Events
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Flower Power
Flower Power: Poster Exhibition & Artist Flea Market
Join us for Flower Power, a vibrant celebration of local creativity, community, and connection!
Our poster exhibition showcases the incredible talents of emerging artists and designers from Calgary, offering them a platform to share their work, explore new creative pursuits, and build lasting relationships within the local arts community.
Alongside the exhibition, our Artist Flea Market invites you to discover and support local artists selling their original artwork, handmade goods, and creative supplies. It's a unique opportunity for artists to connect directly with the community, while visitors can experience a free art show, shop for affordable art, and meet the makers behind the work.
Located outside Calgary’s downtown core, Greenview Industrial is often overlooked in traditional arts programming. Flower Power helps bridge that gap, offering free access to visual art and community engagement in a welcoming, accessible neighborhood setting. Whether you’re an art lover, a community builder, or just looking for a fun day out, everyone is invited to come explore, connect, and celebrate creativity with us!
- Free admission
- Local artists and vendors
- Music, art, and community vibes
Want to sign up as an art flea or flower/garden vendor? Apply here!
Palentines Market
Get ready for a Palentines Art Show like no other!
Join us for an afternoon of art that's all about love – the messy, funny, and real kind. Grab your pals and come as you are for a vibe that's as relaxed as your favorite hoodie. Better yet bring along a shirt, and we'll help you slap a heart on it with our cool DIY printing activity. It's art, it's love, and it's as easygoing as a Sunday brunch. Let's make some memories, wear our hearts on our sleeves (literally), and celebrate the realness of Palentines at Burnt Toast Studio!
Holiday Market
Our 1st Annual Holiday Market was a hit! In partnership with our neighbours at Lovely Land we hosted an arts market during the holidays. Burnt Toast had posters from the 2023 collection available for purchase and members set up in their studios. The atmosphere was merry and bright! See you again next year!
The Other Side of Stampede Poster Show
Opening Reception July 12th from 6:00pm - 10:00pm
General viewing July 7th - 31st, 2023
Sunday 12–7 p.m. Monday Closed Tuesday 3–10 p.m. Wednesday 3–10 p.m. Thursday 3–10 p.m. Friday 3–11 p.m. Saturday 12–11 p.m.
The Other Side of Stampede a collective exhibition showing another side of our local hootin-tootin, honkey-tonking local wild western carnival that we sometimes (if not mostly) love to hate!
The shows artists include
Mattlan WIckens @mattlanwickens
Samanth Haslam @samanthalucyh
Kristen Falconer @cytoplasm.kd
Kirstin Wiens @longwoolsocks
Sebastian Abboud @sebastianabboud
Lisa Davies @duoyyc
Lyndsay Wasko @lyndsaydraws
Kaitlin Roth @krotchety_
Sam Wey @Lucid.Invitation
Printed @burntotaststudio by your friendly printmakers @alden.aleon and @albertagrrrl.
Posters will be on display and for purchase online.
Sled Island Poster Show 2023
Opening Reception June 20th from 6:00pm - 10:00pm
General viewing June 21st - 25th, 9:00am - 6:00pm
The Annual Sled Island Poster Show returns! A vital part of Sled Island since its inaugural year. The Show pairs local artists with musicians playing the festival to create limited-edition, silk-screened posters by Burnt Toast Studio.
This years musicians and paired artists include;
Osees designed by Josh Ruck
Bartees Strange — Katie Armour
Blackwater Holylight — Janeen Scott
Cola — Mitch Malyk
Emma Ruth Rundle — Kevin Stebner
Haviah Mighty — Chey Suwatagâ-mû
Helado Negro — Sikapinakii Low Horn
Liturgy — Tyler Rambie
Mannequin Pussy — Nicole Haywood
THICK — Paityn Savoie
SPELLING — Mantia Meow Meow
Sun Ra Arkestra! — Jiji Buck
Posters will be on display and for purchase at I Love You Coffee Shop and post festival on the Sled Island Website.
Calgary International Film Festival Poster Show 2022
The CIFF Poster show is a gallery-style presentation of ten works of art by Alberta-based graphic designers, artists and illustrators featuring your favourite film posters re-imagined.
Films and Artists:
Prints are available for purchase on the CIFF Webstore.
LACE + LEGHAIR
Lace + Leghair - A Euphoric Exploration of Gender Outside the Binary
Ash Adams is a trans nonbinary artist, advocate, and educator who grew up in rural Nova Scotia. The artist currently lives and works in Mohkinstsis, Calgary.
They graduated from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2018 with a BFA majoring in ceramics.
Adams is co-founder of Superbloom Collective, a collective that focuses on creating empathetic and connective artworks and pedagogies through public art, mural work, and the facilitation of workshops. The artist is also part of Basic Income Calgary Arts Collective, which is made up of ten artists representing the Artists with Disabilities (AWD) community.
My recent work expresses ideas around choices and mortality as well as identity and the body. I explore concepts of gender through acrylic paintings, mixed media sculptural tableaux and murals. I use my expertise in ceramics to cast parts of my body to manipulate ideas and tell stories. I have a high attention to detail and a fascination with colour. Bright high-contrast colours are employed to create complex backgrounds with a pulsing effect, creating a unique visual experience. I using acrylic paints arrange objects on explosive coloured backgrounds. I want my work to overwhelm and hypnotize the viewer. The backgrounds create an optical illusion, and manipulating my reference images allows me to influence the narrative. I intend to continue my exploration of immersive gallery spaces through detailed works and removable wall coverings, allowing me to integrate the surfaces of the gallery into the installation. And inviting the audience to fully immerse themselves in the colourful, stimulating, vibrating experience.
Re-posted from Ashadamscrewates.com
LITTER - Evan Brien
A long walk down back alleys on a sunny day, a found treasure most would consider trash, and something silly that makes me crack a smile nevertheless. These are the things that ground me and excite me about day to day life, and what I attempt to capture in the artwork I make: presenting themselves as bizzaro wayfinding signage for the back alley of the mind. Humor, a glimpse into the history of space over time, and an introspective look into the process of life, are all aspects that characterize my work through the use of layering found material, uncomplicated imagery, and hand painted lettering onto and throughout each other, tied together with a thin string of narrative. Most often the artwork has a hand in creating itself as I take cues in theme and subject from the found materials themselves; building off of a combination of their colour, texture, original purpose, and the area in which they were found Recurring themes and imagery appear throughout each piece of artwork that give a sense of a continuation of the story. I am interested in ideas surrounding my experiences and those that can be characterized of the working class: monotony, the ebb and flow between comfort and struggle, definitions of success and individual purpose, and the effect that the passing of time has on all these concepts and the way they can be parallelled by the physical nature of found materials and the untold/disregarded history tied to them. - Evan Brien
Visit and follow Evan Brien on istagram at @sunrype.ron.
Calgary International Film Festival Poster Show 2021
The CIFF Poster show is a gallery-style presentation of ten works of art by Alberta-based graphic designers, artists and illustrators featuring your favourite film posters re-imagined.
Films and Artists: BABE, by Halie Finney, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, by KD Falconer, DO THE RIGHT THING, by Nasarimba, E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, by T. Salty, HEATHERS, by Ana Paula Villanueva, IN FABRIC, by Helen Young,
ME BEFORE YOU, by Farimah Khavarinezhad , PANS LABYRINTH, by Katherine Penhale , THE MALTESE FALCON, by Jordan Carson , THE VVITCH, by Geneva Haley .
Prints are available for purchase on the CIFF Webstore.
Words of Affirmation Poster Show 2021
The Words of Affirmation Show was an Alberta-based poster show featuring inspirational slogans. In a world often overwhelmed by negativity and the heaviness of the times we thought we would inject the community with the power of positive words to inspire and transform through spreading messages of encouragement and self-worth presented in partnership with Kaffee Klatsch.
Each carefully crafted poster combines captivating visuals with carefully chosen words, creating a space where viewers can find solace and rediscover their inner strength. This exhibition serves as a reminder that we are deserving of love, happiness, and fulfillment. We invite you to immerse yourself in this collection and let these words become beacons of light, guiding you towards a place of empowerment and gratitude!
Let these posters inspire conversations and acts of kindness, as we collectively create a world that celebrates and supports one another.
Thank you to all the artists participants:
Prints are available for purchase on our website here.
The Glass Mountains Exhibition - Olivia Johnson
Burnt Toast Studio Gallery - Bay 5, 215 36th Ave NE
Drink 'n' Draw - Holiday Edition w/ Hamburger Hands
We had a blast doodling and drawing with people from all around the world join us on zoom to take a few hours to sketch out some very cool holiday themed art. Best of all? A you need for these types of drink and draw events is some of your choice bevies, tools required for your desired drawing method and the time!
Hamburger hands is an extreamly talented artist whose work you can view here @hamburgerhands
Covid Poster Show 2020-21
A lot is going on with the COVID-19 pandemic and it's highlighted stuff emotionally and politically in our province and around the world. In our attempt to have some fun, get closer and share our collective thoughts and feelings Burnt Toast created a window poster challenge and artists submitted designs of which the top five were voted to be silk-screened.
They can now be purchased and shared in your community in your windows and personal spaces. All proceeds are shared between the artists and studio to keep artists working and the doors of the studio open to our members.
A big shout out to all the artist that participated, we loved them all!
Congratulations to the finalists: Marrisa Bailowas - Love isn’t Cancelled, Nini Lee - Wash Your Hands You Filthy Animal, Ryan Kostel - Stay Home, Mike Hooves - Stay Home, Nasarimba - Put People First, Fund Public Service.
The other posters are still up at this link.
Posters will be delivered in Calgary or available for curb-side pickup at the Studio (Bay 5, 215 36th Ave NE) starting on Saturday May 9th and on May 23rd and June 6th from 1pm – 5pm. (Bay 5, 215 36th Ave NE) any questions email us at info@burnttoaststudio.com
