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Getting On The Same Page: On Refusals + Resistance 🗓️ Friday, May 22, 2026 📍 Gallery TPW ⏰ 6PM-9PM Co-facilitated by Scott Miller Berry and Indu Vashist Artists, curators and cultural workers in Toronto are facing new realities where forms of institutional support and public funding are being systematically dismantled, while burnout and economic precarity have become normalized. This community discussion aims to build a shared understanding of this reality, working to combat delusions we may have about public institutions, funding in the arts and to share strategies for survival amidst these hard truths. Following "On Exiting", the first event in this series, this session asks participants to reflect critically on what to do if we decide to stay: What can we change about artist-run culture and what can we not? How do we face insupportable working conditions of censorship, austerity and refusal in arts institutions? How might community discussion help to reframe these experiences not as personal failures, but shared public insurmountable conditions under pandemic, late capitalism, genocide and climate catastrophe? Participants are invited to share their experiences in the round, to share what we know must change and to continue to add to a growing timeline of (forced) exits in the Toronto arts world, started in Session #1 (On Exiting). Access notes: A live annotation/transcript of the discussion will also be provided, as well as food and refreshments. There will be a separate room available for anyone to have a quiet space for contemplation outside of the main discussion space. The gallery is wheelchair accessible with a ramp at the door and a barrier-free gender-neutral washroom. Microphones will be used for the discussion circle. 🔗 Register through the link in our bio by May 20, 2026. The discussion is open to the public, but spaces are limited. — On Refusals + Resistance is a part of You Can Always Just Leave, a research project into forms of feminist refusal led by Gabrielle Moser, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), with organizing support from EMILIA-AMALIA, Dana Prieto and Liz Ikiriko.

TPW Fellows | Publication Launch and Artists’ Talk  🗓️ Saturday, May 23, 2026 📍 Gallery TPW ⏰ 2PM-4PM Please join us next Saturday to celebrate the culmination of the 2025/26 TPW Fellows! 🎉 Over the past year, the TPW Fellows, an expanded fellowship, brought together an artist, curator, and writer to build connections and support new, experimental projects. Evolving from Gallery TPW’s Indigenous Curatorial Research Fellowship, the TPW Fellows program was designed to foster collaboration and cross-cultural community among artists, writers, and curators, creating space for caring critique beyond formal academic settings.  We were pleased to welcome artist Jaiden George (Tofino/Vancouver), writer Nawang Tsomo Kinkar (Montreal/Toronto), and curator Safia Siad (Montreal/Calgary/Toronto) as members of the inaugural TPW Fellows cohort. Meeting monthly online, the group shared their practices, identifying areas of interest, curiosity, and experimentation. Through these conversations, a sense of trust and kinship developed, alongside opportunities for meaningful feedback and the exploration of connections across their work with the goal of creating insight for each participant's praxis. Join us as we launch the TPW Fellows publication highlighting each cohort’s practice, along with an included conversation on citation, memory and family lineages.  — The TPW Fellows is generously supported by TD Bank, with publication printing by @colourcodeprint .

Waard Ward tulip sale this Saturday May 9 🌷 Locally grown tulip bouquets for all the mamas and aunties in your life. Proceeds will go to mutual aid in Gaza. Cash preferred pls! We sell out every year, so come early!! 💐💐💐 Gallery TPW, 170 St Helens Ave 11am-1pm Thanks to supportive hosts @gallerytpw and our collaborator & garden designer @posygang 🌷🌱🌷 Waard Ward is a contemporary arts collective based in Tkaronto/Toronto that collaborates in floristry, decolonial research, and newcomer community support. We create floral arrangements, build community gardens, support mutual aid networks, and teach floristry to newcomers (in and out of classrooms) - all to embody generous and fruitful futures. ❤️❤️❤️

Join us in Toronto and Brampton for the premiere screening of the short film 'Landlines' by Miru Yogarajah (@bubblewandbrb ) and Jay Aramboo (@jayaramboo )! Landlines follows migrant truck drivers living in the Greater Toronto Area as they navigate the unjust realities of the trucking industry — wage theft, inadequate training and unsafe conditions, exploitative pay, grueling hours, and constant surveillance inside their trucks. The film is followed by a Q&A with Miru Yogarajah, Jay Aramboo and the documentary participants. Toronto screening: Thursday May 21, 7:00–8:30pm @GalleryTPW Brampton screening: Sunday May 31, 4:00–5:00pm Central Public School Head to the link in our bio for more info. No RSVP needed.

This week, our community lost a deeply cherished artist, educator and friend. With great love, we say farewell to Jessica Karuhanga — whose spirit, warmth, generosity and talent enriched Gallery TPW’s programming and operations over many years. She helped steward TPW by serving on our Board of Directors from 2017-2020. Centring the body Jessica’s intimate and political work contributed to programs and exhibitions including Between grain, dune, salt and sky (2025), curated by Sarah Edo, and Visiting Hours (2019) by k.g. Guttman. Her impact within the Toronto arts community was profound, recognized and appreciated by many. We will deeply miss your presence and your light. Rest in peace, Jessica Karuhanga.

Gallery TPW has recently launched the Toronto Collectors Workshop, a new membership initiative offering an intimate setting for thoughtful dialogue around contemporary photography and the practice of collecting. Designed to foster critical conversation and meaningful engagement, the Workshop brings together a focused community of collectors, gallerists, and artists. Last week, we welcomed Juliana Zalucky (Director, ZALUCKY (@zaluckycontemporary )) alongside curator and consultant Alex Bowron, who led an engaging discussion on connoisseurship, current market trends, and approaches to building a personal collection rooted in curiosity and enjoyment. If you’re interested in joining these conversations and becoming part of this growing network of dedicated collectors, please reach out to [email protected] to learn more about membership. More info in our bio.

Thank you to everyone who came out to see a ‘___lineage of transgression___’ at TPW over the past few months! 🖤 Gallery TPW is now closed for installation until June as we prepare for our next exhibition. For any urgent inquiries during this time, please reach out to staff through the contact information on our website. In the meantime, you can now watch a highlight from the CODA symposium, a conversation between Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Dr. Ola Mohammed, through the link in bio. 💫 Stay tuned for future announcements about our upcoming programming and exhibitions!

Gallery TPW is thrilled to be participating as a partner gallery for this year’s Toronto Biennial of Art, curated by Allison Glenn! ✨ Check out the full list of artists and participating galleries through the link in @torontobiennial ’s bio!

On Exiting A Community Discussion about Withdrawals, Off-Ramps and Forced Departures 🗓️ Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 📍 Gallery TPW ⏰ 6PM-8:30PM With presentations by Aisle4, Gendai and Luis Jacob This roundtable discussion and community workshop is aimed at defining and disentangling different forms of exiting that we are witnessing taking place amongst artists, cultural workers and curators working in Toronto. These forms of leaving, refusal and forced departure are especially impacting those who are working from anti-racist, decolonial, queer, trans and feminist frameworks, and who speak out against the genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli state, who often pay the price for this work through acts of censorship and dismissal. Members of collectives Aisle4 and Gendai will discuss the troubling rise in non-disclosure agreements in the cultural sector, and off-ramps out of arts institutions, respectively, followed by substantial time for community discussion. A key outcome for the event is the building of a timeline of events, physically on paper, of exits, withdrawals, and departures in the Toronto art world, and the collective organizing that has emerged in response to these troubling trends. Luis Jacob will act as a respondent, helping to summarize key themes and outcomes and direct us towards next steps. — Free, but spaces are limited. Please note: as of April 20, this event is at capacity. We are now accepting names on a waitlist. People on the waitlist will be admitted on a first come, first served basis at the door. 🔗 Sign up for the waitlist through the link in our bio! — “On Exiting” is a part of You Can Always Just Leave, a research project into forms of feminist refusal led by Gabrielle Moser, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with organizing support from EMILIA-AMALIA, Dana Prieto and Liz Ikiriko.

Joys and Spool Oven are thrilled to present Café Sprinkle 4: Scent! **This event is sold out*** After three delicious events exploring the domain of dessert, we’re departing from taste to indulge the other senses. For Scent, four readers have been given an olfactory prompt. The prompt and resulting texts will be shared on May 1 at Gallery TPW from 6:30-8:30 pm. Join us for an evening of reading, friendship, and scented communion. Readings by: Kate Brooks Dhvani Ramanujam Fan Wu Jasmine Yangqingqing Yu Tickets ($15) available through the link in bio. Doors at 6! Update: Tickets sold out but a couple spaces will be available at the door. Xo!!! We acknowledge the support of the Toronto Arts Council. :) @torontoartscouncil thank you! * Allergy note: the prompt is not a perfume or chemical fragrance. Please reach out with any questions.

It's the last week to see '___a lineage of transgression___'! 🖤 Drop by between 11AM-5PM Wednesday-Saturday to catch one last look at the exhibition before it closes. Stopping by on Saturday? TPW Curator Liz Ikiriko will be at the gallery offering a curators tour of the show! — 📸: Installation view of 'a lineage of transgression' at Gallery TPW, 2026. Photo: Darren Rigo

Images Festival opens tomorrow, and we’re co-presenting ELIXIR FRAME! This program pairs Serena Lee’s film CURSIVE with Fan Wu’s performance-oration SPIRITUAL METABOLISM: THESES ON TRANSMUTATION. 
How can we cultivate a relation of nourishment, rather than consumption, with moving images? Extending from their ongoing conversation, Serena Lee and Fan Wu invite you into a space of cinematic alchemy—through images, movement, language, and breath. Tickets still available! Purchase yours and see the full description at imagesfestival.com 📅 APRIL 9 | 7:30pm  📍Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue) Screening & Performance Presented by Images Festival, copresented by Reel Asian and Gallery TPW @imagesfestival @serenaplum @abolishedbauble @gallerytpw