Ste-Emilie Skillshare | artistic expression and self-representation

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Who we are:

The Ste-Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists, primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic expression and self-representation in our communities. The Skillshare collective runs an art studio for people to learn new skills, share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and anti-oppression (anti-racism/ sexism/ classism/ homophobia/ transphobia/ ableism/ sizeism/ etc). Our space is open to all. Long live skill-sharing!

We host open studios (Saturdays) from 1-6pm and workshops, open to the public, for cheap or by donation.

Our space includes a silkscreen studio (fabric and paper), a black and white photo darkroom, solid sewing machines, craft supplies, a kids’ room and a ‘zine distro/library. (Please note that some but not all supplies are available on site, depending on what ya wanna do). We accept donations during (from supplies to cash) to help keep the space running (talk to us for more details).

Qui nous sommes:

Le Ste. Emilie SkillShare est un groupe d’artistes et de militant.e.s, principalement des personnes de couleur et des personnes queers, engagées à promouvoir l’expression artistique et l’autoreprésentation dans nos communautés. Nous montons et gérons un studio d’art permettant aux gens d’apprendre de nouvelles habiletés, et créer de l’art dans l’esprit de la révolution et de l’anti-oppression (anti-racisme/ sexisme/ classisme/ homophobie/ transphobie, discrimination basée sur le handicap ou la taille, etc.). L’espace est ouvert a touses et toutes.

Nous tenons des studio-libres tous les samedis de 13h à 18h ainsi que des ateliers ouverts au public, pas cher ou par contribution volontaire.

Nos locaux comprennent un studio de sérigraphie (papier et tissu), une chambre noire pour photo en noir et blanc, des machines à coudre, du matériel d’artisanat, une salle de jeux pour enfants et une bibliothèque/distributrice de zines. (Prenez note que seulement une partie du matériel est disponible sur place, tout dépendant de ce que vous désirez faire). Nous acceptons les dons (en argent ou en matériel) pour nous aider à maintenir le studio ouvert.

Open Distro

During open studios, you can come check out all the stuff in our distro including some stuff that isn’t on the website. It’s a perfect time to come try on shirts to find your zines, look through zines and comics and chat with us.

Contract Work

If you have no idea how to silkscreen but you’d like to design something, contact us about making buttons, shirts or posters for you. We are especially into printing stuff for groups dedicated to anti-oppression. We require folks to pay for material costs and labour of the printer. If you want more info on contracting work to us, click on contact.

Workshops

We have workshops (by donation) often at the space on B&W photography/silkscreening. Check the News for when we will be having our next workshop.