Scarborough Arts is pleased to announce new COMMUNITY+Connects arts workshops this winter! Starting this month are: Art is for Everyone 🎨 with Susana Meza, Researching Migration through Art 🏠 with Sarah Waithe, and Experiments in Epistolary Filmmaking 🎞️ with Daphne Xu and Fan Wu.

These Satellite programs are in collaboration with Workman Arts with a focus on providing social connections and mental health benefits. Sign up for our programs, generously founded by the Slaight Family Foundation, at bit.ly/ScarbSatellite and learn more about them below.

Art For Everyone with Susana Meza

Online: Mondays 2-4pm

Feb 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14

COMMUNITY+Connects with Workman Arts invites you to register for Art for Everyone! The audience is primarily beginner level learners, and no skill level is required. All that is needed from the participants is the eagerness to explore their inner artists and to challenge their inner critics. There is no age limit and everyone is welcome.

Art For Everyone! is aimed at beginner-level learners. The course is rooted in my philosophy of decolonizing and democratizing art through simple prompts that incentivize conversation and creation.

Researching Migration Through Art with Sarah Waithe

Online, Tuesdays, 6-8pm

Feb 15, 22, March 1, 8, 15

COMMUNITY+Connects with Workman Arts invites you to register for Researching Migration Through Art.

This course will be exploring the concept of migration through an artistic and creative expression. Drawing on paintings, music, poetry, and sculptures from racialized and local artists, this course will examine how we can study migration through art. Drawing on themes of home, belonging, and identity, we will go over how artists like Warsan Shire, Jacob Lawrence, and Mona Hatoum have communicated critical concepts of migration through their art.

Participants will have the opportunity to create and work on their own artistic expression through either painting, poetry, drawing, dance, music, etc. Please note that you do not at all need to have an established art practice or art experience to take this course.

Experiments In Epistolary Filmmaking with Daphne Xu & Fan Wu

Online, Sundays, 5:30-7pm

Jan 30, Feb 6, 13, 20,27 from 3-430

COMMUNITY+Connects with Workman Arts invites you to register for Experiments in Epistolary Filmmaking! Before people learned how to write, they would tell each other stories. We, ourselves, are a collection of stories through our experiences, cultures, and ancestry. This course teaches you how to story tell in your art through world building, character design, story boarding, and creative brainstorming. Students will learn how to incorporate inspirations from mythology and their ancestry, and learn the basic principles of art in order to create their own visual story.