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!

• Pomp and Circumstance PR

  

  Pomp & Circumstance is a public relations agency with a strong sense of substance and style and an appreciation for all that is grand. As an agency founded to both create and unearth stories...

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

• 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

• Alice Il Shin

  

  Alice Shin is a Korean filmmaker who received her formal film training at Nihon University, Japan. She began her career in national broadcasting with the NHK Educational Broadcasting Company...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Visual & Media Arts

• Secret City Adventures

  

  Founded in 2012, our mission is to design immersive experiences that push the boundaries of adventurous entertainment. We are pioneers of creating theatrical escape room games in Toronto, in...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Theatre, 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

• Luyos MC

  

  Luyos MC (MaryCarl Guiao) is a daughter of Maharlikan lands, birthed from a lineage of dedicated empaths, carpenters, land-tenders, benevolent engineers, kitchen goddesses, public-spirited ...

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

• MYTORONTO

  

  MYTORONTO is a photography contest and skills-based training program for people affected by homelessness and poverty. Participants gain experience in taking pictures, connect with a communit...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Sarah Switzer

  

  Sarah Switzer is an adult educator, community artist, and community-based participatory researcher living in Toronto. Her work is inspired by over a decade of working at the intersections of...

  Disciplines: Community Arts

• The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto

  

  The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is an artist-run charitable organization dedicated to facilitating excellence in the moving image through media arts education and pro...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Toronto Etsy Street Team

  

  We represent thousands of online handmade Etsy sellers in Toronto and organize real-life craft shows and events in Toronto throughout the year.

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Visual & Media Arts

• Helio Eudoro

  

  Helio Eudoro is a Brazilian-Canadian multimedia artist based in Toronto. Through his photo-based, multi-disciplinary work, Helio Eudoro explores the layers of visibility that crosses dimensi...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Briane Nasimok

  

  Storyteller, event producer and writer/performer Briane Nasimok, has been involved with the Arts since joining the Canadian Opera Company when he was 22 as an extra and operatic mute. Forme...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Theatre

• Botte Gallery

  

  botté is a middle eastern art gallery and concept store in Toronto, where you can find a carefully curated and exclusive collection of items from talented artists and designers. Contemporary...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• TARO PR

  Publicity and Promotions Specializing in Arts, Entertainment and Lifestyle.

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

• The Anxiety Show

  

  Welcome to THE ANXIETY SHOW! A variety alt-comedy show featuring booked comedians and OPEN MIC participants sharing FIRSTHAND experience with a different issue every episode. Because better ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Theatre

• Kianoush Khalilian

  

  Kianoush Khalilian (Ney) Kianoush is a ney player and composer in traditional Iranian style. He has performed in Iran, Czech Republic, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, and various venues in...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Literary, Music

• York-Eglinton BIA

  

  The York-Eglitnon BIA promotes the area along Eglinton Ave. West, between Marlee Ave. and Dufferin St., as a business and shopping district through effective marketing; business recruitment;...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival

• Unraku Studios

  

  Unraku Studios is an artist-run, non-profit production studio based in Toronto, Canada dedicated to exploring and developing the art of puppetry. We’re also the home of The Unraku Workshop,...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Theatre, Visual & Media Arts

• Alisson Escobar

  

  Born in Bogotá, Colombia. They hold a BFA with an honorable mention from the Ontario College of Art and Design University.

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

• Murray Paterson Marketing Group

  

  Murray Paterson Marketing Group (MPMG) is an award-winning agency of highly skilled, forward-thinking professionals with a passion for marketing the arts + creative industries. We are a comp...

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

• Yannis Lobaina

  

  Yannis Lobaina is a Cuban Writer, Filmmaker, Storyteller based in Toronto. Lobaina loves to explore themes of immigration, diaspora and motherhood through storytelling. She is recipient RBC ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Literary, Visual & Media Arts

• Aitak Sorahitalab

  

  I am a visual artist and an art worker.

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• 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

• Khalil I. Rantissi

  

  Khalil was born and raised in the Occupied Palestinian territories and moved to Canada in April 2019 to begin a new life. He holds a Master's degree in International Studies and Diplomacy an...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Elsa Hashemi

  

  I have BA in English Translation and MA in Photography and have been working as an Artist & Art instructor in Iran for years. As I moved to Toronto two years ago, I started my job as a Photo...

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

• Flato Markham Theatre

  Live Arts Matters. Flato Markham Theatre is one of Canada's premier theatre houses serving the York Region, the GTA and Markham residents. With over 300 live performances each year, the The...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre

• Way Past Kennedy Road

  

  Way Past Kennedy Road (WPKR) is a collective of multidisciplinary emerging artists/curators based in Scarborough and other rejected but resilient corners of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). W...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• studioDRIVE Magazine

  

  studio/DRIVE Magazine is an exploration about the universe of creators, the process of artisanal work and the ambitions that drive practices forward.

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Literary, Visual & Media Arts

• For the Biscuit Theatre

  

  Formed in 2019, For the Biscuit Theatre was co-founded by Marryl Smith and Clarice Goetz, in the process of mounting their debut show “Scotch Tape”. Named after the colloquial phrase “you go...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Theatre

• Irrelephant Production

  

  We are an independent film and stage production company, presently involved in the Toronto Fringe Festival. We enjoy a multi-media presence, performing live, on film, and even on podcast. We...

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