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OFFICIAL STATEMENT: LSA RESPONSE TO COVID-19

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, ON (Apr. 6, 2020) - Lakeshore Arts is committed to...

Update on COVID-19 (coronavirus)

Updated: March 27, 2020 In light of the evolving situation regarding the novel coronavirus...

BHM 2020 Spotlight: Piece of Mine Arts

It's Black History/Excellence Month! We're recognizing some of the amazing people and organizations that...

Lakeshorts 2020 Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! EXTENDED! Submissions for Lakeshorts 2020 are now open until January 18th,...

Shazaam! IN FOCUS Report 2017-19

The arts too can play a significant role in your healthy living journey, especially...

ED Holiday Message 2019

As the end of the year approaches it invites us all to pause for...

LSA isn't just art. We are a community.

It isn’t just art. To explain how I feel I may need to tell...

Holiday Community Concert 2019

This season, Lakeshore Arts is hosting the 9th annual Holiday Community Concert! Join us...

Lakeshore Arts' AGM 2019

Lakeshore Arts Invites you to our Annual General Meeting. Join us on Monday, November...

Q Summit Spring 2020

Update: due to COVID 19, Q Summit spring sessions at Humber College are postponed....

Pie Auction 2019

Just in time for Thanksgiving! LSA’s Annual Pie Auction returns on Wednesday, October 9th...

JOIN LSA’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2019

Have governance experience? Do you want to make a difference? Apply now to join...

Ice Cream Fundraiser 2019

Ed’s Real Scoop is a community staple in Mimico and has been a long-time...

Urban Hero Awards 2019: Lakeshore Arts Nominee

Lakeshore Arts is proud to be nominated for the Urban Hero as an Art...

Public Art Consultation with Hiba Abdallah

What kind of art do you want to see? The City of Toronto is...

Meet the 2019 Summer Theatre Camp Artists

Please welcome the multi-talented artists for this year's Summer Camp! These artists will provide...

Carmen Ocampo Velázquez (She/They) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, curator, and psychologist originally from Colombia. Her experience centres on healing, identity, and social change through collaborative engaged art. Drawing on a clinical psychology background spanning over 30 years, she catalyzes creative processes that foster individual and communitarian resilience and empowerment. Carmen holds a Master’s in Environmental Studies and is the founder of Matiz Project, a transdisciplinary collective harnessing the transformative power of art to deconstruct social narratives and reclaim collective voices. Currently, she serves as an Art & Wellbeing Facilitator and Board Member at Lakeshore Arts (LSA).

Aisha (she/her) is a youth advocate who uses storytelling and art to amplify young people’s voices in civic and community spaces. She is a member of the Canadian Center for Cultural Diplomacy and the King’s Trust Canada Youth Council, where she helps bring youth voices into community conversations and decision-making. She also represented young people in a range of community and leadership forums.

Aisha completed governance and leadership training with Fora Rise on Boards and is joining Lakeshore Arts to contribute to community-based arts initiatives. She is committed to using creative expression to help build more inclusive and connected communities

Akshat Jhaveri (he/him), working in the financial services industry for almost a decade. His ability to connect, communicate and understand the needs of clients is his true passion. Outside the finance world, you might catch him shooting hoops on the basketball court, taking a swim, or hitting the road with a smile while driving his car (blasting music). With a mix of financial smarts and a love for life outside the office, Akshat brings a well-rounded energy to everything he does.

Francis Tomkins (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes animation, collage, zine making, and workshop facilitation. They have a BFA in Cross-Disciplinary Arts: Publications from OCAD University and have worked within the arts and accessibility sectors at Tangled Art + Disability, StopGap Foundation and Toronto Queer Film Festival. Their work has been featured by Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS), RestFest Film Festival, and Arts Etobicoke. Francis is passionate about how art can be used to create and sustain connected communities.

Renu Indapurkar (she/her) is a Toronto-based portrait artist whose love for art began in childhood, inspired by her grandfather, a painter and art teacher. Growing up around his practice and teaching, art became an integral part of her everyday life and a natural way for her to express and connect with the world.

She works across mixed media, oil, watercolour, oil paint and coffee painting, and specializes in portrait art. For the past five years, Renu has been running her small business RK Artworks, creating commissioned pieces that celebrate people and personal stories. More recently, she launched Live Wedding Painting, where she paints live at weddings, capturing meaningful moments as they happen.

Twenty-five years ago, Charlotte founded Wuthering Bites, a café on the Lakeshore in Mimico that focused on the arts and community. With a diverse background in teaching, research and advocacy, and a passion for writing and visual art, Charlotte is thrilled to now be working with Lakeshore Arts as they launch exciting new initiatives for our South Etobicoke neighbourhood. She is especially thrilled to have a unique opportunity to focus on engagement and programming for seniors.

Annie Katsura Rollins (she/they) is a community arts worker, researcher, and puppetry artist. Finding a sense of much needed belonging in community theatre as a young person, she pursued understanding this feeling of connectedness through the arts with degrees in performance (BFA), theatre performance, direction, and puppetry (MFA) and finally a study in traditional lineages of folk puppetry in China (PhD). She concurrently tested this understanding through over 20 years of professional work in art education, facilitation, and community building.

Since moving to Toronto in 2017, Annie has worked in the community arts sector and co-founded and co-curates with Concrete Cabaret, Toronto’s only experimental puppet slam. Annie is a professor in the University of Connecticut graduate certificate program in puppetry arts. She believes that having the arts in our everyday lives is no longer a luxury but a necessity.

Sin Tung (Steffi) Ng (she/her) explores the complexities of Asian immigration experiences through curation, writing and photography. Interweaving these three artistic practices, Ng seeks to build site-specific exhibitions, public programs and installations that amplify marginalized voices and make space for joyful encounters across diverse cultures. Her works have been featured at the DesignTO 2025, Xpace Cultural Centre, Unit 270 and the Graduate Gallery.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Sin Tung/Steffi is currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her recent interests include AI image-making of demolished architectures, long-distance friendships and Japanese city boy fashion.

Revital Weiss is a queer Jewish arts worker who believes in the transformational power of the arts. Revital works with artists to develop socially-minded arts programming for marginalized communities. She also advocates for opportunities for emerging artists, particularly BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, and incarcerated/formerly incarcerated people. Revital has co-curated and supported arts projects at Neilson Park Creative Centre, the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, FENTSTER Gallery, and King Heritage and Cultural Centre. Revital holds a Master of Museum Studies. In a past life, Revital was an urban planner.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT: LSA RESPONSE TO COVID-19

Update on COVID-19 (coronavirus)

BHM 2020 Spotlight: Piece of Mine Arts

Lakeshorts 2020 Submissions

Shazaam! IN FOCUS Report 2017-19

ED Holiday Message 2019

LSA isn't just art. We are a community.

Holiday Community Concert 2019

Lakeshore Arts' AGM 2019

Q Summit Spring 2020

Pie Auction 2019

JOIN LSA’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2019

Ice Cream Fundraiser 2019

Urban Hero Awards 2019: Lakeshore Arts Nominee

Public Art Consultation with Hiba Abdallah

Meet the 2019 Summer Theatre Camp Artists

Carmen Ocampo

Aisha Sidiqi

Akshat Jhaveri

Karen Kew

Francis Tomkins

Renu Indapurkar

Charlotte Sheasby-Coleman

Kadeem Parchment

Annie Katsura Rollins

Steffi Ng

Revital Weiss

Sherry Pom Foreman