Programs – Archive – Lakeshore Arts

Write by the Water 2022

Lakeshore Arts is proud to offer for the fourth year, Write by the Water,...

Q Summit Mentorship 2022/23

Q Summit is back for the 2022-2023 season! Q Summit is a poetry and...

YCC Summer Series 2022

Join the Youth Climate Collective this summer and take your environmental activism to the...

Black Futures Series 2022

As part of our Black Futures Series, we are inviting Black community members working...

Virtual Summer Camp 2021

Campers ages 8-12 will have the opportunity to work with professional artists from a...

YCC: The world I want to see 2021

It all begins with an idea and the vision for a better future. If...

Drama Queens 2021

Lakeshore Arts in partnership joined Jean Augustine Centre to provide female-identifying girls in grades...

Treasures of Ours: Black History Month 2021

We are celebrating Black culture and Black lives! Treasures of Ours is a showcase of...

Youth Climate Collective 2021

The Youth Climate Collective (YCC) is a space for Toronto-based youth ages 12-16 to...

Q Summit Mentorship 2021/22

Q Summit Mentorship program is an arts-based initiative that combines professional development, mentorship and...

PA Day Camp 2021

2021 VIRTUAL PA DAY CAMP Lakeshore Arts is bringing our PA Day Camp to...

PA Day Camp Online 2020

VIRTUAL PA DAY CAMP 2020 Lakeshore Arts is bringing our PA Day Camp to...

Q Summit Fall 2020

The Q Summit Project is an arts-based initiative that will create space for students...

At Home Summer Camp 2020

Take part in fun activities from the comfort of your own home. Campers will...

Eighth Street Skatepark Murals 2020

The Eighth St Skatepark Murals Project is an ongoing project with the goal to...

Free School 2020

Update: due to COVID 19, Free School will be on hold until further notice....

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.

Write by the Water 2022

Q Summit Mentorship 2022/23

YCC Summer Series 2022

Black Futures Series 2022

Virtual Summer Camp 2021

YCC: The world I want to see 2021

Drama Queens 2021

Treasures of Ours: Black History Month 2021

Youth Climate Collective 2021

Q Summit Mentorship 2021/22

PA Day Camp 2021

PA Day Camp Online 2020

Q Summit Fall 2020

At Home Summer Camp 2020

Eighth Street Skatepark Murals 2020

Free School 2020

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