Talk Drama To Me 2025

Summer Fundraiser

Summertime is here and our summer staff are ready to entertain you, all in support of Lakeshore Arts!

Donate between $5-$20 (or more) between now and August 8th, with a popular song title, book title, or poem and one of our staff members will read an excerpt, in a dramatic fashion, and post the video clip on our social media channels for all to see!

Your donation will directly support the impactful work that LSA does in the community.

How It Works:

Submit a donation in the form below for a minimum of $5 and include the title of your choosing in the comments. Then, one (or a few) of our staff members will record a dramatic reading and post it to our Instagram and TikTok accounts (remember to follow us to see it)! Each donation submission of $5 or more counts as one submission.

If this campaign receives more donations than we can handle, we will do a raffle draw of the suggestions, and record the first 5 drawn! The raffle will also be posted to social media!

Here are some suggestions, feel free to choose one of them, or submit one of your own:

TV Show Theme Songs (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, etc)
ANY song from Hamilton
Excerpts from Children’s Books (Dr. Suess, Robert Munsch, etc.)
Verse/ Chorus from Popular Top 40 Hits (“Ice Ice Baby”,” Oops, I Did It Again”, etc)
Nursery Rhymes ( Humpty Dumpty, Hickory Dickery Dock, etc)

Note: Suggestions must be submitted before August 8th, and must not be vulgar, explicit, suggestive or disrespectful to be considered.

Thanks to all you donated to our Summer Fundraiser!

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.

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