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Whippersnapper Gallery is an artist-run centre committed to the cultivation of inclusive spaces for emerging artists.

Whippersnapper Gallery is an artist-run centre committed to the cultivation of inclusive spaces for emerging visual and media arts, community arts, and experimental forms of exhibition making. We provide artists and cultural producers with a flexible platform and exhibition space to expand the parameters of their professional practice. Whippersnapper is structured to encourage peer-to-peer mentorship and promote success by the artists’ own standards. Through critical and diverse programming, Whippersnapper initiates new relationships and unexpected conversations. We facilitate exchange between artists and local communities, and between a spectrum of emerging and established art communities throughout Toronto and Canada.

09/18/2026

Join us on Sat. Sept 26th 2-5pm for a closing party for the exhibition ‘To pick up the pieces.’

A procession performance by artist Golboo Amani Golboo Amani begins at 4pm. Join in a procession walk from Whippersnapper gallery to the waterfront (the Music Garden, approx 45-min walk) to ceremonially release flower garlands and trimmings into the water.

This closing performance is part of ‘To pick up the pieces,’ an exhibition at Whippersnapper Gallery curated by Guidance Council featuring Golboo Amani Golboo Amani, Kristi Chen Kristi Chen, Laura Grier Laura Grier and Khadijah Morley Khadijah Morley that reflects upon collective grief and what emerges from its aftermath.

The exhibition runs September 1-26, 2026. More details at whippersnapper.ca + Whippersnapper

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts.

09/01/2026

‘To pick up the pieces’ opens today! Gallery hours are Sat+Sun 12-5pm, Whippersnapper 594 Dundas St W. September 1-26, 2026.

Featuring artwork by Golboo Amani Golboo Amani, Kristi Chen Kristi Chen , Laura Grier Laura Grier and Khadijah Morley Khadijah Morley that reflects upon collective grief and what emerges from its aftermath.

Curated by Guidance Council (Alexandra Hong Alexandra Hong & Peter Rahul Peter Rahul). Supported by Collective Collective Collective Collective.

Special thanks to Dan Cui dan cui for installation support.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts.

08/28/2026

Join artist Kristi Chen Kristi Chen for an incense-making workshop on Saturday September 12th, 2-5pm at BAAA! (300 Campbell Ave unit 114) RSVP link in bio!

Learn and share about honorific incense practices in this participatory workshop with artist Kristi Chen. Through conversation, material demonstrations, and hands-on incense sculpting, we’ll explore personal and historical narratives together – and make something precious to take home.

As we will be working with fine botanical powders and natural smoke, we are happy to provide N95 masks and safety goggles for your comfort and protection. Please let us know if you have any specific sensitivities or respiratory concerns.

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

This workshop is part of ‘To pick up the pieces,’ an exhibition at Whippersnapper Gallery curated by Guidance Council featuring Golboo Amani Golboo Amani, Kristi Chen Kristi Chen, Laura Grier Laura Grier and Khadijah Morley Khadijah Morley that reflects upon collective grief and what emerges from its aftermath.

The exhibition runs September 1-26, 2026. More details at whippersnapper.ca + Whippersnapper

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts.

08/24/2026

Join artist Laura Grier Laura Grier for an Anti-colonial Sh*t-Talking Zine Party on Saturday September 5th, 2-5pm at BAAA! (300 Campbell Ave #114) RSVP link in bio!

Colonialism, capitalism, and careerism are fatiguing.

In this workshop, participants will talk s**t about capitalism and colonialism, cutting text and images into zines. Come empty handed, or bring old collage materials that need new life.

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

This workshop is part of ‘To pick up the pieces,’ an exhibition at Whippersnapper Gallery curated by Guidance Council featuring Golboo Amani Golboo Amani, Kristi Chen Kristi Chen, Laura Grier Laura Grier and Khadijah Morley Khadijah Morley that reflects upon collective grief and what emerges from its aftermath.

The exhibition runs September 1-26, 2026. More details at whippersnapper.ca + Whippersnapper

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts.

08/18/2026

‘To pick up the pieces’ is an exhibition by Guidance Council Alexandra Hong + Peter Rahul featuring Golboo Amani Golboo Amani, Kristi Chen Kristi Chen, Laura Grier Laura Grier and Khadijah Morley Khadijah Morley that reflects upon collective grief and what emerges from its aftermath.

In addition to the exhibition join us the following programming hosted at BAAA!:

Anti-colonial Sh*t-Talking Zine Party with Laura Grier
Date: Sep. 5, 2026 from 2-5 PM

Making sense of scents with Kristi Chen
Date: Sept 12, 2026 from 2-5 PM

As well as an event at
Closing Party featuring a Procession Performance by Golboo Amani
Date: Sept 26, 2026 from 2-5 PM

September 1 - 26, 2026.
Whippersnapper Gallery, 594B Dundas Street West
Gallery hours Saturday and Sundays from 12-5 PM
Storefront view available 24/7

RSVP Links in bio

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To pick up the pieces is part of a programming series supported by Collective Collective, a project between eight visual arts collectives with majority racialized membership. As a response to the systemic racism and exploitative labour conditions in the arts, as well as the interrelated lack of sustainability within the sector, we are testing out organizational and curatorial practices that centre values of collectivity, solidarity, and mutual aid through resource and labour sharing. Learn more.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts.

06/15/2026

☀️📚 SUMMER OPEN LIBRARY 📚☀️
a space for collective work, study, and conversation

Tuesday evenings
drop in 6-9PM
July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4

Join us for drop-in hours at Whippersnapper this summer to read and chat about the relationship between art and labour, cultural work and community organizing, collective space-making and neighbourhood life. We’re interested in forms of struggle and coalition against displacement in Kensington and Chinatown specifically, while inspired by artists’ experiments in building autonomous infrastructure around the world. We will have zines, pamphlets, books, articles, and supplies to write or draw with.

Please DM us if you have printed materials you’d like to donate or lend to our collective library! Photocopied flyers, workshop handouts, teach-in reading lists, out-of-print movement journals, leftover wheatpasting posters, etc. — with a DIY ethos, and in the spirit of moving cultural work from the gallery into the real world, we want to see it all!

We will provide coffee, tea, water, stretch breaks, and light snacks for morale. Feel free to bring more snacks or drinks to share 🥟🍵

**swipe through for some examples of what we’re reading**

05/28/2026

🎬 BlockStar Collective by Nala Haileselassie
✨ A 2026–27 PEERS Public Project ✨

“How can we learn from each other’s homes, families and blocks?”

BlockStar Collective is a collaborative film workshop series (July/August 2026) inviting youth ages 14–18 from Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods to experiment with filmmaking through radical film education, hands-on production workshops, and the creation of a collective short film.

Through storytelling, collaboration, and filmmaking, participants will reflect on:
📍 What stories live inside our apartment buildings, plazas, parks, and neighbourhoods?
📍 How do our homes, families, and communities shape the way we see the world?
📍 What can we learn from each other’s blocks, memories, and everyday environments?

Led by Toronto-based artist, researcher, and curator Nala Haileselassie, BlockStar Collective offers an experimental and collaborative space for youth to create, connect, and share perspectives through film.

Participant Criteria
🔹 Open to youth ages 14–18 based in Toronto priority neighbourhoods
🔹 All levels of arts and filmmaking experience welcome
🔹 Priority given to Indigenous, Black, racialized, Deaf, Mad, Disabled, and 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, and other equity-deserving communities
🔹 $500 honorarium provided for participation
🔹 Transit fare, materials, and meals provided
🔹 Additional screening and panel fees may be available pending funding
🔹 Must be available to attend all in-person sessions

🗓️ Apply by June 29, 2026: www.whippersnapper.ca/peers, or at the link in our bio!

BlockStar Collective is part of PEERS Public Projects, produced by Whippersnapper Gallery.

Poster designed by Moe Pramanick

🙏 With gratitude to for supporting this work.

05/26/2026

📣 Another Way by Wend Yasen
✨ A 2026–27 PEERS Public Project ✨

“Poetry is…a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” — Audre Lorde

Another Way is an interdisciplinary workshop series (July/August 2026) inviting multilingual participants ages 18–35 from the Greater Hamilton Area to explore storytelling practices beyond fluency. Through writing prompts, group conversation and performance, sound, and visual experimentation, participants will create poetic scores — creative instructions, gestures, prompts, and notations that guide artistic expression.

Together, participants will reflect on:
📍 What does poetry teach us about noticing and living?
📍 How can storytelling exist beyond fluency or formal language?
📍 In what inter and multidisciplinary ways can we create a score?

Led by Hamilton-based writer, artist, and performer Wend Yasen and multidisciplinary storyteller, poet and musician Aliyah Aziz, Another Way offers a collaborative space to create, connect, and explore language through alternative forms of storytelling.

Participant Criteria
🔹 Open to bilingual and multilingual participants ages 18–35 based in the Greater Hamilton Area
🔹 All arts and writing experience levels welcome
🔹 Honoraria, materials, transit fare, and meals provided
🔹 Additional artist fee for exhibition participation
🔹 Must be available to attend all in-person sessions

🗓️ Apply by June 29, 2026: www.whippersnapper.ca/peers, or at the link in our bio!

Poster designed by Moe Pramanick

🙏 With gratitude to for supporting this work.

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Toronto, ON
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Friday	1pm - 7pm
Saturday	1pm - 7pm

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http://whippersnapper.ca/

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