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Description: Miss the fun sleepovers times of your youth? Enjoy this all-ages event of all the fun of a sleepover, but with the comfort of going to your own back home to sleep in your own bed. To launch a new sleep podcast series, the Ministry of Counting Sheep, Integrate Arts Society is launching a sleepover celebration. Enjoy pizza while listening to excerpts of the podcast series. Paint your nails while getting your fortune told. Play an interactive game with artist Paolino Captuto. Tickets are $6.66. Please register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ministry-of-counting-sheep-sleepover-tickets-837031873867?aff=oddtdtcreator Artists: Featuring the launch of the sleep podcast series, Ministry of Counting Sheep, with new podcasts created by Aliya Amor, Monster Boy, Alex Chen, Matt Howells, and Keira Nolting. The sleepover event will feature an interactive game performance by Paolino Caputo. Location: Garry Oaks Room Fairfield Gonzales Community Association 1341 Thurlow Road Accessibility: This event is $6.66 per person ($5 for pizza plus Eventbrite's $1.66 fee). There is a limited number free tickets available for BIPOC, disabled, and 2SLGBTQ+ individuals. The Garry Oaks Room is on a ground-level floor, with no stairs throughout the building. There are one single-stall gender-neutral bathrooms and a place to fill up your water bottle. Free parking is available at Sir James Douglas Elementary and a bike rack is located at the front enterance. The closest bus stops are: Bus 7 (Fairfield at Moss) Bus 3 (Cook at Fairfield) Pizza and snacks will be offered with a range of dietary options (including gluten free, dairy free, and vegetarian). Land Acknowledgement: The Fairfield Gonzales Community Association sits on the unceded and traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən Nation, today known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and W̱SÁNEĆ Nation (MÁLEXEȽ, BOḰEĆEN, W̱JOȽEȽP, SȾÁUTW̱, and W̱SĺḴEM Nations).We are mindful of the cultural impacts of ongoing and historical colonialism and genocide of Indigenous peoples as we continue to engage communities and hold events in this region. We will continue to learn, unlearn, and re-learn about the lands and peoples who have been here since time immemorial. Organizers: Integrate Arts Society The mandate of the Integrate Art Society is to strengthen the presence of the arts on Vancouver Island through public awareness and advocacy for regional artists, curators, arts organizations, and art spaces. The society aims to deliver this by creating accessible and interactive arts programming for the general public, showcasing multidisciplinary art practices, and equipping art practitioners with opportunities for knowledge transfer and skill development.

CALL FOR ARTISTS The Integrate Art Society is currently looking for artists based around the greater Victoria region for a new project titled The Ministry of Counting Sheep. In the 2015 Canadian Health Measures Survey, Stats Canada’s found that 25% of Canadians have trouble going to sleep or staying asleep every night. With the stresses of the ongoing pandemic, The Sleep Foundation found that sleep problems have dramatic increased with the entire North American population. Scientists determining that 2022 is the year of Coronasomnia, named because rates of insomnia went up by 40%. Integrate believes there can be a creative solution to help individuals with sleep programs. We are looking for artists, storytellers, musicians, performing artists, and collectives to create a podcast to help listeners fall asleep (yes, we do want people to fall asleep to art!). Artists will be selected in early October and will have until late December to create their individual podcast. Artists will be working with a professional podcast producer and sound technician, so do not necessarily need any experience with recording or production. Each podcast is expected to be roughly 20 minutes to 40 minutes long. To launch the podcast series, Integrate will be hosting a day-time sleepover for the public. Selected artists will be receiving a CARFAC fee of $600 for their podcast. We particularly encourage BIPOC, LGBTQ2+, disabled, and/or intersectional communities to apply. To acknowledge and manage the fact that artist applications can be difficult, please let us know if you have any accessibility needs to make the process easier. Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2023 at midnight. If you need more time, please email Regan Shrumm at rshrumm@integratearts.ca. Please answer all of the following information, and submit it to rshrumm@integratearts.ca by midnight on Friday, September 15, 2023 To make the artist proposals as accessible as possible, we accept the following formats: • A PDF or Word document • Email with information • A recorded video • A phone or Zoom conversation The proposal must include the following information: Name: Email Address: Phone: Address: Website and/or Social Media: • Description of Work Proposed: (up to 250 words): o Please tell us a little bit about your artwork and your process you want to use. You may also include an artist’s statement here. • Artist Bio: (up to 200 words): Please provide a short biography of yourself. • How does the theme of sleep resonate with you? (up to 250 words) • Do you have any experience with sound recording? (up to 250 words - you do not need experience in order to be selected. This is helpful information for our producers' scheduling of work.) • Please upload 5 images/recordings or 5 online links (online website, Instagram, Tumblr, Dropbox links), or somewhere we can see your work. Thank you for your submission! Chosen artists will be notified by October 1, 2023. ABOUT INTEGRATE ART SOCIETY The mandate of the Integrate Art Society is to strengthen the presence of the arts on Vancouver Island through public awareness and advocacy for regional artists, curators, arts organizations, and art spaces. The society aims to deliver this by creating accessible and interactive arts programming for the general public, showcasing multidisciplinary art practices, and equipping art practitioners with opportunities for knowledge transfer and skill development. LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Integrate is located on the unceded and traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples, today known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and WSÁNEĆ Nation. We are mindful of the cultural impacts of ongoing colonialism and dispossession of Indigenous peoples as we continue to engage communities and hold events in this region. We will continue to learn, unlearn, and re-learn about the lands and peoples who have been here since time immemorial.

Based on true stories, join controversial author Esme J.K. Quimby (Regan Shrumm), as she reads from her latest novel, 50 Shades of Grief: A Neurotic Erotica. Follow a character study of how one individual's love of 80s films and repressed queerness turned them into constantly overthinking every sexual act. This solo comedy performance is full of cringing humour, bringing levity to the awkwardness that can come with exploring the mysteries of sex as you grow up.

Permission to Grieve is a series of art-based online, intimate conversations and breathing exercises that offer space to have conversations about grief. We believe that everyone should be able to talk about grief, not just with counsellors. During the global pandemic, personal grief has increased for the entire CRD community, as individuals have and currently are mourning things like losing their job, deaths, and just everyday changes and routines that are now lost. These major life events are uprooting individual’s once grounded existence and causing grief to happen in isolated ways. This project hopes to tackle this issue of isolated mourning and learning how to heal through a community. Please note that we are an artist-facilitated space. Though we are working with a trauma-informed care lens, we are not in professional counsellors. The space will be a guided conversation, but please set your own boundaries of what you are comfortable in sharing. We ask that participants sign up for one workshop so to fit as many individuals as possible. Permission to Grieve is free, but registration is limited. Please register through Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/permission-to-grieve-tickets-153224088373) and you will receive a Zoom link.What to expect:In the limited groups of 10 people, it is okay to speak and it is okay to listen. Some people come to share what they’ve experienced, and some people come to listen and learn. There is no hierarchy of grief. Everyone’s grief is equal. Everyone’s experience and perspective is unique, and valuable in the conversation. You don’t need to be grieving to take part. If you want to, you can talk about your own personal experience of grief. Or you can talk about grief in the abstract. Or you can not talk at all. You don’t need to hide your feelings. You can leave whenever you want to.Acknowledgement:The Integrate Art Society and its Permission to Grieve project is situated on traditional and unceded Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations. We strive to remain mindful of the cultural impacts of ongoing colonialism and dispossession of Indigenous peoples as we continue to engage communities and hold events in this region.Permission to Grieve is grateful to be funded through the Capital Regional District.

An online exhibition with Victoria-based artist Libby Oliver.

As a part of the Disassemble the Arts, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's arts and accessibility program, the AGGV will be offering a series of artists and curators talks. In this talk, Toronto-based artist and scholar Syrus Marcus Ware will discuss his work in combining art and activist, particularly in regards to the Black Mad community. Syrus is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts, McMaster University. He is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses painting, installation and performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture, and he’s shown widely in galleries and festivals across Canada. He is a core-team member of Black Lives Matter – Toronto, a part of the Performance Disability Art Collective, and an ABD PhD candidate at York University in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. His on-going curatorial work includes That’s So Gay (Gladstone Hotel, 2016-2019) and BlacknessYes!/Blockorama. He is the co-editor or the best-selling Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (URP, 2020) Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_loH5i4-zRcuh-nRw9r_RrA Or Telephone during the event: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): Canada: +1 647 374 4685 or +1 647 558 0588 or +1 778 907 2071 or +1 438 809 7799 or +1 587 328 1099 Webinar ID: 924 4537 6585 To make this event as accessible as possible, the AGGV will be offering the following services: -Live Captioning -Transcription (offered about 2 weeks after the live webinar) -Recording (offered about 2 weeks after the live webinar) The AGGV understands access needs are different for everyone, and that these needs can also change and be different every day. To make a specific request, please email Regan Shrumm, Assistant Curator at rshrumm@aggv.ca or phone at 250-896-8266. _ Art Gallery of Greater Victoria sits on the unceded and traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples, today known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and WSÁNEĆ First Nations.

As a part of the Disassemble the Arts, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's arts and accessibility program, the AGGV will be offering a series of artists and curators talks. In this talk, independent curator Amanda Cachia will discuss her curatorial practice which centers around care and accessibility in exhibitions and museums from a disability perspective. Recent exhibitions to be discussed include Automatisme Ambulatoire (2019), Sweet Gongs Vibrating (2016), and Flesh of the World (2015). Cachia will also explore what "creative access" might now mean in the museum in the age of COVID-19 and post-coronavirus, and how museums might be more intentional in meaningful intersectional approaches towards access in response to the civil unrest of 2020. Amanda Cachia received her PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism at the University of California San Diego in Spring 2017, and is an independent curator and critic from Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art; curatorial studies and activism; exhibition design and access; decolonizing the museum; and the politics of disability in visual culture. Cachia has curated approximately 40 exhibitions, many of which contain social justice themes and content. She is an art history lecturer for Otis College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, and California State University Long Beach. She is currently preparing her manuscript regarding the work of contemporary disabled artists, solicited by Duke University Press, in addition to editing a volume of essays with Routledge entitled Curating Access: Contemporary Art and Creative Accommodation. Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MGpl296-RhSL0C4qA0gzPg Or Telephone during the event: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): Canada: +1 647 374 4685 or +1 647 558 0588 or +1 778 907 2071 or +1 438 809 7799 or +1 587 328 1099 Webinar ID: 915 1822 9674 To make this event as accessible as possible, the AGGV will be offering the following services: -Live Captioning -Transcription (offered about 2 weeks after the live webinar) -Recording (offered about 2 weeks after the live webinar) The AGGV understands access needs are different for everyone, and that these needs can also change and be different every day. To make a specific request, please email Regan Shrumm, Assistant Curator at rshrumm@aggv.ca or phone at 250-896-8266. _ Art Gallery of Greater Victoria sits on the unceded and traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples, today known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and WSÁNEĆ First Nations.

How do artists continue to create during a pandemic? How do you make art it is hard to focus and there is a lack of support? As an emerging artist, how do you push forward to grow your career when everything has changed and nothing seems stable?In this three-part program in joint collaboration between the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Legacy Art Gallery, emerging artists will come together with facilitator K.P. Denis, three mentoring artists (Kemi Craig, Estraven Lupino-Smith, and Ghinwa Yassine) and the other participants to discuss the effect the pandemic has had on their artistic practice. Together we will grieve the losses we’ve experienced, discuss methods of adapting, and share visions for a new creative future.This free program will take place over Zoom and consist of three sessions on Sunday, October 4, 11, and 18 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Participants are expected to attend all three sessions. Register is required through Google Forms, with participation limited. Please contact either Regan Shrumm, Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, at rshrumm@aggv.ca or Amy Smith, BCAC Education and Public Programs Intern at the Legacy Art Gallery, at smithac@uvic.ca for questions or concerns.You may be interested in this program if you:-Are an emerging artist in Victoria who lost opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic?-Are looking for new ways to share your art and network with other artists in light of these lost opportunities?-Are trying to find a group of individuals to find solitude in going through the same emotions of grief and uncertainty?-Are needing some hope of moving forward with their art practice in these trying times?Please register via Google Forms at: https://forms.gle/QncbtNMGWT5nq4658Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 1st at 5 pm

Join artist and garden farmer Elisa Rathje for apple-pressing on a century-old cider press using apples harvested from Appleturnover, her 1½ acre 1895 Salt Spring apple orchard turned food forest and micro-silvopasture. For the workshop, bring along a half-pint mason jar to collect fresh apple juice and come chat about the possibilities of home-scale wild fermentation. During the discussion, Rathje will explore ways in which participants can start to transition to simple living and “radical home & local economies” in an era of ecological crisis and energy descent. The workshop is free, but registration is required as attendance is limited. If Eventbrite is not an accessible way of registration for you, please phone Regan Shrumm at 250-384-4171 x 220, or email at rshrumm@aggv.ca to register.

Join us for a day of delicious food-making and engaging conversations with Victoria-based artist Alexis Hogan. Through making food, eating, and storytelling, Hogan and participants will be exploring food as a site of connection, healing, harm or rupture. The workshop is free, but registration is required as attendance is limited. If Eventbrite is not an accessible way of registration for you, please phone Regan Shrumm at 250-384-4171 x 220, or email at rshrumm@aggv.ca to register. -- Running from July to November, What Artists Bring to the Table is a food series exploring the artistic practices of cultivating and cooking food. The series central theme is how food is both a political act, as through eating we are supporting different systems, and a cultural act, which can both reaffirm one’s own identity, but also assist us to see other’s worldviews. Each event will feature two components: a hands-on workshop, where participants will work with the artist to make a food product, and a discussion, where participants will have a larger conversation about food while sampling the food from the workshop. -- Oaklands Community Centre is on a ground-level floor, with no stairs throughout the building. There are four single-stall gender-neutral bathrooms, two of which are wheelchair accessible and one offering a baby change table. The Centre offers ample free street parking and is on the #4 bus route, with the closest stop being at Hillside and Gosworth. Bus tickets are available. The Oaklands Community Centre sits on the unceded and traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples, today known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and WSÁNEĆ Nation. Visual description of image: A photo montage showing the process of making a mushroom alfredo pasta. An image to the left shows a stock of white, leafy mushrooms. The top right image depicts frying the mushrooms in a pan. The middle right image shows the creamy mushroom and cheese sauce. The bottom right image depicts the sauce on top of a bowl of pasta.