Fall 2025 Programming at 183 Gallery

Alan McKee, The Way Ahead

Home Again
Amazing Moss Park Art Collective

October 1 – 11, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 4, 2 – 8pm | Ticketed Event

Alan McKee, Ryan O’Neil, Jenny Zhang, Andy Lee, Bill Odwori and invited guest artists.

We all live in a place called home whether physical or spiritual. Explore.
Curated by Carol Mark.

DJ Light Immersion Dry Speakeasy-Pre Celebration Nuit Blanche: 6 – 8pm
Garden of Magic is the breakbeat-driven sonic world of Dora Daria—Toronto sound artist and pianist. Weaving bass music, techno, jazz, ambient, and improvisational piano. @agardenofmagic

Life Through The Poetic Lens

Ryan O’Neil and Andy Lee
October 9, 2025, 6 – 9pm

Witness a dynamic journey of art and identity as Ryan O’Neil performs selections from his books, Ritual & Ruin and The Days of Plenty.

Andy Lee, an award-winning Korean-Canadian writer, poet and photographer, will read from Love Is a Side Effect of Life, exploring themes of love, loss, identity and connection.

Blue Mountain Jamaican coffee shots and single estate chocolate snacks from @theloveoftealounge. Fuel Creativity.

Paper Cutting Workshop with Jenny Zhang

October 11, 2025, 1 – 4pm | Ticketed Event $45

Learn the art of Chinese paper cutting steeped in thousand year old history. Take home your framed artwork.

Includes tea & mochi from @theloveoftealounge

About the Artist
Jenny uses paper as a starting point for her artistic creations and to explore self-identity. For her, paper is a simple and accessible material that is also the perfect carrier of emotion and imagination. Inspired by a multicultural living experience in China and Canada.

David Widgington, Mind Maps of Refusal, 2025

Mirror Mirror: Tolerance Mind Maps of Refusal

October 15 – 31, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, October 17, 5 – 10pm

Mirror Mirror is a series of intricate collage-based mind maps that the artist uses to delve into the paradox of tolerance. The paradox is whether a society’s openness can endure unlimited tolerance. When a tolerant society allows intolerance to thrive, it risks its own collapse under intolerance’s brutality. The paradox argues that to preserve an openness to difference, a tolerant society must defend tolerance by actively suppressing the intolerant.

About the Artist
David “widge” Widgington (he/him/they) is a queer undisciplinary artivist. Widge practices a sort of archeology of the present by collecting then remixing ephemeral artefacts before they are buried under the weight of time.

www.burningbillboard.art
@david_widge

From Mindbender With Love, Director Andy Lee, 2025

Queer Film Screenings: Andy Lee + NFB Films

October 23, 2025, 6 – 9pm

An evening of Queer film screenings exploring refusal of gender- and sexuality-based oppression.

From Mindbender With Love (2025) Dir. Andy Lee
A verité portrait of Addi Stewart, a Black Queer hip-hop artist and sex worker who challenges the conservative Toronto community by embodying sexual freedom, body positivity and new expressions of masculinity.

R – Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

NFB Presents:

First Stories – Two-Spirited (2007) Dir. Sharon A Desjarlais, 06:50
The empowering story of Rodney “Geeyo” Poucette’s struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two-spirited person.

Picture This (2017) Dir. Jari Osborne, 33:37
What does it mean to be disabled and desirable? We meet Andrew Gurza, a self-described “queer cripple” who has made it his mission to make sex and disability part of the public discourse.

I Am Gay (2020) Dir. Ajahnis Charley, 10:27
After working abroad for five years, filmmaker Ajahnis Charley returns home to Oshawa, Ontario, in the age of quarantine. In addition to reuniting with his family, he returns with a mission to share some deep personal truths.

Viewer discretion is advised; recommended for audiences aged 13 and up.

Panel Discussion | Popcorn and Beverage
Bring a non perishable for the local food bank.

NFB Films provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada

Sit At My Table Brunch

October 19, 2025 11am – 1pm

Pancakes, Fruit, Quebec Maple Syrup, Coffee, Tea
Where art starts-conversation and food intersect.
Join us to eat, converse and share with each other what is a livable city?

Bring a non perishable for the local food bank.

Blooming Chaos Taste & Smell

October 25, 2025, 1 – 3pm

Intersection of sensory immersion and taste.
Single estate chocolate, tea and coffee set in art immersion experience and scent altering taste. @bloomingchaos.co @theloveoftealounge

Workshop led by Carol Mark, Food Artist.

Ticketed Event: Bring a non perishable for local food bank or $20

For more information about programming, please visit the website.

183 Gallery is home to the Amazing Moss Park Art Collective. The gallery is a community focused on visual art, music, photography and film. Mandate is creating art for social change.

The gallery has pop ups, workshops and events.
Space available for rentals.

183 Gallery / Amazing Moss Park Art Collective
183 Queen St East
Toronto, ON M5A 1S2
amazingmosspark.ca
647-786-4267
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm
Note special events extended hours

Contact:
Carol Mark, Curator
amazingmosspark@gmail.com

Facebook: @amazingmosspark
Instagram: @183gallery

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