SHEEEP𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁

Reflecting on Scents of Purpose, our very first WorkshoPP!!!! Together we crafted incense by hand, shaped by the sharing of personal narratives and artifacts ✨ Incredibly grateful to Kristi (@kristi_xy ) for gifting us her knowledge, Lily (@lilylilylala ) for the intentional planning and support , and everyone who attended and made this one so special! Keep an eye out for more exciting programming from SHEEEP School (@sheeep.school ) as well! Our first ever workshop was unforgettable, thank you 🫶🏼✨🥺 📸: @uhhhwhy

Join us for another poetry session where we learn about and hear the works of different poets from around the world in different languages. - Thurs Oct 30, 2025 at 6-9pm (we begin at 6:30) At @baaa______baaa 300 Campbell Avenue, unit 114 (please use main entrance from Campbell, not laneway) Free / PWYC (Pay What You Can) funds will be used to cover expenses facilitated by @sami_sabz @amirhesam.monshi @rezaniik - For the forever child For how children make, immediately to un-make, and then again. For how they play, with no counting; learning through playing. For how they face the reality, in-time, with the least knot-work to the long gone past, with the least projection to the unknown future; engaged in the stretching now. The story of the inner child taking the wheel has long been an icon of true freedom, seen a lot to be represented with the metaphor of flying. Exciting enough, Antoine De Saint Exupery was really a pilot; and The Little Prince to be his long lasting legacy of how the child knows better! In this poetry night, we take this book/idea as inspiration, we bring together thoughts and pieces under the theme of the forever child. - Drawing by @sami_sabz - Light snacks and refreshments provided. Feel free to bring food or snacks to share. - Limited space Link in bio to reserve your spot If you have accessibility needs, please reach out to us.

Join us for the third session of “terrain and text” facilitated by @farida.archives next week Tuesday Oct 21st at 6-8:30pm at @baaa______baaa - a series of reading group discussions hosted by Farida Rady where we engage with various lines of geographic thought. Collectively, we traverse a range of texts bound together by a critical spatial approach. Topics include legal geographies, power and state formation, land politics and migration, urban rights and resistance, and creative praxis. Pre-reading is highly encouraged, and discussions will be casual and informal. - The third session of terrain and text focuses on abolition geography and considers “freedom as a place,” as Ruth Wilson Gilmore teaches us. We will take a closer look at the spatial and geographic applications of an abolitionist framework. What does abolition look like in practice, on the ground? Why are declarations of “innocence” counter-intuitive to the project of abolition? What do we mean when we say abolition is presence, not absence? Rather than focusing exclusively on prison abolition, we will follow Gilmore’s lead and discuss how people make freedom and imagine home against the gears of racial capitalism and imperialism on multiple scales and fronts. The text will be emailed to registrants ahead of the session, and a few printed copies will be available. - When: Tuesday, Oct 21st. Doors open at 6:00PM, discussion begins at 6:30PM sharp, and ends by 8:30PM. - 🔗 link in bio to register and for more details limited capacity free of charge but donations appreciated

introducing Scents of Purpose – a WorkshoPP led by Kristi Chen (@kristi_xy ), in partnership with @sheeep.school !! come join us for a gathering of thoughts, discussions, and making through the contexts of incense and its histories. October 18th, 2-6pm at BAAA! (300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114) limited tickets available, peep the eventbrite link in bio! graphics by @mr.cheapandcheerful

Join us for another poetry session where we learn about and hear the works of different poets from around the world in different languages. - Thurs sept 18, 2025 at 6-9pm (we begin at 6:30) At @baaa______baaa 300 Campbell Avenue, unit 114 (garage door entrance off the laneway) Free / PWYC (Pay What You Can) funds will be used to cover expenses facilitated by @sami_sabz @amirhesam.monshi @rezaniik - Much like the past couple of sessions, what we ask is simple: bring a piece of text with you—one, or many, in any language, in any form. If you’re not comfortable sharing, that’s okay too. You’re welcome to come, listen, and join the conversation however you like. This session is about welcoming all kinds of thoughts. A poem. A fragment. A line you’ve been holding onto. Bring what you feel drawn to share—or simply point us to it, and we’ll look it up together. - Drawing by @sami_sabz Light snacks and refreshments provided. Feel free to bring your own food to eat while we read. - Limited space Link in bio to reserve your spot If you have accessibility needs, please reach out to us.

RECAP —— AMMC (Anti-Making Making Club) meets every other Wednesday at @baaa______baaa to work on whatever creative project you want, as an act of centring anti-capitalist values and economies. Be it mending some old clothes, drawing, sculpting, jewelry making, crocheting, or more, come for skills building, joy, and togetherness. Stewarded by @lilylilylala @georgiaa.t @mimitherealme @rkubba and many others. If you’d like to join, DM us to be added to the WhatsApp group. Next meeting will be October 1st. 📸: @mimitherealme @ne_que @lilylilylala

RECAP —— Poetry Night 005 last month was magical thanks to @sami_sabz @rezaniik and our highly anticipated musical guest @reza.assasi that ended the night while we listened to the sounds of his oud. These more recent poetry nights are about making space for everyone to read and discuss pieces they bring while the facilitators guide and read a selection of poems as well. - Next poetry night is this Thursday Sept 18 w/ @amirhesam.monshi @sami_sabz link in bio for more details and to rsvp

RECAP —— HATCH series (Housing Affordability Tactics for Creative Humans) w/ @ytbgallery continues with @sheeep.studio as we prep for an exhibition in October - last month we hosted a gathering at @baaa______baaa with former 888 Dupont residents to hear stories about their experience while living and/or working in the now demolished building. Participants included tenants from the 90s up until the very last months before they were evicted. - Keep an eye out for the exhibition opening details in the coming weeks at @whippersnappergallery

Join us for the second session of “terrain and text” facilitated by @farida.archives next week Tuesday Sept 2nd at 6-8:30pm at @baaa______baaa - a series of reading group discussions hosted by Farida Rady where we engage with various lines of geographic thought. Collectively, we traverse a range of texts bound together by a critical spatial approach. Topics include legal geographies, power and state formation, land politics and migration, urban rights and resistance, and creative praxis. Pre-reading is highly encouraged, and discussions will be casual and informal. - The second session of terrain and text focuses on land as pedagogy, context, and process, as Leanne Betasamosake Simpson writes. The word “land” is used often in geographic and spatial work, but when we use the word “land,” what do we mean? We will take a closer look at the ideological work this word does. Rather than focusing on the centrality of land dispossession to colonial projects, we will instead discuss land-based learning as a rejection of colonial education systems, as a prerequisite for Indigenous resurgence and nation-building, and as a fundamental site of transformative education for all. The texts will be emailed to registrants ahead of the session, and a few printed copies will be available. - When: Tuesday, Sept 2nd. Doors open at 6:00PM, discussion begins at 6:30PM sharp, and ends by 8:30PM. - 🔗 link in bio to register and for more details limited capacity free of charge but donations appreciated

Join us for our fifth poetry session where we learn about and hear the works of different poets from around the world in different languages. - Thurs Aug 28, 2025 at 6-9pm (we begin at 6:30) At BAAA! 300 Campbell Avenue, unit 114 (garage door entrance off the laneway) Free / PWYC (Pay What You Can) funds will be used to cover expenses facilitated by @sami_sabz @rezaniik - Much like session 004, what we ask is simple: bring a piece of text with you—one, or many, in any language, in any form. If you’re not comfortable sharing, that’s okay too. You’re welcome to come, listen, and join the conversation however you like. This session is about welcoming all kinds of thoughts. A poem. A fragment. A line you’ve been holding onto. Bring what you feel drawn to share—or simply point us to it, and we’ll look it up together. - Drawing by @sami_sabz Light snacks and refreshments provided. Feel free to bring your own food to eat while we read. - Limited space Link in bio to reserve your spot If you have accessibility needs, please reach out to us.

POSTPONED to SEPTEMBER 10th unfortunately- “Achieving social justice will necessitate dismantling the model of the modern national state,” declares the Revolutionary Charter for Establishing People’s Power. “If this is not clearly set as an objective, social justice may be reduced to an individual rather than a societal issue.” The resistance committees in Sudan, who had already brought down one dictatorship in 2019, issued the Charter in January 2023. Join us in reading an excerpt at Study Towards Action 004 w/ @_anupa & @_cadre @sudansolidaritycollective August 27, 6pm at @baaa______baaa Pre-reading not required. RSVP link in bio. - - Photo credit: An Emergency Response Room communal kitchen in Omdurman, Sudan.Photo by Mazin Alrasheed, June 2, 2024.

RECAP —- for Study Towards Action 003 last month, @_anupa & @_cadre had us reading the poetry and reflections of Communist organizer, editor, and cultural worker Claudia Jones. - Study Towards Action 004 is next Wednesday August 27th 6pm - link in bio for details