Community is what you MAKE it!
COMMUNITY+Connects: Online is Scarborough Arts yearly creative and professional development workshop series that aims to provide audiences of all ages and skill levels with free access to arts-based instructions from renowned Scarborough and GTA-based creative professionals.
Each year, Scarborough Arts offers a range of creative workshops that are free to the public and offer comprehensive skill building for audiences of all ages. Our COMMUNITY+Connects programs are offered as Spring Sessions (March-May), Summer Sessions (June-August), Fall Sessions (September-November), and Winter Sessions (December-February).
Thanks to generous funding from the Alan Slaight Family Foundation, we have partnered with Workman Arts to deliver special Community+Connects Satelite Programs. These programs offer a dynamic range of arts programming that aims to build lasting social connections and mental health benefits through meaningful engagement and high-quality arts facilitation.
For the past 40 years, community has been at the heart of Scarborough Arts. We remain committed to our mandate of serving the people and communities of Scarborough during the COVID-19 pandemic and into the future through new online and accessible programming.
Scarborough Arts is pleased to present: COMMUNITY+Connects: Online an online platform for facilitated workshops, mentorship, artist talks and tours, professional development opportunities, and most importantly, connection.
Please see below for the current COMMUNITY+Connects: Online line-up of upcoming programs, and stay tuned to the Scarborough Arts Instagram @scarborougharts, Facebook: Scarborough Arts, and website www.scarborougharts.com for added programs and opportunities.
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback about any of our programmings, we are here for you. Please feel free to direct your correspondence to us at hello@scarborougharts.com.
Past Workshops
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Botanical Illustrations with Marjan Verstappen
Botanical Illustrations is a six-week workshop dedicated to our plant and nature lovers. Inspired by the Pollinator Garden at Scarborough Arts, course instructor Marjan Verstappen teaches you each step of her creative process in making botanical illustrations with watercolours, pencil, and pen.
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En Plein Air with Raoul Olou
Capture stunning landscapes through painting and your own creation in this 5-week intensive gouache and painting workshop with artist Raoul Olou. With a focus on landscapes and observational painting, these lessons will be taking place outdoors at different locations across Scarborough each week.
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Sustainable Resistance for BIPOC Folx with Krystal Kavita Jagoo
This workshop series consists of 5 therapeutic writing workshops for BIPOC participants of all genders, ages, and abilities. This workshop series seeks to create space for BIPOC participants to foster a sense of futuristic possibility for improving and maintaining mental health with resistance when often up against collective societal gaslighting daily from rigged systems, rooted in whiteness. This workshop will lead participants in discussions and support around how to keep going when our very existence disrupts the status quo.
Project Kids & Cameras
Online Gallery
From May to June 2021, The Project Kids & Cameras program joined photography educator Diana Nazareth and a group of awesome Scarborough-based kids in a unique 7-week online program where they engaged in a series of photography-based activities exploring the theme of play.