Posts Tagged ‘ arts and crafts ’

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Taylor Kirk aka Timber Timbre from the rural settings of Brooklin, ON makes you feel like you’re alone in a wooden shed and all you have is a book and a hunting rifle for shooting cans. His songs are folky and swampy but also none of the above. The Arts and Crafts artist takes...

Montreal is old but they can party.

Special Fundraising Event for Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture 53 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER 20 February 2010, 8:00pm at Latitude 53 (10248 106 Street, Edmonton) Latitude 53 invites members and guests to our annual anti-Valentine’s Day fundraiser: 53 Ways to Leave Your Lover. Heal your broken hearts in food, drinks and a silent...

Just doing my usual Tuesday mid-morning google on random things awesome and came across the newest slash hippest art gallery space in Vancouver. It’s run by Paperbird clothing maker and musician Merida Anderson. Anderson has taken the downtown east side space where many artists have resided but have stepped it up a notch and...

Founded in 2006 by Sadie Lewis in Toronto, Streetknit is again rousing the knitting communities of Toronto, hobbyists, s n’ bs, society yarn-darlings, needle-clackers of all ages to put needles together and spend some time knitting some warmth into an extra scarf, maybe some toques with affectionate or somber colours, mitts, blankets, socks, even...

Raymond Biesinger, Edmonton’s own musician, illustrator, small press publisher and all around nice guy has been running Royal Bison Art and Crafts fair for a few years. The event has attracted hundreds if not thousands of artsty hipstery (oh did I just use that word?) likeminded people together for a weekend. Everything from records...