Women's Art Festival

01/08/2025

🎨 CALLING ALL ARTISTS & ARTS EDUCATORS! 🎨

We’re looking for professional local artists and arts educators who are passionate about creativity, inclusivity, and learning for short-term contracts. If you're ready to embrace new ideas, think outside the box, and make your artistic discipline accessible to all, we'd like to meet you!

✨ What We’re Looking For:

Creative individuals who are eager to learn and grow.

Someone with 2.5 to 5 hours per week to commit for at least 8 or up to 16 weeks.

Open-minded creatives and educators who understand that everyone learns differently.

A willingness to explore new, inclusive ways of working.

The ability to adapt to new challenges in the creative process.

🌟 What We Offer:

MixAbilities Inclusive Arts training to help you integrate inclusivity, universal design, people with disabilities and seniors into your creative workshop. www.hartcentre.ca/mixabilities

A vibrant inclusive arts community.

A space to share knowledge and lived experience in the creative environment.

If you're ready to expand your skills, challenge the status quo, and make a real impact, we’d love you to contact us and we can discuss the opportunity!

Apply today! 👇 Send us 2 or 3 sentences on why you're interested and your availability, and then your resume.
www.hartcentre.ca/contact-us

H’art Centre encourages expressions of interest from equity groups. Applications from disability-identified persons are strongly encouraged.

08/12/2024

We are overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who made this year's festival an incredible success on such a beautiful, sunny day (even with a little wind)!

🙏 Thank You to Our Attendees: Your enthusiasm and support filled the day with joy and energy. We're so grateful you chose to spend your time with us.

🎨 Thank You to Our Artists: Your creativity and dedication brought beautiful artwork in all forms to our festival. We appreciate all of your work that you shared with our community.

🍴 Thank You to Our Food Vendors: Your delicious creations kept everyone fueled and happy throughout the day. You added so much flavour to the festival!

🎶 Thank You to Our Performers: Your talent and passion brought the festival to life. We are so thankful for the unforgettable entertainment you provided!

💙 Thank You to the Charities: Your presence and the important work you do made our festival even more meaningful. We're honored to have had you with us and grateful for the difference you make in our community.

🙌 Thank You to Our Volunteers: Your time, effort, and passion made everything run smoothly. We couldn't have done it without you!

🎉 Thank You to the Organizers: Your commitment and tireless efforts behind the scenes turned our vision into reality. We're proud of what we accomplished together.

Together, we created something special. Until next year! ❤️

08/11/2024

I would like to thank all the organizers and volunteers that made the 41st Women's Art Festival a success yesterday. From first thing in the morning at set up to end of the day take down the event went smoothly due to your time and dedication. I really enjoyed the day. You all deserve a round of applause.

Doreen Morey

08/10/2024

🎉 Giveaway Time! 🎉

We’re excited to give away some fabulous prizes from our talented artists at this year’s Women’s Art Festival! 🎨✨

How to Enter:

Tag your favorite artist from this year’s festival in the comments below.
Make sure you’re following us!
Share this post on your story for an extra entry.
You have until Sunday at 5 PM to enter! Winners will be announced on Monday. Good luck! 🍀

08/09/2024

🌸 A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Wonderful Sponsors! 🌸

We are so thankful for the incredible support from our sponsors, who have played a vital role in making the Women's Art Festival a success this year! 🎨✨

A big shoutout to:
💜Heidi Blondin Financial
💚The Rocking Horse Toys
💜Kingston Community Credit Union

Your dedication and generosity have helped us create a vibrant space for women artists to shine and for our community to come together 💖

08/09/2024

What festivals will you be attending in Kingston this August? Let us know in the comments.

🎉 Here are four Kingston festivals you won't want to miss in August:

🎭 The Kick & Push Festival at various locations: until August 18
🐑 Kingston Sheepdog Trials at Grass Creek Park: August 9–11
🎨 Women's Art Festival at City Park: August 10, 10 am–4 pm
💃 Greek Fest at the Greek Orthodox Church: August 17, 11 am–11 pm

🔗 View our 25 things to do in August list to learn more: https://bit.ly/3owXxi9

08/08/2024

✨ Join us this Saturday, August 10, at the Women's Art Festival for a day filled with art, community, and delicious food! 🍴✨
We've got a little bit of everything to satisfy your cravings:
🥗Vegan eats from
🍔Juicy burgers from
🥟Delectable dishes from
🍪Sweet treats from
🍦Sweet gelato from
🍕Mouthwatering pizza from
🍧Icy treats from
🍲Flavorful Thai cuisine from

Don't miss out on these amazing vendors and a fantastic day! See you there! 🌟🥳

08/07/2024

We are seriously 💜ing all of the entries for our colouring contest!! Thank you Vienna for sharing your amazing art skills with us!

You can pick up one of our colouring sheets at:
✨ by Friday, August 9
✨ by Friday, August 9
✨Or at the Women's Art Festival this Saturday, August 10!

One lucky kid will win gift cards to both the Kingston School or Art and The Rocking Horse!

08/06/2024

Saturday, August 10 is the Women's Art Festival and we're welcoming great performances and workshops! ❤️ ⬇️

10:30 – 11:00 AM: The Woman With Three Eyes: Live poetry reading by Alya, Morgan Grace and Monique Lee

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Los Encantos Latin Dance Team Performance and Free Workshop in Salsa and Bachata

1:45 – 2:30 PM: The Bayash Sisters

3:15 – 4:00 PM: Tiny Horse Music

08/01/2024

We're pleased to have Los Encantos Kingston Latin Dance Team perform at the Women's Art Festival this year!

💃 Los Encantos Kingston Latin Dance Team is a family united by a passion for Latin dance and community enrichment. Their motto, "Inspire, Train, Transform," reflects their mission: each dance step is a chance for personal growth and emotional connection. Los Encantos Kingston Latin Dance Team started as a ladies dancing team in March 2023. The idea was to conduct short term dance projects and involve as many people as possible in the beautiful world of Latin Dance while having fun.

Watch their performance at the Women's Art Festival on Saturday, August 10 at 11 am 🎶

07/29/2024

Presenting at 1:30PM at the Women's Art Festival ☀️

Bayash Sisters are a folk-pop duo from Ottawa, ON, known for their intricate harmonies. Born into a musical family, sisters Eliza “Yarro” and Emma Bayash have been singing together for as long as they can remember. They spent the past ten years focusing on their own artistic journeys, and have returned to their roots to pay homage to the family and community that have supported them since the very beginning. Funded by Ontario Arts Council, Bayash
Sisters released their debut EP, Provenance, in May 2023, exploring themes of identity, belonging, and home.

07/26/2024

📣 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS // The Women’s Art Festival would not be possible without the many volunteers that support us each year. Get your high school volunteer hours completed, give back to the community, help us help the environment, and connect with a wide network of volunteers. We're currently looking for assistance on August 9 + 10, 2024 with the following roles:

- Festival setup / tear down
- Site maintenance and waste diversion
- Vendor assistance

Interested in assisting this year? We encourage all folks to fill out our form on the website: https://www.womensartfestival.ca/volunteer

07/25/2024

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07/20/2024

Meet the artists // Lisa from Twisted Thistle Art Co does thread paintings and embroidery. Each little artwork is composed of thousands of tiny stitches and is one-of-a-kind. They are stitched on linen or velvet using high quality cotton and silk threads. Some have an added splash of glass beads or sequins, but most are painted in the rich colours of thread 🌅

Li Yan from Happy Buddha creates handmade items, specializing in bamboo and cotton handwoven bracelets. She also offers various handmade products like crystal and jade bracelets, pendants, wire rings, hand-poured scented candles, and embroidery key chains 🎋

Rana from StrgrlStudio focuses is acrylic paintings on canvas, however, she loves to challenge herself and also does sculpting, digital pieces, and clothing 🎨

✨ Stop by the Women's Art Festival on August 10 from 10 am – 2 pm to see these great artists and more in person!

07/16/2024

ARTIST FEATURE // Tiny Horse Music will be playing at the Women's Art Festival on August 10 at 3 pm 🎶

To see and hear Kingston, Ontario indie rock outfit Tiny Horse is to step into a place of possibility and freedom. Their performances are equal parts small-town q***r cabaret, ‘70s folk-rock rapture, and Bowie-ish extravaganza. Their music crackles with John Prine’s rich storytelling and winking humor, Patti Smith’s punkish abandon and revelry, Haim and Taylor Swift’s melodic brilliance.

Along with celebrated appearances at Guelph’s renowned Hillside Festival and Mackinnon Brothers’ Back To The Farm, Tiny Horse have spent the last few years converting some of Ontario’s best music rooms—from the El Mocambo to the National Arts Centre to the sweaty depths of Kingston’s pubs—into places of celebration and light and the sort of weirdo genius that lives outside the crush of normative society.