I made a schedule of events I am going to (mostly friends) for this years Contact Festival. I am sure the list will grow but here are some of my soon to be favourite shows of the festival.

(Info on my 2010 Contact show HERE)

Friday April 30

Rafal Gerszak, Artist Talk, Working in Afghanistan

Pikto Studio

7-9 pm

The Mechanical Bride

John Armstrong & Paul Collins, Dana Claxton, Kota Ezawa, Jaqueline Hassink, David LaChapelle, Ryan McGinley, Josephine Meckseper, Matt Siber, Alec Soth, Britta Thie

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen St W

Opening-7:00–10:00 pm

Sat May 1

The VERSTS (Версты)-Marina Black

XEXE Gallery

624 Richmond St W

Opening- 2:00–5:00 pm

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/featured-exhibitions/7

The Elephant In The Room

Brent Lewin

Engine Gallery

37 Mill St, Building 37

Opening 6-10 pm

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/open-exhibitions/2

Touchstone exhibition

Cheol Joon Baek/Anne-Marie Jackson

Touchstone Youth Centre, 1076 Pape Ave, Toronto

Opening- 6:00–9:00 pm

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/16

The Brothel Without Walls

Susan Anderson, Evan Baden, Douglas Coupland,

Jessica Dimmock, Marina Gadonneix,

Clunie Reid, Stefan Ruiz, Joachim Schmid,

Christopher Wahl, David Rokeby, Lewis Kaye.

15 King’s College Circle, enter from Hoskin Ave.

Opening-7:30-9:30 pm

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/primary-exhibitions/182

May 3

Congo on the Wire- Finbarr O’Reilly

Canadian Broadcasting Centre

Opening- 8:30–10:00 pm

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/featured-exhibitions/145

May 4

Lecture

MAGNUM PHOTOS - Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb

Ryerson University - George Vari Engineering Building

245 Church St

ROOM ENG 103

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/talks/253

May 5

Lecture

MAGNUM PHOTOS - Constantine Manos

Ryerson University - George Vari Engineering Building

7:00 pm

245 Church St

ROOM ENG 103

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/talks/270

Thursday May 6

Exposed: Pervasive Infuence

Steven Beckly, Genevieve Blais, Colin Carney, Geneviève Caron, Tifffany Doldron, Sheryl Dudley, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Sarah Febbraro, Derek Flack, Joe Fleming, Ruth Gillson, Brett Gundlock, Ferdinand Herrera, Sophie Hogan, Katia Houde, Courtney Kelsey, Nicole Koster, Lindsay Lauckner, Esmond Lee, Miklos Legrady, Ben Ng, Gil Reynolds, Walter Segers, Natalia Sokolovska, Barry Stoch, William Suarez, Daniela Tersigni, Genevieve Thauvette, Shelley Wildeman

Gladstone Hotel - 2nd Floor

Opening 6:00–10:00 pm

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/172

Lecture

MAGNUM PHOTOS - Alec Soth

Ryerson University - George Vari Engineering Building

7:00 pm

245 Church St

ROOM ENG 103

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/talks/271

Friday May 7

User- Tony Fouhse

Pikto Gallery

Opening 6- 10 pm

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/featured-exhibitions/6

Subjective

Kitra Cahana, Ryan Carter, Simon Hayter, Eamon Mac Mahon, Dominic Nahr, Liz Rubicam

O’Born Contemporary

710 Yonge St, Upstairs

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/featured-exhibitions/50

Saturday May 8

Duncan

Johan Hallberg-Campbell

The Rivoli

332 Queen Street West

Opening 2:00pm - 8:00pm

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=115164208507362

Thursday May 13

Some Kind of Divine-Ruth Kaplan

Ryerson Gallery, 80 Spadina Ave., Ste 305

Opening- 6-9 pm

http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/featured-exhibitions/80

This blog has been a little quiet lately, but my life has been a whirlwind.

I had a double page spread published in the April 27 edition of the National Post on a project that I have been working on for the last six months. I have been fairly quite about this project, but it focuses on a group of Krump dancers and their small apartment in Toronto.

Along with the spread, the post also published a video that I shot- Click Here

And if that is not enough, I will be exhibiting the work in the Contact Photography Festival. I will be showing the work at the Street Dance Acadmey- 160 Spadina Ave. http://streetdanceacademy.com/

http://www.contactphoto.com/view.php?sec=exhibitions&eventid=1579

I will be setting the work up tomorrow and it will be on display until May 29. I will be having a showcase galla on the 29, info is bellow. The event is open to the public and will feature a performance from the Northbuck Dance Crew.

Contact has been a huge process for me that started in December. I had to secure a venue, commit and register for Contact and obviously print the work. Lots of learning in the process, but it will hopefully work out.

I will be posting more info on Contact. I am really excited for the festival and I have already began my gallery tours.