Community Creations
A FREE CREATO WORKSHOP SERIES
For newcomer, immigrant and refugee artists and creatives
Community Creations is a free CREATO workshop series that invites art-making and storytelling for newcomer, immigrant and refugee artists and creatives in Toronto.
The single-day workshops will take place during July and August in person at the MUSE Arts Creative Lab located in Earlcourt Park.
As part of our workshop series, artists Luisé Cisneros and Carla Sierra Suarez will lead Papel Picado (cut paper) and Collage Poetry workshops, to explore basic techniques of these mediums while exploring creative expression and collective care.
STORY &
CRAFT
A PAPEL PICADO WORKSHOP
Led by Luisé Cisneros (ze/hir)
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Learn about papel picado, the beautiful Mexican art of cut paper, in this workshop led by Luisé Cisneros (ze/hir). Luisé will teach beginner-friendly papel picado techniques and share the history of this craft and its storytelling power.
FREE
Ages: 18+
Materials includedDATES:
Saturday, July 27th @ 11 AM (3 hrs)
Saturday, August 10 @ 11 AM (3 hrs)
MUSE Arts Creative Lab
1369B St Clair Ave West
LANGUAGE OF
THE HEART
A COLLAGE POETRY WORKSHOP
Led by Carla Sierra Suárez (she/her)
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Learn collage and poetry techniques that invite ways to express and cope with unspoken feelings, led by Carla Sierra Suárez (she/her). Through storytelling prompts, collage-making and writing activities, participants will explore these mediums and how they can come together to help us tell our stories.
FREE
Ages: 18+
Materials includedDATES:
Saturday August 17th @11 AM (3hrs)
Saturday August 24th @ 11 AM (3hrs)
MUSE Arts Creative Lab
1369B St Clair Ave West
PLEASE NOTE:
Each date is for a single-day workshop and spots are on a first-come first-serve basis. The workshops will take place in person at the MUSE Arts Creative Lab, 1369B St Clair Ave West, Toronto. Please check your email after submitting your registration form for your spot confirmation.
About the Artists
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Luisé Cisneros (ze/hir) is a non-binary Mexican-Canadian artist who explores his identity as an immigrant with a mixed-race heritage, the ideas of land, and family dynamics within the relation to Mexican diaspora living in Toronto. Hir’s intention in practice is to both criticize the barriers, discrimination, and violence faced by those who share my BIPOC, diaspora, and LGBTQ+ identities and to celebrate their experiences, traditions, and self-worth as diverse peoples.
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Carla Sierra Suárez (she/her) is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto. In her practice, she explore themes of identity and aims to bring light to issues that have often been stigmatized. Her work focuses on her personal identities as Mentally ill, Neurodivergent, Disabled, Latina, and Muslim and her passion is to bring people together through art. She refers to herself as a visual storyteller considering the autobiographical nature of all her work.
More info
Don’t hesitate to contact us via email at info@crea-to.com for questions.
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If you express yourself through any creative medium and self-identify as an artist, creative, or creator, you are one!
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This workshop series aims to provide professional development and community arts opportunities as well as a gathering space for newcomer, immigrant, and refugee artists in Toronto.
Stay up to date with other CREATO events open to anyone via our Instagram!
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The MUSE Arts Creative Lab is located at 1369B St Clair Ave W, Toronto, ON M6E 1C7 next to the Giovanni Caboto Rink at Earlscoart Park. The Creative Lab is within walking distance from the 512 St Clair Streetcar stops.
Learn more about MUSE Arts, an artist-run, community arts organization focused on creating spaces and engaging communities meaningfully and supporting emerging artists from equity-seeking groups. -
The workshops will be facilitated in English, however, the artist facilitators and support staff speak Spanish and can help with translation.
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You can! Make sure you select a date for each workshop in the registration form.
Support of this program has been provided by:
