I CAME TO DANCE!

Part of the on going Cityshoots series at Le Petit Déjeuner, I CAME TO DANCE! is a collection of photos taken at various House parties in Toronto over the last year from venues like 99 Sudbury, Sunnyside Pavilion, The Rivoli, and West.

I'm inviting you all to come and check out my work over the next six weeks. Sign the guest book (if I have it ready in time), and spend a little cash while you're there. LPD has a good brunch, and great artwork up for sale (wink, nudge).

Le Petit Dejeuner
191 King Street East

for more information visit:
www.down.ca
www.petitdejeuner.ca

Next up in the CityShoots series:

CIRCA - Exhibit & Book Launch
Saturday, February 17th, 2007. 7-10pm.
Le Petit Dejeuner (191 King St East, Toronto - map)


THE BOOK:

CIRCA: An Urban Retrospect
by Tanja-Tiziana (Hardcover ed., 80 pp, 8x10")

Circa is a collection of photographs that document the timeless surroundings of one Torontonian, who like us the rest of us, walks amidst ghosts.

Disciplined as a child for taking photos of the city rather than her family, we follow the narrator's shunned photography through a hidden scrapbook, kept for decades. From the 1920's through to the mid 1980's - where it ends abruptly, the collection reveals the silent stories of a growing city through the eyes of an admirer.


THE EXHIBIT:

Ten 12x12" black & white prints from the pages of CIRCA will be featured in this exhibit, which runs until March 16th, 2007.

Book will be available for purchase at the Feb 17th launch and later online at UrbanRetrospect.com. I will be providing snacks and Le Petit Dejeuner will have a full bar at your service.

Please forward widely!


MORE INFO @ www.UrbanRetrospect.com

"We come and we go, and nothing remains unchanged..."



Opening reception: Monday July31, 7pm
The Crooked Star
202 Ossington Ave
Toronto

More info at: Photosapience Daily

It'd be great to see some of you there!

Cheers,
Jerrold

Dear Friends,

The second annual "Picture the Cure" is underway and we'd like to invite you to be a part of this special event to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society.

First and foremost, you are cordially invited:

Picture the Cure 2006
August 21 (Monday)
6pm-midnight
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West

Advance tickets: $10
At the door: $15

Our goal for this year is to raise at least $5,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society who, along with the Terry Fox Foundation, is the primary source of funding for the National Cancer Institute of Canada. The Canadian Cancer Society:

* funds research on all types of cancer
* offers comprehensive and credible information on cancer, risk reduction and treatment
* provides support for people living with cancer, family members and friends

We have the support of the Ontario branch, and have their endorsement to include their logo and name to promote the event.

Our plan for August 21:

300 attendees
100+ matted and framed prints on display for silent auction with artist information
live entertainment
door prizes/raffles
light fare

How you can help:

1. Photography/digital imagery/painting

You can enter up to three pictures to the auction gallery, but once your submission is accepted, there will be an entry fee of 35$ CAD per photograph to cover the printing/framing costs (lower price for smaller pictures, minimum $20 CAD). You will be provided with a ftp account to upload your full resolution picture to a secure server. This picture will also be featured on the "Picture the Cure" website (in the works), along with your biography and link to your personal website.

There will be no other hidden fees required from you. The reason I am asking for a participation fee is because all prints will be handled at once and printing/framing costs are much more affordable this way. The goal is to donate as much money as possible to the foundation and we can only achieve this by minimizing expenses.

The costs for printing, matting, and framing for photography/digital imagery are as follows:

12x18, 12x12 - $35
8x12, 8x10 - $30
5x7 - $20

Please note the above prices are at cost. If you wish to provide the print, contact us for adjusted prices. We'll need ALL SUBMISSIONS by the end of June so they are ready in time.

2. Sponsorship

We are also still searching for sponsors for the following:

- catering
- live entertainment
- items for raffle (autographed merchandise, books, certificates, spa vouchers, or the like -- Botox injections? subscriptions to "Martha Stewart Living"?)

If you've got friends who do catering, are in the entertainment biz, or have any goods or services we can promote the hell out of on August 21 in the name of charity, send them our way!

3. Volunteers

If you would like to lend your assistance at the Gladstone, we will be only too glad to delegate. Please let us know.

Last but not least, thank you in advance for all your help -- we greatly appreciate it.

Your devoted organizers,
Irina and Gail

Above photo provided by Davin Risk

TO photobloggers seem to be very busy this month. Tomorrow night, four high profiled photobloggers will be presenting their images at Harbourfront centre in a show called Photogrammetry. The ever changing show was produced in association with Spacing magazine and is also a part of Digifest 2006.

Participating in the exhibition are
Davin Risk > lowresolution.com
Gayla Trail > makinghappy.com
Matt O'Sullivan > thenarrative.net
Sam Javanrouh > dailydoseofimagery.com

When: May 13-July 9 (Opening May 12, 7-9pm)
Where: Service Canada building at Harbourfront Centre.

TIME IN SPACE

Featuring the first official
photographic exhibit of

Pramesh Attwala

Opening Reception
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
7:00 - 9:00 pm

M-ONE-11
561 Queen Street West

for more information visit:
www.contactphoto.com
www.mone11.ca
www.down.ca

TORONTO SQUARED
Photography by RANNIE TURINGAN
Le Petit Déjeuner
191 King Street East.
April 29th - June 6th

OPENING Saturday April 29, 2006
4:30 - 7:30PM

Part of the CONTACT Photography Festival

The tenth annual Contact Photo Festival is just around the corner and I thought I would take a minute to invite any and all Toronto bloggers/photobloggers to come down and meet the DK Photogroup at our opening May 3rd at Steamwhistle Brewery.

For more info, click here. Hope to see you all there!

The Toronto Free Gallery will be showcasing a window installation of Portraits in the Park in their 24 Hours Gallery. The installation includes photography by Rannie Turingan and an illustrated map by Antony Hare.

The Toronto Free Gallery is located at 660 Queen Street East. The exhibit will be on display from March 9th to April 8th. The opening for the exhibit will take place on Thursday March 9th from 8 to 10 pm.

Hi all,

Just wanted to share some news about exciting blog related initiatives happening at the AGO.

I've been working with the gallery to start embracing the blogging community in the city as media. As a first initiative, a group of bloggers - photo, video, podcast & others - will be reporting from the opening launch of the Frank Gehry exhibit next Tuesday. The group will have almost total access and I'm hoping some wonderfully creative work will be produced.

There's some more info here: http://singer.to/2006/02/09/blogging-at-the-ago/

As well, you may want check out the AGO blog: http://www.artmatters.ca/

Cheers!

Eli Singer
http://www.singer.to

Just wanted to personally invite you all to....

PHOTOBLOGGERS, UNPLUGGED
An offline photography exhibit featuring the works of Tanja-Tiziana Burdi & Sean Galbraith.

Opening gala event:
Friday, Sept 16th, 6-10pm
@ the Magic Pony Gallery (785 Queen St W, 2nd flr)
Enjoy a cash bar, snacks, music, merriment and yes, works are also for sale!


Exhibit runs Friday 12-10pm, Saturday 11-7pm, Sunday 12-6pm.

Hope to see you there!!!



-tanja

Ok, I'm hopeless at self-promotion, but here goes:

Black & white, colour, digital, and traditional, we’ve got it all! Just it time for the city wide “Contact Festival”, the 6th annual SpeakEasy Photography Show, will feature original prints by 8 local, and very talented photographers.

Featured Artists:
Jason Brown
Eric Brazier
Orlando Marques
Zach Allison
William Oldacre
Alison Hladkyj (me)
Dianne Horvath
Trevor Weeks

Time & Space:
Thursday May 5th, 8pm-midnight
The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West

Spacing and the Toronto Free Gallery are excited to present PUBLICity, a five-week photo exhibit examining Toronto's urban landscape and public spaces as captured by the city's top photobloggers. By gathering together these highly-regarded multimedia artists, PUBLICity will showcase the variety of life that arises from our unique city.

Please join us Thursday March 17 (7-10pm) as we launch this exicting show featuring the work of Sam Javanrouh, Matt O'Sullivan, Rannie Turingan, Davin Risk, Gayla Trail, Jonathan Day-Reiner, and Adam Krawesky. Their images have graced the pages of Spacing, or your computer screen, but now you have the chance to examine their beautiful photographs up close.

PUBLICity
March 16th to April 23rd, 2005
660 Queen Street East.
(Just West of Broadview)

Opening Reception
Thursday, March 17th, 2005
7-10 pm.

Hi all,

I was at the press launch of Massive Change at the AGO yesterday. I've posted photos and videos of the exhibit on my blog. You can also use this trackback link.

Cheers!

Eli

Although we tend to shoot with some of the latest and greatest digital cameras, Toronto photobloggers are no strangers to the toy camera phenomenon.

Currently there is a show running (September 30th to October 31st) at Shift Gallery (688 Richmond Street West) featuring the work of four Toronto photographers shooting with different Lomo cameras; The Holga, The Action Sampler, Pop 9 and the Super Sampler.

The Lomographic Society of Canada is proud to present an exhibition of new works by four Toronto photographers. Each artist will be working with a different LOMO camera and concentrating on a unique theme to accentuate that cameras strengths. Originating in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Leningradskoje Optiko Mechanitscheskoje Objedin鮩e (LOMO) company has been manufacturing single-lense cameras for over twenty years, with a lean towards multi-lense cameras since 1998.

On Friday October 22nd, they are throwing a closing party to celebrate International Toy Camera Day.

Trigger Happy Shutter Fingers
International Toy Camera Day Party
Shift Gallery 688 Richmond Street West
8PM to 1AM

Tunes by
A Man called Warwick
Colour Outside the Lines
DL-S

Singer turned photographer Bryan Adams unveiled his latest photos at the Royal Ontario Museum this past Wednesday Night.

The series of black and white portraits included prominent Canadian women sitting on the same stool.  The exhibit  is running from today until Thanksgiving Monday.

The photos will also be featured in a special extra issue of the fashion magazine Flare.

On a related note: Adams released a photo book, Made in Canada (also featuring Canadian Women) in 1999 to raise funds and awareness for Breast Cancer.

The World Press Photo 2004 winners on display at the Allan Lambert Galleria this week.

"The more disturbing shots are partitioned off in an enclosed space (including some rather grisly shots of self-immoliation in afghanistan and liberian militants parading around severed heads), but there's still lots of fantastic work on display that even the squeamish can appreciate."

via Jon