Amanda Tkaczyk

Sept. 2025 | Cyrano 2025: An Echoborg Romance. Playwright/Director of slam poetry performance; juried play selection for competition; Grand River Arts Festival, Brantford, ON [P*]

Aug. 2025 | Synthetic Ubiquity. Filmmaker/Performer. Performance video with AI; juried selection. Third Shift JS public contemporary arts festival, St. John, New Brunswick [S*]

July 2025  | Girls & Guitars Showcase. Spoken word and songwriting. Hillside Festival, Guelph, ON [P]

July-Aug 2025 | Domino Effect. Digital Collage with mixed media - juried selection for group exhibition. Emancipation 2025 with Halton Black History Awareness Society at Helson Gallery, Halton Hills, ON  [E*]

 July 2025 | Group Prompt - An experimental AI-theatre performance;  Creative Head/Producer & Performer. Hamilton Fringe Festival; Hamilton, ON [P]

 June 2025 | Scan for Meaning. Filmmaker/Performer. Performance art video for group exhibition. AI & The Creative Arts, hosted by Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group ; Colorado, USA. [S]

May 2025 | Troublemakers ABC. Filmmaker/Producer.  Micro-anthology horror film rooted in co-creation. 48 Hour Film Project Toronto at Revue  Cinema, Toronto, ON [S]

Feb. 2025 | Girls & Guitars Showcase. Spoken word and songwriting. Hillside Inside, Guelph, ON [P]

Nov. 2024–Jan. 2025 | Relaxtion Simulation I & II. 2 digital collage works selected for juried group exhibition. On Paper, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON [E*]

Oct.-Nov.–2024 | Algorithmic Validation I & II. 2 digital interactive works selected for juried group exhibition. Cambridge Centre for the Arts 2024 Juried Art Exhibition; Cambridge, ON [E*]

 Sept.–Oct. 2024 | Untited I & II; two abstract acrylic paintings painted outdoors for community event and charity auction, juried portfolio selected to participate as local visual artist for inaugural community event. Cambridge Art in the Open; works exhibited at NoWord Gallery, Cambridge ON. [E*]

 July 2024 | Amanda's Very First & Very Abstract Art Exhibit - Selection of 4 abstract acylics paintings. Hamilton Fringe Festival, Hamilton, ON [E]

Mar.–Apr. 2025 | Black Ligature Expressive Arts Songs & Stories (BLESS) -Expressive Arts facilitation training. Susanne Donder, MA, RP, ExAT, School of Expressive Arts & Therapy (Hamilton, ON)

Apr. 2025 | Mediated Bodies - course exploring interdisciplinary approaches to body tracking including AR/XR. Julie Fetter, School of Machines (Germany)

Mar. 2025 | Video Performance Art - artist professional development workshop. Johannes Deimling BBB, PAS - Performance Arts Studies (Germany)

Jan. 2025 | Girls & Guitars - course and songwriters circle. Doris Folkens & Maggie Davis, Hillside Festival (Guelph, ON)

Jan. 2025 | Asking Through Scores - intensive 20 hour workshop exploring deep collaborative performance. Chris Willes, Studio 303 (Montreal, ON)

Nov. 2024 | Digital Dreamscapes: Collaborative 3D World Building - virtual reality art workshop. Hiba Ali, Interaccess Toronto (Toronto, ON)

July 2024 | Feel Into It – Sensorial aesthetics performance art training. Guadalupe Martinez (Vancouver, BC)

2025 | Arts Fellow, I Love My Gig Ontario, Incubated by ArtsPond, $3000. Remote. ON.

2025 | Region of Waterloo Artistic Micro-Grant Recipient, $1000, Waterloo, ON.

2022 | Second Place Ribbon, Photography - Horticulture, South Waterloo Agricultural Society, Cambridge, ON.

2022 | Second Place Ribbon, Photography - Reflections, South Waterloo Agricultural Society, Cambridge, ON.

2022 | Second Place Ribbon, Photography - Sunrise/Sunset, South Waterloo Agricultural Society, Cambridge, ON.

2022 | Second Place Ribbon, Computer Generated Artwork, South Waterloo Agricultural Society, Cambridge, ON.

2011 | Competitive Slam Poetry Team Member (earned spot based on scoring), Guelph Poetry Slam, Guelph, ON.

2025-  | Expressive Arts Practitioner, Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association