luke Correia-Damude
http://www.myspace.com/boyswhosayno

How Much: $5

Cheap Drinks...Nights Starts at 9pm

Here's the facebook invite

Hope to see you.

New Location to Come

Hi there,
We have a big announcement to make. Mike and I just signed the lease on a new studio space just around the corner on Dufferin just north of Queen. The space is a beautiful converted and skylit warehouse three times bigger than the current studio at 2000 sq. ft. We'll be moving in on February 1st and are looking forward to getting more members in there working and to having bigger and better events to come. Here are some pix of the space with the current tenant's stuff in there as well as a wee video tour:







A little present the tenants made me.

Thanks for coming to Trippple JJJ

Hi there,
thanks to everyone who came out to our event last night. I hope you enjoyed yourself immensely. Mike and I definitely had a riot of a time. If you have any photos or vids or anything let us know so we can post them.
If you would like to see the art, but were unable to attend the event please get in touch with us.

Our next event is AKINmas. December 20th, 8pm to 2am. Come out..,. $2 drinks:

the facebook event

December 6th Gallery Event

Hello,

Hope this message finds you well and warm. I’d like to cordially invite you to the first gallery show hosted by Akin Collective, the art studio and event space that I run.

The event commences at 8pm on Saturday, December 6th and will feature the work of:

Juliana Neufeld
Julia Hepburn
Joële Walinga

Please come for the beautiful art, lovely people, and fine drinks.

Much love,

Michael and Oliver

P.S. Here's the facebook event link.



Preps

Busy days these.
We've been worker bees the past few.
See?:

First there was the time i broke the needle off of our new sewing machine sewing our dividers and it got stuck inside the machine and i had to take the whole thing apart.

Then we made tables with our dads and a real construction worker. You'll see.

Dan Pauk vs. Mike Dellios

Mike doing some of his optiad work

"Alo?"

"Need one of these?"
Just a bit of reno work

Sewing machine repaired and primed

Go Kevin! Stencil that.

Dividers finito

Time for hanging - Robin Schurman's work

Scary

Our reward came in the form of two lovely cases of wine from the also lovely Reif Estates Winery. See last post for hyperlink.

Cameron's Brewing Company we love you.
Thank you for our new fridge.


Mike, Nicole and I, Oliver having our supper. Ready to wake up early.

You have to lock that up

good day!

Big day today in the life of the collective, the space has been emptied of all personal belongings, and we are now in full swing of having things ready for this Saturday. We rented a good ol UHAUL and took care of everything, the fridge we bought about a month ago is now present, as are the dividers we picked up. We will be putting new fabric on the dividers even though the pink floral is quite lovely, and we are also throwing around the idea of having a tap on the fridge, so we can serve nice cool drafts at the gallery events. The fridge is rather nice, I believe its from the 50's. Check out these pics: (from blackberry, sorry for the poor quality):




We also locked down our Liquor License for the event on November 1, so we will be serving some tasty drinks, along with some yummy catering that our friend Shelby is taking care of. The wine is coming from REIF Estates in Niagara-on-the-Lake. There was an interesting trip made there a few weeks ago to check it out, and we then had a tasting last week from a lovely lady named Carol. Needless to say, the wine is succulent.

Everything is coming together, and everyone involved seems to be really quite excited. Cant wait for Nivember!

Oh, and if all of the above wasnt enough for your brain to handle, check this little beaut out:


MD and OP

A present

Our lovely friend lucas has, once again, come in in the clutch. This time it's in the form of, no, not more painted school equipment, but by lending us an amazing piece of his art. This crazy structure is made entirely from pieces of wicker and uses no adhesive whatsoever. The pix pretty much say the rest.

Mike and I getting schooled on freestyle weaving

Purty

Look at those wee fingers go

Fern taking it all in once we stopped her from trying to make a nest inside the thing



More post-hanging images to come. Promise