Session 1: Wednesday August 12th 6 - 9pm Session 2: sign-up required for a 1-on-1 Print Session Sign-up Dates: August 17, 19, 21 from 6-9pm August 22 from 9am - 5pm All Free! Facilitated by: Elk Paawu Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/become-a-riso-pro-tickets-1996122818083?aff=oddtdtcreator This two-session workshop introduces artists and designers to the basics of RISO printing also known as risography. In the first session, our resident print technician Elk Paauw w

Saturday August 15th 1 - 4pm Free Facilitated by: Elk Paauw Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/exquisite-corpse-riso-jam-tickets-1996120512186?aff=oddtdtcreator Join us for a family friendly workshop on the RISO printer for a rowdy game of Exquisite Corpse. Participants will partake in a collaborative drawing game creating exciting creatures which they will then print on our multicolour risograph printer and bind as an exciting mix and match monster book to take home.

Wednesday August 5th 6 - 9pm Free Facilitated by: Elk Paauw Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/print-to-go-riso-comics-jam-tickets-1996118335676?aff=oddtdtcreator Join us for an evening of raucous, frenzied comics-making while learning how to print zines old-school on a risograph printer. Participants will collaborate on one-page stream-of-consciousness comics passed around a circle. The first hour will focus on just drawing and getting to know each other's sense of hu

Are you an artist and/or collective working in printmaking, illustration, zines, or independent publishing? The Forest City Print & Zine Fair is a celebration of local and regional artists working in print and zine making. This year's fair is taking place on Saturday, August 8th from 12-5pm at the Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario. Apply today to be a vendor! Applications are due July 24th. Click here to apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeq4BSYIGwCKWB4rLc

Saturday July 25th 1 - 4pm Free Facilitated by: Lianne Zannier Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1993159756486?aff=oddtdtcreator Do you want to learn the basics of hand-drawn animation? Have you ever wondered how the visual effects technique of chroma keying (more commonly known as green screen) works? This workshop introduces participants to the core principles of hand-drawn animation, and shows how chroma key can be used as a drawing tool to create unique animated l

Saturday July 11th 1 - 4 pm Free Facilitated by: Adrienne Scott Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/introduction-to-stop-motion-animation-tickets-1992170667093?aff=oddtdtcreator Stop motion is a form of frame-by-frame animation often associated with large, laborious studio productions, but it is also achievable on an independent scale with limited resources. This workshop will introduce participants to stop motion as an available means of creating experimental animation

Saturday, July 4 1–4 PM Free Facilitated by Michelle Wilson and Candace Dube Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/plantain-salve-making-workshop-tickets-1991135139803?aff=oddtdtcreator Inspired by the plants and concepts at play in the exhibition Those in Glass Houses…, Forest City Gallery will host a plantain salve-making workshop led by master herbalist Candace Dube, owner of Be Well Botanics, with support from exhibiting artist Michelle Wilson. In this free, hands-on work

Thursday, June 25th 6-8pm All Skill Levels Welcome! Are you an artist working with Live & Interactive Art Tools? Do you want to meet other creatives who are too? As part of the Media Collaboratory's Soft Skills drop-in sessions we are launching a new drop-in for people working with software like TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, Resolume, Processing, and more. Whether you’re into projection mapping, generative art, VJing, or immersive installations, this is your chance to experiment, s

Saturday June 27th 1 - 4pm Free Facilitated by: Mia Mia Buono Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/16mm-direct-drawing-on-film-animation-workshop-tickets-1990517090200?aff=oddtdtcreator This workshop introduces participants to Direct Animation -a method of image making that involves scratching, painting, hole punching, collaging, and otherwise modifying either scrap, clear, or black 16mm celluloid film. This type of filmmaking yields flashy and vibrant results, and allow

Saturday June 20th 1 - 4 pm Free Facilitated by: Leslie Putnam Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/building-a-vibrotactile-soft-sculpture-tickets-1990515459322?aff=oddtdtcreator Join us for a workshop where participants will incorporate sound and vibration in order to create their very own felted vibrotactile soft sculpture with artist Leslie Putnam. This workshop involves creating works that encourage multi-sensory exploration and removes the barrier of “do not touch”

Saturday June 6 1 - 4pm Free Facilitated by: Tobias Ewé Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/punch-card-loops-digital-compositions-for-acoustic-music-boxes-tickets-1989680358513?aff=oddtdtcreator This hands-on workshop is an introduction to composing melodies with music boxes, through the lens of experimental music and computer history. You will learn how to create your own melodies by punching holes into a strip of paper that can be played through a small hand-cranked m

Michelle Wilson Forest City Gallery, 1025 Elias St. May 28 – July 23, 2026 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 28, 2026 @ 7–9pm This work began with a family story I could not let go of, and deepened through the act of trying to tell that story to my child. In 1911, my grandfather and great-uncle were sent to Canada as British Home Children—removed from their families at the ages of nine and ten and placed into a system that positioned them as surplus, transforming their bodies

Saturday May 23rd 1 - 4 pm Free Facilitated by: Natali Bravo Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/rules-of-composition-for-photography-tickets-1988647749953?aff=oddtdtcreator In this workshop you’ll learn the essential rules of composition that will take your photography to the next level. We’ll explore key techniques like the rule of thirds, leading lines, framing, andbalancing elements within the frame to create visually compelling images. We’ll use the gallery and sur

Saturday May 9th 1-4pm Free Facilitated by: Sebastian Di Trolio and Joe Heindl of FRAMES Film Series Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cameraless-animation-on-16mm-film-with-frames-film-series-tickets-1988644497224?aff=oddtdtcreator In this hands-on DIY film workshop, we’ll explore an inventive array of techniques for creating our own animated 16mm film loops, as well as learn the basic fundamentals of film projection. Think of it as assembling experimental analogue G

E Okutan Forest City Gallery, 1025 Elias St. April 16 – May 14, 2026 Opening Reception: Friday, April 17, 2026 @ 7–9pm Engrossed by the animate, biological, and mechanical function of the body, disobedience examines these functions as well as its relational imagery within a non-binary context. The array of mixed-media works establishes ambiguity and discomfort as a key element that invites varied interpretations and visceral reactions. While themes of disgust and decay attemp

Saturday April 25th 1 - 4pm Free Facilitated by: Steve Elkerton Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/colour-mixing-tickets-1986557971369?aff=oddtdtcreator This workshop will give you the tools to apply the many nuances of colour theory within your own work. Colour mixing is rarely taught in a useful fashion beyond the concept of simple primary and secondary colours. Some artists have an innate sense of colour needing little to no instruction. The rest of us, including th

Saturday April 11th 1 - 4 pm Free Facilitated by: Yijing Li Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/between-image-and-space-a-curators-practice-tickets-1986553537106?aff=oddtdtcreator Is the curator a gatekeeper who decides what enters the gallery? Or a magician who transforms two-dimensional images, objects, and fragile ideas into a spatial experience that audiences can step inside? This workshop invites artists, students, writers, and curious community members to step int

Ioana Dragomir Forest City Gallery, 1025 Elias St. March 21 – May 14, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 1–3pm Artist Talk: Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 7pm Virginia Woolf was a writer, Vita Sackville-West was too, and Vanessa Bell was an artist. You can find their letters and diaries on the internet. You can peer into their homes! Virginia and Vita wrote novels but they also wrote to each other. They called each other “dearest creature” and “pig” and “you angel

FCG Pier: Time and Tide Curated by Emma Hardy March 20 - April 8 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 21 @ 1 - 3pm Forest City Gallery's Pier Wall returns with a new exhibition, Time and Tide. The exhibition, curated by Gallery Intern, Emma Hardy, will spotlight artworks from five local artists who reflect on climate change within their communities. Time and Tide responds to the term “solastalgia” (coined by Australian environmentalist and philosopher Glenn Albrecht) which

Saturday February 28th 2PM Online via Zoom https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/94974618246 Join us for a special virtual artist talk by Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman on Saturday, February 28th at 2pm on zoom. Sarah will share insights into her work and her current exhibition followed by a Q&A. Her exhibition, Memories We Carry, Stories We Heal is on until March 6th. Come see the the work before the talk to get your questions ready, or read the exhibition catalog by Vania Djelani.