Highlights from the blog
Immortal Spirits: A Halloween Fundraiser & Farewell Party at CSI Annex
Social change requires social and cultural infrastructure, which is a fancy way of saying change happens when people come together with care around art, community, and making special. The Lab's innovative collaborations between artists + changemakers all started with people at the Centre for Social Innovation, folks like Tonya Surman, Marie Moliner, Adil Dhalla, and Elke Grenzer, all saying, “Yes, let’s!” Social spaces and social experiences that go beyond the normal, where people’s boundaries…
MULTIfest: Toronto’s first-ever experiential art festival
Yesterday Toronto's very first week-long MULTIfest was launched at Stack Market by the Lab's very own Tom Kuo and Alex Martin. Featuring 10+ interactive art installations on view daily, 6+ audiovisual performances in the evenings, the festival includes hands-on workshops and inspiring speakers throughout the week. A homegrown, community-driven effort, supported by a veritable raft of sponsors, MULTIfest uniquely features only artists and contributors from Toronto. Check out the program here.…
UNESCO Mondiacult Event Sept 24, 2025
ART/IN Forum is honoured to host a special UNESCO Mondiacult 2025 event online on Sept 24, 2025, at 12:30 PM ET called, Artistic Intelligence: Shoring up resourceful and resilient cultures. This is open session for all who may be interested in the topic! Register here. Mondiacult is the world's biggest cultural policy conference. Participating ART/IN Forum partners include ELIA, Culture Action Europe, VUB Cultural Diplomacy, Creative Labour Critical Futures, and more. "We are thrilled to be…
Origins & Endings: Photography by Sebastian Portillo
Reflections from the artist Origins & Endings brings together two projects: Notes on Biology and The Day I Destroyed the World, both collections developed with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico. Notes on Biology is, metaphorically, the longest conversation I have ever had with my father. It begins with his notes on biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and more, written during his youth at university, years before I was born. Within those notes I…
Poetic Assembly: An invitation to co-create a mobile poetry library
We’re calling on our community to help us co-create a mobile poetry library. Poetic Assembly is an interdisciplinary project and newly formed collective of cultural workers, united by a shared vision of creating opportunities for decolonized study and gathering. Our goal is to develop a mobile library focused on circulating poetry to foster community engagement and preservation. We view poetry as an active method for cultivating relationality and enlivened perception, helping us see beyond…
Look, Listen, Draw: A Collaborative Exploration of Nature, Place and Storytelling
Take a break and come draw with us. Wednesday, July 16, 2025. 10am - 1pm Friday, July 18, 2025. 4pm-6pm We are creating an “imaginary line,” an immersive and participatory drawing practice that engages artists and community members in an exploration of nature, memory, ritual, and seasonal rhythms. Through large-scale collaborative drawing workshops, we will investigate how collective mark-making can foster deeper connections to urban nature and each other. During this PlaySpace residency, we…