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Project 165 presents
Sunday Screening Vol 5:
Wonder Boys + The Big Lebowski

This month’s Sunday Screening* was carefully selected by Braz King. Thanks, Braz! Great selection!

Program:
WONDER BOYS (2000)
Directed by Curtis Hanson. Screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on a novel by Michael Chabon. Starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Holmes, Rip Torn.
Wonder Boys is a beautiful movie about writing, writers, the creative process, pot and hard choices. The film features an uncharacteristically shaggy, soulful performance by Michael Douglas as the pot-smoking Professor Grady Tripp, a successful author struggling to complete the follow-up to his major work, The Arsonist’s Daughter, while mentoring the brilliant, eccentric student, James, played by low-key mumbler, Tobey Maguire. Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Holmes and Rip Torn are all perfect in memorable supporting roles.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)
Written and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro, Flea, Sam Elliott.
This cult classic by the Cohen bothers is a masterpiece mash-up of hard-boiled detective fiction meets pot and bowling. With the most unlikely hero/detective they could conceive of, the Coen brothers take their aging hippy protagonist, The Dude, through a narrative structured like a Raymond Chandler-style detective story. Brilliant cast, perfect characters and brilliant, quotable lines for every occasion.

Project 165 presents
Sunday Screening Vol 4:
Being There + Adam’s Apples

This month’s Sunday Screening* was carefully selected by Alex Bowron. Thanks, Alex! Great selection!
ADAM’S APPLES (2007)
This is the story of five equally lovable, and often questionable, social outcasts living out their neuroses in a remote Danish countryside church. The church’s priest, Ivan, has a determined and intense faith in optimism that requires him to assert his leadership through far-from-conventional means. This film explores faith, anarchy, redemption and apple pie-baking neo-nazis. Funny, odd, hart-warming and sometimes brutal.
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Nicolaj Kaas, Ali Kazim, Paprika Steen, and Ulrich Thomsen
BEING THERE (1979)
This is one of those films that’ll leave you satisfied, period. It stars a young Peter Sellers as the middle-aged, immediately lovable Chance. The story begins when Chance leaves his house for the first time – ever. What follows is a series of hilarious encounters with ‘the real world’ in which total naiveté meets the bourgeoisie. An insightful commentary on personal perspective, truth, logic and figuring out what matters most.
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine
Adapted from the 1971 novel by Jerzy Kosinski.

Methinks’ 2nd Annual Holiday PopUp Art Shop: a curatorial experiment that challenges the usual exhibition format; a playful space of curiosity and wonder for last-minute Secret Santas in a bind; something you’ve just gotta do.
Go to the bottom of Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market and you will discover a magical cottage-like structure installed behind the big storefront windows of a young artist-run space called Project 165.
Now follow a string of Chris’mas lights inside and slip through a hobbit-like door to reveal a cozy little art & craft showroom installation complete with a cardboard Chris’mas tree, a secret passageway hidden behind a faux-brick fireplace and a giant gym sock stocking, amongst other unique aesthetic touches.

Image by Karol Orzechowski

Methinks Presents
Stray, get found: NYC Retro Show

A multimedia exhibition by passengers and crew of Methinks NYC Roadtrip 11.
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SCREENING | November 29, 2009
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Project 165 presents
Sunday Screening Vol 3:
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Double Bill

Program:
9:15 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre  (2003 remake)
11:00 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
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EXHIBITION | November 20 – 26, 2009
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Photo by David Woodward.

Project 165 presents
Installation by Jenny Santos: Homebody

Homebody is a meditation on personal retreat, isolation and psychological safety zones; it explores the tension between the comfort of the familiar, and the desire to explore the unknown.
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WORKSHOP | October 24, 25. 2009
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Methinks Presents
A Halloween Mask-making Workshop
These casual yet productive workshops happen over two days, for three to four hours each day. We will demonstrate various mask-making  methods, help you build props and overall provide a creative space to brainstorm, workshop costume ideas and prepare for Halloween.
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SCREENING | October 25, 2009
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Project 165 presents
Sunday Screening, Vol. 2: Experimental Films by Maya Deren

Program:
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943-1959) – 14min
At Land (1944) – 15min
A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) – 4min
Ritual in Transfigured Time (1945-1946) – 15min
Meditation on Violence (1948) – 12min
The Very Eye of Night (1952-1959) – 15min
“The cinema of Maya Deren delivers us from the studios: it presents our eyes with physical facts which contain profound psychological meaning; it beats out within our hearts a time which alternates, continues, revolves, pounds or flies away… Poetry, after all, is the feast which life offers those who know how to receive with their eyes and hearts, and understand.”
- Le Corbusier
“Intensely personal, symbolic and surreal films that reveal her deepest, darkest fantasies. She’s Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body. Watching these films can change forever your concept of what cinema can be.”
- L.A. Weekly
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EVENT | October 3, 2009
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Methinks Presents
Nuit Noir
Oct 3, 2009, dusk til dawn, unsanctioned Nuit Blanche activity
A celebration of creative indulgence, “undefiled wisdom” and the vital existence of unsanctioned cultural activity. ALL NIGHT * DUSK – DAWN Live performances EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR starting at 10pm.
DRAWINGS from We Made a Deal with the Devil (Methinks’ most recent portable art show, fresh off a month-long tour of Eastern Canada) + SATANIC COFFEE by Graham Nash (aka Ryan Ringer) + ASSORTED TEAS by Wendy Ventricle (aka Alex Bowron) + MAD SOUNDZ by Joe Law, GoodBears, Modulok and the Takaba Collective, Rumsfeld, Robb Mirsky, Garbageface + TUNES SELECTED by Wolfman + PSYCHIC VAMPIRES SLAYED during nap time + NYC ROADTRIP INFO KIOSK
LAY DOWN if you need to rest your head. We love you.
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EXHIBITION | August 2009
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Project 165 presents
S.O.S

A visual exploration of the long-lost Morse code distress signal S.O.S.  Fresh illustration works by Alejandra Diaz, Brittany Wilson, Hyein Lee, Ilichna Morasky, Roben Nieuwland, Selena Wong and Vicki Nerino.
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July 25, 2009
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Methinks Presents
We Made a Deal with the Devil Preview + Garage Sale Liquidation Party

Drawings, installation, performance and other projects by Aleks Bartosik, Alex Bowron, Allison Moore, Andrzej Tarasiuk, Karol Orzechowski, Lisa Keophila, Rick Kresta, Ryan Solski, Ryan Ringer and many other wicked little Deal Makers whose work will tour across Eastern Canada through August, 2009.
This is also the liquidation wrap party for Methinks’ 2nd annual Gargantuan Garage Sale.
Live sound by Garbageface and TonkaPuma.
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June 10 – 20, 2009
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Project 165 presents
Remember Who’s Emma: Punk, Politics and Place
A documentary project by Lyndall Musselman

Who’s Emma was considered a social experiment, an autonomous zone, a record shop, a bookstore and a “cool” place for youth to congregate in Toronto’s Kensington Market.
Named after Emma Goldman, the notorious anarcho-feminist who once resided in the Kensington Market neighborhood, this volunteer-run retail operation challenged punk youth and anarchist-activists to work collectively.
“Remember Who’s Emma” explores the problematic yet transformative social dynamic of this collective space, through a video documentary-screening and exhibition of posters, flyers, minutes from meetings, financial papers, and other Who’s Emma ephemera.
This project invites you to remember Who’s Emma and engage the concepts of collectivity, DIY ethics and the sense of identity and place this subcultural center represented.
Related events: a screening (as part of Ryerson University’s Doc Now festival); a Punk Walking Tour of Kensington Market and Cognate’s all-ages punk show featuring Place Hands, Tomcat Combat, A History Of and Ancestors, plus Food Not Bombs serving; and a Panel Discussion and Artist Talk.
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April 2009
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Project 165 presents
Picture This: A Monthly Drawing Session

Picture This is a monthly drawing session, a relaxed place to work independently or in teams to develop your skills and ideas and create drawing-based work for exhibition at Project 165.  At the end of the year, participating artists will be asked to make finished work based on what they produced in these sessions.
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March 2009
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Project 165 presents
Picture This: A Monthly Drawing Session

Picture This is a monthly drawing session, a relaxed place to work independently or in teams to develop your skills and ideas and create drawing-based work for exhibition at Project 165.  At the end of the year, participating artists will be asked to make finished work based on what they produced in these sessions.
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Methinks Presents
NYC Retro Show
March 31 – April 18, 2009
A NEW YORK CITY-INSPIRED MASHUP FEATURING——— POSTCARD ART, PHOTOS, SOUND, STOPMOTION VIDEOS—-FILM—INTERACTIVE MEDIA——–INSTALLATION, JOURNAL SKETCHES, PERFORMANCE + OTHER WORK BY PARTICIPANTS OF OUR MOST RECENT NYC ROADTRIP
NYC Roadtrip is social art on the move. Ever evolving at the confluence of relational aesthetics, psychogeography and DIY culture, it’s an opportunity for fun-lovin’ adventure-seekers to network, get inspired, workshop special projects, conduct field research and explore everyday urban life beyond its usual context; to explore the non-touristy, local nuances of New York City; and to plug into a vibrant travel community unlike any other.
After each NYC Roadtrip, passengers and crew alike reunite to participate in NYC Retro Show, a multimedia exploration of individual and group perspectives on various New York City-inspired subjects, such as the mapping of moments; personal safe-zones and travel as risk-taking; the artist as wanderer; “street art, street life”; the city as playground; and collective urban myth-making.
Be sure to drop by our opening slamdown as crewmember Karol gets tattooed – live and alive, using hard-earned cash donated by gracious supporters of his comical NYC Tattoo Fund-athon – the King and Queen of Mardi Gras finally have it out with FEMA director Mike Brown, stopmotion gets the green light all night long, and we all get skooled on how to live large in the city with nothing but good looks, natural charm and a clever scam.
Participants include: Jasmine Belisle, Alex Bowron, Kelly Burgess, Stu Campbell, Sam Catalfamo, Sara Duke, Joeseph Ellis, Rob Graham, Chico Gupta, Alexandra Haddad, Ursula Handleigh, Jake Koseleci, Rick Kresta, Alan Lali, Felix Larios, Karol Orzechowski, Ryan Ringer, Jenny Santos, Emily Smit-Dicks, Sookhee Cho, Kerri Tupy, Mike Vignieux, Sarah Ubbi and others.
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Methinks Presents
Uncle Ronnie’s PopUp Holiday Shop
Dec 20 – Jan 9, 2009
Toronto, ON – Methinks Presents is thrilled to announce Uncle Ronnie’s PopUp Holiday Art Shop, an interactive multimedia fundraising situation for Project 165.
Grab your list of people-to-buy-for, slip into your most cozy winter sweater and join us on Saturday December 20, from 7 – 11pm, as we activate this super-fun installation of art and craft with some good ol’ fashioned holiday cheer.
Inspired by the defunct rare-junk shop of an increasingly reclusive, virtually unknown Toronto art collector and hoarder of curiosities, “Uncle” Ronnie Graham, this livingroom-gift shop-installation-kitchen table hybrid is a tribute to a rare bird and its keeper, a living memory of a distant place of careful wonder.
The shop that inspired this project existed for many years as a by-appointment-only, home-based museum of antique oddities and rare junk until Ronnie Graham, due to personal reasons, closed it to the public and “threw away the key”.
Uncle Ronnie’s PopUp Holiday Art Shop comprises specially chosen artists’ books, painting, drawings, photography, prints, sculpture, live-art experience packages, mini installations, encaustic works, shodow boxes, dollies, wearable art and other creative goodies. Works range from $20.00 – $150.00.
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Project 165 presents
Sunday Screening Vol 1:
Paul Newman Triple Bill
Dec 9, 2008
In honour of the late Paul Newman, Project 165 invites you to spend the afternoon to celebrate and appreciate his work with a TRIPLE BILL, featuring: Paris Blues, The Hustler & The Color of Money.
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Methinks Presents
NYC Retro Show
Dec 6 – 14, 2008
Toronto, ON – Project 165 is psyched to announce Methinks Presents’ NYC Retro Show, a mAshUp multiMeDia s___c_ __r_A_p*book-themed show featuring photos, sound art, video, installation, postcard art, sketches, journal entries, artifacts, handmade halloween masks and other creative contributions by participants of the most recent NYC Roadtrip.
Artist-run, community-focused and tailored for the artist’s budget – and informed by relational aesthetics, psychogeography and DIY culture – NYC Roadtrip is an opportunity for creative adventure-seekers (of all ages and experiences) to network, get inspired, workshop special projects, conduct field research and explore everyday urban life beyond its usual context; to explore the non-tourist side of New York City through organized chaos and chance happenings; to plug into a vibrant community of fun-lovin’, culture-hungry travelers; and, overall, to break from routine and gain invaluable, lasting life-insight.
After each NYC Roadtrip, passengers and crew alike reunite to participate in NYC Retro Show, a multimedia exploration of individual and group perspectives on various New York City-informed subjects, such as the mapping of moments; travel as risk-taking; the artist as wanderer; “street art, street life”; the city as playground; and collective urban myth-making.
NYC Retro Show features the creative efforts of Adrian Forrow, Andrzej Tarasiuk, Anya Wassenberg, Amanda Nunes, Brian Rideout, Catherine Nomura, Chico Gupta, David Figueroa, Dave Pijuan-Nomura, Deena Jacobs, Jacqueline Lane, James Spencer, Janet Attard, Jeanetta Dunn, Jesse Albert, Jenny Santos, Jonna Pederson, Karol Orzechowski, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, Mark Cabuena, Meika Palmer, Mike Vigneux, Rick Kresta, Robb Mirsky, Ryan Ringer, Shannon Gibson, Tariq Mohamedali + others.
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Illustration by Ryan Solski

Project 165 Presents
Lost Boys 2: Drawings by Ryan Solski and Dan Rocca
Oct 21 – Nov 10, 2008
Toronto, ON – Project 165 is pleased to announce Lost Boys: 2, an exhibition of psychedelic-drawings-as-urban-sorecery and the launch of a new two-faced art-zine by emergent Canadian artists Ryan Solski and Dan Rocca. Curated by Ryan Ringer, this exhibition explores recent tectonic trips into the tensile cartography of the scribbling duo’s sacred psychedelia.
Ryan Solski and Dan Rocca have been living as Lost Boys since the summer of 2004, when a mystical romp in the woods of Bruce County, Ontario, lead them down a perceptual rabbit hole to a virtual Never-Never-Land of infinite creativity – an immersive world akin to Simon’s Land of Chalk Drawing – where so-called reality and unreality, dreams and everyday life, converge and become a fluid realm of imagination.
And there they have remained, as if fully awake in a dream, waxing the absurd lexicon of Lost Boys through active imagineering. By way of dream-travel to the far corners of their unconscious minds, Solski and Rocca have produced a prodigious compendium of book-works, drawings, paintings, sculptures and performance-installations.
Lost Boys: 2 is a whimsical tour of mini-mapquests, absurd narratives, mind-bending mythologies, bugged-out comicbook characters and imaginary landscapes. These works provide intriguing insight into the world of Lost Boys.
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Project 165 & City of Craft Present
Sticky Fingers
Oct 2 – 15, 2008
Join us for a special preview of crafty items – including work by Julie Moon, Allyson Mitchell, Kate Jackson and others – to be auctioned-off at the Sticky Fingers Craft Auction & Show.
All proceeds from Sticky Fingers supports the next City of Craft.
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Methinks Presents
Project 165 soft opening
Sept 13, 2008
After several years of hard work + determination providing community fun and opportunities for the advancement of emergent creators since 2003, Methinks Presents… PROJECT 165 – a new creative space!
Located on lower Augusta, in Toronto’s Kensington Market, PROJECT 165 combines artist work studios, common space, a little library and a storefront “gallery”.
We invite you to celebrate with us as we open softly with the unveiling of our live lemonade truck (made specially for travels between TO, MTL and NYC) + a fun retro-look at Methinks (featuring selected promo design and photos by various past collaborators) + casual turntable-Ipod sounds featuring selections from the soundstax of RAD, Cuddles, Mike V and others + other soft offerings.
***NOTE***
This event is part of an official-unofficial BLOCK PARTY with a bunch of our creative neighbours.
Big Thanks to:
Deena Jacobs, Jeanetta Dunn, Jenny Santos, Jesse Albert, Karol Orzechowski, Mike Vigneux, Robb Mirsky, Ryan Pierce and all other supporters
Come out and draw, talk, chill and otherwise have a good time softly. BYOsnacks+