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!

• 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

• Toronto International Festival of Authors

  

  The Toronto International Festival of Authors is a charitable, cultural organization mandated to cultivate and advance the art of literature. We celebrate words and ideas by connecting curio...

  Disciplines: Festival, Literary

• Banoo Zan

  

  Bänoo Zan is a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, with more than 180 published poems and poetry-related pieces as well as three books. Song of Phoenix: Life an...

  Disciplines: Literary

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Palabra Flamenco

  

  Palabra Flamenco blends traditional flamenco dance and music with English-language oral storytelling and poetry. Our group is artistic director and dancer Denise Yeo, producer and poet Garth...

  Disciplines: Dance, Festival, Literary, Music, Theatre

• Heritage Skills Development Centre

  

  Heritage Skills Development Centre (HSDC) is a grassroots non-profit organization that was established in 1993. It was founded by a group of women who observed a gap in the integration servi...

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

• Dancing Damsels Inc.

  

  We a not for profit organization that promotes multicultural arts & women empowerment.

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

• Toronto Art Foundation

  

  I am a full-time student learning English and I am currently in third year (Accounting program) at George Brown college and have part time job.

  Disciplines: Literary

• Philippine Advancement Through Arts and Culture

  

  Established in May 2007, initially known as the Philippine Advocacy Through Arts in Canada, now Philippine Advancement Through Arts and Culture (PATAC) based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, PAT...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Literary

• 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

• Wilma Cromwell

  I refer to myself as a Cultural Consultant. I am a musician first and foremost - vocalist, pianist and trumpet player. But I work with other people to help to promote themselves, get grants ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Literary, Music, 

• 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

• East End Arts

  

  East End Arts is a non-profit community arts organization that serves the east end of Toronto. East End Arts is also the city’s sixth Local Arts Service Organization (LASO), a group of organ...

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

• Storytelling Toronto

  

  Storytelling is the oral art of sharing stories, which Storytelling Toronto fosters, nurtures, and supports, for both storytellers and story-listeners. Storytelling Toronto produces the fre...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Literary, Theatre

• Daniel Maluka

  Daniel Maluka is a Toronto based artist and writer hailing from South Africa. His work takes an Afrocentric approach while incorporating surrealist elements. In using his interest in the sub...

  Disciplines: Literary, Visual & Media Arts

• Sharon Goodier

  I am a published poet, co-creator of and on the organizing team for The Art Bar reading series , facilitator of annual 100,000 Poets for Change.

  Disciplines: Literary

• Bahar Ebrahimi

  

  A lifelong learner. I live with art have done many artworks since years ago. (Flowering, Wood mosaic. Calligraphy etc) I write poems and design buildings. Love music and dance Salsa. I hav...

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

• Goethe-Institut Toronto

  

  The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institute, active worldwide. We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange.

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

• Crutch

  

  Crutch is a non-collecting, public contemporary art centre.

  Disciplines: Literary, Music, Visual & Media Arts

• Irene Flatley

  

  I am a post graduate student in the Arts Education and Community Engagement program at Centennial College. I am focused on finding a way to bring my passion for the arts to communities throu...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Literary, Visual & Media Arts

• Susan Kernohan - Toronto Public Library

  Toronto Public Library

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Literary, Visual & Media Arts

• Campbell House Museum

  

  The museum is a vibrant public space where members of Toronto’s diverse communities gather to discuss, to create, to perform and to socialize, giving life to the words “freedom of expression...

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

• Bahar

  

  I have done lots of various art works also have thought students how to make creative meaningful artworks. I graduated in architecture and was member of poem society and I would like to join...

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

• Aditi Sharma

  

  Budding artists open for opportunities in various art form. In love with all the colors. I am into acrylic pours and oil paintings on canvas.

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