This past weekend was a wonderful celebration of being ourselves, enjoying our identities, and immersing ourselves in the joy of our bodies, that feeling of Gender Euphoria.
Transgender artists from Elora to London, Beamsville to Cambridge, Hamilton to Guelph, fifty eight individuals in all, participated in our first Paint Pour Party. 

While it was a great event, it was not without problems. We forgot to send the email out for the 18+ party until 20 minutes before the event. And even then, some people missed out because of faulty systems implemented to send emails in batches.

We reached out to those affected, sent emails to offer suggestions on how to do what we had done during our event, and chalked it down to first-time mistakes (which won't be repeated). We've committed to having a staff member to deal with last-minute messages asking for information, and also learning how to use a system like MailChimp properly.  
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For all of you who participated, thank you for joining us! For those who are seeing these paintings that were created during our event, and would like to learn more about having an event for your community, please use the contact form on our Contact us page. 

​The Paint Pour Party is going to be a great success!

Our kits have all been claimed - some were delivered on the weekend, others have been picked up, and still more need to be picked up. 

If you registered for our event and haven't received or picked up your kit yet, contact us at our contact us page so we can make sure you get your kit in time. 

Keep an eye on  your inbox for some fun paint pour ideas and see you Saturday!

On Sunday, June 6, 2021, several drivers from Free Mom Hugs (Southern Ontario) made the trek to Guelph to help deliver Paint Pour Party kits to families and individuals who had signed up for the event taking place on Saturday June 12th!

A convoy of four cars left downtown Guelph and delivered 26 kits to individuals in Guelph, Fergus, Hamilton, Cambridge, and Beamsville.  For a short video of their departure, check our FB page.​

Thank you, Free Mom Hugs, Southern Ontario, for delivering happiness to so many trans folk this past weekend! 

We have had an amazing response from the community for our first project!

We have registered FOURTY SEVEN individuals in the Guelph and Hamilton areas for our event. 

We also had a few registrations from Hamilton, Cambridge, London, and Fergus.

Now it's time to start thinking about your paint pour! Cool ideas for how to do your pour will be sent in the next two days.  

For a while now, String Theory Yarn Shop in Fergus, Ontario has been supporting the LGBTQ2S+ community. With their unique partnership with a local dyer and spinner of yarn, they have created beautiful Pride scarf patterns/kits from which they donate 25% of sales to OK2BME. 

This month, we're happy to announce that String Theory Yarn Shop has made a donation to support the Trans Artivist Project, and our first Gender Euphoria Paint Pour Party. We are so thankful for their support and hope that anyone who enjoys knitting and crochet, and other string/yarn based media will support them! 

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We are so excited to show everyone our brand new logo! 


Best of all, this beautiful design, which features such diverse individuals participating in so many types of artistic endeavors, has been created by the incomparable Pepper Rose. 

​Pepper is a non-binary graphic artist, who is best known for their funky character drawings. Let's show them some love!
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So happy to announce that ARCH (HIV/AIDS Resources and Community Health in Guelph, ON, are joining the Pride 2021 Gender Euphoria Paint Pour Party on June 12, 2021! 

Clients registered with ARCH can register to receive a paint pour kit to take part in our first Paint Pour Party! 

Go to our registration form (below), complete and send to participate. 
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We are so excited! 

This June 2021, the TransArtivistProject.org is hosting its very first project in the Guelph/KW area and the theme for our project is

Gender Euphoria! 

Remember the first time that you figured out your gender? How great it felt to be in your body? Like all the parts of your body just thrummed in excitement? How you could feel every hair on your head, smell things that were a block away, taste the colour of the sunset, and hear the smile on your face? How you felt inside when someone finally got your pronouns right? 

Tap into your memory of Gender Euphoria while making colourful paintings using an easy and fun painting technique:
Acrylic Pour

The TransArtivistProject.org will be running up to two Paint Pour Parties  during Pride Month with a maximum of 30 participants per party. One will be for those 18+; another will be for trans youth and their families. 
Participants will receive a complete kit, delivered at their home, with supplies and instructions for how to join the Pour Party. 

To state your interest in being a participant, to sign up a youth, or to offer donations of time/materials/money for this event, please complete the contact form no later than May 15, 2021. ​

Pride 2021 is going to be super colourful! 

The TransAritivstProject.org is hosting Paint Pour Parties on the afternoon of Saturday, June 12th.  

One is for trans youth (5-17yrs old) and their families (early afternoon) 
The other is for trans individuals aged 18+ at 4 pm 

REGISTER using the button below, indicating the age of the participant, number of participants, and area in which you live (nearest major intersection) to ease in planning delivery of your kit(s). 

This is so exciting!

Free Mom Hugs of Southern Ontario is teaming up with TransArtivistProject.org to help us deliver our Paint Pour Party Kits! 

When you sign up for your participation in our Party, please indicate where in the Guelph/Hamilton/Kitchener/Waterloo area you live so that we can arrange for your kit to be delivered to you.

All kits will be put together in the next two weeks, ensuring that minimal handling is required before being delivered before the big day!