I Want To Be A Camera: Songs About Photography

Saturday, May 31, 2025 | 8 – 11pm (doors 7pm)
Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt Rd
PWYC in support of West End Phoenix | Please RSVP by email

Join CONTACT for a party and concert to celebrate the closing of the 2025 Festival, co-presented by West End Phoenix. Featuring music from Dave Bidini, Ian Goodtimes + more!

Photo: Margaret Mulligan

photoED Magazine: Meld Issue Launch + Open House

Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 3 – 6pm
CONTACT Gallery, 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 205
Free and open to the public, no registration required

Come celebrate the launch of photoED magazines’ first-ever international edition, Meld!

photoED’s largest issue yet is filled with fresh perspectives on photography from Canada and around the world. Purchase an issue, grab a coffee, and meet the editor and other local contributors. Coffee courtesy of Sparkplug Coffee.

Activist Poster Workshop with Colour Code

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | 7 – 9pm
CONTACT Gallery, 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 205
$60 + HST per person, includes all materials | Register here

Join Colour Code for an evening workshop making your own protest / activist risograph poster, in conjunction with the reading room exhibition Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print.

Take home ten (10) 11 x 17″ risograph prints of your own creation (1-2 colour), plus a print exchange with all workshop participants.

In this workshop participants will:

• create an artwork using collage materials
• scan artwork for printing
• learn basic risograph skills

This workshop is suitable for any level of experience, no digital tools are required.

A maximum of 8 designs can be printed during this workshop; we welcome duos or groups who want to make a poster together!

Established in 2012. Colour Code is an independent print studio and publishing platform based in Toronto, Canada. They specialize in high quality, artist friendly printing for local, US and international customers, and also publish and distribute small-run artist books, comics, posters and other printed matter.

Questions? Please email photobook@contactphoto.com

Flashpoint! Reading Room Tour with Kerry Manders

Thursday, June 12, 2025 | 7 – 8pm
CONTACT Gallery, 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 205
Free and open to the public, no registration required

The Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print Reading Room showcases a selection of more than 90 photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals, and alternative newspapers addressing protest and resistance, and highlighting photography’s critical role within it.

Join Toronto-based writer, editor, and photographer Kerry Manders as she discusses her essay on AIDS in visual culture written for the Flashpoint! anthology, and highlights some of the printed matter on view in the exhibition’s chapter on Gender and LGBTQ+ rights.

Kerry Manders is a contributor to The New York Times, T Magazine, The Advocate, and Aperture, among other publications, where she explores various aspects of queerness, mourning, and photography. Her first collaborative chapbook (with Brandy Ryan), After Pulse, was published by knife І fork І book (2019) and her second (with Tom Cull), Keep Your Distance, by Collusion Books (2021). She is currently writing a mourning memoir.

For all upcoming programming for the 2025 Festival, please visit contactphoto.com.

CONTACT Photography Festival
80 Spadina Ave, Suite 205
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2J4
416 539 9595
info@contactphoto.com
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