Artery
About
Artery
Artery is a new community space in Kingston, Ontario. Here you’ll find rotating exhibitions, screenings, workshops, community meetings, guest lectures, drag shows, artist talks, and the occasional beautiful mess.Artery is a gallery space & gathering place where creative, cultural, and community voices flow together. We are available to book as a gallery space or a gathering space for individuals or community agencies/organizations/clubs. [reelout-clear]
AMMENITIES
1200 square feet
150-person capacity
Located directly on Kingston’s main street Princess Street
Large store front windows north-facing
Located in the community of Williamsville
Track lighting
Air Conditioned
High-speed Internet
Comfortable Lounge Area
Raised Stage
Podium
Wheeled tables and chairs
Kitchenette with small fridge and microwave with optional access to coffee machine
Two moveable multi-media centres for media art displays or slideshow presentations
Venue’s entrance/exit and 2 all-gender washrooms are partially accessible
ART GALLERY SPACE
Artery is dedicated to presenting work from contemporary artists working in a variety of disciplines and strives to present art that reflects and promotes diverse perspectives.
Artery is available to emerging, mid-career, and senior artists, programmers and curators to book for your next creative showcase!
ART GALLERY RATES
To help us cover the overhead costs of running the gallery, and hosting excellent shows, there is a base administrative fee of $100 and an additional rental fee of $100 per week. Artery also collects a 25% commission fee for each art piece sold. These fees and commissions include some marketing from Artery, the handling of art sales, space and staffing to host a reception, and overhead costs of the gallery.
COMMUNITY GATHERING PLACE
Artery is available to groups/clubs/agencies for meetings, lectures, poetry slams, talking circles, board meetings, 12-step programs, workshops and more. The space is available from 8am-11pm seven days a week. Please note that the space is not conducive for meetings of confidential matters between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri as it is a shared workspace.
COMMUNITY GATHERING PLACE RATES
To help us cover the overhead costs of running the gathering space, there is a base annual community membership fee of $100 for groups or $50 for individuals and an additional rental fee of $20 per 4 hours (negotiable to individuals/groups with financial barriers).
The REEL
The REEL (or Reelout Entertainment and Educational Library) is also located at 844A Princess Street in the Artery space.
Our library acquires queer, Canadian and international film and/or video on DVD/Blu-Ray formats for the purposes of fostering gender and sexual diversity education to citizens of KFL&A counties who lack accessibility to these resources or may feel isolated from queer culture, or may wish to increase their awareness of LGBTQ2SIA+ issues. Membership to Reelout Arts Project is $20 annually or $40 for agencies/organizations and allows you as a patron access to over 3500+ titles ranging from documentaries, short films, dramas, camp/cult classics, to iconic examples of queer representation in Hollywood cinema. You can check out a list of most of our films, we use MyMovie to digitally catalogue and there are many films the system doesn’t recognize, so please reach out if there is a film you’re looking for that’s not on TheREEL_Collection
We also have a small collection of LGBT/Film related books and our reading collection can be found on our Goodreads page or you can download a PDF listing of books available.
The library is open by appointment.
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