It started about ten years ago. As emerging artists, YTB members were trying to imagine how we were going to live our lives, raise a family, take care of aging parents, and maybe retire. The ways artists made a living in previous generations weren’t going to work out for us. Someone said, “we should all just live together in a trailer park.” Through conversations, workshops, and programming with our peers, YTB embarks on a journey to research and co-dream a vision of an artists' cooperative with shared land and facilities (gallery, alternative school, studio/programming/residency spaces, daycare, etc) with space to build tiny homes, co-run an arts-based community centre, and learn and support each other.
YTB Gallery and SHEEEP𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓵 invite you to dream with us.
On Friday October 18, from 6:30-10:30pm, YTB will share their journey as a collective and the beginning of their research on solidarity economy in the arts. We will facilitate conversations on equitable, affordable, and sustainable housing solutions for artists, cultural workers, spatial practitioners, critical thinkers. The presentation will start at 7:30pm.
On Saturday October 19, from 4pm - 6pm, SHEEEP𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓵 will facilitate a collective worldbuilding session, through a playthrough of a rendition of the tabletop storytelling game In This World by Ben Robbins. No experience necessary, just sit down and play.
🌳 What are the art ecosystems we want to build?
🏘️ Chat about artist co-ops, cultural land trusts, solidarity economy, and other key ideas for alternative housing solutions
📚 Co-create a learning plan with us to realize this dream you didn’t know you had
🤓 Meet other enthusiasts and future collaborators!
This event is the first in a series, hosted by YTB and SHEEEP, that explore structures for the creation of sustainable, affordable, and accountable co-living and co-working options for visual artists, and others in a creative profession. We are holding a series of public visioning sessions with early-career artists & collectives. We are creating a community to answer the following question: How can artists co-create the conditions to meet our basic needs, without replicating the logics of settler colonialism and an art sector that is sustained by its own dark matter?
Limited capacity. Please note: there will be a mix of sitting & standing room.
