About the Program
Announcing LSA’s new professional development workshop series, Artists in Practice: Training in Community Arts Facilitation!
This six-week program is designed to support emerging artists, arts & culture workers and any artful individuals who are residents of Etobicoke and interested in arts facilitation at the intersection of creativity and community building.
Join us for weekly interactive and discussion-based workshops facilitated by LSA Staff, as well as insights from guest artist-facilitators, on a range of topics, from understanding community arts to designing programs within an anti-oppressive framework, to re-Indigenizing community arts. This hands-on program will culminate in participants developing and facilitating a demo arts program for peers.
Those who complete the program may have the opportunity to facilitate future art activations with Lakeshore Arts.
About the Program
Dates: Wednesdays, from March 25th – April 29th, 2026
Time: 6 to 8:30PM
Cost: FREE
Location: In-Person at Lakeshore Arts (2422 Lake Shore Blvd. W., Etobicoke)
Who this program is for:
Open to emerging artists, arts workers, and artful individuals, ages 18+ who are residents of Etobicoke. Priority will be given to those who self-identify as belonging to equity-deserving communities.
Registration:
Registration is open from February 9th to March 4th. Please note there is a limit to the number of participants. Only selected participants will be contacted with a confirmation email.
If you require more information or help with this registration, please contact Steffi Ng, Programs Coordinator at ProgramsCoordinator@LakeshoreArts.ca.
Meet the Guest Facilitators
Facilitation 101 Guest Speakers: Samson Wong & Faduma Mohamed
Samson Wong (he/him) is a freelance arts facilitator/performer/tutor/coordinator turned researcher turned community arts coordinator turned academic turned educator now settlement worker who loves seeing people enjoy art. Thrice migrated between Hong Kong and Canada, finding peace in the illusive search for home and identity.
After graduating from arts management, Samson found himself on a path in community arts with a growing passion for understanding how artists facilitate collaborative processes, which led him to a doctoral study in community arts facilitation.
Samson has never been a ‘lone-artist’ and his work is only ever as good as the partnerships he has built. He is and has been a member of community-engaged artist collectives in Toronto and Hong Kong, in projects with vulnerable people and communities in Toronto and Asia. He co-founded Art Moves, a collective practicing and supporting the community-engaged arts.
Faduma Mohamed (she/her) is a Somali-Canadian writer who approaches storytelling as both a private practice and a public ceremony. Her screen credits include the lead in Ayan’s World (2020) and a harrowing turn in Shortest Way Home (2024). On stage, Faduma’s plays OUGHTISM and Golden Mind challenge dominant narratives surrounding neurodivergence. Inspired by her brother, Bilal, she launched #OughtTheBox, a grassroots initiative that has raised $15,000 for autistic people globally. A dedicated advocate for change, Faduma co-founded The Stage, a theatre-wellness program for children exposed to gun violence, and LISTEN, a creative writing program for disabled writers. Whether through her upcoming poetry collection or her work in the classroom, Faduma operates under one core conviction: everyone is a storyteller.
More about Faduma: www.fadumamohamed.ca
Anti-O Framework Guest Facilitator: Rotem Raz
Raz (he/him) is a graduate of the OCAD U (BFA in Sculpture and Installation), Humber College (Child and youth Care), and the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE: M.Ed, PhD). He has been affiliated with the Toronto Guild of Hand Spinners and Guilders, the Modern Quilters Guild, Crafts Ontario, and IATSE873 (as a costumer). He exhibited in Toronto and Albuquerque, and has been an art educator in public schools, community settings, and museums such as the Textile Museum of Canada. Raz worked on several community arts projects, including being the lead artist of Weave We Are A Part of The Fabric (A textile arts project with LGBTQ2S youth), and a quilting workshop facilitator at the Textile Museum of Canada. Raz’s studio is located at Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie st., unit 256.
More about Raz: www.rotemraz.com
Re-Indigenizing Program Facilitation Guest Facilitator: Lindsey Lickers
Lindsey Lickers (she/her) is a mixed Onkwehon:we (Mohawk, Kanien’kéha)/ Anishinaabe (Ojibwe, Mississauga’s) artist & community developer originally from Six Nations of the Grand River with familial ties to the Mississauga’s of Credit First Nation. She specializes in painting, traditional arts, Indigenous arts and culture facilitation, governance, policy, community and program development and land-based healing. Her traditional names are ‘Maskiki Nibi’, which translates to ‘Medicine Water’, ‘Shakoterenonnó:ni Tsi Entewá:ronhkwe’ which translates to ‘She Brings the People Together in the Spring’, she is turtle clan. She has been a practicing artist for 20 years with a combined experience of 16 years as a social worker and traditional helper/ ceremonialist.
