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Toronto design event calendar

This calendar lists in-person and online design and arts events for graphic designers, illustrators, and visual creatives. We built this to help strengthen our community and reduce gatekeeping and barriers to connection. All events are based in Toronto.

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Clam Shell Box Workshop

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Making Book Cloth

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Italian Long Stitch Binding

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Introduction to the Book Arts

Big River Bindery

Film Screening with Zahra Ahooei

OCAD University

Featured Events

Speed Portraiture

Hot Pizza Studio

Practice your drawing skills while meeting cool people AND amassing a unique collection of portraits of YOU! Every skill level is welcome. Speed is key; there is no time for perfectionism or over-analysis.

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Toronto Art Club

Looking for life drawing in Toronto? Join our self-led figure drawing sessions at 401 Richmond. All skill levels welcome. Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making. Sessions are welcome to all levels, and attendees should provide their own materials.

Happening Today & Ongoing Exhibitions

Rewilding Toronto Foraging & Ink-Making Workshop

Rewilding Toronto Foraging & Ink-Making Workshop

David Suzuki Foundation

Help us transform an entire gallery. Join artist and renowned ink-maker Jason Logan from the Toronto Ink Company as you forage for leaves, berries, and other urban botanical, and learn how to transform what you find into a rich palette of handmade inks - and the inks won't stop there.

Game On! Exhibition

Game On! Exhibition

Step into Game On! — a vibrant exhibition celebrating the art, culture, and spirit of games through time. From board games to daring sports, each piece invites you to explore how games connect people, spark creativity, and build communities.

Upcoming Events

So You Still Want to Make a Magazine?

So You Still Want to Make a Magazine?

Word on the Street

Thinking about starting a magazine? Wondering what it looks like from the inside? Come hear real stories from people who have really made magazines—recently! Let’s dig into how magazines became magazines, how good ideas became real things, and all the messy, tricky, fun and exciting steps in between. Bring your questions, and your own good ideas.

REWILDING TORONTO: Opening Celebration

REWILDING TORONTO: Opening Celebration

David Suzuki Foundation

Rewilding Toronto explores how art can help us see — and celebrate — the wild nature woven throughout Toronto's neighbourhoods. Through foraging, natural ink-making and collaborative painting, artists and community members are transforming plants gathered from the city into an immersive work of art.

Zine History & Collage Workshop

Zine History & Collage Workshop

Creative hub 1352

Zines have a long history in the counterculture, independent publishing, and DIY movements. They’re a wonderful way to create and share art, writing, and feelings. Learn about the history of zines and DIY publishing, then create your own handmade zine using cut-and-paste techniques, recycled materials, writing, and visual storytelling.

3D Design for Beginners

3D Design for Beginners

Toronto Public Library

This introductory class designed for the absolute beginner will look at the basic fundamentals of 3D modelling using simple easy to use free software such as TinkerCAD and SculptGL. Computers will be provided for this class.

Introduction to Machine Embroidery

Introduction to Machine Embroidery

Toronto Public Library

Learn how to use the Brother Persona PRS100 at the Fabrication Studio! This class will walk you through the basics of mounting fabric onto the embroidery frames and threading the machine.

designwalks™ - Toronto - Walk 11

designwalks™ - Toronto - Walk 11

designwalks™ is a monthly walk-and-talk gathering for the design community, held on the last Saturday of every month in Toronto. Built around honest conversation and shared movement, designwalks™ creates space for designers to connect beyond portfolios, titles, and transactional networking. Each walk brings together creatives from different backgrounds to

Learning to Oil Paint (landscape & portrait)

Learning to Oil Paint (landscape & portrait)

Beginner-friendly oil painting workshop! Learn landscape (11AM/1PM) or portrait (3PM) techniques, including brushwork, colour mixing, and layering. No experience needed. All materials included with the ticket—just bring your curiosity!

Speed Portraiture

Speed Portraiture

Hot Pizza Studio

Practice your drawing skills while meeting cool people AND amassing a unique collection of portraits of YOU! Every skill level is welcome. Speed is key; there is no time for perfectionism or over-analysis.

Arts & Crafts Vendor Market by GTA Craft Club

Arts & Crafts Vendor Market by GTA Craft Club

A welcoming end-of-summer market with local vendors, live portraits, snacks, craft tables, and a treasure hunt!

Board Game Designer Night

Board Game Designer Night

Snakes & Lattes

Calling all creators! Join us for Board Game Designer Night at Snakes & Lattes Annex. Playtest, share, and bring your ideas to life! Interested in game design? Have board game ideas? Want to playtest games before anyone else? Come join our monthly Game Designer Night and meet local designers - open to public, not just designers!

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

In Conversation with Xavier Blais

In Conversation with Xavier Blais

Xavier Blais is a revelation. A Partner, ECD and Writer at Rethink in Montreal, he’s won 58 Lions and enough D&AD pencils to open a D&AD pencil store. Over his ten years at the agency, Xavier has created iconic campaign after iconic campaign. Please join ICW host Andrew Simon for his conversation with Ad Age’s Creative Director of the Year in 2026.

Storytelling Through Beadwork

Storytelling Through Beadwork

Toronto Public Library

Uncover the hidden symbols and intricate meanings found in beadwork in this interactive talk with Cree-Métis artist, Marissa Magneson. Marissa will explore beadwork as a form of storytelling and expression, revealing layers of history, identity, culture, and spirituality.

Craftic Meetup at Firkin on Danforth

Craftic Meetup at Firkin on Danforth

Jen from Craftic

Heya creative friends, let's hang out and craft in person! When: September 16th, 7:30 - 9:30pm Where: Firkin Pub (2057B Danforth Ave) Cost: $5 Bring your project and work away in a zero judgement zone. RSVP at hello@craftic.com

In Conversation with Allison Glenn: Curator, 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art

In Conversation with Allison Glenn: Curator, 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art

OCAD University

Join us for a great conversation by Curator Allison Glenn about her 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art exhibit, Things Fall Apart.

The Power Ball

The Power Ball

The Power Plant

The comeback you’ve been craving. After a seven-year hiatus, Power Ball returns on Thursday, September 17, 2026. This long-awaited comeback revives the gallery’s most iconic fundraiser as it has always been at heart: an unforgettable art party, where contemporary art, immersive environments, and collective celebration come together.

Zine Machine (4wks)

Zine Machine (4wks)

Do you have a personal story you want to share? An illustrated essay about your pet? A comic about your favourite food? Zine Machine will take you from concept to distribution in 4 weeks of studio time with exercises and guidance to help you self-publish your zine.

Climate Book & Article Club: Regenerative Design

Climate Book & Article Club: Regenerative Design

Climate Designers Toronto

Climate Designers Toronto is hosting its monthly book club meet featuring the topic of Regenerative Design! We'll reflect on how we as designers play a role in this practice, and how it relates to wider environmental initiatives.

Fisher Small & Fine Press Fair

Fisher Small & Fine Press Fair

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Join us for the Fisher Small & Fine Press Fair, bringing together some of Canada’s finest printmakers, book artists, small press publishers, and fine press creators for its biggest fair yet.

Pin and Patch Show Toronto

Pin and Patch Show Toronto

Pin and Patch Show Toronto

The PIN + PATCH SHOW will take place on September 19, 2026 at the Parkdale Hall (1605 Queen St West), and will feature dozens of talented pin and patch artists from Toronto and across Canada!

Resistance and Reconciliation in York

Resistance and Reconciliation in York

Hertage Toronto

Explore the enduring Indigenous presence in the Bathurst and St. Clair area through its parks, public art, and community spaces. Visit murals in the area depicting wolves, guardians, and layered landscapes, while learning about the Medicine Wheel, the Dish With One Spoon, Orange Shirt Day, and Indigenous-led care.

Small Things: Making Inks

Small Things: Making Inks

Labraotory for Artistic Intelligence

Come experiment with making inks crafted from found and natural materials. Play with different ink recipes and explore how the colours flow on the page. Follow your own curiosity, and see where these handmade inks take you!

DANIEL SMITH Watercolour: An Immersive Experience

DANIEL SMITH Watercolour: An Immersive Experience

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Join Scott Stevenson, Brand Ambassador and Art Educator for DANIEL SMITH Artists’ Materials, for an engaging and informative watercolour workshop designed for artists of all skill levels.

Craft Cafe: Make friends, Make crafts

Craft Cafe: Make friends, Make crafts

Craft Cafe is a casual, social evening where you can choose one craft to try, similar to ordering from a menu. We’ll provide all materials and tools. Just show up ready to create. Mingle, learn from fellow crafters, and maybe leave with a new skill or a new friend.

CINERA: The Closing Scene

CINERA: The Closing Scene

88 Media Collective

CINERA: The Closing Scene brings Toronto’s creative community together for an evening of film, fashion, visual art, live music and networking. Discover local talent, meet the people behind the work and experience culture in motion.

Art Battle Toronto

Art Battle Toronto

Art Battle International

Art in motion. You choose the winner at The Great Hall! Join us for an epic art showdown, the last one of the year in Toronto! Creativity knows no bounds! Watch as masterful artists craft stunning masterpieces in just 20 minutes per round. Be part of the decision-making process and vote for the ultimate champion.

Costumed Life Drawing

Costumed Life Drawing

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Join us Tuesday evenings for uninstructed costumed life drawing, in a relaxed and supportive environment.

Four Corners 2026

Four Corners 2026

Multiculturalism in Canadian Graphic Design Talks & Workshops -- back for our second year! Featuring talks from Majid Abbasi, Miki Arai, Yurko Gutsulyak, Andrés Sevilla, Carolina Söderholm, and workshops with Miki Arai and Andrés Sevilla.

Silkscreen Workshop!

Silkscreen Workshop!

Join our Silkscreen Workshop where you'll learn the basics of silkscreen printing in a laid-back, fun atmosphere. These workshops are perfect for people who don't necessarily want to know every technical detail about screen printing, but have always wanted to print and make something. Sip on wine and nibble on cheese while you work!

Art Bash

Art Bash

Join us for a night of incredible music, bold contemporary art, and memories of concerts past. This can’t-miss annual gathering brings our community together to support the AGO’s bold vision: to lead global conversations from Toronto through extraordinary collections, exhibitions, and programs, while reflecting the people who live here.

Hand Drawn and Painted Patterns

Hand Drawn and Painted Patterns

In a time where we often hand this type of design over to computers and paint bucket fills, it feels extra special to slow down and create intricate things by hand, letting the little imperfections live as a sign a human was here. Explore motifs, find colour combinations that speak to you, and hone your painting skills.

Printmaking Workshop: Heritage-Inspired Linocut Printing at Black Creek

Printmaking Workshop: Heritage-Inspired Linocut Printing at Black Creek

Looking for life drawing in Toronto? Join our self-led figure drawing sessions at 401 Richmond. All skill levels welcome. Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making. Sessions are welcome to all levels, and attendees should provide their own materials.

Queer Art Club: Screen Printing

Queer Art Club: Screen Printing

Queer Art Club Toronto

Learn the basics of DIY screen printing and create your very own screen using an embroidery hoop in this edition of Queer Art Club! In this workshop you'll learn how to prepare a simple design, build your screen, create a stencil, and use it to make your own print. You'll then put your new skills into practice by printing your design onto a T-shirt or tote.

The Next Stop is… ART!

The Next Stop is… ART!

Heritage Toronto

Our subway stations are not just critical infrastructure for public transportation. They are also dynamic sites for cultural and artistic expression. On this tour, we’ll explore the 70+ year history of public art in Toronto’s transit landscape, from station architecture and design, to forgotten tilework of the 1950s, to the contemporary murals of today.

Block-printing workshop

Block-printing workshop

Hot Pizza Studio

Come play with pattern, colour, & cloth in this fun, hands-on block-printing workshop for adults led by Sarah Aranha. You’ll learn how to design a simple image, carve your own printing block, ink it up, & print repeat patterns onto fabric.

So You Still Want to Make a Magazine?

So You Still Want to Make a Magazine?

Word on the Street

Thinking about starting a magazine? Wondering what it looks like from the inside? Come hear real stories from people who have really made magazines—recently! Let’s dig into how magazines became magazines, how good ideas became real things, and all the messy, tricky, fun and exciting steps in between. Bring your questions, and your own good ideas.

Toronto Comic Jam

Toronto Comic Jam

Toronto Comic Jam

We draw comics together in the back room of The Cameron House. Join us!

Line Etching on Copper (4 weeks)

Line Etching on Copper (4 weeks)

In this 4-week workshop, participants will be introduced etching on copper to create expressive images using linework and cross-hatching. Working with copper plates and acid-resistant grounds, participants will create images with crisp, fine lines. This class is ideal for anyone who enjoys drawing with fine lines and building tone using cross-hatching.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Toronto Art Club

Looking for life drawing in Toronto? Join our self-led figure drawing sessions at 401 Richmond. All skill levels welcome. Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making. Sessions are welcome to all levels, and attendees should provide their own materials.

Film Screening with Zahra Ahooei

Film Screening with Zahra Ahooei

OCAD University

Join Iranian filmmaker Zahra Ahooei, for a screening and conversation about her award-winning short films and her current documentary project, HouseLight.

Sunset Plein Air Picnic *Fall Edition*

Sunset Plein Air Picnic Fall Edition

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

For this round of our relaxing plein air picnic, we'll be sipping hot tea and painting fall colours. Learn how to build a scene in changing light, how to handle your materials for on-the-go painting, and receive live feedback.

Watermedia Workshop

Watermedia Workshop

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

A hands-on workshop for artists of all levels and experience from beginner to professional. Experiment different materials: Holbein Watercolor, Gouache, Acrylic Gouache, Watercolor Mediums, and more.

Screenprinting: A Posterization Approach (4 weeks)

Screenprinting: A Posterization Approach (4 weeks)

In this 4-week workshop, participants will learn screenprinting via posterization, where continuous tone is split into multiple regions. You'll be introduced to various techniques to create transparency films that will be exposed onto a silkscreen. You'll also learn two different techniques for posterization, one digital with Photoshop and one analog.

Petals in Motion: a stop motion animation workshop

Petals in Motion: a stop motion animation workshop

Through a meditative and mindful approach, this workshop focuses on natural materials like leaves, flowers, stems etc. to create unique stop motion animations.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Board Game Designer Night

Board Game Designer Night

Snakes & Lattes

Calling all creators! Join us for Board Game Designer Night at Snakes & Lattes Annex. Playtest, share, and bring your ideas to life! Interested in game design? Have board game ideas? Want to playtest games before anyone else? Come join our monthly Game Designer Night and meet local designers - open to public, not just designers!

Drawing with Felt & Thread

Drawing with Felt & Thread

You'll learn how to prepare wool roving for felting, various embroidery stitches that lend well to a drawing approach, and ways to add details and embellishments for textured 3D pieces. All materials are included and you will leave with the tools you need to keep felting!

League of Letters 2026

League of Letters 2026

Toronto Design Directory

League of Letters is a hand-lettering knockout tournament. Contestants battle head to head to draw the better letter - and only one person can move forward. Come grab a drink and watch the games unfold. Who will be our lettering legend? You have to be there to find out!

We Create Our Futures 2026

We Create Our Futures 2026

The Centre for Social Innovation x Stay Connected

We Create Our Futures is a 3-day Climate, Culture & Arts Festival celebrating climate solutions through community collaboration and creation. We intend to bring together generations, cultures, artistic mediums & more all with the common goal to amplify tangible ways we can make real positive impacts in our communities, our city, the world & the future.

Printmaking Workshop: Heritage-Inspired Linocut Printing at Black Creek

Printmaking Workshop: Heritage-Inspired Linocut Printing at Black Creek

This beginner-friendly printmaking workshop will walk you through the process of carving your own stamp block and hand printing. Join the Toronto Art Club by PH1 Studios for a unique printmaking workshop in Toronto where art, history, and craftsmanship come together.

Toronto Shit Show

Toronto Shit Show

Toronto Shit Show

Local artists with sassy, rude, and offensive merch. Hosted by @queeniescards with @effinbirds

From Walnut to Ink: A Traditional Drawing Workshop

From Walnut to Ink: A Traditional Drawing Workshop

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Create elegant botanical drawings with rich, handmade Black Walnut Ink. You'll learn to draw a beautiful autumn leaf using a traditional dip pen and nib—a timeless technique reminiscent of the warm, expressive sketches of Leonardo da Vinci.

Ghost Signs of Toronto

Ghost Signs of Toronto

Heritage Toronto

Learn how to spot the fading painted ads that linger on Toronto’s streets — remnants of early Canadian marketing that used imagery, typography, and emotion to shape a national identity. Discover what these disappearing signs can tell us about Toronto’s past, and sharpen your eye for the hidden history still visible above our streets.

DesignThinkers Toronto

DesignThinkers Toronto

Find 30+ sessions on design process, strategy, leadership, creativity and more at Canada’s premier design conference. Connect with other designers, gain new perspectives and leave feeling inspired to take on your next design project.

Video Game Arts Appreciation Night

Video Game Arts Appreciation Night

Play Canadian! Join us for an exciting night of the unexpecte,d in partnership with Game Arts International Network. We’re turning Walker Court into a virtual playground. Dive into this lineup of standout video games as we play, explore, and get lost in the rich worlds and creative magic of video game art.

Illustrated Recipes

Illustrated Recipes

Hot Pizza Studio

Join Sarah Aranha, artist extraordinaire, in this workshop focused on food! Using watercolour and mixed-media (think coloured pencils and collage), we’ll learn to paint our favourite recipes on gorgeous paper, which you’ll take home to cherish (and cook with!).

Printmaking on Japanese Paper

Printmaking on Japanese Paper

Learn a variety of printmaking techniques that can be done in a home studio. You will learn how to create prints using water wash up ink and water-soluble media. Learn to make relief prints, monotype and experimental techniques.

Toronto Comic Jam

Toronto Comic Jam

Toronto Comic Jam

We draw comics together in the back room of The Cameron House. Join us!

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Hidden Histories at U of T

Hidden Histories at U of T

Heritage Toronto

Explore the fascinating architecture of the University of Toronto. From the adaption of 19th-century homes to innovative modern design, discover how form has driven function on campus.

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Toronto Art Club

Looking for life drawing in Toronto? Join our self-led figure drawing sessions at 401 Richmond. All skill levels welcome. Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making. Sessions are welcome to all levels, and attendees should provide their own materials.

The Re-Designed Practice: Threats, Opportunities & The Future of Design

The Re-Designed Practice: Threats, Opportunities & The Future of Design

Design is facing an identity crisis. Between rapid AI transformation and changing economic realities, the baseline for "good work" is shifting overnight. As automated tools simplify design execution, the design practice faces an urgent question: what is the true value of a human designer in an era of prompt-driven refinement

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

ADCC Awards

ADCC Awards

Since our very first show in 1949, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada (ADCC) has championed and celebrated excellence in Canadian advertising and design. Over 75 years later, our non-profit organization continues to celebrate Canadian creativity through our awards programs.

Italian Long Stitch Binding

Italian Long Stitch Binding

Big River Bindery

The long stitch book was commonly used by accountants and record keepers in 16th century Italy. Learn how to construct a modern variation with eight signatures, and rows of sewing on the spine that are both structural and decorative.

Zine Dump

Zine Dump

Zine Dump is a new Toronto zine fair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas.

Board Game Designer Night

Board Game Designer Night

Snakes & Lattes

Calling all creators! Join us for Board Game Designer Night at Snakes & Lattes Annex. Playtest, share, and bring your ideas to life! Interested in game design? Have board game ideas? Want to playtest games before anyone else? Come join our monthly Game Designer Night and meet local designers - open to public, not just designers!

Swash & Serif 10

Swash & Serif 10

Toronto Design Directory

Swash & Serif has been showcasing typography from Toronto and around the world for over a decade. Come celebrate our 10th edition this year! Since 2014, our curatorial goal is to display type and lettering artwork that uses type to tell stories, is experimental and conceptual, and reflects the diversity of our community and of culture and language itself.

Drum Leaf Binding Workshop

Drum Leaf Binding Workshop

Big River Bindery

This binding uses adhesive to connect the pages rather than sewing. Invented by book artist Timothy Ely, the binding opens flat, making it ideal for artist books, sketchbooks, journals, and prints.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Design Leadership Summit

Design Leadership Summit

DLS is a working room for senior design leaders: mainstage stories, floor questions, smaller sessions, and conversations that keep going after the microphones are off. Real people, real work, no trade-show theatre.

Making Book Cloth

Making Book Cloth

Big River Bindery

When the commercial options for book cloth aren’t right for your project, you can make your own. In this one-night class, we will explore the options for making your own lined book cloth for your bookbinding projects.

PROTOTYPE Toronto: An Arts Publishing Assembly

PROTOTYPE Toronto: An Arts Publishing Assembly

Critical Distance

Free and open to the public, PROTOTYPE will connect arts publishing communities from across Canada and the world with Toronto-based colleagues and communities interested in critical + experimental forms of writing, editing, designing, and distributing art books, periodicals, multiples, editions, and zines by any means.

Swash & Serfif Typography Conference

Swash & Serfif Typography Conference

Toronto Design Diretory

We're taking the creativity, conversations, and joy from our decade-long annual type exhibition and bringing those minds, ideas, and vibes to the stage. Join us for talks about all facets of type from some of the most creative and talented creative minds in the industry.

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Toronto Art Club

Looking for life drawing in Toronto? Join our self-led figure drawing sessions at 401 Richmond. All skill levels welcome. Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making. Sessions are welcome to all levels, and attendees should provide their own materials.

What Your Machines Should Do: The Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Automation

What Your Machines Should Do: The Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Automation

Join us as we chat with author Stefanie Hutka, Head of Design Research at Sendfull, at the official launch of her upcoming book — What Your Machines Should Do: The Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Automation.

Clam Shell Box Workshop

Clam Shell Box Workshop

Big River Bindery

Looking for a way to protect your special books, store photographs or prints? The Clamshell Box is a perfect way to both protect and present your important items and books. Boxes can be made in any dimension and for any format.

Toronto Comic Jam

Toronto Comic Jam

Toronto Comic Jam

We draw comics together in the back room of The Cameron House. Join us!

Spotlight AI 2026

Spotlight AI 2026

Join us online for this full-day of sessions on the implications and possibilities of AI for the digital creative industry.

Introduction to the Book Arts

Introduction to the Book Arts

Big River Bindery

Join us for Introduction to the Book Arts. We will learn about the tools and materials you’ll need and make some books. In one night, we’ll touch on different styles of book construction, and you’ll go home with a stack of handmade books.

Knightcap Chess Club

Knightcap Chess Club

AGO x Knightcap

Artmaking meets chess! How? We’ll show you! Join Toronto’s Knightcap Chess while we create hand-drawn and decorated chess boards. This event is appropriate for beginners right through to advanced players—you’ll still be challenged to try something new!

Holiday Cards

Holiday Cards

Hot Pizza Studio

Join the amazing Sarah Aranha for a cozy, festive evening of watercolour and mixed-media card making. We’ll paint, play, nibble on treats, and create a beautiful batch of handmade holiday cards—perfect for sending to loved ones or keeping as tiny seasonal artworks. No experience required!

Past Events

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Craft Cafe: Make friends, Make crafts

Gay Friends Market

Toronto Comic Jam

Printmaking Pop-up hosted by Artist Natamori

DIY Kaweco

Sun Print Workshop (Designer Crafting Social)

CTRL+SHIFT VOL. XIII @ Stan

Dog Draw XV: Lab(rad)or Day

ACIDO Pub Night

Fresh Meet: A Mosaic Portfolio Night

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Design Evenings TO: How Float Rebuilt Their Design Process Without Figma

Zine Swap in the Park

DIY Kaweco

Yorkville Murals

Good Friends Market

Cocktails & Concepts

Climate Book & Article Club: The Circular Economy

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