The Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TOAF) is back at Nathan Phillips Square from July 12th to 14th offering a weekend of art and fun. This year, the Fair will feature close to 300 artists providing visitors with a dynamic showcase to explore including painting, craft & design, 3D works, and photography. Additionally, over 60 artists have been selected to exclusively show their work online at TOAF.ca.
Photography and digital media: Artists | Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (toaf.ca)
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5 artists and friends celebrate their art and their relationship in "Creative Conversations" at the North Hatley Library. Mary O'Connor and Jane Cameron talk about their friendship and their families' friendship that spans generations and that resulted in their work being displayed at the North Hatley Library this summer in an exhibit titled "Creative Conversations".
2024 Art Shows – North Hatley Library. The Library Board and the artists invite you to visit the library and celebrate artistic talent. Creative Conversations: among friends and their artwork.
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From July 11 to 14, 2024, Montreal will host the first edition of SOULFEST on the Square St-James site in downtown Montreal (Ste-Catherine Street West, between St-Alexandre and City Councillors streets), transformed for the occasion into an open-air dance floor set against the backdrop of the emblematic St-James Church, which will be illuminated for the duration of the festival.
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Festival Nuits d’Afrique - Tous les jours – du 16 au 21 juillet. Dès 15h en semaine, dès 13h30 la fin de semaine. Au Parterre du Quartier des spectacles et à l’Esplanade Tranquille.
CONCERTS – ATELIERS À CIEL OUVERTS – ACTIVITÉS – VILLAGE DES ENFANTS – MARCHÉ TOMBOUCTOU – RESTAURANTS – BARS
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Plant based printing. An excerpt from: Anthotypes – Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants.
“Anthotypes show us just how much early photography is a kind of natural magic. Malin Fabbri’s book is a real gift – a much-needed manual on this beautiful and almost-forgotten process.”
- Dan Estabrook, Artist and educator.
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Is this cave painting the world's oldest story? Story by Chris Knight.
The cave painting shows a pig and three humans: one at the snout; one a little in front; and one over the animal.
© Provided by National Post
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Books:
Why moments of joy and delight have a place even in dark times
'I think of joy, which gets us to love, as being a practice of survival,' writes Ross Gay. Ever since the award-winning American poet Ross Gay published his best-selling collection of mini-essays, The Book of Delights, in 2019, he's been asked the same question a lot: How can you write about joy and delight when there's so much terrible stuff happening in the world?
Ross’s web site: https://www.rossgay.net/about
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We’ve been stuck at home for long enough! It’s time to get out and taste the world again. From those ever-curious, ever-quirky minds behind the #1 New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura, with over 800,00 copies in print, comes an unputdownable guide that marries our endless appetite for travel with our insatiable interest in food. Continent by continent, country by country, Gastro Obscura takes up the mantle of Atlas Obscurato radically expand our sense of wonder about the world – in this case, what humans eat and drink, which turns out to be far more marvelous than we could ever imagine.
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