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!

• Varley Art Gallery of Markham

  

  The Varley presents exhibitions of historical and contemporary Canadian art, and offers educational programs year round. Through research, exhibitions, public programs and publications, the ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers

  

  Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers (RAW) is one of the few all-Asian, all-womxn Taiko drumming groups in the world. RAW plays large taiko drums as creative resistance for social change, carvi...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Music

• Shadowland Theatre

  

  Shadowland creates original theatre that entertains, engages, empowers, and inspires people to interact positively with each other and their environments. This theatre attempts to express ou...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Theatre

• SKETCH

  

  SKETCH is a community arts enterprise engaging diverse young people, ages 16-29, from across Canada, who live homeless or on the margins and navigate poverty to: -experience the transform...

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

• STEPS

  

  The STEPS Initiative is an award winning charity at the intersection of arts and culture, community, and city-building by animating unlikely spaces with unlikely partners. We seek to inspire...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Angelwalk Theatre

  Angelwalk Theatre is a not-for-profit professional musical theatre company based in Toronto that promotes an environment of equity, inclusion, and diversity. Founded in 2009, it is dedicated...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Music, Theatre

• UnicornLaunching

  

  By day, I'm an Headhunter Launching Startups around the world, from Toronto to Singapore to Kenya. By night, I'm a Steel Pan Teacher and Gigging Musician. Right now, I'm teaching at Brook...

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

• Rouge National Urban Park. Parks Canada

  A rich assembly of natural, cultural and agricultural landscapes, Rouge National Urban Park is home to amazing biodiversity, some of the last remaining working farms in the Greater Toronto A...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Visual & Media Arts

• Macy Siu

  

  Artist-lawyer-designer; MDes in Strategic Foresight & Innovation @OCAD U; CARFAC Ontario Board

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

• FELIPE NORIEGA

  

  God - Family - Photography! It is the order that I have in my life. I am a passionate wedding storyteller based in Toronto and ready to travel around the world.

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Waldorf Academy

  

  Waldorf Academy is a member of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America® and for over thirty years has built its mission on the pedagogical insights of Rudolf Steiner which all ou...

  Disciplines: Community Arts

• MOCA Toronto

  

  The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (MOCA) is in a defining phase of its evolution, as it moves into a landmark heritage building and further advances 20 years of exhibiting, colle...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• 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

• Toronto Potters

  

  A collective of Toronto area ceramic artists selling and exhibiting works, teaching pottery classes and contributing to the Toronto Arts community.

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Orchestra Toronto

  

  Orchestra Toronto is an orchestra created by passionate musicians within the community, for the community. We offer the enjoyment of music, foster education and music appreciation and suppor...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Music

• SafferArt

  SafferArt I am an abstract contemporary symbolist artist. I work with all visual mediums. My stark textured aesthetic has a fierce expressive power and has a sense of movement and menace...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Abdulhakim

  

  Abdulhakim Elmsharta is Libyan-Canadian artist, currently living and working in Toronto. He studied Fine and Applied Arts at the Tripoli University in Libya. and graduated from that Departme...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• White Mills Theatre Co.

  

  Named for its founders, Brandon White and Shannon Mills, White Mills Theatre Co. engages interdisciplinary artists to create original, immersive theatre. Specializing in collective creation ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre

• Rachael Walker

  Rachael Walker is a socially engaged Textile Artist, Designer. A qualified lecturer and has taught in a variety of colleges and arts charities and within community learning.

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Lakeshore Arts

  

  Lakeshore Arts is an award-winning community arts organization that focuses on creating innovative community arts programming that engages, educates, inspires, entertains, and is delivered b...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Mohammad Yaghoubi

  

  Born and raised in Iran, Mohammad Yaghoubi is a playwright, director, theatre instructor, and the co-artistic director of NOWADAYS THEATRE company.  His works have been performed around the...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Theatre, Visual & Media Arts

• Bee Fawn

  Bee is a visual artist currently based in Toronto, Canada via the UK. They create using a variety of media, focussing primarily on acrylic painting, digital illustration, resin and mural pai...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Open Rhodes Art Show and Sale

  

  Open Rhodes Art Show & Sale is an annual event featuring artists on Rhodes Avenue. The Art Show is held the 2nd weekend of November each year. This year the show will be on November 11th &...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Literary

• Arts4All

  

  Arts4All provides a playground for artistic expression for people living in the Davenport Perth neighbourhood. A Jumblies offshoot, Arts4All was founded by Jumblies Theatre in 2001. Operatin...

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

• Miniature Enthusiasts of Toronto

  

  President and publicist for Miniature Enthusiasts of Toronto

  Disciplines: Community Arts

• Speaker Slam

  Speaker Slam is Canada's largest Inspirational Speaking Competition. Where the skill of public speaking meets the thrill of competition. We started in the Fall of 2016 and are celebrating tw...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Theatre, Visual & Media Arts

• The Royal Commonwealth Society

  

  The modern Commonwealth was established in 1949 as an association of free and equal sovereign states which had been part of the British Empire but were now independent and, in the case of In...

  Disciplines: Community Arts

• Small Cures

  

  Small Cures is an initiative to help people living with cancer afford to survive. They need a cure for lost income because they can’t work, for hospital parking fees, for medications that ar...

  Disciplines: Community Arts

• The Musical Stage Company

  The Musical Stage Company is the largest and leading charitable musical theatre company in Canada. Established in 2004 as Acting Up Stage Company, we strive to make Canada a leader in musica...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Theatre

• 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