Kay Slater, illustrator

Hey folks - I'm excited to share a series of free community workshops I'll be hosting with grunt gallery this year. If you are an artists, creator, fine arts administrator, teacher, streamer, content creator, media maker, or have always wanted to get captions and transcriptions on your content - now is your chance! Join me for this half-day FREE workshop series. RVSP: https://grunt.ca/community-workshop-captioning-transcripti/ March 12th - For Galleries, Artist Run Centres, ...& Presenting Spaces March 18th - For Teachers, Teaching Artists, and Caregivers with ArtStarts in Schools for their Professional Development Spring Break session - https://artstarts.com/digital-transformations March 23rd - For Artists & Creators - with ASL Interpretation. April 22nd, April 24th*, or April 25th - in partnership with DTES Small Arts Grant, presented at the Carnegie Community Centre - For Artists and Creators (*will be available in Cantonese).

Chaos printing. I’m working on the final pieces for some work that I be showing at the upcoming @thepapercutarcade online exhibition, Post-Human Romantics, next month. This interactive work, Brambles and Spores, is part of a board game that explores abundance and imbalance. As we are still distancing, I’ll be making a PDF version that will be downloadable for folks to experience on their own. That and more coming up in February 6th!

Join ME on December 19th at 6PM for a Poetry Reading by unit MNRKR1381-3 (Series 3) from their home and performance space on asteroid 2230 JP18 orbiting the star Ferifax. **This free event will be hosted on Facebook and YouTube by ME as part of the Papercut Arcade's forthcoming event - Posthuman Romantics Online Exhibition - the event will have captioned english and audio descriptions. You will not require a FB account to view this programme - tell your friends and join me! I'll be sharing the link for you to RSVP soon.

I am delighted to share the work I have been doing to help artist, print-maker and excellent human Marlene Yuen to realize her upcoming show at @gruntgallery : Cheap! Diligent! Faithful! - @marleneyuen . This mural is a large scale reproduction from Marlene’s new publication that explores the graphic and cultural history of Ho Sun Hing Printers, which closed in 2014 after 106 years of business in Vancouver’s Chinatown. The exhibition also celebrates her book launch as part ...of this year’s @vancouverartbookfair and will be for sale soon! . The mural will be visible from the front entrance so even if you’re not ready to step inside (although there will be works installed and the gallery does have safe visiting rules in place - limited occupancy and masks/sanitization available) you’ll be able to check out Marlene’s new show September 25 - December 12, 2020. The gallery is open 12-5 Tu-Sat. Make a date and come by! . For more about the show check out: https://grunt.ca/exhibitions/cheap-diligent-faithful/ . #yvrart #printmaker #mural #timelapse #gallery See more

[edit] TODAY AT 11AM - view the feed by going to the ArtStarts in Schools page on Facebook to see the feed go live!! Get ready for a new theme this month as we hit September - CIRCLES. Tomorrow our free workshops continue at 11AM in ArtStarts in Schools - lead by me in spoke English. See you and your family then!

My collective The Papercut Arcade is gearing up for their next show in February (6th) conceived and facilitated by Jonathan Dawes. I have some early sketches in progress, but there’s nothing like a deadline is less than 2 months away to put wind in your sci-fi sails. Call is still open for submissions (check out thePapercutarcade.ca) btw if you were interested in responding to a call for PostHuman Romantic role play and creativity! DM me for details if you want to know more and also save the date for December 19th for a performance by 1381MNRKR3, my posthuman mouthpiece for this exhibition.

Calling emerging artists across BC! Applications for ArtStarts in Schools Fall Digital Learning Lab close tomorrow. Sign up for free, online professional development workshops from September 1 to 15 and learn about delivering your work in schools, how to adapt your work to COVID, and delivering accessible programming. Learn more: https://artstarts.com/fall-digital-learning-lab

Back at it again this morning! See you today at 11AM (or anytime you have available to watch and make-along).

Part two of COLLAGE starts at 11 AM. Bring your family for a free, online art-making session together with me!

My collective is live sharing works they created for: Jabblescram Salon Join us for the video share in progress now via Skype (free event): https://join.skype.com/RSffCoOT7En1 https://thepapercutarcade.ca/2020/jabblescram/

New month - new theme! Check out this month's theme introduction video now! Let's explore Mark Making this month! It's a favourite theme of mine, and I'm really looking forward to our free Saturday workshops, online at 11AM. Creators of all ages, families, makers, and art explorers welcome.... See you on the ArtStarts in Schools page this weekend. See more

I'm proud to be hosting this workshop in tandem with Vancouver Library Carnegie Branch and the DTES Small Arts Grants tomorrow in Spoken English, and then again next week with a Mandarin Translator, and in 2 weeks in Cantonese. Join me for this free event.

Today we remember why everyday we must listen, and respect the experiences and trauma of residential school Survivors and their families - and why we must never AGAIN (or fight against those still existing systems of oppression that) allow for the systematic repression and genocide of Indigenous people and culture who are deemed "inconvenient" or "fixable" to work within a colonizer/setter plan or economy. I had the pleasure to host 3 Crows Production last month at ArtStarts in Schools - if you have the chance to work with them or have them in your (physical or virtual) classroom space - I encourage you to take it!