WARP

📡📡📡 WARP PRESENTS: CRAFT, CARE + CONTINUITY [💬] panellist @djdelpilar of @homo_phono on CBC Radio 1: All In A Day segment ahead of our FREE @craniumartsproject panel TODAY/ Saturday, May 8 at the National Arts Centre 📍 Visit the link in our bio to hear the interview and pull up 🔗

WARP PRESENTS: CRAFT, CARE + CONTINUITY [💬] SAVE THE DATE — this Saturday is our first-ever curated panel discussion as part of/ made possible by @craniumartsproject 🤝…. and it’s completely FREEEE to attend 👀 Join us as local multi-hyphenate artists come together to exchange strategies on sustaining creative work, building community spaces, and managing burnout 🗣️🧠 Swipe to learn more about our moderator @imshababa + panelists @likeadayoftheweek @djdelpilar @princia.c 🔍 📌Saturday, May 9 from 4:05-5:05pm Peter A. Herrndorf Place (National Arts Centre) Visit for full conference programming

Following our Event Central session the previous day, we will be joined by @thegrove613 on April 16 from 7-8pm to break down the science of selecting a venue. 🧠🫟 Learn about best practices directly from @strastmedia , who doubles as an artist and studio owner. And guess what?👀 Session attendees will receive 20% off their first studio booking at The Grove!💥 🔗 Register via the link in the bio - we highly encourage you to submit questions in advance to ensure they’re answered during the session.

Yes it is April Fools, but no, this is not a joke. We’re back with another Brain Splatter session - join us on April 15 from 7-8pm for an online presentation and open Q&A on the City of Ottawa’s Event Central office 🧠🫟 Learn about the essentials of municipal bylaws and special event permit applications to ensure your next event is compliant 🤓☝️ 🔗 Register via the link in the bio - we highly encourage you to submit questions in advance to ensure they’re answered during the session.

Between October - November 2025, we hosted our final* cohort! We chose to try something new by expanding from a 3-day to a 4-day model to ensure enough time for each pillar of WARP to be experienced in a full-day format 🤓☝️ 🔑Day 1: Event Planning Fundamentals with @debaser__ - two-part workshop and roundtable discussion to unpack each mentee’s proposal 🔑Day 2: Accessibility Planning with @propellerdance - two-part workshop and guided movement exercises 🔑Day 3: Harm Reduction and Bystander Intervention Training - dual workshop and roleplaying activities led by @cazadorescowgirl , followed by an info session with resources by @maxottawa.ca 🔑Day 4: Day-Of Operations with @skulkd_ (WARP Partner) - dual workshop and interactive event simulation We are immensely grateful to host our sessions in @artengine (Day 1-3) and @saw_centre (Day 4). Additionally, Mentees had the opportunity to volunteer at Pique winter edition through E.Q.U.I.P.E (Harm Reduction Outreach) and Merchandise 🧠 Although it was bittersweet that the last cohort in this format, we’re not going anywhere! Stay tuned for upcoming programming and other ways to get involved 👀 📸 @throughmy_lenzz / @daviddpistol

Meet the Isaruit Youth Collective - a for youth, by youth roundtable within the Isaruit Inuit Arts organization 🎨 Their WARP Project is a youth-led workshop series with Elder consultation, bringing Inuit youth together to create mobile plexiglass and wooden art displays for a rotating gallery in their space. Rooted in Inuit traditions of woodworking and upcycling materials, participants will build practical skills in design, fabrication, and collaboration, with the displays evolving alongside and supporting the ongoing transformation of the space 🪾🧠💡

Meet @ubuntuarthouse — grassroots collective for and by artists spanning Turtle Island to Mauritius 📍✨ Over the years, Saivani and Henzy have engaged with art that connects to traditional and cultural forms of expression through visual, sonic, and digital art 🖼️🤖 Together, their WARP project will take a multidisciplinary / co-creation approach to collective rage and grief. Centering the cultural practice of slowing day and restarting the day, their full day event will be filled with sound making, rage quilt making and tea 🫖 In collaboration with the team lead at We Matter, it’ll be a closed space for Black, Indigenous, South Asian and other racialized folks to express themselves and share experiences without judgement 🫂

Up next, meet Monkey Buziness! Founded by four multidisciplinary artists with diverse backgrounds in film, music, and visual arts, @themonkeybuziness are a multimedia label rooted in community, collaboration, and authentic storytelling 🎭 Co-founder Tchayé will represent Monkey Buziness as a Cohort #4 Mentee. Born from the vibrant intersection of French and West African heritage, they are a bilingual photographer, cinematographer, and filmmaker 🧠 💡 Led by Tchayé, their WARP project is in collaboration with SHIFT (multi-day summit) and the Ottawa Film Festival, and will debut ‘Labia Cinematica’ — curated film workshops and panels centering queer, trans, and non-binary individuals through intersectionality, intimacy, and authentic representation both on the screen + behind the scenes 🎬

📯 It’s time to announce our Cohort #4 Mentees, starting with Danayit 🔑 a storyteller, curator, and photographer who weaves culture, art, and connection into every community event they shape and organize. Through her project, Danayit is creating a space for immigrant and first-generation voices to share their experiences of home, belonging, and identity through art. Centering collaboration, respect, and accessibility, this event will highlight underrepresented stories while building connections across communities and inviting the public to reflect on shared experiences of displacement and resilience. ✊💌✨🪩

Before we introduce our Cohort #4 Mentees…we want to invite you to the Creative Opportunities Conference at the Ottawa Art Gallery📍on Sunday, October 19, from 10:00-4:00pm 🗓️ This FREEEE event will focus on arts education and artistic development opportunities available throughout Ottawa-Gatineau — and we’ll be among them! Our Program Team @maebe.maeve @kingslxy will be stationed at the Info Fair to chat about our multi-faceted mentorship model, and tease some* of our near-future plans as we evolve. Stop by and be sure to fill out our questionnaire (launching publicly December 2025) - we want to hear from you! 💬 Not only that, our Co-Founder @pink_veil_ will be on a panel chatting about Creative Careers 🤓☝️ Register for the C.O.C through the link in our bio 🔗

Don’t fear the CRA! Let them fear you once you’re armed with the basic fundamentals of accounting 🫵🗂️ Open to WARP alum and the broader arts community, learn about Accounting for Creatives by @timmacmillarpth of @ayeayemusicfinancial 🎸🤑 Join us for a virtual crash course and group Q&A session on September 25 at 7:00pm! 🧠🫟 🔗 Registration via the link in the bio - we highly encourage you to submit questions in advance to ensure they’re answered during the session.

Thank you for applying 🔑🫂 🥁 We received 34* applications this time around, welcoming at least 28 first-time applicants to our community 🫶🏼 Our peer assessment committee is currently reviewing applications, making it possible for us to announce results to all applicants on October 7 at 5:00pm. 💌✨ If you are selected for WARP for our final* cohort.. congratulations in advance! If you’re not…we still got you: 🔑 Get feedback on your application during our Q&A Session on October 16 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm 🔑 Access Brain Splatter 🧠 - we’re announcing our next speaker on Monday 🔑 We’ve already began pairing past non-selected applicants with other partner opportunities…and these efforts will continue to evolve down the road + we will introduce new WARP offerings! Stay tuned and in touch…👀 *We have received requests for application extensions, which we have granted and are due at a later date. As a result, the current number does not reflect the final count.