Name: 🚀 Riding West with Zafron in My Blood: Exhibit Launch
Start: 2026-06-06T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-06T23:30:00-04:00

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April 2026
🖼️ EVERYDAY

March 15 – May 31

RAID Gallery & Cafe 1720 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Using bright palettes and clean shapes, Cristy captures ordinary moments with a mix of playfulness and honesty.
🎪 TAAFI 2026

April 8 – April 12

Tiff Lightbox 350 King St W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, or TAAFI, is the animation festival that welcomes a massive audience of talented professionals, students, studios and enthusiasts, year after year. It is a completely volunteer-run non-profit organization that is crazy passionate about cartoons and the people who make them!
May 2026
💬 Be Yourself… Oh, Not Like That!

May 21 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Emilia Strilchuk on the storytelling of the self: a conversation with Stephanie Cooke.
💬 Inside Vivisect

May 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Vivi Partridge discusses their new graphic novel, Vivisect, with Mollie Cronin.
June 2026
🖼️ Riding West with Zafron in My Blood

June 4 – August 4

RAID Gallery & Cafe 1720 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Women, Life, Freedom, is deeply informed by the solidarity she witnessed among Iranian women — women who, even under oppression, protected one another and fought side by side with extraordinary strength.
🚀 Riding West with Zafron in My Blood: Exhibit Launch

June 6 @ 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm

Join us on June 6, 2026, at RAID Gallery for the opening of Riding West with Zafron in My Blood, a powerful new exhibition by Sarvi Ghadim.