Arts & Recreation Toronto

Hi everyone!

We're doing an afternoon sketching hangout at the MaRS Building food court tables- Enter MaRS from Collage Street where the statue of two men are sitting by the glass doors. Turn left and head down the escalator. Turn left at the bottom of the escalator and head down the hall past another escalator and Foosball table the event will be held at the far end of the food court.

Tired of drawing what you see? Looking for a way to get your creative juices flowing when you draw? With word prompts like "Octopus Lumberjack" or "Window, Inspect and Reach", it's up to YOU and your imagination on how you want to draw.

This is a fun approach to letting loose with your drawing abilities, spice up your practice and breathe new ideas in your art-making. Each prompt will be a 30 minute session followed with a show and tell to explain the process behind your madness.

WHAT TO EXPECT ---

1. For this event, there will be 3 drawing prompts - each prompt lasts 30 minutes.
2. For word prompts, I will provide 4 words or give you a scenario and you can draw it however you like, whether it's conceptual or figurative. For the image prompt, I'll provide 3 cards, and you can mix and match the given images you see.
3. Usually I put background music on for concentration, but I encourage social chatting with others if you feel more comfortable socializing.
4. When the time is up, we do a show and tell where the artist explains the piece they were drawing, and participants can comment on the work.

The last prompt is the Cursed prompt where the art piece is usually adult themed. If you wish not to participate, either provide a PG friendly version of your drawing or step out. We're all adults here.

** For new members - this is a social and friendly group so we kindly ask you to turn on your camera briefly to remove the anon identity. You may turn off your camera afterwards, we're all trying to get past being strangers here.

If you don't have it turned on after being asked, you will be removed from the session.

AI generators are banned for the use of prompts, as this would defeat the purpose of mentally exercising your creativity

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Come join us at The Wych for a night of karaoke! Belt out your favorite pop songs, heavy metal, rap, musical theatre, or join in on the ensemble cast while serenading the crowd with boy band hits. Vocal talent not required. There is a high chance of making new friends.

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Our karaoke host is AJ - Make sure to get your name added to the list! Our Karaoke machine is connected to YouTube so song selection is pretty much UNLIMITED 😵 !

The Wych

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https://wych.ca/menu Support our host venue; buy a drink!

This is a cool underworld bar, (Entrance down the stairs) and small enough so you can get to know the patrons and other attendees and get to sing a couple of times. The Wych makes some excellent cocktails, and has many non-alcoholic offerings as well.

Public Transit Directions:
On Subway Line 1: You can get off at Eglington West and take the 63A southwards
On Subway Line 2: You can get out at Ossington and take the 63A northwards.
The stop should be Davenport/Ossington.

If in Liberty village or in in between just take the 63A all the way to Davenport and forget the subway. If you're in the south core, take Line 1 to Dupont or Spadina stations and take the 127 bus west to Davenport/Ossington. If on St Clair streetcar line (512) you can take that to Winona drive and walk south.

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This event is a great way to just relax, draw the human body and work quietly on our craft OR socialize with other artists. Sometimes we can be a bit chatty :)!

We'll start with 1 quick warm up video to loosen up our hand, and then move to 2 - 20mins long pose which will last throughout the event. This is really good for people who want to expand their figure drawing into a more detailed-focused study.