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Zines for Hoping and Coping Exhibition
This exhibition shares work from Navigating the Seas of Care, a project empowering Care Experienced Young People in Shetland to creatively share their journeys within the care system through zine-making.
Open Access (Wednesday Afternoons)
Open Access sessions provide 3 hours of access to the facilities at Toogs Artist Workshop, with technical support from one of Gaada’s experienced artist team!
BAD ARTIST (Becky Robertson)
2023/24 Bursary recipient, Becky Robertson shares her latest work through Gaada’s outside exhibition space at the Toogs Artist Workshop.
Collaborative Concertina Zine Workshop
Get to grips with riso printing and explore the joy of making a concertina zine in this hands-on workshop.
Lunch Time Artist Talk: Nick Hand at Shetland Library
Join Gaada at the Shetland Library for a very special in-person artist talk + printing session with bicycle-led letterpresser Nick Hand!
Weekly 121s
These sessions provide regular supported access to the workshop on a one-on-one basis.
Screenprint Workshop
Get to grips with the screenprinting process and create a small edition of A4 size paper prints using hand made techniques.
Lunch Time Artist Talk: Aidan Moesby
Join Gaada for our next artist talk with Oslo based artist, curator and writer Aidan Moesby.
Work Share, Artist Lunch and Workshop
You are invited to Gaada’s November Work Share + Artist Lunch, taking place at the Toogs Artist Workshop, Burra. The activity for this iteration of Work Share will be lead by Shetland Artist Berenice Carrington!
Tetrapak Drypoint Workshop
Join us for a Tetra Pak workshop where we explore intaglio print techniques.
Tetrapak Drypoint Workshop
Join us for a Tetra Pak workshop where we explore intaglio print techniques. This workshop is sold out!
Lunch Time Artist Talk: Issey Medd
Join Gaada for our next artist talk with Issey Medd, the new member of the Toogs Artist Workshop team.
Zines for Hoping and Coping Launch Event
Gaada is delighted to host the launch of Zines for Hoping and Coping at the Toogs Artist Workshop
The Zines are part of the larger project Navigating the Seas of Care which empowers Care Experienced Young People in Shetland to creatively share their journeys within the care system through zine-making.
Work Share, Artist Lunch and Workshop with Artist Issey Medd
You are invited to Gaada’s August Work Share + Artist Lunch, taking place at the Toogs Artist Workshop, Burra. The activity for this iteration of Work Share will be lead by the newest member of Gaada’s Toogs Team - Artist and Illustrator Issey Medd!
Screenprint Workshop
Get to grips with the screenprinting process and create a small edition of A4 size paper prints using hand made techniques.
Summer Work Share, Artist Lunch + Comic Making with special guests Pamflett (Norway)
Come along and nourish your creative souls and bellies at the summer work share. We are joined by special guests Pamflett from Bergen, Norway
Riso Group Workshop
Experiment with two-colour printing to produce your own A3 prints from hand made artwork, be it bold posters, art pieces, or whimsical magic zines.
Sold out!
Riso Group Workshop
Dive into the vibrant world of RISO printing in this hands-on workshop focusing on the tactile joy of creating art with RISO. Unlike digital printing, this workshop celebrates the craft of manual, analogue techniques.
Print, Flood, Repeat
An outdoors exhibition of hand made prints by 30 artists who have learnt about the screenprinting process at the Toogs Artist Workshop over the past 6 months.
Screenprint Group Workshop
Get to grips with the screenprinting process and create a small edition of A4 size paper prints using hand made techniques.
Riso Group Workshop
Sold out!
Get to grips with the RISO printing process and create a small edition of A3 size paper prints.
Screenprint Workshop
Sold out!
Get to grips with the screenprinting process and create a small edition of A4 size paper prints using hand made techniques.
Warm Winter Work Share + Pot Luck
Nourish your bellies and your creative souls, celebrate all that was made in 2023 and together set artistic aspirations for the new year.
Screenprint Workshop (Yül Special)
Sold out!
Get in the festive spirit and learn about the screenprinting process! You will create a small edition of cards using hand made techniques.
Brigdi Island
Brigði Island by Miriam Sentler is the current exhibition in Gaada’s outside display space.
Artist Talk: Imi Maufe
Our next Artist Talk will be by Bergen based artist, Imi Maufe.
Imi is a multi-disciplinary artist working internationally across performance, installation, print, and book-making projects.
Screenprint Workshop
Sold out!
Get to grips with the screenprinting process and create a small edition of A4 size paper prints using hand made techniques.
Introduction to Zine Making Workshop
Gaada co-founder + longtime Zine-maker Daniel Clark will be running an introductory workshop on Zine Making at the Shetland Library as part of Book Week Scotland
Clickimin Craft Fair
Visit our stall at the Shetland Craft Fair at the Clickimin Centre from 3 - 5 November.
Screenprint Workshop
Sold Out!
Get to grips with the screenprinting process and create a small edition of A4 size paper prints using hand made techniques.
Barry Tait’s Grand Launch
Come along to the comic signing of Andy Anderson’s debut publication ‘Barry Tait, A New Pilot, Part One’
Hairst Work Share
Join us for our Hairst Work Share (previously known as Peer Group). We welcome Members to join our supportive and safe space to connect with other Shetland Artists to share, discuss, and develop your creative work.
Screenprint Workshop
Get to grips with the screenprinting process and create a small edition of A4 size paper prints using hand made techniques.
It's All Okay (Helen Tulloch)
It’s All Okay is an expression of Helen’s talent of organising shape and colour to form beautiful and intricate works of art.
Bog-Lore (Sammy Paloma)
Join recent Workshop Bursary recipient Sammy Paloma in exploring a relationship between peatbogs, toilets, grief, death, and the gods that feels right to her, and which she is still learning to trace.