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Explore Arts & Letters and discover a flourishing offline life. Inspired by #Werther, #DigitalMinimalism & #Folliness. Go analog this year: https://www.youngw.ca
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From our latest newsletter:

Winter paper season as a way to connect & reflect - Xmas cards and gratitude - Young W's 3rd annual winter gift guide

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#ArtsAndLetters #Gratitude #Paper #YoungW
Two Christmas cards stand on a mantlepiece in a room painted in dark blue. One features a fox, the other a squirrel standing in the snow. Text on both card reads: Let it snow.
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Coming up in our next newsletter:

Gaining perspective - Stepping off the minutiae treadmill - The fog of history.

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#ArtsAndLetters #History #Archives #Newspapers
The components of the analog lifestyle kit on a wooden table: they include a stack of printed cards, a notepad, and a bundle tied together with a ribbon.
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Wed, Sep 10 - Sun, Sep 14, 2025
in Toronto, ON at #RedSandcastleTheatre

Parry Riposte celebrates the 10th anniversary of @margo-thespian.bsky.social’s award-winning, sold-out hit solo show #TheElephantGirls.

Tickets: parryriposte.ca

#theaTO
Margo MacDonald in Black fedora, white dress shirt open at the neck, red necktie undone, black vest, arms crossed over her chest, she grimaces menacingly at the camera. Text reads: The Elephant Girls. Written and Performed by Margo MacDonald. The Elephant Girls. Elephant symbol. 2015 - 2025. 10th anniversary.
September 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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From our latest newsletter:

Forgotten love letters - A history-and-folliness mix - Time machine substitutes.

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#ArtsAndLetters #History #Folliness #Paper
Several miniature letters with heart and pigeon symbols on a brown table.
September 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Incredible experience seeing #OldCityHall for the first time ever. Thanks so much @toronto.ca for the amazing lecture about the architecture and history of this important building! #Toronto
A hallway with a door at the end at Old City Hall. Ornate ceilings and columns at Old City Hall A staircase with an iron railing and an old elevator. A grand staircase with a large stained glass building at Old City Hall.
July 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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From our latest newsletter:

Appreciating your city, but how? - YW’s pear-shaped dreams of folliness - How @shawnmicallef.bsky.social's writing inspired us.

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#ArtsAndLetters #History #Cities
The black roof of an apartment building featuring ornate windows.
July 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Young W will be there too.

Come visit our table this Saturday, July 12, from 10 AM - 4 PM at 260 Adelaide Street East in Toronto and check out our selection of greeting cards, notebooks, letter writing sets, bookmarks & more.

#Toronto #TheAnalogLifestyle
A grid of 4 images, 3 photos and 1 box of text. Text reads: Come visit us! Jul 12th. Pop-up shop at Toronto's First Post Office. A detail of a bookmark featuring blue marbled paper in the shape of birds with gold decorations. A dark blue notebook featuring wild flowers and plants. Text on top of the notebook reads: Notebook. Clap Clap. A detail of a white bookmark featuring lace-like paper and blue paper flowers. Poster for Pop Up Paper Fair. Logo of the Town of York Historical Society and Toronto's First Post Office is on top. The poster features red, white and blue illustrations of hot air balloons in the clouds and flying pigeons carrying letters. Text reads: First show: July 12th. I'm a vendor. Quirky & fun cards, notebooks, stickers, pins, patches, prints, keychains, and many more! Free Admission! 10 AM to 4 PM. @Toronto's First Post Office. 260 Adelaide St East. A grid of 4 images, 3 photos and 1 box of text. Text reads: Pop-up paper fair. Sat, July 12th, 2025. Three small plaid notebooks in bright red, light green with brown and dark green. A pink notebook with a dark green spine. It has a silver hologram sticker on the cover. A small plastic fountain fountain pen filled with blue ink lies on top. The third image shows a small paper envelope with a red heart, unreadable text and old postmark stamps.
July 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Event of the Week!

Jul. 12 & Aug. 9

Toronto’s First Post Office presents a Pop-up Paper Fair. Browse a fantastic selection of whimsical & fun cards, notebooks, stickers, prints & more – there's something for everyone!

#Paper #Stationery #YWEotW

www.youngw.ca/event/toront...
Poster image featuring text and illustration. A cloudy light blue sky with red and white hot air balloons to the left and bottom right, with a pigeon carrying a letter at the top right. Town of York | Toronto's First Post Office Pop-up Paper Fair. First show: July 12th 2025. Second show: August 9th 2025. Whimsical & fun cards, notebooks, stickers, pins, patches, prints, keychains and many more! Free admission! 10AM - 4PM @ Toronto's First Post Office. 260 Adelaide St East
July 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Coming up in tomorrows's newsletter:

Looking up in the city - Noticing traces of history - Craving time travel.

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#ArtsAndLetters #History #Cities
The arm of the Statue of Liberty holding up its torch towards a blue sky.
April 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Event of the Week!

Tomorrow, Feb 1

THEMUSEUM hosts The Brush Off 12th edition fundraiser. Artists compete, creating art in front of a live audience, who vote on their favourites + bid on the art in a silent auction!

#Art #fundraiser #Kitchener #YWEotW

www.youngw.ca/event/themus...
Illustrated image for The Brush Off 12th Edition, rendered as a multi-coloured abstract painting, with paint splotches on the yellow lettering for the main title.
February 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Coming up in today's newsletter:

Ecolinguistics: questioning stories from an ecological perspective.

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#ArtsAndLetters #Language #Ecolinguistics
A field at sunset. The sky is blue, orange and yellow. At the horizon, multiple power lines can be seen.
January 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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From the gift guide:

Obsolete Vol. 2 is a #DeskCalendar ft. obsolete technologies housed in a cassette tape case. A desk accessory that reminds you of #TheAnalogLifestyle all year round + a great stocking stuffer. #Letterpress printed by Flycatcher Press in #Toronto.
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Small letterpress printed cards in a cassette tape case. The card shows the calendar days January 2025 in a grid with the weekdays with the word JAN printed above. The weekdays are abbreviated as S, M, T, W, T, F, S. A pair of blue hands writes into a school notebook. Small letterpress printed cards featuring various calendar months. The cards for February and August are in the cassette tape case. July and January lie nearby. The card for July features an old TV set in yellow. February features a mimeograph machine printed in green. Each card shows the calendar days in a grid with the weekdays.
December 20, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Satire!

Finally, Jan 14-Feb 2

Necessary Angel, with Canadian Stage + Birdland Theatre, presents the Canadian premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice, a dark, razor-sharp comedy of manners. Beware the sincere stranger.

www.youngw.ca/event/necess...

#Performance #theaTO

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A man with a white beard and round wireframe glasses, dressed in a winter overcoat over a suit, raises his left hand to touch the underside of the brim of his fedora in a hat-tipping gesture.
December 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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Nature!

Then, Jan 12-26

Bad New Days presents Last Landscape, with Common Boots Theatre. Imagining nature once it’s gone & offering hopeful possibilities for how we might share this big green miraclemarble.

www.youngw.ca/event/last-l...

#Toronto #Performance #Theatre #ClimateChange

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Photo collage image for Last Landscape, featuring abstract images of nature and a human being assembling something from various objects.
December 20, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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3 #YWEvents: Transformations + Nature + Satire!

On now to Jan 5

The Art Gallery of Hamilton hosts Jan Wade: Soul Power, ft. mixed-media paintings, textiles & sculptural objects, made of found objects/recycled materials, evoking transformations.

www.youngw.ca/event/jan-wa...

#Art #HamOnt

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Detail of a large multi-coloured textile art piece hanging on a gallery wall.
December 20, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Event of the Week!

Dec 19-22

Eldritch Theatre presents @philrickaby.com’s solo holiday horror show It Sees You When You’re Sleeping! Witness the terrors of a festive tradition that so many parents both embrace & dread.

#Performance #horror #theaTO #Toronto #YWEotW

www.youngw.ca/event/it-see...
Poster including text and image against a green background, with faint text repeated: It's only a doll. It Sees You When You're Sleeping! A horror play for the holiday season. It's only a doll. Written and performed by Phil Rickaby. Directed by joey o'dael. Eldritch Theatre (green) & Red Sandcastle Theatre (red) logos. At the right: A bald man with a moustache wearing a red and black plaid flannel shirt, his right hand up at his chin, mouth slightly open and eyes wide in a 1,000-yard stare of horror as an elf doll peeks out from behind his right shoulder.
December 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Still looking for gifts?

It's not too late! We deliver by courier in the Greater Toronto Area.

Check out our Arts & Letters gift guide:

www.youngw.ca/yw-gift-guid...

We have some very specific recommendations for the very unique people in your life.

#GiftGuide #Toronto #ArtsAndLetters
Presents wrapped in dark green wrapping paper with pink and yellow Young W logo stamps on them. The gifts feature pink and yellow ribbons and gift tags. One gift tag reads: To Wilhem. From Daniel. Text on the image reads: Winter 2024. YW Gift Guide. Arts & Letters gift ideas.
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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Action!  

Finally, from Dec 13-29  

Join Grindstone Theatre for Die Harsh: A Christmas Musical, an action-packed comedy & an annual tradition based on the holiday movie favourite – now even bigger & better! 

www.youngw.ca/event/die-ha...  

#Performance #YippeeKiYay #yegTheatre  

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Poster for Die Harsh A Christmas Musical, the title in red and white font over a photo of two men, a perspectival line of skyscrapers in the background. Left: A bald man in a white tank top holding a lighter regards us with narrowed eyes. Right: An auburn-haired man with a beard wearing a suit holds his right index finger to his lips, a gun fitted with a silencer in his left hand.
December 6, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Holiday Magic! 
 
Then, from Dec 5-15
  
Twisted Dog Theatre presents Unbelievably Believable. A holiday family show filled with magic & unforgettable characters, celebrating friendship & the spirit of Toronto. For all ages.   

www.youngw.ca/event/twiste...  

#Performance #Puppets  

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Poster image featuring illustration and text against a deep blue starry sky background. A swirling circle of animal characters, including a white bird, a pink dragon, two mice, a racoon and a baby bird. In the centre of that circle: Unbelievably Believable.
December 6, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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3 #YWEvents: Bookmarks + Holiday Magic + Action!  

Register by Dec 20  

ARTiculations hosts a bookmark exchange. Make, display & exchange miniature artworks on 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper. 
 
www.youngw.ca/event/articu... 

#Art #Paper #Reading #Toronto

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Image featuring text and illustration against a pale mauve background. Call to Artists. Register by December 20th, 2024. Create a miniature artwork on a Hahnemühle bookmark, submit it for our community exhibition, and receive a unique piece of art in return! Two line-illustrated hands face each other, holding out bookmarks. One bookmark bears the word "Bookmark" and the other "Exchange". Top right corner: ARTiculations logo. Bottom right corner: Featuring Hahnemühle, including a logo.
December 6, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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We'll have items for your letter writing needs as well as holiday cards, gift tags, stocking stuffers & gifts. Drop by our table and say hi!

Click here for more details: www.youngw.ca/event/toront...
#Paper #Stationery #Toronto #LetterWriting #TheAnalogLifestyle
A grid of 4 images, 3 photos and 1 box of text. Text reads: Come visit us! Nov 29th. Pop-up shop at Toronto's First Post Office. Three small notebooks in various shades of red featuring a candy cane, star or carrot symbol their covers. A cream-coloured letter writing set with a dark green border. The silver lid of the gift box lies nearby. A gift wrapped in a green and pink fabric featuring a floral pattern. Poster for Pop Up Paper Fair. Logo of the Town of York Historical Society and Toronto's First Post Office is on top. The poster looks like a red postage stamp and is decorated with holiday lights, a small cabin covered in snow and two Christmas trees. Text reads: New vendors at each show. 'Tis the season for snail mail. Snowy Pop-Up Paper Fair. Free Admission! 10 AM to 4 PM. Toronto's First Post Office. 260 Adelaide St East. Friday, Nov. 29th: Left-to-right Studios. On The Bright Side. Picnic Ball. Steve Kean Photography. Shiball. Young W & more artists! A grid of 4 images, 3 photos and 1 box of text. Text reads: Pop-up paper fair. Fri, November 29. A detail of a bookmark featuring red marbled paper in the shape of birds with gold decorations. Winnipeg Postcard - illustration of The Forks in winter, featuring people skating on the Red River. Two greeting cards stand upright. Cursive text on both cards reads: Let it snow. On one card, a brown fox stands in the snow with a red lantern beside him. The background is dark blue with snow falling around. On the other card, a brown squirrel stands in the snow holding an acorn. Beside him a twig of pink berries and twigs stick out of the snow. The background is light grey with snow falling around.
November 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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From our latest newsletter:
Progress Story, YW's language-inspired art - toying with language that annoys me - our 2nd annual arts & letters gift guide
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#ArtsAndLetters #Language
Progress Story #20 - two posters lean on a wall with a mirror in an industrial loft space. A window and curtains can be seen in the background. The two black posters look like the interface of the videogame Tetris.
November 25, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Ribbed for your pleasure - photograph by WOO SEE-MING.

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Photography print of the façade of a tall building, featuring alternating bright panels and dark windows.
November 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Collage!

Finally, Nov 21, Dec 4 & 10

Issues Magazine Shop hosts a collage workshop. Create memory – a reflection, a love note, vision board or blessing for the future. No experience needed. Supplies provided.

www.youngw.ca/event/issues...

#Paper #Collage #Toronto

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Collage image with text. Issues Magazine Shop presents Collage Night. Hosted by Alanna Chelmick & Bryonie Wise. The edge of what appears to be a blue wooden window frame, with an orange and pink flower beside it, and a dark-skinned hand holding a large ball of dough.
November 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Pets!

Then, on Dec 12

Kensington Art Supply & Instruction hosts a Whimsical India Ink Pet Portraits workshop. Create fun portraits of your animal friends! Supplies included. No prior ink experience required.

www.youngw.ca/event/whimsi...

#Art #IndiaInk #Calgary

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Image featuring an ink portrait of a black tuxedo cat, plus text: Whimsical India Ink Pet Portraits with Yulia Tsinko.
November 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM