East End Arts is helping to present this special program that is a part of Ontario Culture Days’ Creatives in Residence series!
Thread that Tangles but doesn’t Knot
Workshop – Sat Oct 5, 2024, 1-3PM @ Crescent Town Club
Kite Flying Event – Sat Oct 12, 2024, 3-5PM @ Beaches’ Pavilion
FREE to attend
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Join artist Yasmeen Nematt Alla on a journey of creation and reflection. This program involves a series of kite-making workshops, and culminates with a final kite flying celebration that takes place down on the beach! It is a part of the Ontario Culture Days Festival, which is an annual celebration of arts, culture and heritage taking place each fall across the province of Ontario.
KITE-MAKING WORKSHOPS
All presented workshops are drop-in, and individuals of all ages are invited to create their very own kite! Guided by Yasmeen, each participant will receive the various components needed to piece together and design a kite that speaks uniquely to them. There are three FREE community workshops to choose from:
- Saturday, September 28, 2024, 11:00am – 4:00pm at 401 Richmond St. W
- *Saturday, October 5, 2024, 1:00-3:00pm at Crescent Town Club
- Saturday, October 12, 2024, 12:30pm – 2:30pm at Toronto Public Library – Beaches Branch
*East End Arts is helping to present the workshop taking place at the Crescent Town Club, and anyone and everyone is welcome to register and join us, including Crescent Town residents and folks who live across the East End.
KITE FLYING EVENT
On October 12, 2024 at 3:00PM down at the Beaches Pavilion, participants of the kite-making workshops are invited to join Yasmeen, the Ontario Culture Days team, and fellow participants for a one-time kite flying event/celebration! As a symbol of freedom, participants can fly their kites together and contemplate the significance of unrealized aspirations.
Through this community event, in which red kites may fail or soar, Nematt Alla will ask: “What does it mean to be a kite that never takes flight? What does it mean to materialize a kite that will never fly, despite an undeniable abundance of wanting, of reaching, of hoping?”
Yasmeen Nematt Alla is an Egyptian immigrant and settler living in Tkaronto, Turtle Island. She has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo and is an MFA candidate and a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Arts. She has most recently exhibited at the Bronx River Art Centre in Bronx NY, Heaven Gallery in Chicago IL, and Xpace Cultural Centre in Toronto ON. She has previously been an artist resident at Haystack, Banff Art Centre, ACRE, STEPs Public Art, UKAI Projects, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, and HXOUSE Creative Think Tank. As an artist worker she supports art organisations in creating accessible and anti-racist modes of communications in their day-to-day operations.
Thread that Tangles but doesn’t Knot Kite Flying Event by Yasmeen Nematt Alla is commissioned as part of Ontario Culture Days’ Creatives in Residence series and presented in partnership with East End Arts, Toronto Public Library and 401 Richmond.
