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FEELING BEAUTIFUL IN HER SKIN

Tanya Smith is a photographer who specializes in modern glam/boudoir photography - a photographer for 12 years, she started doing boudoir photography in 2011.  Originally Tanya did all kinds of photography from newborns to fine art to concerts. She has even done food photography and has a cookbook published with her pictures in it. Her move to boudoir happened when…
Robert Zeidler
9 March 2016
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Sunday Night Samba

    Mindfulness, Meditation and Samba, Of Course!   It wasn't until attending university, that Sean Park started to play percussion and fell in love with Samba. “My friend Ty Keshet asked me to play a shaker with Samba Elegua at a New Year's Eve rave and I was hooked.” So hooked that Park continued to play with the group for…
Robert Zeidler
2 March 2016
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Made In Hamilton

  You may have ventured out on a Friday evening to the Art Crawl on James Street North, or attended the "fashion zone" during Supercrawl and are very familiar with the elegant fashion designs created by Blackbird Studio. I first learned about this dynamic duo 10 years ago when they were creating fashions for the Hamilton Roller Derby teams and…
Robert Zeidler
28 January 2016
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Coworking

2016 - What the New Year has in store. Written by Ale Calle As the New Year begins, we look back at the many things we have accomplished in the past year and set goals for the year ahead. Here at The Cotton Factory, we are happy to say that 2015 brought many good things and big changes to our…
Robert Zeidler
17 January 2016
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Zekar Photography

TENANT HIGHLIGHT:  This month we caught up with our tenants, Zekar Photography to reminisce about their time at the Cotton Factory and to ask about what they do, and how they do it. Zekar Photography specializes in wedding photography and wedding photojournalism. Their office is located in the Dyeworks building Cotton Factory.  Mike Tigchelaar is the lead photographer at Zekar Photography.…
Robert Zeidler
13 January 2016
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IN THE NEWS

Event-hosting adds joie de vivre to reborn industrial buildings JENNIFER LEWINGTON HAMILTON - Special to The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Sep. 07, 2015 6:00AM EDT  (Reposted 16.09.2015) Globe & Mail, Report On Business When producer John Smith was scouting venues for a promotional video shoot for the rock band Born Ruffians, he chose a 1900-era former cotton textile factory in…
Robert Zeidler
16 September 2015
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The Medium is the Message

    INTRODUCING ADAM MATAK Adam Matak is an independent Fine Art professional who has been displaying his graphic, comic-book/cartoon-like art pieces at a number of museums and galleries for over 12 years. Creating projects that stand out, while simultaneously giving viewers something to think about and entertain themselves, is not easy. However, by using non-traditional fine art tools such…
Robert Zeidler
16 September 2015
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Tenant Feature: VERITY CREATIVE

From July 10 to 26 Ontario hosted the largest multi-sport games ever held in Canada. Hamilton became host city to one of the Games most popular sports: soccer. The Pan Am Games were more than just about the games, it also participated in some amazing cultural programming. Cotton Factory tenants Verity Creative were contracted by Pan Am to produce a…
Robert Zeidler
13 August 2015
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Cotton Factory Open House

It doesnÂ’t take much to wow people when they walk through the doors of 270 Sherman but on the Thursday evening of 30th October, we wanted to be sure to leave an impression with our guests. Thanks to the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, we were able to do an Open House in tandem with their monthly Business After Business event enabling…
Robert Zeidler
2 December 2014
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Storehouse Rental Units Going Fast!

We want to give you an update on the Storehouse renovations we undertook this past fall. Here is the original post we put out about the project, and the response we received from that post was HUGE! We have almost completely filled all of the units, with only 2 still remaining! We are just putting the final touches on the…
Robert Zeidler
17 November 2014