𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 🚫 ❌ ❗

📆 Saturday, February 8th, 2025

🕚 2PM – 4PM

📍 In person at Xpace Cultural Centre

⭐ FREE

🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ RSVP on xpace.eventbrite.com 🏃

How do emerging artists handle inevitable experiences of rejection as they begin applying to calls, residencies, grants, job applications, and cold-call emails? Developing a thick skin takes time, and every single working artist has experiences of rejection.

In this workshop, multidisciplinary artist Jordan King offers an alternative to thinking of “rejection-as-failure”, instead utilizing it as part of a lifelong artistic process. Even the most successful and well established artists experience rejection!

The workshop will offer concrete takeaways, strategies to prepare for responses on applications, as well as grant writing/time management tips. Rejection can serve as a guide, directing where to focus one’s time + energy, and when it may be time to refocus.

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Facilitator Bio:

Jordan King (@jordankingarchive) is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, curator and writer. Her practice is rooted in performance, archival research and intergenerational dialogue. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at OCAD University in 2024 with a focus on documentary film and multimedia documentation of underground queer performance.

Poster by: Karim Mohamed