Spins & Needles is back this month on Friday May 25! Fresh off our recent trip to Japan, we’re bringing you a party inspired by robots, electronics, video games, and underground subway ride...
One of our past participants, Marion, sent us these photos of what goes on during the Spins & Needles Silkscreening 101 Workshop. The photos capture the different steps in the silkscreening proce...
Spins & Needles is taking a wee break this April (we’re on vacation!) but we will be back to regular scheduled programming with a party on May 25. In the meantime, we thought we’d put...
Last Tuesday we joined other creative types to chit chatter about our initiatives at the relaunch of Pecha Kucha #4 in Ottawa. The theme for the night was “creative city-making” and the i...
Drop by Arts Court the evening of Tuesday March 27 for the relaunch of Pecha Kucha Ottawa! Spins & Needles will be there chit chattering about our event and DIY-ing creative cities, alongside som...
Our last Prints & Inks profile is not on an artist but the Montreal-based creative print shop and studio Station 16. The shop + studio offers limited edition prints from some of the best street a...
Next up as part of the Prints & Inks artist profile is Toronto-based designer and screenprinter Sandi Falconer (aka Deadweight). Her prints reflect slightly askew hand drawn text, tired eyes, scr...
Next up in our Prints & Inks artist profile series is London, Ontario-based artist Jamie Q, who works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, zine-making, printmaking, and sculpture. T...
Next up we’re profiling Prints & Inks contributor and Ottawa-based artist Guillermo Trejo. Originally from Mexico, Guillermo studied at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Etchin...
Next up we’re profiling Prints & Inks contributor and Montreal-based street artist whatisadam, who depicts North-American wildlife in new ways in his prints. His ‘comic-book coverR...
As part of Prints & Inks, the blog will be profiling some of the awesome people in the show: ranging from an illustrator/designer who is a beginner silkscreener to a full-time office worker by d...
With this post, we’re going to go a little back in time. Silkscreened posters have played a hugely significant role in social and political movements, from the Federal Art Project of the New De...
Check out our new poster for the Prints & Inks show happening this Friday March 2nd. Limited silkscreened editions will be available for sale.
We’ve got some amazing stuff coming your way via Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. Here are the participating silkscreeners at Prints & Inks: Annabel Dubuc Anne-Marie Battis Antoine Tavaglione ...
The theme for this month’s party was inspired partly by a trip to Quebec City and the snowy mascot for their famous winter Carnaval. So what happens when cabin fever meets friendly [...]Continu...
It’s been a cold, long winter and we want to help you fight cabin fever… [...]Continue reading February Party: Fight Cabin Fever
We are so excited for Spins & Needles first ever silkscreening show, Prints & Inks, at Falldown Gallery from March 2-9, 2012! This one [...]Continue reading Spins & Needles Presents It&#...
Kicking off the new year in style! The January edition featured DIY calenders for 2012 And special guest DJ Chris International spinning some old school funk / 80s / new wave! check out more photos h...
We’ve been a little quiet on the blog front but it was a busy, innovative year for Spins & Needles. From [...]Continue reading Year in Review: Spins & Needles in 2011
Have you heard? Tell all your friends: Spins & Needles is hitting up Europe this September! Details are below: LONDON When: Monday 5 September, 7 to 11 p.m. Where: The Book Club Cover: £6 BERLIN ...
Check out the end results of the collaborative stop motion event last May with Ooohlala.ca and artist Megan Turnbull. Thanks to everyone who participated: they made all the sets, animated all the pie...
At this month’s Spins & Needles special CoMotion installment, we’ll be collaborating with Winnpeg-bred, Ottawa-based artist A. Megan Turnbull (ooohlala.ca), a new media artist and dir...
We love collaborative parties and projects! Spins & Needles, in collaboration with ooohlala.ca and artist A. Megan Turnbull, present a special event this May: COmotion! Check out the sneak peak b...
What’s a bricolage brunch without the DIY projects? In the last post we featured Part 1 of how to plan your own bricolage brunch, mainly focusing on decoration and recipes. In this post we feat...
Photo via Hip Hip Hooray Brunch is such a great way to get friends together – in our opinion it’s the best meal of the week and our weekends aren’t complete without having brunch at...
Thanks to everyone who came out to Spins & Needles first ever Bricolage Brunch! Doubling as Spins & Needles anniversary party, we decided to experiment this time around by holding our regular...
Another inspiration for developing the poster: a small cozy restaurant in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Travelling to Talliin was sort of on a whim, much like me eating at Vanaema Juures restauran...
We can hardly believe that six years has crept on us! We are celebrating this year’s anniversary with a little experiment: our usual concoction of DIY, DJs and drinks during the day – yes...
By popular demand, here’s the link to the original instructions for the DIY Deer Heads which inspired one of the projects at last month’s Spins & Needles Apres Ski installment, courte...
The snow didn’t keep party peeps away from Spins & Needles Apres Ski Party two weeks ago. The Legion Hall served as our downtown ski lodge, complete with awesome beats courtesy of DJ Jason ...
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