COMMUNITY+Connects 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.
Thanks to generous funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we are pleased to offer a dynamic range of arts programming that aims to expose our participants to new creative possibilities through multidisciplinary workshop series. Check out our current program offerings below, and sign up today! 🎨
For over 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 through in-person, online, and accessible programming.
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.
CURRENT PROGRAMS
Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity with Krystal Kavita Jagoo
Scarborough Arts + Workman Arts Satellite Program
Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity covers a variety of manifestations of grief, including the losses associated with death, oppression, activism, trauma, colonialism, climate catastrophe, (dis)ability, etc. The objective of this course is to hold space for BIPOC participants of all genders and abilities to use writing as a tool to work through grief in solidarity with others who also navigate the harms of white supremacy, colonialism, xenophobia, etc. By the end of the course, participants will learn some ways to navigate grief, as well as how writing can support that process in solidarity with a community of BIPOC folx.
Facilitator: Krystal Kavita Jagoo
This program is brought to Scarborough Arts through the Workman Arts Satellite Program - a partnership with Workman Arts funded by a generous investment of $1 million over four years through the Slaight Family Foundation. To find out more about this programming, registration, and to learn more about this partnership, please visit the button below.
Introduction to Experimental Filmmaking with Niya Abdullahi
Scarborough Arts + Workman Arts Satellite Program
This is an immersive workshop-series into the world of experimental filmmaking. These workshops would be an opportunity to learn the ins and out of making an out-of-this-world film on a micro budget. We'll explore different approaches and methodologies while also recognizing that there is no concrete way to make experimental films. What makes this form of film groundbreaking is the experiments in your own processes themselves. There is no one way of doing things and that's the beauty of it. Participants will be taught the ins-and-outs of script-writing, shooting and editing. They will be working towards bringing a short film idea to life and by the end of the course they'll have an opportunity to share their completed film with the class. The only materials needed is a smartphone as we will be using our phones to shoot and edit the films.
Facilitator: Niya Abdullahi
This program is brought to Scarborough Arts through the Workman Arts Satellite Program - a partnership with Workman Arts funded by a generous investment of $1 million over four years through the Slaight Family Foundation. To find out more about this programming, registration, and to learn more about this partnership, please visit the button below.