Upcycle Your Wardrobe: Workshop with artist Camila Salcedo

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Join artist Camila Salcedo at this drop-in sustainable workshop! Via a series of activity tables directly addressing textile waste through repurposing, upcycling, and mending garments, participants are invited to bring their own clothes to adapt, or to use the materials provided. Using Camila’s work as inspiration, participants are encouraged to express their own pop culture iconographies specific to their geographic roots.

This workshop endeavours to bring attention to the harmful impact of the global textile industry on the land, and the ways in which wearable art can act as a form of self-expression and identify exploration.

Camila Salcedo (they/them) is a Venezuelan-born interdisciplinary artist currently based in Tkaronto working primarily in textiles, digital art and community arts. Their recent work is centered around educating community members on conscious and sustainable ways of making textiles, and interview-responsive community projects with immigrant communities. They have eight years of experience as an art educator to diverse individuals and have taught workshops and courses at Lakeshore Arts, the Bata Shoe Museum, the Textile Museum, Workman Arts, East End Arts, Toronto Fringe, Eyelevel Artist-Run Centre, Bricks and Glitter, Xpace Cultural Centre, the Koffler Gallery, OCAD University, NSCAD University, and independently.

UPCYCLED by Camila Salcedo is commissioned as part of Ontario Culture Days' Creatives in Residence series and presented in partnership with Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.

Links

• Creatives in Residence onculturedays.ca
• UPCYCLED: Camila Salcedo & Iconography of the Venezuelan Diaspora Exhibition culturedays.ca

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Ontario Culture Days

The Ontario Culture Days Festival is an annual celebration of arts, culture and heritage taking place each fall across the province. Each year, we work with organizers of all disciplines to produce this province-wide festival. Organizers host programs throughout Ontario and invite the public to participate for free.

Ontario Culture Days lives at the local level. We support organizers from the smallest hamlets to the largest cities, while coordinating with other national and provincial Culture Days partners. We support the success of our sector colleagues through resources and network development, while highlighting the breadth and heterogeneity of Ontario’s arts and culture to the wider public.