Creative Groups Toronto

Paint Your Fate 🎃 | Halloween Sip & Paint Social

🎃 **Halloween Sip & Paint: Paint Your Fate!** Join **The Creative Social** for a Halloween-themed afternoon of painting, music, cocktails, and good company at **Café Pamenar** in Kensington Market! Get creative with your own spooky masterpiece while enjoying Halloween-themed music, fun conversation prompts, and meeting new people in a relaxed, social atmosphere. No painting experience needed! All supplies are included, and you get to take your artwork home. Costumes encouraged! 📅 **Sunday\, October 25th \| 3–6 PM** 📍 **Café Pamenar, Kensington Market** Come solo or bring your friends. It's all about creativity, community, and making new connections! **Drinks and cocktails available for purchase.** **Tickets : [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ghosted-paint-your-fate-halloween-mystery-paint-sip-social-tickets-2003210747270?aff=erelpanelorg](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ghosted-paint-your-fate-halloween-mystery-paint-sip-social-tickets-2003210747270?aff=erelpanelorg)**

An SD walk in the park

**An autumn service safari through Toronto's Vale of Avoca and Moore Park Ravine** We’ll meet at David A. Balfour Park and head through the Vale of Avoca and Moore Park Ravine. Along the way, we’ll introduce and try out a classic service design tool — the **[service safari](https://servicedesigntools.org/tools/service-safari)**[ ](https://servicedesigntools.org/tools/service-safari)— using the ravine as our real-world playground. We’ll walk, observe, and capture what we notice about how we find, navigate, and experience the place. Our timing is interesting too: The City of Toronto is [currently exploring improvements to the Vale of Avoca](https://haveyoursay.toronto.ca/vale-avoca-ravine-improvements). We’ll compare what we notice, spot patterns and see what questions and opportunities emerge. We’ll also borrow lightly from Design Council’s [Skills for Planet](https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/skills-for-planet/), widening our lens beyond our own experience to notice the environment around us. **No slides. No presentations. Just curious people, a beautiful fall walk, some service design in the wild and hopefully some good fall colours. 🍁** Bring: comfortable shoes, weather-appropriate layers + a charged phone. No service design experience required - curiosity is plenty. -- Bonus: After the walk, we’ll bring what we learn together into a short set of SDD field notes that we could share with the Vale of Avoca project team.

Creative Code Toronto meetup at InterAccess

Join us for a Toronto meetup of creative coders! This will be a venue to get to know each other and see what's going on in the community. We'll have a space downtown and some food available. We're partnering with [InterAccess](https://interaccess.org), a gallery, educational facility, production studio, festival, and registered charity dedicated to new media and emerging practices in art and technology! * If you've got a project you've worked on in the past that you're proud of, we'd love to see it and for you to walk us through what went into it. * If you're currently working on something or investigating some new ideas and feel like sharing, this would be a great time discuss your process so far! * If you haven't done anything yet but are interested in creative coding, we'd love to see what works have inspired you. Sign up here if you're interested in speaking! [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MsbtdvTGMNT75lqq4lnxydY4TczStAOZE1Ap8mQJKeM](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MsbtdvTGMNT75lqq4lnxydY4TczStAOZE1Ap8mQJKeM) **What is creative code?** *Creative coding* refers to anything with an artistic component that uses code as a medium. We welcome artists who use code (for visuals, audio, poetry, or whatever else), designers, animators, toolmakers, researchers, or just enjoyers and people looking to learn more! **Location:** InterAccess, at 32 Lisgar St. **Join our discord** if you want to talk to everyone before/after the event, or have any suggestions for things you'd like to see or do! [https://discord.gg/ux9txXPsdJ](https://discord.gg/ux9txXPsdJ)

ARTbus: Mississauga and Oakville Galleries ($20)

Can you join us on our next ARTbus ?? !! We've been attending these **ARTbus** trips for many years. Not always able to get them posted on MEETUP-as they fill up quite quickly. $20 ticket link is below. ***Purchase your OWN ticket*** when you RSVP on Meetup. **In partnership with the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Oakville Galleries invites you to join us for the FALL 2026 ARTbus.** (We rent a BUS--ok its a **yellow school bus**--but it works!) Hence the $20 price! **$20 per person** at the *link below. (By signing up--signals to me that you've purchased your $20 ticket--LET me know via Meetup email)* Would you like to join in this next one/upcoming? **Saturday October 24th. (11am-5:30pm)** This will be incredible afternoon!! International artists. Lovely reception and opening comments. **We'll begin** the afternoon at a Gallery opening at Bloor/Lansdowne, before heading to Mississauga and Oakville Let someone else DRIVE while we enjoy socializing and ART learning. **Reserve your own seat ($20)** and enjoy an inspiring afternoon across three leading art institutions. We finish the day at Gairloch Gardens--(right on Lake Ontario) and a nice reception for us (wine/cheese) https://www.oakvillegalleries.com/visit **TICKET link here (with all details)--** https://www.oakvillegalleries.com/artbus_2026_fall Please be on TIME. Plan ahead. You should be inside the first gallery by 11:15am. BUS will leave at 12 noon. See you there.

Silent Writing/Reading #7

We will be meeting at the MaRS Discovery District (near Queen's Park Station), in the mezzanine area.

FIGURE & FORM DUO WORKSHOP - AFTERNOON

✨ The Interactive Social - Move, Talk & Connect!

Many of you have attended my **Art & Chill** and **Game Night** events - now it's time to try something a little different! I have designed a fun, interactive social experience to bring people together in a different way! The **Interactive Social** will go beyond the usual introductions and small talk. It's an opportunity to move around, get involved, share ideas, spark conversations, and discover the people behind the introductions. Through a variety of engaging activities, you'll have the chance to express yourself, learn more about others, and uncover unexpected common interests. Whether you're a regular or joining us for the first time, come with an open mind, a willingness to participate, and a sense of curiosity. You never know who you'll meet or what you might have in common! ✨ **Come ready to move, talk, laugh, discover and connect in a different way!** **Where to Meet (Across from Shoppers at the Food Hall inside The Well):** * The easiest way to get to the venue is to make your way to La Plume restaurant or The Dorset restaurant and turn towards the statue then take the stairs to the lower level. * Shoppers will be on the right and across from Shoppers will be an entrance to The Well's food court. * Make a left and you should see the long tables. **We'll meet at the long tables across from Shoppers**

FIGURE & FORM DUO WORKSHOP

generative ai art jam

Come make art using your favourite ai tool. Easels and paintbrushes not included.

Art Hub of The Great Lakes Show Opening Reception

Immerse yourself in Twist Gallery's newest exhibition, the Art Hub of The Great Lakes, showcasing the vibrant exploration of colour, texture, and material through the expressive language of mixed media. Each painting unfolds in layers, bringing together unexpected elements, marks, and surfaces to create works that are both tactile and deeply personal. The collection invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover the stories and emotions held within each piece. Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/art-hub-of-the-great-lakes-show-opening-reception-tickets-2001399982223?aff=oddtdtcreator

Sketching Hangout... New Location

Hi everyone! We're doing an afternoon sketch hangout at CIBC food court. **First time meeting us and still not sure about the vibe?** Check out photos from **[past in-person events of 2025](https://www.meetup.com/artsrecto/photos/36185293/)** ***Bring your own art supplies*** (mainly dry medium or small watercolour set), and if you feel like it, order a drink and snacks. **Where to meet exactly?** From Union, you can either follow the signs to go straight to CIBC square one or get to ground level and walk along Bay street till you reach you see the CIBC square one building. Enter the CIBC building on either side of the train tracks and travel up to the fourth floor food court. I'll be at the tables at the far end of the food court by the windows. Looking forward to meeting you all :) =========================== **Support This Group 🥰🤩** We hope you're enjoying the Arts & Rec events! If you'd like to give support, please consider making a small Ko-fi donation of $5-10 USD at [https://www.ko-fi.com/artsnrectoronto](https://www.ko-fi.com/artsnrectoronto.) . This helps cover meetup and miscellaneous expenses with hosting events! For more inquiries, please PM me for more info! Thank you all so much!

Tech & Startup Halloween Networking · Costume Contest · $20 Tickets

**⏰ EARLY BIRD: $15 until Sunday, Oct 18 at 11:59 PM. Then $20.** 🎟️ Get your ticket here: [https://shop.techinto.ca/products/october-28-networking-event](https://shop.techinto.ca/products/october-28-networking-event?utm_source=meetup&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=oct28) **Heads up:** your Meetup RSVP doesn't include a ticket. Please grab yours at the link above. **📅 Wednesday, October 28 · 6:30–9:30 PM** **📍 IDK Social Bar, 172 Ossington Ave** **👥 Groups of 3 or more get 25% off at checkout** On October 28, TechinTO takes over IDK Social Bar for our Halloween Special, and this time we want you dressed for it. No stage, no slides, no pitch decks. Come as your favourite villain, hero or inside joke, grab a drink, and talk to people about what you're actually building. **WHAT YOUR TICKET GETS YOU** ✅ An evening with Toronto founders, devs, designers, marketers and PMs ✅ A colour wristband for your field, so you know who's who before you say hi ✅ A chance to win a free 1:1 social media or personal brand strategy session with Sonia Ovcharenko of Lovemarked 🎃 A prize for the best costume **FIRST TIME AT TECHINTO?** You don't need to know anyone. The wristbands and nametags make it easy to start a conversation, and the whole night is built around meeting new people. **THE VENUE** IDK Social Bar: a two-level spot downtown with good drinks and a room built for actual conversation. 📸 Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/techinto.event/](https://www.instagram.com/techinto.event/) 🌐 Website: [https://www.techinto.ca](https://www.techinto.ca) zero corporate stiffness. absolute social energy. actual human conversations.