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We manifest your vision through design.

Send the Right Message

We worked with a youth design team to develop a website and campaign that encourages straight and cisgender high school youth to challenge everyday instances of homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia.

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We build capacity through collaborative skill-sharing.

Un(Knotted): Co-creating safer spaces at OCAD U

Through workshops, an interactive show and zine, community engagement, and a book for Sexual Assault: The Roadshow we collectively explored the nuances of sexual violence on campus.

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We inspire possibilities through accessible resources.

Do It Yourself Our Creative Resistance Zine Library

Our free and downloadable how-to series is designed to make our skill sets accessible to the communities with whom we work.

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What's happening at
The Public Studio

In the gallery

We are honoured to be featuring Gloria Swain’s exhibit, Black Women’s Lives Matter, connecting past traumas of slavery to ongoing colonial violence against Black women.

In the studio

We wrapped up Gloria Swain’s exhibit, Black Women’s Lives Matter with a closing reception and artist talk on violence against Black women. The conversations that came up touched upon the intersecting and particular ways Black women and trans folks struggle and survive the legacies of slavery and the ongoing colonial violence in the US and Canada.

In the blog

We launched our first edition of A Labour of Love: 10 years of creativity, community, and care, our special series of interviews celebrating the past ten years of The Public! We spoke to Answer’s Director of Communications, Lucinda Holt, about what the process has been like and how our common love and devotion to creating resources by and for young people shines through this invaluable resource.

In the community

Our communities are thriving and organizing for a better city and world. Check out these upcoming events we are so excited to be supporting!

Who is The Public?

We are a group of activists and creatives invested in making a more beautiful and just world. We work collaboratively to deliver work that is creatively, emotionally, and intellectually uplifting, that challenges oppressive ideas, and that empowers people to pursue real change.

Who is The Public?

We are a group of activists and creatives invested in making a more beautiful and just world. We work collaboratively to deliver work that is creatively, emotionally, and intellectually uplifting, that challenges oppressive ideas, and that empowers people to pursue real change.
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The Public Studio
58 Lansdowne Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 2V9

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