Lakeshore Arts

Crimson & Craft: Seniors Art Connect - Exhibition Reception

Join us at the opening reception of our upcoming exhibition, featuring the completed works...

Artists in Practice: Training in Community Arts Facilitation (@ LSA)

This six-week program is designed to support emerging artists, arts & culture workers and...

Artists in Practice: Training in Community Arts Facilitation

About the Program Announcing LSA’s new professional development workshop series, Artists in Practice: Training...

Sewing & Fibre Arts (@ LSA)

Explore sewing and fibre arts with artist Jennifer Choo Chee, with projects suitable for all...

Song Circle @ LSA

Experience the magic of singing with others! Join members of Toronto Community Singing for a family-friendly...

Community Hubs - Winter/Spring 2026

Our Community Hubs drop-in programs are returning this winter and spring, with FREE art...

DROP-IN BAR Open Studio (@ LSA)

Join us at the studios of our current (Black Artists Residency) BAR artists to...

REGISTERED - Spontaneous Stitching (@ Online)

Registration is open from January 30th to February 13th! This workshop series introduces the...

REGISTERED - Some Bodies, Some Buddies (@ Arts Etobicoke)

Registration is open from January 30th to February 13th! “Some Bodies, Some Buddies" is...

DROP-IN Open Mic (@ LSA)

Join us on January 29th for an Open Mic featuring a performance from local...

REGISTERED - Crimson & Craft (@ Grigg's Manor)

Crimson & Craft: Seniors Art Connect is a community-driven Lakeshore Arts program for the residents...

Job Opportunity: Programs Assistant

Do you have a passion and understanding of community-engaged arts? Do you love working...

Crimson & Craft: Seniors Art Connect

About the Program Crimson & Craft: Seniors Art Connect is a community-driven Lakeshore Arts...

Black Artists Residency 2025/26

About the Residency The Black Artist Residency (BAR) is a 7-month artist residency that...

Fall 2025 Events

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

DROP-IN Community Hub + Music @ LSA

Announcing NEW programming at LSA! In response to community feedback, we are offering drop-in...

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.

Crimson & Craft: Seniors Art Connect - Exhibition Reception

Artists in Practice: Training in Community Arts Facilitation (@ LSA)

Artists in Practice: Training in Community Arts Facilitation

Sewing & Fibre Arts (@ LSA)

Song Circle @ LSA

Community Hubs - Winter/Spring 2026

DROP-IN BAR Open Studio (@ LSA)

REGISTERED - Spontaneous Stitching (@ Online)

REGISTERED - Some Bodies, Some Buddies (@ Arts Etobicoke)

DROP-IN Open Mic (@ LSA)

REGISTERED - Crimson & Craft (@ Grigg's Manor)

Job Opportunity: Programs Assistant

Crimson & Craft: Seniors Art Connect

Black Artists Residency 2025/26

Fall 2025 Events

DROP-IN Community Hub + Music @ LSA

Francis Tomkins

Renu Indapurkar

Charlotte Sheasby-Coleman

Kadeem Parchment

Annie Katsura Rollins

Steffi Ng

Revital Weiss

Sherry Pom Foreman

Andi Canales

May Yebuga

MY REASON FOR SERVING ON THE BOARD…