FLAME is a series of FREE ART programs for LGBTQ2S Spectrum youth under 29, that is rooted in self care and community building. We want more spaces to make art, to share our stories and also to celebrate our work!!

APPLY ONLINE HERE:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kU7yQebymhlIJha19XvasiLdBUXNHylb2gPYrBb7EzM/viewform

ASL interpretation will be provided depending on interest.

COMICS FOR THE PEOPLE

With Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love

MONDAYs 6-8pm April-May @The Gladstone Library

Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love is a community based comic book project, created by Toronto-based artists Althea Balmes Illustrator and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo Writer. Their workshop will use comic books as a way to highlight the realities or our various experiences, of community and friendship, love and struggle, and individuals empowerment. You will gain skills and knowledge in the various ways to develop and create comics and the stories within them.These are the stories that rarely make mainstream media or academic research.

https://www.facebook.com/events/599647413452220/

ON TO THE CANVAS!

With Kelly Halligan

TUESDAYS 6-8pm @SOY The Sherbourne Health Center

This workshop series will be an opportunity to focus on your ideas, themes, and stories to feel free to be creative. Exploring Painting with Acrylics, powder paint, doodles with crayons, and ink we will incorporate teamwork, feedback, and activities that help generate new ideas, & be inspiration your own idea! This is about having fun & exploring! Please note that Kelly is a Deaf artist, and while hearing folks are most welcome, this class will have no interpreters, and folks will primarily be communicating in ASL!

https://www.facebook.com/events/546756742090286/

DIGITAL STORYTELLING!

With Alena and Alec Butler Peters

WEDNESDAYS 6-8pm @ SKETCH

Join filmmakers Alec Butler & Alena Peters for 6 exciting weeks of telling our stories of resistance and resilience through the medium of video! we will explore a variety of techniques, including storyboards, animation, and online platforms such as You Tube and Tumblr to tell our stories in ways that strengthen our communities and capabilities.

https://www.facebook.com/events/545506672223576/?contextcreate

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There is an understanding on taking part in the program that we will all be working to creating safer spaces and to support each other as we aim to have good respectful relationships with ourselves and others

Each program runs once a week for 2 hours for a period of 6 weeks. At the end of the 6 weeks, participants will be able to organize a collaborative event that will show and highlight their work.

There is only room for 15 participants/program, and it is expected that individuals will show up to 80 of the workshops

Each Participant will receive a small honorarium of $50 at the completion of the workshop series.

APPLY ONLINE HERE:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kU7yQebymhlIJha19XvasiLdBUXNHylb2gPYrBb7EzM/viewform