🇨🇦 'The Museum of Bad Gifts' opens in Toronto People attend the opening of the Museum of Bad Gifts in Toronto, where local artists and community members display notoriously bad gifts they have received over the years.

🇨🇦 'The Museum of Bad Gifts' opens in Toronto People attend the opening of the Museum of Bad Gifts in Toronto, where local artists and community members display notoriously bad gifts they have received over the years.

Friends! There's a Museum of Bad Gifts in Toronto! www.museumofbadgifts.com

I’m so glad to see local installation artist, multiples maker and all round Bloordale booster hit a goldmine with the Museum of Bad Gifts. Go and see it at Northern Contemporary Gallery at 420 Roncesvalles until Jan 4th from 12-6 (except New Year’s Day).

Thanks so much to @jotauzeta.bsky.social for coming by the Museum of Bad Gifts on opening night to get footage for AFP. Here's the museum coverage from Belgian's French-language public broadcaster. www.rtbf.be/article/la-m...

Global came back yesterday, after their fun first visit to the museum last year during our inaugural show. The museum is closed today but will be open again tomorrow. globalnews.ca/video/115928...

Oh, look, the Museum of Bad Gifts on Asia One News TV. I’m at the gallery until 3 today and back on Tues. Come and visit me 12 to 3 whenever the gallery is open! youtu.be/T8Qu2fjCiaY?...

Agence-France Presse makes the news go all over the place—India Abroad reported about our museum. youtu.be/HbHxhVmP41o?...

Agence-France Presse came to the opening of the Museum of Bad Gifts the other night. Come by! We’re open until Jan 4 (closed Monday and Jan 1), 12 to 6 pm, at Northern Contemporary Gallery, 420 Roncesvalles. youtu.be/3Td9JFWMzDM

The new tunnel under the Allen at the station formerly known as Eglinton West (Cedarvale!) is a crazy maze! It’s quicker to cross at street level.

Why get rid of the CafeTO sign when they would just have to put it up again next year?

A great selection of books!

"Messy Cities" at Type Books in The Junction - alongside books by contributor @smkasman.bsky.social !

I made a holiday gift guide! open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

This will be me last holiday market of the year! Come by Gallery 1065 this weekend to visit me!

Have you got a bad gift in your closet? Please submit it for loan or donation to the Museum of Bad Gifts! Just fill out the form. The show opens on Boxing Day! forms.gle/QDBNA9PtenE4...

I’m selling stuff I made like books, prints, postcards, and ephemera at the Maker Bean Holiday Market on Bloor near Dufferin. Come by! I’ll be here today and tomorrow.

Gmail’s “Polish” isn’t to translate the email into Polish, I just learned! They should’ve gone with “rewrite” or “finesse” or “add pizzaz” rather than use a word that’s an actual other language.

The mighty Bag Tree

I thought the point of this was not to call it Dundas and it still says Dundas! Would’ve been easier to leave it alone, but a make-work project is always a good time?!

Nice review!

This is happening tomorrow! Come on by! I’ll be there! 12 to 5pm.

Welcome to Pepto-Bismol Avenue

The Museum of Bad Gifts is coming back! If you have bad gifts (or photo/drawing representations of them) to submit or want to turn something bad into something better for the show, check out the submission forms on our website! www.museumofbadgifts.com

I'll be telling spooky stories tomorrow! Get a ticket while they're still available. www.eventbrite.ca/e/1769910803...

I feel cross-eyed looking at this new Canada Council portal. They couldn't have made the text boxes bigger? And a budget sheet that endlessly scrolls in all directions!

Nothing is spookier than learning more about the Rat Response Plan for Halloween!

I’m leading ghost walks on Oct 20 and Oct 26 in the Bloor & Dufferin area! Some of the proceeds will support the Brock PS schoolyard disaster elimination program. Grab a ticket on Eventbrite. It’ll be good spooky fun! www.eventbrite.ca/e/dufferin-g... www.eventbrite.ca/e/dufferin-g...

Did you know I've got a Substack? open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

Subscribe to this fabulous paper! I’ve got a whole bunch of new whispers coming your way!

My friend Geoff wouldn’t stop complaining about this abandoned motorcycle, so this morning I decided it should become a garden and this afternoon me and his girlfriend Eva created this Motorcycle Garden Pocket! Thanks to the bike’s neighbour for the broken bike basket—it made for a nice planter.

Cool!

These very ugly tree cages could use more colour! I’m running another crochet workshop in Bloorcourt where we’ll add to the street art! There are still spots available!! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/crochet-fu...

Sitting only!

Back to school! Bored already! They grow up so fast!

I’m so glad they’ve decided to put my beach book at the Beaches branch!

Airplanes start promptly at 12:02pm

I took the beach exhibit home with me and put it in the basement. open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

I’m leading workshops at Gallery 1065 in Bloorcourt on Wednesdays in Sept! Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/o/gallery-10...

Come by for some indoor sun, sand, and surf on the very last day of the Bloordale Beach exhibit! Saturday at 3pm at Urbanspace Gallery at 401 Richmond!

Geese for 2km by the Palais Royale? 2km of geese??!! I saw zero!

I talked to Cason at Type Books in the Junction and all the things I said are now on their Substack!

The barbershop in my neighbourhood said they needed a sign to tell pigeons not to hang out in and around the dog bowl. They did not expect me to actually do anything about it!

We’ll be talking about my essay in the Junction next Wednesday! Should be fun. Pls come!

I have a Substack, and here's the latest post! open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

Come to Urbanspace Gallery at 401 Richmond tomorrow! The event will be approx an hour in total. The AC is cool and so are the films!

Yarnbombing progress on the tree’s jail cell! Register for one of the three upcoming workshops: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1548290381...

I'm curating next Monday's Trampoline Hall! You should come, esp if you'd like to hear: specifics about Singlish, many people buying one Toronto house, or making friends while playing darts. Tickets go on sale Thurs at 10am and they sell out fast! lu.ma/y4bgkegc

State of Good Repair! #HilariousTO

Huge news!