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SUMMARY:Fall Improv Workshop Series
DESCRIPTION:Fall Improv Workshop Series by the Friendly Heretic Theatre Company\n\nIn the theme of shedding leaves and autumn transformation\, we’re offering an exciting workshop series! What does it feel like to loosen up rigid patterns and beliefs about theatre\, about improv\, and our selves? What are the unique rewards of trying on new characters and strategies? What are the unique rewards of honest improv\, whether it comes out as comedic or not? What discoveries can we make when we let go of what we think we know?\n\nFor 6 weeks we’ll combine improv theory\, games and scene work to bring out fresh perspectives. This series is just as much meant for those brand new to improv as it is for those with plenty of improv experience. We all have some firm-ish beliefs about this artform\, which means that we all have exciting new discoveries to make within it. In the spirit of improvisation\, the unique gifts of everyone who joins the series will help to shape it. The only prerequisites are: an interest to learn and explore\, an enthusiasm for camaraderie\, and the willingness to try something new (regardless of your current experience level).\n\nClasses will be taught by Kevin Nunn.\n\nKevin is a professional and brilliant improv performer and teacher on a decades long journey. He aspires to ignite the flame of improv passion in as many hearts as he can. He is all around good human with an autistic slant and an absolutely undying passion for improv theory and the art of discovery. Kevin now makes his living in a non-theatrical profession\, and in the spirit of separating art and commerce as much as possible he refuses to profit financially from teaching improv. Part lecture and part workshop\, his classes are participatory and inspiring as students join in an exploration of the expanding possibilities of improvisation.\n\nDates & Times: Mondays 7pm-9pm\, Oct 20th – Nov 24th\n\nLocation: 10Carden Shared Space\, in the Activity Room\n\nCost: Pay what you can\, even if that’s $0. We aspire to make participation in improv accessible to everyone. Similar classes in the area cost $10-$20 per. All of our proceeds go directly toward theatre company overhead and to fueling our local theatre community. All teaching and executive board efforts are volunteered.\n\nSign Up: Send us a message on our social media channels\, or an email to friendlyheretictheatrecompany@gmail.com.\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/friendlyheretictheatrecompany?igsh=MWN6b3E0NDhicDk1\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/19TvaHtgeV/
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/fall-improv-workshop-series/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Courses,Interactive,Performance,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Krista Moser joins Royal City Quilters Guild for Sunny Scraps Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Sunny Scraps\nInstructor: Krista Moser\nCost: $ 62 for workshop.\nMust also own or purchase the Creative Grids 60 Degree Diamond 8.5″ large ruler.\nThe pattern is free.\nDate: Saturday\, November 1\, 2025 from 11 am to 5 pm (Eastern)\nLocation: Online via Zoom\nWebsite: https://kristamoser.com/ \nRegistration opens to non-members on October 1. Visit https://rcqg.square.site/ to sign up. \nVirtual Workshop Description\nKrista wrote to her followers: “It’s funny how inspiration strikes sometimes. I’m always dreaming up new block ideas and just this week I thought I’d try an idea for a Sunflower. It turned out even better than in my head\, and I just used scraps!! There’s a Sunflower Festival this time of year at one of the farms near my house. I’ve driven by the sign these last few weekends and that’s when this idea was born… sunflowers…hmmm (taps chin)\, I wonder how I could make that into a block. \nJoin Krista and RCQG to make one or more blocks in your favourite colours for a table topper\, table runner\, wall hanging or quilt. \nInstructor Bio\nKrista Moser is the creative force and inspiration behind Krista Moser\, The Quilted Life. A sewing enthusiast and quilt pattern designer\, she has published more than 30 patterns since 2016 with more in development. She is the designer of the Creative Grids 60 Degree Diamond Rulers and has been teaching sewing and quilting lessons for more than 25 years. Her work has been featured in quilting magazines\, published in books\, and hung in prominent quilt shops around the country. She is wild about all things quilting and loves to share her passion. \nCome learn from Krista all the tips and tricks for cutting and piecing diamonds\, triangles\, and hexagons in an easy\, fast\, and precise way. If you have been wanting to break out of the same old quilting routine and try something different\, her classes will inspire confidence and equip you with new techniques.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/krista-moser-joins-royal-city-quilters-guild-for-sunny-scraps-workshop/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Visual Art,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251105T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251119T140000
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SUMMARY:Foundations of Financial Wellness: A workshop series for women and gender-diverse people
DESCRIPTION:This financial wellness workshop series is designed to support women and gender diverse people in building financial confidence and independence and new skills. Through open conversation\, practical tools\, and hands-on learning\, participants will better understand their money\, build a household budget\, and plan for their financial future. \nThe workshop series includes 3 sessions: \nFinancial Basics – November 5 \nLearn how to track your income and expenses so you can understand where your money is going. Explore strategies for making mindful choices to strengthen your financial foundation. \nHousehold and Personal Budgeting – November 12 \nGain practical skills to create a budget that works for your life and goals. Learn how to set priorities\, make thoughtful decisions about money\, and adapt your budget as circumstances change. \nExploring Financial Independence – November 19 \nDiscover how to set meaningful financial goals and explore strategies for long-term financial planning that build independence\, including entrepreneurship. \nRegistration includes all 3 sessions: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/financial-wellness-workshop \nOpening Opportunities is a free community program for women and gender diverse people facing low-income challenges in Guelph and Wellington County. Learn more at: www.10carden.ca/projects/opening-opportunities/
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/foundations-of-financial-wellness-a-workshop-series-for-women-and-gender-diverse-people/
LOCATION:Guelph Public Library – Main Branch\, 100 Norfolk St\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H 4J6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Featured,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Opportunity Knocks: Re-Imagining your Arts Career
DESCRIPTION:November 6th 6:30-9:00  \nArt Gallery of Guelph\, 358 Gordon St\, Guelph\, ON N1G 1Y1 \nFree \nClick here to RSVP for this free event! \nGuelph Arts Council is pleased to collaborate with the University of Guelph’s School of Fine Art and Music and the Art Gallery of Guelph in presenting Opportunity Knocks: Re-imagining your Arts Career. How can arts students and emerging artists reimagine the careers they could pursue? What are the emergent\, entrepreneurial\, or unexpected career paths that arts grads have taken? A group of diverse arts trail blazers will share stories and lessons learned. Students\, artists and creatives of all disciplines\, ages and experience levels are welcome.  The Panel Discussion will run from 6:30pm-8:00pm followed by time to connect and enjoy refreshments. \n​ \nMeet the panelists: \nPaige Bromby is a painter and cultural administrator based in Fergus\, Ontario\, She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Guelph (2020). \nWorking primarily in painting\, Paige explores her relationship to natural spaces in a digital age. She is interested in how familial spaces appear through her own interactions within them\, through a digital archive and as recorded and memorialized in paint. The many lives of a landscape – how those lives and interactions change through the seasons of nature and life.  \n​ \nShe maintains her painting practice while continuing her work in community arts\, facilitating a local critique night\, working for various arts/culture organizations and co-founding an artist mentorship program for artists with developmental disabilities. \n​ \nPatrick Cruz is an artist\, educator\, and albularyo who considers the role of spirituality\, improvisation\, intuition\, and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs meditation\, divination\, and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy\, magic\, and the occult\, and its syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently\, Cruz has been making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity. \nIn 2021\, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and won the national title for the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus and the Daniels Faculty. He is the founder and co-director of the Kamias Triennial\, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan\, collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox\, and one of the 19 members of the artist-run collective the Plumb. \n​ \n​Daphne Zoe Dahlia / DAPH (She/Her) has been performing\, composing\, recording\, producing\, and mentoring artists for 20+ years. In 2017\, she founded Copper Sound\, a boutique recording studio in Guelph\, ON\, Canada. It serves as home base for her collaborations with artists locally and around the world. Daph’s work also includes musical directing for improv comedy\, audio mixing for commercials\, composing for film\, voice over work\, album art\, photography\, and website design. Daphne has been making new queer centred electronic music under the artist name DAPH. Her new direction combines deep vocals on top of hardware synths and samplers\, bringing together elements of synth pop\, house\, hip hop\, and darkwave.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/opportunity-knocks-re-imagining-your-arts-career-3/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Featured,Interactive,Music,Visual Art,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Closed Captioning & Audio Description for Beginners
DESCRIPTION:Discover the essential skills of creating accessible media content in this hands-on workshop designed for beginners. \nWhether you’re a content creator\, filmmaker\, or accessibility advocate\, this comprehensive session will equip you with practical knowledge and tools to make your media inclusive for all audiences. This three-part workshop combines technical understanding with practical application. Begin with an informative presentation exploring closed captioning and audio description from a broadcast technology perspective—learn how these accessibility features are created\, delivered\, and distributed across various platforms. In the second session\, dive into closed captioning fundamentals. Practice captioning short film trailers using both manual techniques and automated tools\, gaining confidence in timing\, formatting\, and accuracy standards. The final session focuses on audio description script writing\, where you’ll learn to craft descriptive narratives that enhance the viewing experience for blind and visually impaired audiences\, then export your work for broadcast-ready distribution. \nAbout the Instructor \nNathaniel Deshpande is the CEO/Founder of Closed Caption Creator Inc.\, a broadcast technology company based in Cambridge\, Ontario. Born in Guelph\, Ontario\, Nathaniel specializes in broadcast technology\, media asset management\, linear playout\, and accessible media solutions. His company’s platform enables editing and creation of closed captioning and described video content for major clients including NBC\, Discovery\, Warner Brothers\, Keywords Studios\, and Apple. Nathaniel’s expertise bridges technical innovation with accessibility advocacy\, making media more inclusive for diverse audiences. He lives in Cambridge with his wife Mikayla and five-year-old son Archer.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/closed-captioning-audio-description-for-beginners/
LOCATION:Silence.\, 46 Essex Street\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H 3K8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Courses,Featured,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251122T190000
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SUMMARY:Guelph Arts Council Golden Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:RSVP at guelpharts.ca/gacgac \nWhat: The “GACGAC”. Guelph Arts Council Golden Anniversary Celebration. We turned 50. We want to celebrate with you! \nWhen: Saturday\, November 22\, 2025\, 7pm (programming to begin at 7:30pm) \nWhere: GAC’s new home in Old Quebec Street Shoppes. \nWhy should you come: GAC wouldn’t exist without an arts community to serve\, so we’d like to celebrate with the people who have inspired us for 50 years. There’s also a chance that GAC has supported you in your Guelph arts life\, whether that’s as an organization that got its start with support from GAC many years ago\, or as an individual who has shown in our gallery space\, received an award\, participated in our mentorship program or Art on the Street\, or any other things over the past 50 years. \nWe’re also unveiling the new “Sally Wismer Gallery” that night\, named after GAC’s longtime Executive Director\, volunteer and friend\, so maybe you’d like to come and celebrate that too. \nBasically\, if you love the arts\, you love our community\, and you love a chance to gather with friends in the sector\, this is the place for you. \nWe’re calling the event “folk formal”\, meaning all are welcome to come as formally (or informally) dressed as they’d like\, and the night’s program will feature dance\, spoken word/performance arts\, and musical performances\, video screenings\, as well as a chance for attendees to participate in a community craft project (beading) and a community literature project\, where they will be encouraged to write down their favourite Guelph arts memories from the past 50 years with the intention of publishing a keepsake book. \nAttendees may enjoy beverages from a cash bar and mocktail bar\, and snacks will be served. \nThere will be an in-person 50/50 raffle at the event\, and people may also make an optional donation when they RSVP to attend (guelpharts.ca/gacgac)\, or contribute to GAC’s ongoing donation appeal online by visiting guelpharts.ca/about/donate. \nWe’re so grateful to all of you who have shaped GAC over the past 50 years\, and who will continue to shape us through the next 50. Let’s celebrate together!
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/guelph-arts-council-golden-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Art Sales,Children,Families,Heritage,Interactive,Literary,Music,Performance,Theatre,Visual Art,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251124T210000
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SUMMARY:Making Money from Music
DESCRIPTION:Please join Music Economy of Guelph Alliance for a workshop for musicians\, artists\, producers and others interested in the music industry. \nNovember 24\, 2025. 7-9pm. Registration 6:30pm \nTopics covered: \n1. How do people make money from music? \n2. Funding opportunities \n3. Royalties\, rights and licensing \n4. Next learning opportunities for Guelph musicians \nWorkshop will be led by Zack Leighton\, Executive VP from Sub Management Group. \nPre-register HERE or email musicguelph@gmail.com \nCo-presented by Music Economy of Guelph Alliance\, The Guelph Youth Music Centre and Guelph Arts Council.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/making-money-from-music/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Music,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251124T190000
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SUMMARY:2025 - Making Money from Music
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a workshop for musicians\, artists\, producers and others interested in the music industry. \nNovember 24\, 2025. 7-9pm. Registration 6:30pm \n\n\n\n75 Cardigan St\, Guelph\, ON N1H 3Z7\, Canada \n\n\nTopics covered: \n1. How do people make money from music? \n2. Funding opportunities \n3. Royalties\, rights and licensing \n4. Next learning opportunities for Guelph musicians \nWorkshop will be led by Zack Leighton\, Executive VP from Sub Management Group. \nPre-register now HERE or email musicguelph@gmail.com \nCo-presented by Music Economy of Guelph Alliance\, The Guelph Youth Music Centre and Guelph Arts Council.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/2025-making-money-from-music/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251128T100000
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SUMMARY:Small Seeds\, Big Ideas: PA Day Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, November 28\, join us at the AGG for a drop-in PA Day workshop! \nInspired by Sheri Osden Nault’s installation ni wahkoomow in AGG’s current exhibition Reworldings\, visitors are invited to create their own seed sculptures using paper clay mixed with native wildflower seeds. \nCreate an artwork to keep indoors\, or plant it outdoors and watch it return to the earth! Explore how art can be temporary\, reciprocal\, and full of possibility. \nAll ages welcome – materials and seeds are provided.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/small-seeds-big-ideas-pa-day-workshop/
LOCATION:Art Gallery of Guelph\, 358 Gordon St\, Guelph\, ON\, N1G 1Y1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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