Events

Mimico Arts Jam - June 20th

Join Lakeshore Arts at the first annual Mimico Arts Jam festival! We’ll be at...

Fall 2025 Events

Join us at our new drop-in Community Hub program with arts activities for the...

Celebrate Diwali 2025

Join Lakeshore Arts at the 2nd Annual Celebrate Diwali event! We’ll be at Mimico...

Open House 2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to LSA's summer Open House! Please join...

Summer 2025 Events

Find us at these local community events this summer! We’ll be tabling at these...

Spring 2025 Events

Find us at these local community events this Spring! We’ll be tabling at these...

Black History Month Workshops 2025

Black community members are invited to join these FREE workshops celebrating Black Joy &...

Community Remembrance Gathering 2024

Please join us for the 4th annual Community Remembrance Gathering on November 10th. We...

Celebrate Diwali 2024

We’re excited to announce that Lakeshore Arts is partnering with Reverse Karma to celebrate...

Join us at Mayor Morley's Fall Fest 2024

Join Lakeshore Arts and Deputy Mayor Morley on Saturday, Oct 19 from 12–4pm for this...

Find us at Mimico Fall Fest 2024

Celebrate Fall with Lakeshore Arts at the Mimico Fall Fest Local MRKT on October 12th...

Paint & Sip Nights 2024/25

Announcing a NEW fundraising initiative at Lakeshore Arts! Starting in September 2024, we will...

Repair Events 2023

Do you have broken items at home that you’d love to use again? What to...

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.

Mimico Arts Jam - June 20th

Fall 2025 Events

Celebrate Diwali 2025

Open House 2025

Summer 2025 Events

Spring 2025 Events

Black History Month Workshops 2025

Community Remembrance Gathering 2024

Celebrate Diwali 2024

Join us at Mayor Morley's Fall Fest 2024

Find us at Mimico Fall Fest 2024

Paint & Sip Nights 2024/25

Repair Events 2023

Francis Tomkins

Renu Indapurkar

Charlotte Sheasby-Coleman

Kadeem Parchment

Annie Katsura Rollins

Steffi Ng

Revital Weiss

Sherry Pom Foreman

Andi Canales

May Yebuga

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