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leaning in

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Opening & CWSE Open House: Monday Oct 2, 5:30-7PM CWSE Hallway Gallery, OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, 2 nd Floor Exhibition runs until January 26, 2018 Open Daily from 9AM-6PM FREE & Wheelchair accessible. leaning in acts as a narrative viewing of nine artists lives: Koren Bellman, Katie Caslick, Jeanette Doyon, Tammy Francis, Kathy Keenan, John Lai, Drew Smith, Linda Sofranko and Candace Wilkins. For this exhibition, the group focussed on developing ideas around p ersonal growth, the subconscious, release, new life, faith, friends, a seven-year plan and nature. The work for leaning in , like most of the artwork created at NEXTDOOR, is process-based.  I think leaning in is a purposeful, and radical, act.  I believe leaning in, at its core, means that individuals choose to be present and to give energy to themselves or another.  To lean in means to make space and time for something or someone.  The idea of leaning in requires thought and purpose. In a soci

ONE DAY, ONE VERY SIMPLE DAY...

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Ghazaleh Baniahmad May 01 -  September 30, 2017 Opening: Monday May 1st, 5.30-7pm Artist Talk: 6 pmCWSE Hallway Gallery 2nd Floor OISE 252 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON 10am - 8pm daily Free &  accessible Four years ago, I moved with my family to Canada. At that time, my mother had her first stroke. Since then my life – as artist and daughter - has shifted. I focus my attention now on my daily struggle as a woman and on being a daughter of a sick mother and an immigrant. My creative work addresses three themes: mother, immigration and dreams. I reflect on my, and my mother’s, personal journeys. The process I use requires me to excavate thoughts and emotions, and in analyzing these and by making art, I experience a healing. I focus on the love among women in our family: how my mother’s love shaped me and my sister and made us strong. My mother’s stroke has made it difficult for her to hide her emotions and now her daughters ponder whether we need to s