BRIDGING THE BEATS - JUNE 26, 6:30-8:30PM

Bridging the Beats: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts

Featuring Kimmortal

Thursday, June 26th | 6:30 to 8:30 pm | Graffiti Gallery – 109 Higgins Ave

FREE

Join us for an inspiring evening of connection, collaboration, and creative community at Graffiti Gallery, where artists from all genres, mediums, and lived experiences will gather to explore how we can work across disciplines to build bold, meaningful work together.

Taking inspiration from the deeply collaborative nature of hip hop, a culture that has long united music, dance, visual art, and storytelling, this event invites you to find your creative kin, share your practice, and spark ideas that cross boundaries.

Featuring a keynote presentation by acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Kimmortal, who will share stories, strategies, and insights on how to build powerful collaborative projects that challenge the norm and amplify community voices. Expect a mix of music, visuals, spoken word, and conversation that bridges artforms and lived experience.

Whether you’re a dancer, visual artist, beatmaker, filmmaker, writer, poet, stylist, or something in between – this is your space to link, learn, and explore.

Participate to:

• Hear how Kimmortal blends music, visual art, and storytelling in powerful ways

• Discover new collaborators from different artistic disciplines

• Share your work and creative interests

• Connect with other emerging and established artists

• Leave inspired to build something new, with your community

Employment Opportunity: Gallery Assistant

Graffiti Art Programming Inc. (GAP) is a not-for-profit youth art centre that provides free art programming and mentorship to youth in Winnipeg’s Downtown and North End communities. Graffiti Art Programming Inc. is hiring for the position of Gallery Assistant. This is a 10-week position at 30 hours per week. This position is supported by the Canada Summer Jobs program. The Gallery Assistant will work closely with the Gallery Coordinator to support exhibitions, events, educational programming, and outreach. The position would best fit a post-secondary student studying Fine Art, Curatorial Studies, or Education. The role will offer the chosen candidate the chance to develop skills in arts administration and community arts programming.

Type: Term

Rate of pay: $18.00 per hour

Hours: 30 hours per week, primarily daytime Monday through Friday. Some evenings

and weekend shifts will be required to support events

Duration: June 23, 2025 – August 30, 2025

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On display now until September 2025

Winnipeg Artists: Sydney Caldwell, Colleen Simard, Sharyn Gutierrez, Mae Desmond, Margot Morrish and Maria Martin, to exhibit new work at Graffiti Gallery

Showcasing six recent University of Manitoba fine art graduates, Emergence brings together a diverse range of artworks created by the artists during their time at the U of M School of Art.

Emergence brings together six contemporary artists whose practices delve into identity, memory, environment, and transformation. Through painting, mixed media, found objects, digital manipulation, and installation, their work explores the complexities of personal and collective experience. Themes of masculinity, migration, consumerism, Indigenous futurism, and emotional landscapes surface through bold visual languages and imaginative storytelling.

Empowering The Creative Youth of Winnipeg.

We’re hiring

Green Team Youth Recreation Leader

Are you interested in working in community arts, with children and youth? Join Graffiti Art Programming’s team!

July 2 - August 31

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“My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they wake, it will be the artists who give them back their spirits”- Louis Riel

ART AS ACTION Project

Graffiti Art Programming Inc. Art As Action Project focuses on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action. The process involves an open conversation with youth participants and other organizations. Participants will choose one of the 94 calls to action to address and will express it through specialized art projects, involving visual arts, spoken word, music, or dance.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action

“In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to action.”

94 Calls to Action

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#14. We call upon the federal government to enact an Aboriginal Languages Act that incorporates the following principles:

Aboriginal languages are a fundamental and valued element of Canadian culture and society, and there is an urgency to preserve them.
Aboriginal language rights are reinforced by the Treaties.
The federal government has a responsibility to provide sufficient funds for Aboriginal-language revitalization and preservation.
The preservation, revitalization, and strengthening of Aboriginal languages and cultures are best managed by Aboriginal people and communities.
Funding for Aboriginal language initiatives must reflect the diversity of Aboriginal languages.

Riverbend Community School mural project was designed and painted with students from the Riverbend Community School, lead by mentoring artist Jedrick Thorassie. Their mural was based on Call to Action #14.

ACCESSIBILITY

Graffiti Gallery is committed to ensuring our gallery and activities are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.

We believe that people have the right to feel safe and included at all Graffiti Gallery events regardless of age, ancestry, colour, family status, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, seen/unseen disability, place of origin, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or source of income.

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