[The Public News] February 2016


February 2016 In this issue 1. Greetings! 2. In the studio 3. In the community 4. On the streets 5. What we're doing 6. What we've done 7. Housekeeping! The Public is an activist design studio specializing in changing the world. Stay in touch 24 Ryerson Avenue, #302 Toronto, Ontario M5T 2P3 647 477 7474 Follow us Website Twitter Tumblr Facebook Forward to a friend Unsubscribe	1. Greetings from The Public! Happy New Year! With 2016 here and the lunar new year in full effect, we’ve already gotten a head start on what is sure to be an amazing year of community-building, design, activism and fun. 2. The Public News: In the Studio Sowing seeds for Spring internships We had an overwhelming response to our call for summer interns! The applications are in and we are starting on what will surely be a difficult selection process. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sorting through all the submissions and preparing to interview a short-list. Good luck to everyone who applied this year! To stay updated on the latest intern callouts, follow us on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook! The future starts with a vision Our team got together during the holidays for visioning session to imagine and carve out ways we want to move forward and build on our history, relationships, and strengths. Stay tuned for exciting updates on upcoming co-creation, community outreach and self-initiated projects! Art + Social Justice Exchange Sheila recently spoke at the closing plenary Community Building with Art and Design alongside Melissa Moore from Y-LLEAD, Jason Samilski from CUE, and Naty Tremblay from Sketch at the Art + Design Social Justice Exchange, a conference organized by the OCAD Student Union to bring together innovative people using art and design to create meaningful and radical change. 3. The People News: In the Community OCAP Speaking Series #2: Gentrification Thursday February 18, 6:00pm at St. Luke’s United Church (353 Sherbourne St.) OCAP is hosting its second event in a speaking series on topics central to organizing around poor people’s issues, this time on Gentrification. With folks across the city facing the displacement of poor and working class housing by unwanted capital investment, there will be much to discuss including what exactly is gentrification, its negative impacts, ways to contest it, and who is and isn’t being made accountable to these neighbourhoods. Find out more about this event here! Focus Fridays at Pio! *Friday February 19, 2pm-7pm at Pio! (163 Sterling Road, #116)* PIO Centre for Drawing is hosting a weekly drop-in for people to work on their art, homework or independent projects in a low-volume, studious space. Access to art supplies is offered on a sliding scale basis and folks are welcome to bring snacks, drinks, and anything else you need. The Focus Fridays drop-in is open to anyone interested with a suggested $10 or pay-what-you-can. Find out more here! Pixelation - Panel Talk / Discussion Wednesday February 24, 5pm-6:30pm at OCAD (100 McCaul St.) Pixelation is about interrogating the ways in which contemporary art and design perpetuate or challenge anti-blackness. This panel will feature insights from artists, activists, and curators Theresa Hopkins, Genevieve Wallen, and Jordon Veira, moderated by Syrus Marcus Ware, in an exploration of how contemporary art and design can be used as a tool for reclamation and decolonization. Find out more about this event here! 4. The Public News: On the streets Natalia is excited for what lies ahead in 2016! Big changes came her way as she recently started teaching a course on Design and Social Justice at George Brown College. She will also become a student herself come March when she starts her class in front-end development with Bitmaker Labs. Anabel started off the year with some exciting new activities, such as joining an online course on Caliban and the Witch, the history of the witch-hunts in Europe and collective resistance to oppression as it relates to the foundations of early capitalism, and ways to create a different world today. Meanwhile, her biceps are getting beefy with the start of another series of waacking dance classes with Ashley Colours Perez. She has also been facilitating strategy sessions with activist organizations and looking into getting trained in somatic/body-based models of counseling. Sheila was a featured speaker on the closing plenary on art, design and community-building at the Art and Design Social Justice Exchange at OCAD, and at the New College Library at the University of Toronto for the Power Up Women, Tech and Social Justice conference. She was honoured to give an Artist Talk on zines and anti-oppression at the Indigenous Visual Culture Centre at OCAD and to be the guest designer for the AGO’s February First Thursdays. In the coming weeks, she’ll be speaking at the Unitarian Fellowship on art and anti-oppression, and participating in an International Women’s Day panel and book-signing at Indigo Yonge and Eglington location. She is on the hunt for a new west-end punching palace to keep up with her boxing chops and and is excitedly planning her spring garden. 5. What we're working on • Spring 2016 issue of Sex, Etc. magazine • Branding mentorship for Youth Opportunities Fund group, Words of Wisdom • Design of an annual report for the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network • Production of an eBook on labour and LGBTQ rights for the Canadian Labour Congress • Development of a toolkit exploring domestic violence and the workplace for the Canadian Labour Congress • Design of booklet welcoming newcomer students to school for the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario • A Women’s Equality project for the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario • Site redesign and outreach for Teen Health Source for Planned Parenthood Toronto • Infographics and knowledge-transfer materials for the LGBTQ Home Care Access Project • Site design for a course on Feminist Legal Reform for the National Association for Women and the Law • Site design for the Ontario Women’s Health Network • Workshop and newsletter design for OPSEU local 558 • LGBTQ Youth campaign materials for Planned Parenthood Toronto • Infographics for the Supporting Newcomer Access Project at Planned Parenthood Toronto • Infographic series on health equity for Rainbow Health Ontario • Re-brand and site re-design for the Scarborough Housing Help Centre • Newsletter design for Unifor • Site design for Women’s College Hospital on emergency contraception 6. What we've done • Logo design for the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs) for the Association for Women’s Rights in Development • A poster and brochure exploring domestic violence and the workplace for the Canadian Labour Congress • Winter 2016 issue of Sex, Etc. magazine • Educational materials for the White Privilege campaign for the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario • Curriculum design for the Beyond Bollywood exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum • Video graphics and collateral materials for a project around trans women's experiences with violence for Egale Canada 7. Housekeeping! Find youself in the neighbourhood? Our office is open 9-5, Mondays through Fridays and we are always excited to meet and share with community members and new friends. Stop by and say hello!

February 2016

In this issue
1. Greetings!
2. In the studio
3. In the community
4. On the streets
5. What we're doing
6. What we've done
7. Housekeeping!

The Public
is an activist design studio specializing in changing the world.

Stay in touch
24 Ryerson Avenue, #302
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 2P3
647 477 7474

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1. Greetings from The Public!

Happy New Year! With 2016 here and the lunar new year in full effect, we’ve already gotten a head start on what is sure to be an amazing year of community-building, design, activism and fun.

2. The Public News: In the Studio

Sowing seeds for Spring internships

We had an overwhelming response to our call for summer interns! The applications are in and we are starting on what will surely be a difficult selection process. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sorting through all the submissions and preparing to interview a short-list. Good luck to everyone who applied this year!

To stay updated on the latest intern callouts, follow us on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook!

The future starts with a vision

Our team got together during the holidays for visioning session to imagine and carve out ways we want to move forward and build on our history, relationships, and strengths. Stay tuned for exciting updates on upcoming co-creation, community outreach and self-initiated projects!

Art + Social Justice Exchange

Sheila recently spoke at the closing plenary Community Building with Art and Design alongside Melissa Moore from Y-LLEAD, Jason Samilski from CUE, and Naty Tremblay from Sketch at the Art + Design Social Justice Exchange, a conference organized by the OCAD Student Union to bring together innovative people using art and design to create meaningful and radical change.

3. The People News: In the Community

OCAP Speaking Series #2: Gentrification
Thursday February 18, 6:00pm at St. Luke’s United Church (353 Sherbourne St.)

OCAP is hosting its second event in a speaking series on topics central to organizing around poor people’s issues, this time on Gentrification. With folks across the city facing the displacement of poor and working class housing by unwanted capital investment, there will be much to discuss including what exactly is gentrification, its negative impacts, ways to contest it, and who is and isn’t being made accountable to these neighbourhoods. Find out more about this event here!

Focus Fridays at Pio!
Friday February 19, 2pm-7pm at Pio! (163 Sterling Road, #116)

PIO Centre for Drawing is hosting a weekly drop-in for people to work on their art, homework or independent projects in a low-volume, studious space. Access to art supplies is offered on a sliding scale basis and folks are welcome to bring snacks, drinks, and anything else you need. The Focus Fridays drop-in is open to anyone interested with a suggested $10 or pay-what-you-can. Find out more here!

Pixelation - Panel Talk / Discussion
Wednesday February 24, 5pm-6:30pm at OCAD (100 McCaul St.)

Pixelation is about interrogating the ways in which contemporary art and design perpetuate or challenge anti-blackness. This panel will feature insights from artists, activists, and curators Theresa Hopkins, Genevieve Wallen, and Jordon Veira, moderated by Syrus Marcus Ware, in an exploration of how contemporary art and design can be used as a tool for reclamation and decolonization. Find out more about this event here!

4. The Public News: On the streets

Natalia is excited for what lies ahead in 2016! Big changes came her way as she recently started teaching a course on Design and Social Justice at George Brown College. She will also become a student herself come March when she starts her class in front-end development with Bitmaker Labs.

Anabel started off the year with some exciting new activities, such as joining an online course on Caliban and the Witch, the history of the witch-hunts in Europe and collective resistance to oppression as it relates to the foundations of early capitalism, and ways to create a different world today. Meanwhile, her biceps are getting beefy with the start of another series of waacking dance classes with Ashley Colours Perez. She has also been facilitating strategy sessions with activist organizations and looking into getting trained in somatic/body-based models of counseling.

Sheila was a featured speaker on the closing plenary on art, design and community-building at the Art and Design Social Justice Exchange at OCAD, and at the New College Library at the University of Toronto for the Power Up Women, Tech and Social Justice conference. She was honoured to give an Artist Talk on zines and anti-oppression at the Indigenous Visual Culture Centre at OCAD and to be the guest designer for the AGO’s February First Thursdays. In the coming weeks, she’ll be speaking at the Unitarian Fellowship on art and anti-oppression, and participating in an International Women’s Day panel and book-signing at Indigo Yonge and Eglington location. She is on the hunt for a new west-end punching palace to keep up with her boxing chops and and is excitedly planning her spring garden.

5. What we're working on

• Spring 2016 issue of Sex, Etc. magazine
• Branding mentorship for Youth Opportunities Fund group, Words of Wisdom
• Design of an annual report for the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
• Production of an eBook on labour and LGBTQ rights for the Canadian Labour Congress
• Development of a toolkit exploring domestic violence and the workplace for the Canadian Labour Congress
• Design of booklet welcoming newcomer students to school for the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
• A Women’s Equality project for the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
• Site redesign and outreach for Teen Health Source for Planned Parenthood Toronto
• Infographics and knowledge-transfer materials for the LGBTQ Home Care Access Project
• Site design for a course on Feminist Legal Reform for the National Association for Women and the Law
• Site design for the Ontario Women’s Health Network
• Workshop and newsletter design for OPSEU local 558
• LGBTQ Youth campaign materials for Planned Parenthood Toronto
• Infographics for the Supporting Newcomer Access Project at Planned Parenthood Toronto
• Infographic series on health equity for Rainbow Health Ontario
• Re-brand and site re-design for the Scarborough Housing Help Centre
• Newsletter design for Unifor
• Site design for Women’s College Hospital on emergency contraception

6. What we've done

• Logo design for the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs) for the Association for Women’s Rights in Development
• A poster and brochure exploring domestic violence and the workplace for the Canadian Labour Congress
• Winter 2016 issue of Sex, Etc. magazine
• Educational materials for the White Privilege campaign for the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
• Curriculum design for the Beyond Bollywood exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum
• Video graphics and collateral materials for a project around trans women's experiences with violence for Egale Canada

7. Housekeeping!

Find youself in the neighbourhood? Our office is open 9-5, Mondays through Fridays and we are always excited to meet and share with community members and new friends. Stop by and say hello!