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!

• Akwaba Cultural Exchange

  

  Information and history about the Group: Akwaba is commonly used word of the Akan people in Ivory Coast of West Africa, meaning “Welcome”, the way of accepting people or visitors, saying th...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Festival, Music

• Lila Karim

  

  Lila Karim is an executive director, artistic producer and digital photographer based in Toronto, Canada.

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

• Jessica Cen

  

  Business Manager of Frog in Hand | Multidisciplinary theatre artist

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

• Scarborough Arts

  

  Scarborough Arts is a local arts service organization. Our mission is to develop, deliver and promote arts programming in collaboration and partnership with the community. We bring artists t...

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

• Susan Colbert Wright

  I am retired from a long career at Ontario Hydro/Hydro One. Over the past 30 years I have been involved in dance in different capacities. My daughters received training in the dance studio ...

  Disciplines: Dance

• 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

• Myseum of Toronto

  

  Myseum is a museum without walls. Instead of asking people to come to one location to explore art, culture, and history, Myseum delivers programs and exhibits to all corners of the city. T...

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

• Nick Storring

  I am a composer, musician, music journalist, and curator. My musical work spans delicate chamber compositions to meticulously constructed recordings consisting solely of my own overdubbed i...

  Disciplines: Dance, Festival, Music

• Vik Hovanisian

  Franco-Armenian, raised in many cultures and languages through travels, I'm a multi-faceted artist. My work spans several genres including theatre, dance, writing, visual and performance art...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre

• Mio Sakamoto

  

  Mio Sakamoto is a Toronto based dance artist originally from Japan. Sakamoto graduated from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2017. In 2018, she attended B12 Festival and Nuova Officina...

  Disciplines: Dance

• StArt Youth Presenting Art

  

  StArt Youth Presenting Art is a Suite Life Arts for Youth initiative. The festival is being run by youth in Scarborough whose belief in community involvement propels us to create artistic op...

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

• Tan Vu

  

  A versatile performer with over 8 years' experience in musical, opera, operetta, theatrical and choral productions in Canada, the U.S. and Vietnam, Tan Vu discovered his passion for musical ...

  Disciplines: Dance, Music, Theatre

• Luminato Festival

  Luminato is Toronto’s international arts festival dedicated to performance, visual art, music, theatre, dance, and programming that cuts across traditional art form boundaries.

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

• Michelle Silagy

  

  Contemporary dance artist Michelle Silagy maintains a close relationship between her arts practice and teaching practice of 30 years. Her work has been presented in Amsterdam, The Arctic, Ne...

  Disciplines: Dance

• Megha subramanian

  Practice and teach Indian classical dance, Bharatanatyam, as a language and story-telling medium. Apart from that, I am a writer and a film maker.

  Disciplines: Dance, Literary, Theatre, Visual & Media Arts

• Aaron Rothermund

  I’m a writer, director, actor and producer. I studied the Script to Screen program at Centennial College, Theatre Performance at Humber College, Performing Arts at George Brown College, and ...

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

• Coalition Creole Ontario

  

  CCO’s objective is to promote the Creole culture, integration, as well as social and professional development of the Creole living in Toronto.

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

• Tirgan Foundation

  Tirgan is a non-religious, non-partisan, registered Canadian charity, which organizes festivals in celebration of Iranian arts and culture.

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

• Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario

  Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) is a movement of Indigenous and racialized artists engaged in empowering the arts communities of Ontario. CPAMO seeks to open opportun...

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

• Dance Collection Danse

  

  DCD is Canada's only national archives, publisher and research centre dedicated to Canadian theatrical dance.

  Disciplines: Dance

• KONTORT

  

  KONTORT - curated ideas and experiences

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

• Joy of Dance Centre

  

  Joy of Dance Centre is committed to offering the very best in Adult, Kids and Teen dance class instruction in a warm and welcoming environment. We provide our students with a place and space...

  Disciplines: Dance

• dance Immersion

  

  dance Immersion is a not-for-profit organization that produces, promotes and supports dancers and dances of the African Diaspora. The organization was established in 1994 to address the need...

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

• Geri Quinteo

  

  I am a gentle and disciplined person, I love art and its part of life . I love to travel and enjoy audio visual works. I love music and every work of art

  Disciplines: Dance

• TO Live

  

  3 ICONIC VENUES ACROSS TORONTO 7 MAJESTIC PERFORMANCE SPACES 500,000 PATRONS DAZZLED BY WORLD-CLASS EVENTS EACH YEAR Connecting three of Toronto’s most iconic theatres: Sony Centre for ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Festival, Music, Theatre

• Meek

  

  Meek is a multi-disciplinary artist hailing from Toronto, Ontario. A loud personality who experiments with a variety of practices and mediums -- having a background in performance, photograp...

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

• Kat Germain

  

  Kat is a member of: Canadian Association of Theatre Research, Audio Description Association (UK), ACTRA, Ontario College of Teachers, and Canadian Council of the Blind. She sits on the Descr...

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

• Dance Umbrella of Ontario

  

  Dance Umbrella of Ontario (DUO) provides independent dance artists and dance companies with expertise knowledge to support their artistic vision and facilitate their success. Our services...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance

• NOTORIOUS

  

  NOTORIOUS is an explosive live theatre event that combines freestyle rap with high-energy improv comedy. You've never seen anything quite like it, and, since every show is unique, you never ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre

• Michael Vuscan

  

  Michael Vuscan started working in the 90's in the music business industry as a record producer/ songwriter/ composer for contemporary dance, ballet, radio theater, films, documentaries, and ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Festival, Music, Sustained Funding, Theatre, Visual & Media Arts