XPACE's Goth Drag Bash

Attendees gathered for a fun filled night of goth, drag, music, and....cupcakes!

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Xpace's Guide To Your Dream Halloweekend

Here at Xpace we know that with busy lives, some of us still being in school and everyone always having something to do, it can be a hassle trying to find something fun to do in your downtime. So instead of giving up on trying to find somewhere to go this weekend and just sleeping through your halloween blues, we've done the research for you. Here's a list of events that we think might be worth dropping by over your Halloween weekend!

VSVSVS

Check out blogTo's feature on VSVSVS, an art collective studio and exhibition space in Toronto's East end.

NEXT EXIT: Le Gallery

If you haven't already, we highly recommend you go check out NEXT EXIT at Le Gallery. The show features new works by OCAD Alum/former XPACE Programming Coordinator JENNIE SUDDICK and artist COLE SWANSON.
"Cole Swanson and Jennie Suddick both reside in Toronto, Ontario, and are simultaneously examining the impact of the Trans-Canada Highway and tourism on the Canadian cultural identity."- Le Gallery

For more info, check Le Gallery's website.

Whippersnapper: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
1. EXHIBITION / PROJECT PROPOSALS
WHIPPERSNAPPER STREET LEVEL GALLERY SPACE
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 10

Whippersnapper Gallery is currently accepting project proposals for our street level gallery space from individual artists, creative collectives, and curators. Successful applicants will be offered four-week exhibitions within our unique gallery space in our 2012 –2013 programming year. Whippersnapper Gallery supports New Generation professional visual, new-media, and performance artists thirty years of age and younger, with an emphasis on site-sensitive installation and social practice projects.View full call out

2. "NOT JUST THE PICTURE"

SPECIAL CALL FOR MEDIA PROJECTS
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 10

“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”
Marshall McLuhan

Whippersnapper Gallery is currently seeking submissions for the 2012 summer programming season. Titled “Not just the picture”, its intention is to explore the ways in which burgeoning practices revolving around new-media, internet and digital technologies influence and impact themselves upon public space, our relationships and our social structures. As a generation that has matured throughout young adulthood and increasingly adolescence and childhood, immersed in social spheres mediated by internet platforms like facebook, twitter, second life etc. we are increasingly reliant on these platforms. How does this participation in proxy worlds shape our relationships to one another? How have our relationships to our civil and cultural institutions been effected by a virtualization of experience. How is our understanding of public space (online or real world) debased, strengthened or otherwise altered through the exponential growth and integration of technology in our lives? These are some of the questions that could be addressed in projects for this submission call. View full proposal form.
Whippersnapper Gallery
594B Dundas Street W. @ Augusta
Hours: Thurs- Sat 1-7pm
or by appointment

OCADU Orientation 2011!

The XPACE crew piled into a van cab on Wednesday, August 31st for the first day of Orientation which turned out to be so much fun! We tabled in Butterfield park, ate some hot dogs, chatted with new students and got them to pose with our 'Melt into the Unknown' alien autopsy cut out![gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="6" orderby="rand"]

 

COLLAGE PARTY at the STUDENT GALLERY

The  Student Gallery is located at 285 Dundas St. West, just east of Dundas and McCaul.