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Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · 7d

We began our Bloom & Mend: An Expressive Art Journey series with Unit CCC7 @CAMHnews 🌸

Week 1: Intro to Textile Art Collage — exploring texture, colour & storytelling through fabric.
Next week: Blackout Poetry inspired by Maya Angelou 🖋️

#BloomAndMend #CAMHArtCart #WorkmanArts #ApanakiTemitayo

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · 10d

Starting a 13-week Bloom & Mend: An Expressive Art Journey series with CAMH Unit 1 through @WorkmanArts 🎨

Week 1: Intro to Textile Art — exploring texture, colour & healing through fabric collage. Grateful to create with such inspiring participants. 💛

#BloomAndMend #ArtCart #WorkmanArts

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · 15d

Week 4 of Fall Into Form ✅
Sanctuary in Landscape 🍂 → exploring background, midground & foreground through paper collage + texture.

Next week: Butterfly Bliss: Metamorphosis & Renewal 🦋
Reflection on change & growth with tear-away collage.

#FallIntoForm #ButterflyBliss #CAMH #PFLS #CLC

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · 16d

🌙✨ Location Update!

Northbound: Songs of Sovereignty is now inside North York Centre, past the food court near the library.

Join us for Nuit Blanche, Oct 4, 7PM–7AM 🎨

Artists: @apanaki_apnki @claudialuzd_ @hicaezar @orphicinema @yinkore_

#NorthboundExhibition #NuitBlancheToronto

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · 17d

Honoured to be Artist Researcher for the Black Maternal Pedagogies Project @YorkUniversity 🖤.

On Oct 25, Black mothers will gather in a quilting workshop to share stories of navigating schools w/ their daughters. Lived experience → collective art.

#BlackMaternalPedagogies #ArtsBasedResearch #YorkU

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Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · 17d

This Sat 🌙✨ I’ll be live at Nuit Blanche Toronto!
🎨 Textile art (for sale)
🎶 Entertainment
👗 Fashion Show
💜 All for a community fundraiser

📍 TMU Podium (POD 358), 350 Victoria St.
🕕 6–8 PM | 🎟 $20 RSVP

Come celebrate art, fashion & community!

#NuitBlancheToronto #TorontoEvents #SupportLocalArtist

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Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · 18d

✨ Nuit Blanche Weekend ✨

Northbound: Songs of Sovereignty at North York Centre—featuring @apanaki_apnki, @claudialuzd_, @hicaezar, @orphicinema, @yinkore_

📍 On view till Oct 21
📸 by @green_yang

Share your shots + reflections with:
#NorthboundExhibition #SongsOfSovereignty #NuitBlancheTO

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · 22d

📔 This week in Fall Into Form: Collage Your Own Journal ✨
💭 Prompt: “What story am I ready to begin writing?”

Next Friday → Create Your Cozy Place – “Sanctuary in Landscape” 🍂
💭 Prompt: “What does safety look like in my mind?”

#FallIntoForm #ArtJournaling #SanctuaryInLandscape #CreativeWellness

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Sep 17

🎨 Free creative workshop this Friday!
Join me @ PFLS & CLC for community, accessibility, and time to make something beautiful & uniquely your own.

📅 Friday | 1–3 PM | Supplies included

#FallIntoForm #AccessibleArt #CreativeCommunity #TorontoEvents #CAMH #PFLS #CLC

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Sep 12

🎨 Our Fall Into Form workshop series launched today with Intro to Textile Art Collage!

Next week: Chance Poetry on Canvas: “Fragments of Baldwin” 🖋️
Cut-up James Baldwin’s words → create your own poetry on canvas.

💭 Prompt: “What truth wants to speak through me?”

#CreativeWellness #CAMH

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Sep 5

Recap: Northbound: Songs of Sovereignty opening! 🎉
On Aug 21, we gathered at North York Centre to celebrate powerful works by Segun, Claudia, Apanaki, Ghislan & Yinkore—curated by @museandmuseums' Funmi Ajala & Shadio Hussein.
On view till Oct 31, 2025! 📍5150 Yonge St
📸: @green__yang

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Sep 4

Toronto, Nuit Blanche is here! 🌙✨
Join me Sat Oct 4 @ TMU (POD 358) for a Community Initiative Fundraiser showcasing art, music, poetry & more.

🕕 6–8 PM | Doors 5:30
🎟 $20 | RSVP required

Don’t just watch the night glow—BE part of it. 💫

#NuitBlancheToronto #TorontoEvents #CommunityThroughArt

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Aug 21

For me, textile collage is a bridge — connecting the diaspora back to the continent, through fabric, story, and community. 🖤

#CarnivalCulture #MaskMaking #DiasporaArts #CommunityArt #BlackArtMatters

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Aug 21

We talked about Carnival as resistance — enslaved Africans mocking their masters through masquerade. 💥
From Trinbago Mas to Jab Jab & Moko Jumbie, the roots run deep into West Africa. 🌍

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Aug 21

Last night at @NiaCentre was a whole vibe 🎭✨
We collaged papier-mâché masks with African fabrics in my Reimagining Mask Making Workshop.

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Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Aug 21

Grateful to everyone—virtual & in-person—who joined my 6-week Mixed Media Program 💜

Thank you for creating, sharing, & engaging so thoughtfully.
Huge thanks to @accessartsca for this much-needed pilot & @socialartstudiospace for the accessible space.

#AccessArts #DisabilityArts #BIPOCArtists

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Aug 13

🔥 James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time 🔥
My portrait of Baldwin — poet, activist, revolutionary. His words still cut, still heal, still demand we move.

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

#JamesBaldwin #LegacyOfTruth #BlackLiberation #TheFireNextTime

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Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Aug 13

Today’s Alcohol Ink workshop with @accessartsca & @sass had participants boldly trying fresh mediums and techniques! 🎨🔥

🗓 Tues, Aug 19 | 🕐 1-4PM | 📍180 Shaw St
💻 In-person & Zoom | 🎟 Free

Ready for more? Next week: Paper Collage Landscapes! Don’t miss it!
#AlcoholInk #ArtWorkshop #PaperCollage

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Aug 10

Crafted #MidnightRobber costumes for poets reclaiming space & creating #FatFutures. Rooted in #TraditionalTrinbagoMas, where Mas has always empowered the player. Guided with mentorship & resourceful support from @justanautisticguy 🎭🔥 #CarnivalCulture #MasIsPower #TrinbagoMas #PoetryInMotion

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Aug 7

5 YEARS, y’all!
Led my Mask Making Workshop again at #Sistabana today & reconnected with incredible women, incl. my sis @steelpanwithsuzette 💫

This space reflects ME — my journey, my purpose, my people.
So blessed to give back 💜

#BlackWomenArtists #HealingThroughArt #MaskMaking #TorontoArts

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Jul 14

My first FREE workshop with @accessartsca is TOMORROW 🎨
🗓 Tues, July 16 | 🕐 1–4PM
📍 180 Shaw Street (In-person + Zoom)

We’ll explore textile art & mental wellness in a creative, inclusive space for BIPOC, Disabled & 2SLGBTQ+ artists.

#AccessArts #FreeWorkshop #DisabilityArts #MixedMedia #ArtHeals

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Jul 12

🎥 Lost at #TOAF64?
This hyperlapse leads you straight to Booth E555 — home of @TangledArts + an incredible lineup of Deaf + Disabled artists 🙌🏾

🖼️ My Muses Collection is there. So are amazing nonprofits.
🎯 Find us. Feel it. Buy local.

🗓️ July 11–13 | ⏰ 10 AM – 7 PM
🌐 TOAF.ca

#DisabilityArts

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Jul 11

It’s ON. Day 1 of #TOAF64 is here!
My Muses Collection is live at the @TangledArts Booth E555 💥

🗓️ July 11–13
🕙 10 AM – 7 PM
📍 Nathan Phillips Square
🌐 Also online at TOAF.ca

Come thru + support Disability Arts made with fire, fabric + purpose.
#ApanakiDesigns #SupportDisabledArtists #TOAFOnline

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Jul 10

Faith. Persistence. Mindfulness.
From my Muses Collection—honouring BIPOC womb-bearers hit hardest post-Roe v. Wade.

See them at #TOAF64 w/ @TangledArts
📍 July 11–13 | ⏰ 10 AM – 7 PM
🌐 Shop online at TOAF.ca

#ReproJustice #TangledArts #SupportDisabledArtists #FaithPersistenceMindfulness

Apanaki Temitayo @apanaki.bsky.social · Jul 10

Next Tuesday kicks off my 6-week Mixed Media Art Series with @accessartsca!

We start with Intro to Textile Art Collage, centering BIPOC & Disabled artists in a space for creativity, healing & expression.

📍180 Shaw Street
🕐 1–4PM | July 15 – Aug 19
💻 In-person + Zoom

#AccessArts #DisabilityArts