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WHAT IS PAPIRMASS?

We are an affordable art subscription.
Every month subscribers to Papirmass receive a print with art on the front & writing on the back.
It’s mail made fun, and a great way to decorate
your home.

When Will My First Issue Arrive?

Subscribe by the 20th of the month to start your subscription with the next month's print.
Subscriptions received after the 20th will receive their first mailing the following month. 
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR AMAZING FRIENDS AT PAPIRMASS HERE

IMAGES FESTIVAL: VOLUNTEER MANAGER

 
The Images Festival is seeking a Volunteer Manager!
North America’s largest exhibitor of independent and experimental moving image culture is currently seeking a Volunteer Manager. The person in this position will work in a collaborative environment to plan and execute a successful 2014 festival involving multiple exhibition sites and events, and public, corporate and community partners. Images is a dynamic workplace and annual forum for excellence and innovation in contemporary media art.

The Images Festival, based in Toronto and in its 27th year, features artist-made Canadian and international film and video and related new media, installations and live performances. This 10-day festival combines theatrical screenings with gallery-based media art installations and live performances. Images also features symposia, artists’ talks, special curated programs, touring programs, year-round programming and publications alongside its annual competition selection of moving image artworks. For more info, have a look at the posting here!

ART SPIN 2014: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


Call for Submissions for Art Spin, 2014

Art Spin is gearing up for its sixth season this summer and is putting out its annual open call for submissions.

Art Spin takes place on the last Thursday of June, July and August and will see roughly 300 audience members/participants on their bicycles for each event. On each tour these enthusiastic groups will visit a series of curated stops that feature a mix of galleries, artists’ studios and commissioned artworks and performances, often site-specific and in unique and unconventional spaces throughout the city.

We are currently looking for submissions for art projects/performances from all disciplines (visual arts, installation, sculpture, film & video, new media, performance, dance, theatre and music etc.) to fit into our tour programming.

Projects being proposed will be considered for one of the three tours taking place on: Thursday, June 26th, Thursday, July 31st or Thursday, August 28th (all tours begin at 6:30 and run until roughly 9:30pm).

Time-based projects should last no longer than 15 minutes. Stops on the tour may take place in alternative venues. In past years we have commissioned projects that have taken place in parking structures, empty lots, public parks, warehouses, alleyways, churches, schoolyards, community spaces, hockey rinks and construction sites.

We encourage site-specific proposals, however locations may be altered in order to better accommodate our tour routes.

Artists should keep in mind the large number of participants on Art Spin tours. Projects that can be easily viewed/experienced by larger groups are more successful as well as interactive projects.

Artists' fees of $500 - $1000, depending on the project, will be awarded.

Submission Guidelines:

• project description (500 word maximum in attached .doc or PDF format only)
• up to 10 images (attached files under 1M each, jpg, tiff, png, or gif) of proposed project and/or past work
• or, for time-based projects, please include no more than 5 minutes of video-support material (attached as mov, m4v or wmf formats or link to vimeo or youtube in your project description)
• an up-to-date CV/Resume (in attached .doc or PDF format only)
• please submit proposals by e-mail to info@artspin.ca by March 7th, 2014.
• e-mailed submission must be titled “Art Spin submission 2014” and follow the guidelines above, all text and image files should be attached, not embedded in your e-mail. If you have a link (for vimeo or youtube video only) please be sure to include it in your project description and not in the body of your e-mail.

We highly recommend having a look at past examples of projects featured on Art Spin tours if you have never attended one, please visit the submissions page of the website at: http://www.artspin.ca/#!submissions/c13xz

If you have any further questions about the submissions process, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@artspin.ca.

www.artspin.ca

CALL FOR ARTIST SUBMISSIONS – 918 Bathurst’s The Dark Room 3.0: 2014 Scotiabank CONTACT




Calling all analog and alternative process photographers!

CALL FOR ARTIST SUBMISSIONS – 918 Bathurst’s The Dark Room 3.0:  An Open Exhibition of the 2014 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

Submission Deadline Friday March 28, 2014, 5 PM EST



Submission Form and requirements available at www.918bathurst.com/contact918 

The Dark Room 3.0 is a group exhibition celebrating analog and alternative process photography, bringing together emerging and established artists who are preserving the knowledge and practices of classic photography and testing the boundaries of this art form.  

Processes under consideration will include 35 mm photography or other film negatives, pinhole, wet plate, silver gelatin, platinum prints, lomography, photogram, and others.

An initial preview reception on April 24, 2014 will allow members of the public and an invited jury to vote and select the works to be shown during the official two-week exhibition from May 2-15.  Artists selected for the two-week exhibition will be eligible for cash awards, prizes and a solo gallery show generously provided by our sponsors and partners, and awarded at a closing reception on May 15.

Key Dates:

Call for Artist Submissions Deadline:  Friday March 28, 2014
Public Preview Celebration & Voting:  Thurs April 24, 12pm-11pm
Exhibition Dates:  Friday May 2 – Thursday May 15
Closing Reception:  Thursday May 15
Location:  Gallery 918 at 918 Bathurst, Toronto


Contact Us: submissions@contact918.com


ACTION POTENTIAL LAB: VALENTINE'S DAY


Action Potential Lab is celebrating Valentine's Day with an amazing workshop just for adults. Play scientist and chef as we turn Action Potential Lab into a laboratory-kitchen and extract DNA from Strawberries.

Read more about this incredibly fun workshop below
 


RSVP your spots by Monday Feb 10th
 
Valentine's Day Workshop
DNAiquiris: Strawberry DNA Extraction over Strawberry Daiquiris
In honour of Valentine's Day, trade your winter coat in for a lab coat, as you go through the step by step process from the breaking of cells to the making of extraction buffers and all the while sipping on strawberry daiquiris. You'll leave this workshop with a piece of this delicious DNA to take home and proof to show your friends and family of what a genius you are. Bring loved ones, mates, colleagues, and curious people of all kinds.

Thursday, February 13, 2014 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Ages 19 + | bring a valid ID

$25 + HST
READ MORE AND GET TICKETS HERE
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Action Potential Lab
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Toronto, ON M6G 3C7
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CONTACT 2014 PORTFOLIO REVIEWS





















Ian Willms, from the series The Road to Nowhere, 2012 - 2013

Ian Willms is the recipient of the 2013 Portfolio Reviews Exhibition Award. His exhibition The Road to Nowhere is on view at the CONTACT Gallery until March 7, 2014.
Please join us for an artist talk on Saturday February 15 at 2pm.

CONTACT 2014 PORTFOLIO REVIEWS
Sunday May 4 & Monday May 5
@ The Gladstone Hotel

Registration opens February 15.
Visit http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/portfolio-reviews for more information and link to the online registration site.

CONTACT will be accepting submissions from artists with well-developed projects to participate in the 2014 Portfolio Reviews.

International experts in the field of photography are brought together for two days during CONTACT to review work with a focus on documentary, photojournalism or photo-based art practices. This is a great program for artists with projects at advanced stages of development who are seeking opportunities for publishing and exhibiting—as well as for those looking for guidance on conceptual approaches or career development advice.

In addition to one-on-one reviews, participants are invited to attend the Portfolio Night, and a reception to announce the winner of the Portfolio Reviews Exhibition Award. This year, CONTACT and Boreal Collective will host an evening of lectures by some of the reviewers and an after party on Tuesday May 6.

portfolioreviews@scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

This program was created to support and advance the careers of talented artists and photographers. A special thank you to The Gladstone Hotel, Vistek, and Toronto Image Works.


Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2J4
T 416 539 9595
info@scotiabankcontactphoto.com
www.scotiabankcontactphoto.com

Exhibition Opening: Push and Pull @ Mercer Union
































Push and Pull presents a series of new works by artists Bridget Moser, Michael Vickers (*Akin) and Nikki Woolsey. The exhibition title refers to a constant tension, a position between moving in one direction, and into another; a perpetual state of struggle.

Bridget Moser’s performance and video work is suspended between internally voiced conundrums, stand-up comedy, experimental theatre, performance art, and prop comedy, with a continuous slippage from one state to another. In this in-betweenness a certain absurdity materializes, questioning a world of assumptions and belief systems.

Michael Vicker’s works sit between painting and sculpture, in prioritizing their object-hood physical struggle becomes manifest, highly industrialised materials are folded, pushed and beaten into other forms acknowledging the precarity of their formation and labour.

Nikki Woolsey coalesces distinct everyday found materials into sometimes seamless yet habitually unfamiliar forms. Broken vases, glass panels, and other quotidian objects seep into abstraction, questioning how we perceive objects and place value, and disrupting existent systems of knowledge.

Curated by Georgina Jackson

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TORONTO DESIGN OFFSITE FESTIVAL






The fourth annual Toronto Design Offsite Festival will show the best in Canadian design at exhibitions and events across the city, from unexpected prototypes to immersive installations, January 20-26, 2014.

The Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO) is a not-for-profit, independent design festival happening annually at the end of January. TO DO’s aim is to provide exposure for local and national designers; to foster public understanding and knowledge of the practice of design; and to create an ongoing presence that promotes Canada’s creativity, drawing on great thinkers, practitioners, and educators to a deliver an innovative celebration of art and design.
Schedule: CLICK HERE
Facebook Event: CLICK HERE




The Hart House Review: Submit!









The Hart House Review print annual is a nationally distributed literary and arts magazine. The Review also regularly publishes online content which may differ from its print counterpart. In some cases, online content may be considered for our print annual.

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN for our 2014 print edition. 
UPDATE: Deadline has been extended to January 22!

Submissions can also be made year-round for our website.
All inquiries: harthousereview@gmail.com

 LEARN MORE HERE


Please Note: Names cannot appear anywhere on the submission. Our selection process is a blind review. Submissions with names, or submitting more than the maximum amount of allowed work, will result in disqualification. (You may resubmit disqualified work in the proper format.) 

Print:
You may submit up to two prose pieces; three poems; or three pieces of artwork. Prose/poetry/art combinations are also welcome so long as they do not exceed a maximum of five pieces. Short fiction should not exceed a maximum of 2,500 words each; poetry should not exceed a maximum of 200 lines each. Please submit in either DOC, PDF, or RTF format.
For all artwork/photography, please submit images in JPG format with resolution of at least 300dpi. If images are too large to be e-mailed, please contact us at: harthousereview@gmail.com.

It is permissible to submit the same pieces to the Hart House contests and to the Review.

Online:
The online edition of the Hart House Review is open to submissions from anybody in the world. Please send 3-5 poems, prose that does not exceed 1000 words, or up to 3 pieces of artwork. We accept material all year round.

If possible, please indicate how you heard about the review.