Scarborough Arts Team

Executive Director

Beth is an artist, producer and administrator in the field of community-engaged arts. She is founding Artistic Director of Community Arts Guild, a non-profit organization in East Scarborough that makes art to build community. Under Beth’s leadership, Community Arts Guild created and produced several large-scale community plays; two Nuit Blanche installations; a Signature Project for Toronto’s Cultural Hotspot; and was awarded numerous school, library, and park residencies. The company was a finalist for the Toronto Arts Foundation’s 2023 Community Arts Award. Beth has a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University and was a recipient of a George Cedric Metcalf Foundation performing arts internship with Jumblies. She currently serves on the steering committee for East Scarborough Storefront and is a past board member of MABELLEarts and national committee member for Balancing Act: support for artist caregivers.

Manager of Programs and Services

Faith Rajasingham is a museum professional with a background in Canadian immigration history and community education.

Having earned her MA in History (2019, York University), Faith took her love for Scarborough into the museum field. In her past employment with Scarborough Museum (Toronto History Museums) she curated exhibits and programs that catered to Scarborough’s multiple diasporas. Focused on Canadian immigration, transnational communities, colonialism, and sovereignty movements, her research and work aims to provide resources and services for racialized and/or marginalized IBPOC communities in Toronto. In March of 2019, Faith co-founded Tamil Reads to provide Tamil diasporic communities access to education made by their communities for their communities.

Faith’s deep love for Scarborough’s communities, places, and stories is informed by her own family’s migration history to the land. As settlers from Eelam, Faith grounds her work within the lands and communities she lives, works, and studies with. She is super excited to continue her relationship with Scarborough through Scarborough Arts!

Katie Pearson, MSW candidate, MBA, BMT, is a finance, management and operations professional, with a breadth of experience in both the non-profit and financial sectors.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Music Therapy, Katie began her career in fundraising and program management with a variety of charitable organizations including the MS Society of Canada and L’Arche (various locations). After advancing through these organizations, Katie went on to earn her Master of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto, and spent the next phase of her career in Commercial Banking at The Royal Bank. Katie is presently working on earning her Master of Social Work, from The University of Windsor.