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ABOUT Han’s Date Night
Led by Vietnamese-Canadian artist and filmmaker Hân Phạm, this workshop invites participants to explore memory, emotion, and storytelling through creative scanning and collage. Hân’s work experiments with video, photography, soundscapes, and bookmaking to reflect on the ephemerality of memory and the interplay between personal and collective histories.
In this hands-on workshop, Hân will guide participants to transform everyday objects, photographs, and memorabilia into experimental, abstract images using flatbed scanners. You’ll learn how movement, layering, and light can create unexpected textures, forms, and visual narratives, culminating in a personal accordion-style photo book.
Cost:
- $40 or buy 2 for $70
about date nights
Since launching in 2022, our monthly CityScape Date Night series has become a familiar part of the arts and cultural scene in Lower Lonsdale. Held inside an active gallery, these evenings are about discovering something new, new connections, new creative habits, and fresh ways of seeing the world around you.
Each month we invite a different local artist ,both emerging and professional to bring their own artistic stories, techniques, and inspirations.
We explore a range of mediums: From Textiles to Sculpture, Watercolour to Digital Art, Creative Writing to Drag Life Drawing, Kintsugi to Recipe Zines.
Many of our workshops use eco-friendly, low-cost, and accessible materials, making it easy to continue the practice at home if you fall in love with it. From paper mâché sculptures to Gelli printing to plant-based weaving, you will try creative techniques that are sustainable, affordable, and hands-on.
In 2026, we’re expanding the series to include even more digital and experimental art forms. We’re partnering with the Capture Festival, offering two photography workshops, one digital, one analogue, set alongside our own Image / Object Photosculpture exhibition. These immersive sessions explore layering, manipulation, and visual storytelling through both modern and traditional photographic approaches.
Whether you’re here to explore a new creative practice, start a hobby, meet others, or enjoy an evening out, each Date Night brings a fresh artistic experience with a different artist every month.
Skills Learned:
- Experiment with flatbed scanners as a creative tool, moving, layering, and transforming images
- Make a physical collage inspired by your personal memories, feelings, shapes, and colours
- Assemble your scans and collages into a finished accordion-style photo book
Skills Learned:
- Using scanners in unconventional ways
- Exploring the interaction of light, colour, and texture in images
- Sequencing and designing a personal accordion book
Who should attend
- Anyone curious about memory, storytelling, and creative photography
- Artists or makers looking to experiment with analogue and digital techniques
What you need to bring
- Personal photos, printed images, or memorabilia to experiment with
Registration Closes at midnight on the Tuesday before the class begins (2 days before the class begins)
