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!

• Michelle Walker Parson

  

  Arts administrator and freelance performing artist

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Music

• Yannis Lobaina

  

  An artist for over 12 years, Cuban Writer, Filmmaker, and Storyteller based in Toronto. She studied at the Internacional School of Cinema, Radio and TV (Havana, Cuba) and holds a Creative Wr...

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

• Ana Gabriela Lopez Castro

  

  Ana Gabriela Lopez C. is a Mexican Visual Artist based in Toronto. Her artistic formation started in the areas of photography and printmaking. She established herself in Toronto in 2008, and...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, 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

• 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

• Toronto Silent Film Festival

  

  Live Cinema: The original silent classics of the silver screen with live musical accompaniment by accomplished artists. Features, shorts, modern silents as well. Special guest speakers compl...

  Disciplines: Festival

• Riverside BIA

  The Riverside Business Improvement Area is one of Toronto’s first BIAs, founded by local business and property owners in 1980. The BIA spans 10 vibrant blocks of Queen St East from the iconi...

  Disciplines: Festival

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Drink Inc Events

  

  Drink Inc Events owns, operates, and has been a part of many major events across Canada. We have a broad spectrum of event experience built from Concerts and Music Events, Consumer Shows and...

  Disciplines: Festival

• 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

• Sylvie Stojanovski

  I am a Scarborough-based multidisciplinary artist, creative-facilitator, and project manager, who is passionate about building community through the arts. I love connecting community organiz...

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

• WILDsound

  WILDsound Monthly Film and Screenplay Festival

  Disciplines: Festival

• The Green Living Show

  The Green Living Show is Canada’s largest consumer show dedicated to simple solutions for leading a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.

  Disciplines: Festival

• KONTORT

  

  KONTORT - curated ideas and experiences

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

• Logan Kazimer

  Come join us at Sugar Shack TO, presented by Redpath, for a maple filled fun day!

  Disciplines: Festival

• 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

• Verge Magazine

  

  Verge believes in travel for change. International experience creates global citizens, who can change our planet for the better. This belief is at the core of everything we do. Since 20...

  Disciplines: Festival

• 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

• SING The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival

  

  SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival is Canada’s premier a cappella festival (singing without instruments). Held every year in May, SING! presents 10 days of outstanding concerts featuring ...

  Disciplines: Festival

• Sairandhri Raut

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  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Visual & Media Arts

• 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

• 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

• Reelworld Film Festival

  

  Actress and Advocate Tonya Williams, founded Reelworld Film Festival in 2001 to give better access and professional development to Canadian racially diverse and indigenous filmmakers, conten...

  Disciplines: Festival, Visual & Media Arts

• 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

• GET THE MESSAGE Publicity

  Trusted Publicity, Media Relations and Social Media for Music, Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Toronto and across Canada.

  Disciplines: Festival, Music