Construct Your Own Frame at Opticianado

Opticianado celebrates The Summer Solstice and Junction Design Crawl with interactive frame making from 5-8 pm. Come in store to design and construct your own model spectacle frames with the accompaniment of smooth tunes from Hammond B3 legend, John T. Davis.
Refreshments on the house.


Opticianado
2919 Dundas St. W
opticianado.com

POLAROID PORTRAITS at PHILLIPA C. PHOTOGRAPHY

Phillipa C. is a wedding and portrait photographer located in the heart of The Junction. Since 2009 she has been photographing people with an intuitive and creative approach. She treats everything as if a personal project and her love of photo making is particularly evident when she dabbles in analog processes such as POLAROID PORTRAITS.

Drop by the studio and pose for your polaroid portrait. Original and instant photography. Just like a passport photo but so much better!
From $20
Studio location
3063 Dundas Street West
Toronto. ON. M6P1Z5
P: 416 766 2838

UTILITY FOR POWER OPENING RECEPTION AT ARTICULATIONS - COME PLAY!

HEATHER KEUNG + MICHAEL CONNOR

Utility for Power

Join us this Saturday for an evening of work and play as collaborators Keung and Connor transform the ARTiculations window vitrine and gallery into interactive installations powered by viewer engagement. 

Heather Keung graduated from the OCAD University. Her artistic practice includes video, installation and performance art and is inspired by the conditioning of the mind and body through physical training and environment. In addition to her artistic practice, she is an active contributor to the arts community in Toronto as a film festival programmer and curator.

Michael Connor attended OCAD University’s Integrated Media program, graduated from the Sheridan Arts program, and the Centre for Skills Development and Training. He is a carpenter, and has professional experiences ranging from bicycle mechanic to web-based programmer. He is interested in exploring renewable energy systems, working with small engines, making video art and music.

Together they have shown their work at A Space Gallery, the MOCCA, and Art Gallery of Mississauga.

ARTiculations | Earl Selkirk Gallery
2928 Dundas St West
Toronto ON
M6P 1Z2
416.901.7464

Earl Selkirk Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 11 AM - 7 PM
Saturday: 11 AM - 5 PM
Sunday: 12 - 5 PM

JUNCTION JUBILEE+NEW CRAWL FORMAT

This summer we have moved the crawl to coincide with the Junction Summer Solstice Festival. The Design Crawl will start at 5pm and end promptly at 8pm. Which is a departure from our normal late night Narwhal backyard bonfires, we know. Don't worry we haven't gone soft! We're upping our game with a great big art installation hosted by the Junction Flea called the Junction Jubilee, and you're involved!

Here's how it works: Before you leave your house, pack yourselves a little night time picnic with snacks and a cozy blanket. Come to the Junction and enjoy the crawl, including Smash and Full Stop who will be hosting events for making flags, hats+ decorations, and bike, stroller+wagon decorating respectively. We're gonna get festive!

At 8pm, everyone will come to Smash and once we are all convened we are going to PARADE down to Vine Park, where we roll out our blankets and enjoy the longest day of the year.

This is definitely a MORE is more event, so bring your kazoos, mascot costumes, drums, bikes, wagons, strollers, candles, flashlights, yummy snacks, sneaky beverages, friends and family.

Map of Events for 2013

OPTICIANADO PRESENTS: MASTER-VIEW

Put on your 3D Glasses and create your own mind blowing 3D design. 

                                 The Junction's own !DO! (Drums & Organ) will be playing delightful grooves all night!

THE BEAU & BAUBLE + BROTHERS DRESSLER

Brothers Dressler have agreed to channel the whimsy of The Beau & Bauble's atmosphere in their project for this year's Design Crawl.  We'll see a hybrid of an everyday furniture item with growing, organic offshoots.  It's not a far cry for them, incorporating as they do new life and ideas into pre-existing shapes and material sources.  

About the Brothers in their own words:

We are material-based designers striving to maximize the natural features and strengths of responsibly sourced material to design and build bespoke furnishings, lighting, objects and special projects. With a focus on sustainability, and an eye to material, process, and craftsmanship, we create custom works and limited edition pieces from our downtown Toronto workshop/studio.

BROTHERS DRESSLER studio:

The Beau & Bauble will be open for late night shopping!  Grab a new frock, piece of  jewellery, card, or trinket for you or the special gal in your life.

3092 Dundas St W. 

Toronto, M6P 1Z8

416 904 6136

www.thebeauandbauble.com

NARWHAL 

THE FUNERAL [THEIR COLLECTION]

MELISSA FISHER & CHRIS BONI

Narwhal is pleased to present a special installation and exhibition where parallel worlds exist in tandem. Acting as an on-location film shoot for Two Cares Due None, an independent feature film created in Iceland, Italy, and Canada by Melissa Fisher and Chris Boni, The Funeral is both here and there, existing on parallel planes within the same dimension.

From artists and filmmakers Melissa Fisher and Chris Boni:

Ecstatic enjoyment has been given to us from the vantage of an outsider. Through an installation of photography, altered found objects, sculptural installations, and framed frottage rubbings we hope to convey the unique characteristics of The Caretaker, one of the most significant burgeoning artists today who works in "a hybrid re-localized manner". This is not an embellishment, rather a spawn of defense to the subject of location – allowing for space and distance-given to trade upon our newfound axis of co-creation. 

The Funeral is on view August 23rd to 29th.  For more information please visit www.narwhalprojects.com

SMASH

Come visit the camp site of Troop 171. Imagine yourself getting warm by the campfire in a plush art deco chair surrounded by Persian rugs. Roast some marshmallows by the fire. Camp under the lights of the design crawl with us Friday night. It'll be intense!

Night Flea!

The Junction Flea will be hosting a FREE Night Flea from 6-11PM, featuring craft and vintage dealers as well as food, drinks, BEER and in case you get lost, a Design Crawl info booth.

Pandemonium: installation by White Sphinx

At left, a normal-sized judy, At right, a normal sized doorway. In the middle, a giant cassette in progress.

Pandemonium Books & Discs presents a tribute to the cassette tape.

Design collective White Sphinx will install a giant cassette tape in Pandemonium in memory of all the mixtapes eaten by cassette machines over the years. Are you old enough to remember when, instead of illegally downloading MP3s, you had to tape things from the radio? That took took careful timing and a fast finger on the record button.

Many people think that vinyl records sound better than CDs and MP3s. Nobody thinks cassette tapes sound better. Record sleeves were big and had space for fantastic artwork. Cassettes? Well, no. They're even smaller than CD cases and the rectangular format often meant that the album cover would end up being a tiny square with a track listing underneath. And you always knew that eventually your tape would jam. Or stretch. Or be chewed up by your tape player. But for some of us, cassettes and the music we put onto them evoke a certain period in our lives and remain a potent symbol of those times.


Pandemonium Books and Discs is at 2920 Dundas St West. Exclaim magazine just named it one of Toronto's "must visit" record stores!

White Sphinx are a design collective consisting of Finn O'Donnell and Carol Gleason-Rechner (because it's cooler to be a design collective than just using your names). You probably know us from Finn's super cool tshirts, available only at Pandemonium. Clanky, Carol's car, still plays cassettes (but only on road trips).

Mjölk + MSDS

This year Mjölk is partnering up with local design studio MSDS. They are constructing a booth to be placed inside our shop, where we will be selling tasty treats until 11pm, or until it all runs out!

See you Friday!

Phillipa C. Photography

The Burning Man Festival happens once a year in the middle of the Nevada desert. It's weird and whacky and full of mindblowing art. Photographs taken over three festivals on display Friday night.

*show contains nudity

www.phillipac.com

3063 Dundas Street West. Toronto. On.

Frog in Hand: Performance at Train Platform

Frog in Hand will be performing at the Junction Train Platform (located at Dundas St West and Pacific Ave, near #10 on the map). There will be music, dance, spoken word, and a few surprises!  Pay what you can...

Shows run every 10 minutes between 7-11pm.
Artistic Directors/Founders/Sisters: 

• Noelle Hamlyn (fiber artist) 

• Colleen Snell (dancer)

Coordinated by TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY
www.telephoneboothgallery.ca


Thank you to the Junction Farmers Market for their sponsorship of this event.

junctionmarket.ca

TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY at GERHARD

The TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY is partnering with GERHARD to present artworks by:

Lizz Aston

• Lizz Aston is a fibre-based artist, currently living and working in Toronto. 
• Focusing on themes surrounding knot-work and interlacement, her work encompasses both sculpture and installation, including interactive and site-specific projects as well as collaborative projects in porcelain, concrete and furniture design. 
• Aston is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the RBC Emerging Artist Studio Setup Award (2012), and Most Outstanding Use of Traditional Materials Award, Fiberart International (2013), Pittsburgh, PA.
• Aston holds an Advanced Diploma from the Sheridan Institute of Technology – Crafts and Design, Textiles program (2009) and will be returning to full-time studies this fall at OCAD University to pursue a Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design. 

Alanna Cavanagh 

• Alanna Cavanagh is an illustrator, printmaker, + surface designer based in Toronto.
• Her silkscreen prints have been featured in Apartment Therapy, Canadian House + Home, Design Lines, Style Files /Amsterdam + Design Traveller/Oslo.
• Her illustration clients include: The New York Times, Penguin Books, Tattly, The Globe and Mail, The Hudson's Bay Co., Chronicle Books, + Target.  
• Cavanagh also has a collection of home products in all 90 stores of The Hudson's Bay Company.

Peter Feeney will also be at GERHARD with a selection of handmade footwear.

• Peter Feeney crafts shoes with only the best quality materials using old world techniques. In 2006, Peter Feeney, after much consideration, chose to leave a career in film production to pursue his real passion – the crafting of bespoke footwear. Peter relocated to the epicentre of custom high quality shoemaking -Florence, Italy and following an extensive apprenticeship with one of Florence’s master Calzolaio he chose to return home to Toronto with his carefully developed and unique skills in the art of bespoke shoe design and construction.

Come and meet all of the artists and enjoy some refreshments!

GERHARD is located at 2949 Dundas St West (between Pacific Ave and Medland St) #5 on the map.

www.gerhardsupply.com

www.telephoneboothgallery.ca

Sightings : East of Keele

Dedicated to the love of city wandering and fantastical discoveries, East of Keele brings to the street the video animation Sightings by Stacia Verigin.

Sightings (video animation, 2005-2007) exists primarily as a kind of lost work, in that it exists to be found by chance more than anything else. Composed entirely of my own arms shadowy movements, the separate motions are then edited into imaginary, puppet-like creatures, that appear briefly, in the form of a video projection. Now seemingly unattached from the rest of me, they are free to swim, fly, or run and be witnessed by those who happen to be there, in the right place at the right time.

Images: Sightings (Saskapogo), video still, 2006 and Sightings (Roadrunner), video still (2005)
courtesy of the artist Stacia Verigin is a Canadian artist currently based in Saskatoon.
staciaverigin.imgur.com
littlegluegirl@yahoo.ca

East of Keele is located at 2830 Dundas St West.

Mason Studio at ARTiculations: Rise of the Mid

Mason Studio creates a mysterious underworld for the Junction Design Crawl. In the shop windows and gallery at ARTiculations, a sculptural installation explores how simple modifications of spatial forms and volumes can significantly impact our perceptions of space. An imaginary realm demonstrates the impact of the built environment on our personal emotional state.

www.mason-studio.com  
www.ARTiculations.ca

August 23, 2013 to October 06, 2013
Opening: Friday August 23, 2013  7-11PM

ARTiculations
2928 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Canada

Lori Harrison Design

[ReFrame]

For the third annual Junction Design Crawl, designer Lori Harrison will create an art intervention entitled "ReFrame" that guides viewers on a journey to "find beauty in unexpected places". A series of framed locations will reveal what is often overlooked in our manufactured environment — a rich tapestry of colour, texture and pattern.

The intervention begins at the Community Living Toronto office at 2934 Dundas Street West. There, viewers will find a map to guide them through the Junction streetscape, discovering ReFramed interventions on area facades. Each of the 5 locations will have an audio component accessible by mobile phone.

Junction Design Crawl 2013

Be Guided by the Lights at the 3rd Annual Design Crawl. Friday, 23 August. 7-11pm:

 

Hosted by Your Favourite Shops. Start off your Friday night by going out for an evening stroll, where all of your favourite stores will be playing host for the evening. The Junction Design Crawl is organized by a group of independent business owners in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto. Come to participating locations to see innovative design displays, participate in one-of-a-kind installations, savour exotic snacks, and hear great live music. All of the businesses participating in the Junction Design Crawl will have white lights strung up outside of their shops, making it easy to navigate the evening.

 

2013 Junction Design Crawl includes:

 

Junction Flea

East of Keele

Post and Beam Reclamation

Indie Ale House

SMASH

Forever Interiors

Opticianado

Pandemonium Books and Discs

ARTiculations

Mason Studio

Lori Harrison

Gerhard Supply

Full Stop

Mjolk

Narwhal Projects

Phillipa C Photography

The Beau & Bauble

Telephone Booth Gallery

 

 

Map of Events for 2012