• Winter Stations Art Pop-Ups
• Sundays, February 23 – March 22 | 1-4pm
• 1961 Queen St E (the former Whitlocks Restaurant)
• Cost: FREE

You’re invited to experience Winter Stations in a new and fun way this year! Join The Beach Village BIA, East End Arts, Councillor Brad Bradford's Office & Winter Stations for some unique Art Pop-Ups that invite community members to further explore this year’s Winter Stations theme, ‘Beyond the Five Senses’! From a guided photography workshop on the beach, to the creation of a “Beach Bath” using botanicals foraged from the shores of Lake Ontario, come delve into your senses and creativity with five uniquely-themed art workshops! Join us for:

• “SEE” – February 23, 1-4pm, Photography on the Beach with Diana Nazareth
• “TASTE” – March 1, 1-4pm, Drag, Food & Aesthetics Workshop with Mikiki
• “SMELL” – March 8, 1-4pm, Beach Bath & Wild Foraging Workshop with North Shore Apothecary
• “LISTEN” – March 15, 1-4pm, This is Not a Drum Circle with David Chan
• “TOUCH” – March 22, 1-4pm, Felt Sculpture Workshop with Wendy Anderson

Winter Stations Pop-Up: TOUCH - Felt Sculpture Workshop

Felt artist Wendy Anderson will lead participants in the creation of a textural sculpture using “inclusions” of found-objects from Woodbine Beach in the area around Winter Stations and the wet-felting sculptural process that leads to her unique textile sculpture. These inclusions may be pebbles, driftwood, or the much-coveted beach glass. Participants will meet on the beach and be led through an afternoon adventure in texture, returning to the pop up and culminating in the creation of a unique sculpture that will be entirely inspired by the unique landscape of the place where Lake Ontario meets the shores.

Artist: Wendy Anderson

Wendy’s work is a manifestation of the peculiarities that float without and within her as she bumps along in this world (and possibly others.) Sculpting in wool, hide, quills, bark and found objects, she plays with the relationship between color and form to redefine how you might look at an object, toying with the emotions evoked by the textures of our shared experience.