November 8, 9 & 10, 2018: I’m delighted to be joining Kim-Lee Kho and many other Mississauga and GTA artists for In Situ ll; a multi-media nocturnal art festival at CreativeHub1352 (aka The Small Arms Building) at 1352 Lakeshore Blvd. (at the foot of Dixie). The Small Arms Building is a half-renovated, half still gloriously decrepit munitions inspection building from WW2 -- great raw spaces perfect for artistic take-overs! This year's theme is "Making Space. Making Place." 

             Saxophone and spoken word will echo from vaults, video projections will enliven windows,
               live drawing, painting and graffiti will energize corridors. Spontaneous, magical, dance, music
             ​  and theatre performances will surprise, inspire and pique your curiosity! Oh, and a few
               of yours truly’s Subversive Signs™ will aim to administer a dose of graphic smelling salts!  

Just ask anyone who attended In Situ in 2016 — it was AMAZING!  (Check out  the photos of Kim's works at In Situ 2016 here)
...and this year’s event promises to be just as exciting!
Event runs from 6:30pm – midnight each night, and there will be BBQ, plus a cash wine and craft beer bar. Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for seniors, and $15 for students, and will be available at the door, but I highly recommend buying them online ahead of time, as there will be a nightly cap on attendance, and it's going to be very a popular event!

This year's Queen West Art Crawl was blessed with perfect early autumn weather – cool but sunny – and tons of people came out to enjoy the event in Trinity Bellwoods Park. Lots of friends and family came out to say hi, and I feel very blessed to have been so well supported - thank you so much everyone! I also sold 5 originals and several prints, making it my best-ever outdoor event to date - yay! Special thanks to KimLee Kho, who helped me all weekend long!

I’ll be back at Queen West Art Crawl again this year at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto!
This annual two-day Outdoor Art Exhibition features 200 of Canada’s most innovative established and emerging artists, with mediums ranging from sculpture to visual art to jewelry. There is also a Steamwhistle Beer Garden, a performance stage with djs, live music and dance performances all weekend long, as well as a Kids Area with opportunities for kids to create with the encouragement of professional arts educators and a Toronto professional contemporary artist.
I’ll BE BRINGING:
      • Original artwork priced from as low as $45.00 up to $700; 
     • Affordable matted pigment prints (framed & unframed) on archival hot press paper $65.00 – $80.00
     • NEW! Budget paper prints: Just $15!!
PLUS: I’ll be raffling a small framed print (a $65.00 value!) – so be sure to come on by booth J11 to enter!
Hope to see you there!

A scant week after Toronto Outdoor, I took part in the second annual ArtWorkX, a live art-making aspect of the After Dark Earth Market: a multi-faceted event put on by the City Of Mississauga to raise awareness of ecological concerns and the cities' initiatives to address them. Working alongside Claudio Ghirardo, Nisreen Askar and Gaya Kairos, we each made work along environmental themes using pieces of discarded city infrastructure we had selected earlier at the public works yard. (I got to choose a ton of road signs – yay!) At the end of the evening, we assembled all our pieces together into a conglomerate that was then also (due to Claudio's tireless efforts) exhibited in the lobby of the Living Arts Centre. 
Culture never happens in a vacuum – thanks to:
• Claudio for the inviting me to participate and for organizing everything from the artists' end.
• Nisreen and Gaya for their good natures, hard work and artistic inspiration.
• Michelle Charbonneau and Victoria Kramkowski at the city for doing so much to help wacky artist's ideas fit within city rules, regs, health and safety, etc. and all your planning, facilitating and day-of helping hands from start to finish!
• Curator Lee Petrie for finding a way to  exhibit our glorious contraption at the Living Art Centre! See photo below by Claudio.
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This July I did my first-ever Toronto Outdoor Art Fair at Nathan Philips Square. It was a great experience all 'round: The weather was perfect summer weather - hot without being sweltering.  The crowds were large, cheerful and interested – so many great conversations! And SOOO many great artists and artisans at the fair.

It takes a village to raise a Kal, so big shout-outs of thanks to:
• All my friends, family and students who came by in droves to spot me for food and drink runs, and kept me feeling so well supported – I really felt the love! 
•  The organizers and volunteers of TOAF: you guys think of everything and do a GREAT job!
• Everyone who entered my free print contest, and especially those of you who signed up for my email list! 
• Kim-Lee Kho: for constant support and encouragement.
• My booth-neighbour (and TOAF award winner for Best of 2D Works) Laura Peturson for cheerful help throughout the weekend, and taking the photo below!

Every year is juried, so no guarantees, but I'll definitely be back next year if I get in!

Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you:
Kal's huge Toronto Life booth Illustration!

Toronto Life will be taking their booth – with my (hopefully wonderful-looking) street illustration plastered over one 10' side of it – to the following street festivals this summer:

Dundas West Festival: 
Saturday June 6, 2015.
Annex Festival on Bloor: 
Sunday June 14, 2015.
Taste of Little Italy: 
Friday-SundayJune 19-21, 2015.
Beaches International Jazz Festival: 
Friday-Sunday July 17-19, 2015.
Cabbagetown Festival: 
Saturday & Sunday September 12-13, 2015.
Roncesvalles Polish Festival: 
Saturday & Sunday September 19-20, 2015.
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