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Taking place at Yellow House and led by Melanie Gray and Queen’s BIPOC Talk, in this session we will be creating meaningful calls to action within ourselves to find and cherish self-love. Through jewelry making we are going to acknowledge our own worth and show that everyone deserves to feel special. When you are wearing the jewelry you like, you are expressing yourself and showing the world who you are. The aim of this session is to spread positivity and self appreciation.

For nearly 30 years, our annual fundraiser Cézanne’s Closet has featured the works of student and professional artists alike in an exhibition and lottery-style draw. Given that students and professional artists share space in all that we do, and share walls in this annual salon-style exhibition, we’re giving our fundraiser a fresh new name: side by side.

Artists generously donate their work to support Union year after year, which meaningfully contributes to our operations. While keeping the famed lottery-style approach to our ticketed event, we feel strongly that it is time to introduce a way for our artists to earn some revenue too.

In addition to the live ticketed event, side by side 2024 will also include an in-person fundraiser exhibition at Union Gallery.

This year’s edition of side by side will be co-curated by Bailey Laing and Re Parsons.