Member Profiles

Check out the Neighbourhood Arts Network membership! Connect with an array of artists, community leaders and vibrant arts organizations shaping Toronto cultural landscape!

• Birkdale Arts Festival

  

  The Birkdale Arts Festival is a welcoming space where the public can gather and enjoy local artists promoting and selling their work, learn about community organizations and anchor instituti...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Visual & Media Arts

• Michelle Walker Parson

  

  Arts administrator and freelance performing artist

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Music

• Angie Aranda

  Angie has an extensive background in partnership development, event management, and communications, with numerous years of arts administration experience. She is an active member of the arts...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts

• Toronto Black Film Festival

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  Disciplines: Festival

• Kindred Spirits Orchestra

  

  The Kindred Spirits Orchestra has performed since 2009, to a great acclaim, sold-out audiences, and standing ovations at the legendary CBC Glenn Gould Studio in downtown Toronto. The Kindred...

  Disciplines: Music

• Gallery 1313

  

  Gallery 1313 is a not-for-profit, charitable artist-run centre located in the Parkdale neighbourhood of downtown Toronto. Gallery 1313 is equally an artist run centre exhibiting local, natio...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts

• The Red Head Gallery

  

  The Red Head Gallery, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015, is a professional artists’ cooperative committed to exhibiting the work of established and emerging artists and to encouraging...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Harun Zulic

  

  Harun Zulic is a professional musician who accesses music through writing, composing, performance as well as the organization. He is from Bihac/Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently is...

  Disciplines: Music

• Siavash Kavehmaryan

  Siavash Kaveh is an Iranian-electronic composer/performer, based in Toronto. He integrates technology and computer-assisted sounds in Iranian traditional music to explore novel sonic experie...

  Disciplines: Music, Visual & Media Arts

• National Ballroom Academy

  

  Hi, my name is Glen Michael the President and founder of the National Ballroom Academy. Learning to dance can be exciting and even a little intimidating, so let me guide you through it gentl...

  Disciplines: Dance

• Sarah Abid

  

  I was initially trained in Painting and sculpture, but I have always found different mediums equally stimulating to work in. Also, my experience of constantly finding myself in different con...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Rowers Reading Series

  Rowers Reading Series is a monthly literary reading series showcasing the finest poetry, fiction, non-fiction and select emerging writers.

  Disciplines: Literary

• Alexus Projects

  An avid studier of things Alexis Venerus endeavour is to develop understandings to life's many questions. She explores conversations with her friends and creatives around the cities she visi...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Royal Ontario Museum

  

  Opened in 1914, the Royal Ontario Museum showcases art, culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. Among the top 10 cultural institutions in North America, Canada’s larges...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Festival, Literary, Music, Visual & Media Arts

• Aga Khan Museum

  

  The Aga Khan Museum (AKM) is a public institution devoted to the Islamic arts and cultures in all their historic and geographic diversity. The Museum’s mission is to inform, educate, and ins...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual & Media Arts

• Mario Palumbo

  

  Looking to gain experience in the music community in Toronto. 23. Musician born and raised in Ottawa, ON. Graduate of Seneca's Independent Music Production program. Lead vocalist and guitari...

  Disciplines: Festival, Music

• Gabriela Delworth

  

  Hello! My name is Gabriela Delworth. I am an Author and Certified Adult Education Instructor based in Toronto.

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts

• Shahriyar Jamshidi

  

  Shahriyar Jamshidi, Kurdish-Iranian-Canadian Kamanche player, composer, vocalist, director of Dilan Ensemble and co-founder of Kamancello, is a graduate of Tehran University of Art and a for...

  Disciplines: Music

• Miss Coco Murray

  

  Miss Coco Murray is a dancer, researcher, dance instructor, choreographer and community arts programmer. She operates a mobile, dance education business educating diverse audiences about A...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance

• Toronto Songwriting School

  

  Toronto Songwriting School serves performers who are looking to take their music to the next level by writing and refining original songs that resonate with emotion and craftsmanship. The...

  Disciplines: Music

• Gallery Arcturus

  

  Gallery Arcturus is a not-for-profit contemporary art exhibition and art education centre, funded and operated by The Foundation for the Study of Objective Art, a private charity. The gal...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts

• Wayne Dunkley

  

  Wayne Dunkley is a visual artist, storyteller, voice-actor and educator with a social practice that includes photography, digital media, community development, lectures and workshop facilita...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Wychwood Clarinet Choir

  

  Founded in 2009, the Wychwood Clarinet Choir is directed by conductor and clarinetist Michele Jacot. The members of the choir include skilled clarinetists of all ages who share a love of mu...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Music

• Beach Studio Tour

  A collection of artists working in various media.

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts

• Youssef Elgohary

  

  My art is centered around the abstract human being since humans are the dominant species on earth. I, therefore, attempt to depict human emotions and crises (e.g. isolation, alienation, belo...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts

• Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

  

  The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, as one of Canada’s largest choral organizations, believes its role is to provide Canadian audiences the experience of the classical choral masterworks of the w...

  Disciplines: Music

• Toronto School of Art

  

  The Toronto School of Art fosters the inherent capabilities of its students through an education model that revolves around artists teaching artists to help them make their mark. WHAT WE’...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts, , 

• Joao Leao

  

  Since I moved to Toronto in May 2018, I have been getting involved in the local Brazilian music scene. I recorded the keyboards for singer Bruno Capinan's latest album, to be released in May...

  Disciplines: Music

• Willowdale Group of Arts

  

  We do daytime and evenings, on weekends and in extended weekly Seminars We draw from the model, we draw each other, and we study and paint in pastel, oils, watercolour and acrylics Willow...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Forest Hill Art Club

  

  The Forest Hill Art Club is a group of enthusiastic artists sharing a studio, enjoying camaraderie with fellow members, studio time, and participating in weekly life drawing and painting. T...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts