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

• Gilad Cohen

  Since 2008, Gilad has worked as an artist, public speaker and community mobilizer with a focus on connecting audiences to urgent and compelling stories through multimedia arts. In 2012, Gila...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, 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

• Akshata Naik

  

  Akshata Naik, an internationally acclaimed artist, she is also doing her research on the aesthetics of migration through visual art and multi-cultures that Canadian contemporary art is growi...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, 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

• 2020 Virtual Birthday Run

  Virtual run to support Make-A-Wish Canada

  Disciplines: Community Arts, 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

• Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

  

  The Toronto Outdoor Art Fair is a charitable nonprofit organization. Canada's leading contemporary outdoor art fair has been happening every second weekend in July since 1961, rain or shi...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival

• 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

• Kianoush Khalilian_BamNay Corporation

  

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

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Literary, Music

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Tatiana Choulova

  

  I'm Children Film Artist, Producer and Educator. I specialize in stop frame animation, live action short, music video, short docs. I work in schools, daycares and children's summer camps run...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Festival, Visual & Media Arts

• Jonathan Campbell

  

  Jonathan Campbell’s career is rooted in the decade (2000-2010) he spent in Beijing as a drummer, writer, promoter, agent and more actively bridging East and West. His writing has appeared in...

  Disciplines: Festival, Music

• 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

• Ayobami Macaulay

  

  Ayobami is a Multi-Disciplinary artist ( Photographer, Filmmaker/Producer, Story Writer) As a photographer, he is a seasoned events, landscape and conceptual portraits photographer. His m...

  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

• 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

• 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