IMPACT REPORT 2019-20 swiftly responded by acquiring additional grants and Community members donated funds, time, and relief funding and directed those funds and resulting supplies and helped us reach out to their neighbours Who We Are opportunities to the communities who needed them who could benefi t from these packages. Letter from the the most. During this critical time, we were able to Arts is a not-for-profi t Board Chair and hire 14 part-time and full-time staff to support our This year has proven our ability to quickly respond to charitable organization that focuses programs and community, with a focus on hiring the needs of the community. Certainly, COVID-19 has on improving people’s lives through the Dominique Sanguinetti Wendy Rading multilingual candidates, BIPOC representation, local not been easy on anyone but we are confi dent that Executive Director BOARD CHAIR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR arts. We have developed an inclusive residents, and people who have shared similar life together we will continue to provide excellent and and creative community hub that is experiences as some of our community members. innovative community arts programs. We are inspired open to all people in West . We This has been a year of exceptional growth at Arts our new circumstances. Within two weeks of closing by the strength and enthusiasm of our community believe in providing equitable access Etobicoke. We hosted our third annual Park Party in our offi ce, Arts Etobicoke shifted classes and adapted We are incredibly proud of the hard work, resilience and members and we look forward Bell Manor Park, launched the fi rst phase of our massive existing programs to online platforms. Other newly strength of our volunteers, staff, board, and community. to the arts regardless of economic or to continuing this North Etobicoke Mural Project, hosted numerous developed programs quickly followed, including live We charged ahead in the typical Arts Etobicoke way, by journey together. social status. Arts Etobicoke is a place professional and emerging artists in our gallery, sold weekly artists’ studio tours, artist demonstrations, creating fulsome, impactful, and positive community where everyone can freely express their more artwork than ever before, and offered our fi rst seniors’ Crafting in Quarantine videos, and online live arts programs to communities most in need. art and culture through our programs, Holiday Gift Shop show and Holiday Market. music events. During this Spring and Summer, Arts exhibitions, workshops, events, classes, Etobicoke paid 40% more artists than the previous Arts Etobicoke partnered with local residents to and professional development. And yet, we can’t talk about this year, without year and we continued to deliver programs to meet collect and distribute over 100 art packages to talking about COVID-19, the impact it has had on our the gap experienced by our community. Arts Etobicoke families in need who were stuck in their apartments, Photo Credits, bottom to top: Catherine Cachia, Arts Etobicoke, Jeremy Sale community and our swift and creative adjustments to learned that our neighbours were in crisis and we some with multiple generations living together. Pg 2 Pg 3 Family Seniors Artists WE PROGRAM FOR THE Montgomery’s Inn Film Nights, Seniors’ Arts & Augmented Representations: The North Etobicoke PEOPLE OF ETOBICOKE! Park Party in Bell Manor Park, Crafts at Cloverdale Mural Project, Storefront Gallery Exhibitions, Juried Art Show, Holiday Mall, Tafelmusik Cloverdale Community Exhibitions, Spotlight Our Programs Market, Storefront Gallery Concert, Crafting Etobicoke, Gift Shop Show, Holiday Market, Receptions, Art Packages, in Quarantine, Artist Studio Tours, Woodbine Mural, Tafelmusik Tafelmusik Concert, Storefront Concert, professional development workshops, and Our best programs are ones that are deeply-rooted in Arts Etobicokes builds community events and Gallery teaching/facilitating opportunities. the community and are sustained over a long period Children community through celebrations. Exhibitions & the arts, creating a of time. Our communities are stronger and more & Youth Photo: Jeremy Sale Receptions. connected because of the programming we offer. stronger and healthier After School Etobicoke artists have a place to call home, display Etobicoke. By developing Arts Classes, their work, and grow as professional artists. workshops, classes, and Saturday Arts Teens Adults events in consultation Classes. Our programs are diverse in discipline and Edge Youth Art Show, with people throughout Saturday Arts Classes, accessibly located throughout Etobicoke. We provide Saturday Arts Classes, Storefront Gallery Exhibitions & the community, we build opportunities for everyone to engage with the arts in Augmented Representations: Receptions, Tafelmusik Concert, programs based on whichever way they feel comfortable. We fi rmly believe The North Etobicoke Mural Augmented Representations: expressed needs and that our programs are made better by our partnerships Project, Storefront The North Etobicoke interests. and we work with local community partners to Gallery Exhibitions Mural Project, strengthen our classes, workshops, and events. & Receptions, community events Juried Art Show. and celebrations. Pg 4 Photo: Jeremy Sale Pg 5 Number of artists paid: Our Programming 11 Impact At a Glance! 148 5 55

23 Seniors in our weekly Arts & Crafts Class Artists who won 182 9 Juror/Audience awards Vendors in the Visitors to the Number of Holiday Market Holiday Market exhibitions: 25 Community attendance at 56 North Etobicoke Mural Project celebrations: 9 Murals created Outdoor movie nights in 2019-2020: Litres of apple cider given 33 away at holiday events 616 Arists in the Gift Shop Show

Pg 6 Pg 7 Photos: Catherine Cachia. This model addresses the issue of space as well arts activities, family activities, and free food. as existing barriers constructed in a community Our partner Stonegate Community Health around culture and language. The Park Party Model Centre has been working with us for three fi nds ways to connect with the community through years in an increasing leadership role and will meaningful outreach and brings multiple community be running the 4th annual Park Party event on groups together to create art. Each year involves their own while Arts Etobicoke moves to a new a series of summer programs and a piece of public Neighbourhood Improvement Area community art. All the activities culminate in a giant free and launches our Park Parties & Summer community celebration featuring live performances, Series in Wincott Park.

Our programs and events are designed to bring and community involvement. We use many models Developing communities together through the arts. We believe of community engagement such as workshops, that everyone should have the opportunity to consultations, classes, and celebratory events. regularly experience arts and culture right in their own Community community. Participants with all levels of experience We are most excited about replicating our Park Party and knowledge are encouraged to contribute. We model in a new neighbourhood. The Park Party was a Through have witnessed the arts build bridges between people three year outreach and programming initiative with of different cultures, languages, and socio-economic partner Stonegate Community Health Centre to turn the Arts statuses. The arts can increase social inclusion Bell Manor Park into an outdoor community hub. Pg 8 Pg 9 We launched the murals with a large-scale community celebration featuring local musicians, dancers, artist Our vision is to expand the cultural impact of talks, and mural tours. We believe in the importance Etobicoke’s diverse communities. One of the of celebrating the accomplishments of the most impactful ways we do this is through Public community and contributing to neighbourhood pride. Art. In August 2019, we launched Augmented This community celebration allowed community Representations: The North Etobicoke Mural Project members to share their work with their family, peers, which spanned across 576 feet of wall on Finch and neighbours. Avenue with amazing mural creations inspired by the community. This mural project was created in In 2020, we received funding to continue this Developing consultation with hundreds of community members, exceptional project and animate an additional 600 volunteers, and over 30 female-identifying and non plus feet of wall with murals. During social isolation binary artists. It features 30 murals by professional as a result of COVID-19, we offered online mural Community The 2019 mural project was created with partners Mural Routes, the STEPS Initiative, artists and 3 community murals, including an workshops and community consultations led by four and artist Bareket Kezwer (Womxn Paint); it was a Signature Project of the Cultural intergenerational women’s mural with an augmented lead artists. The workshop participants received Hotspot produced in partnership with the City of Toronto, StreetARToronto (StART) and supported by Toronto Pearson International Airport. Through reality component. This spread of murals has inspired individual art packages so they could create and The 2020 Mural project is produced in partnership with Bareket Kezwer and Womxn civic engagement and become a visual legacy for the contribute to this project. We look forward to Paint, in partnership with StreetARToronto (StART) and Tweed Collective and the Arts community members. unveiling the new set of murals in the spring of 2021. supported by community partners Mural Routes and the STEPS Initiative. Pg 10 Photo Credits, pg 10: May Shi; pg 11: Sharon Mendonca. Pg 11 For the Year of Public Art (2021), Arts Etobicoke is community consultations, offer historical Philip Cote (Moose Deer Point First Nation) is a Hector Centeno is a digital media creator, working on a large-scale community development Indigenous artist talks, and collect community multidisciplinary artist, a Sundancer, Pipe Carrier, developer, and instructor with over two decades of project in the Village of Islington. We are working stories. We have been hosting workshops and Sweat Ceremony leader recognized by Elder Vern experience as an independent artist, programmer, designer, and digital media technician. Bringing his with lead artists Susan Blight, Philip Cote, Luke online via Zoom and have created other online Harper and Floyd Looks for Buffalo Hand. Cote works to bring accuracy to the colonial archives through experiences as a New Canadian from Mexico, Centeno’s Garwood, and Hector Centeno to create four opportunities to contribute including surveys practice focuses on the production of high quality Augmented Reality installations to complement and submission forms. new research via archival and lived cultural practice and deep understanding of cultural symbolism. The immersive sound, visual, and interactive experiences the Village of Islington BIA murals. The Village of purpose of Cote’s research is to unearth and reveal that seek to engage diverse communities into a Islington historic murals are beautifully rendered his cultural experience and knowledge of signs of refl ection of existence, place, and reality. and a fantastic tourist resource, however we are Indigenous symbols, language, and interpretation. looking to refl ect the very diverse and ever-evolving demographics of our community. We are taking this opportunity to add to the narrative, telling a broader Developing story of our community, and focusing on immigration and Indigenous voices. Luke Garwood is an interdisciplinary artist Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching combining performance art with new technologies Community First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist such as motion capture, VR, AR, and 3D modelling. Through the spring of 2020, we have been working working with public art, site-specifi c As a response to increasingly digital surroundings, Through with the lead artists to host workshops, run intervention, photography, fi lm, and social Garwood develops hybrid media pieces that facilitate practice. Her solo and collaborative work a participatory audience experience and address the This project is supported through Toronto Arts Council Strategic Funding and engages questions of personal and cultural Headshots provided by the artists. body in space to re-contextualize technology in order the Arts by technical provider Albedo Informatics. identity and its relationship to space. VR Photos: Jeremy Sale. to understand its potential differently. Pg 12 Pg 13 Artists in our People hired during May 2020 Live Streamed a pandemic Concert Spotlight Etobicoke: 1916 11 Viewers of our Crafting in Quarantine Instructional Videos In March of 2020, we were hit by the COVID-19 strongly that it is our responsibility to continue to Artists did 22 Community global pandemic and entered into a state create arts-based learning opportunities and high- Studio Tours for 15 of emergency. Arts Etobicoke adapted as quickly as quality arts and cultural experiences during this time Arts Goes possible during this ever-changing situation to make of uncertainty and isolation. So our Arts in Isolation 4-week sure that those most vulnerable in our community programming continued throughout the summer 1932 5 Online Classes were still receiving services through our Arts in and beyond and we are committed to continuing Viewers Digital! Isolation programming. We offered community to adapt and evolve in tandem with the current 3D Interactive members ways to feel connected with each other realities of COVID-19. Community March - June 2020 submissions to Digital Gallery during isolation. We created participatory arts 53 1 Experience 10 0 experiences through social media and other online Arts Etobicoke continued these programs in the We are passionate about continuing to services (Instagram, Zoom, Facebook and YouTube) summer and fall of 2020 and will continue to offer employ artists during this pandemic and and developed a library of arts videos and tutorials accessible programs during isolation for community 46 FREE Art Packages know that our Arts In Isolation programs members as long as the pandemic continues. delivered to local that can be accessed at any time. In addition to Artists paid during quarantine for Participants are an important way to keep our valued families in high-density connectivity, we offered our community members (March – June 2020) 73 artists employed. ways to create and explore. At Arts Etobicoke, we feel apartments

Pg 14 Pg 15 In Fall 2019, we had the opportunity to exhibit Sacred Narratives, a solo exhibition by Zimbabwe native and New Canadian artist The Storefront David Chinyama. David is an internationally renowned artist and a newcomer to . Through his beautiful and colourful mixed media artworks, he talks about his life, journey, and cultural shifts Gallery at since he moved from Zimbabwe to Canada a few years back. Arts Etobicoke We had a vibrant and electric exhibition — Colours in Shape — that connected local artists Jieun June Kim, Shabnam Afrand, and The Storefront Gallery at Arts Etobicoke is a home for local Mr. Hydde. The 2018 Jury Award Winner, Grace Qian, had a professional artists to exhibit, learn, and grow. We work with solo show Becoming More. Grace was born and raised a blend of emerging and established artists and the crossover in China, moved to Canada in 2014, and studied at of the two makes for an exciting and impactful exhibition Etobicoke School of the Arts. In the winter, we season. We are also committed to hosting one community-led had a dynamic community exhibition featuring local seniors women and their stories captured in exhibition per year. In the 2019/2020 Storefront Gallery season, In July 2019, Arts Etobicoke presented a solo exhibition by award-winning portraits by the Etobicoke Camera Club, Grace, we featured over 45 artists in six exhibitions. The Storefront Canadian artist Darlene Kulig. Darlene is a highly accomplished painter Gratitude, Attitude: Celebrate Etobicoke Senior Gallery at Arts Etobicoke is your local source for purchasing whose works have been exhibited across Canada as well as Europe. Women, led by local artist Theresa Bryson. art, discovering new incredible artists, fi nding unique and In December 2019, Darlene was selected to be the featured artist in the memorable gifts, and re-thinking the way we see the world. Art Gallery of Ontario’s Holiday Gift Guide. Photo Credits: Woman in Blue Dress is by Theresa Bryson, headshots provided by the artists. Pg 16 Pg 17 We were met with a new challenge in March of Additionally, we launched an incredible feature and curatorship.This exhibition had an incredible 2020. As we were about to open the doors for our called “Be The Curator” which gave our audience response from the community and we continued Annual Juried Art Show, everything shut down due a chance to curate their own exhibition based on it through the summer to complement our Arts In In December of 2019, we opened our doors to to COVID-19. Our jury had made their selections all 200+ submissions we received for the Juried Art Isolation programs. dozens of artists for our pop-art, neon-inspired, Gift and the artwork was hung, so we didn’t want to miss Show. We used this as an opportunity to educate our Shop Show! We showcased craft and design from the the opportunity to showcase these amazing artists. audiences on the curation process and why Juried multi-talented artists, members, and artisans that We were able to launch the exhibition online with Art Shows are important for emerging local artists. live, work, and play in our community. The show saw an interactive 3D gallery exhibition featuring the The feature was even adopted by teachers in local hundreds of visitors in our gallery space and sold selected thirteen artists, complete with videos in schools and incorporated into their curriculum as an thousands of dollars of local artists’ work. which the artists talked about their work! exercise for art students to learn about exhibitions

Pg 18 Pg 19 Cloverdale Cultural Hub Arts Etobicoke has been working with partner QuadReal Property Group to develop an arts hub inside the Cloverdale Common in Cloverdale Mall, as part of a future development project on-site. Arts and culture is planned to take a central role in this future community. This year, in addition to weekly seniors’ arts programming and After School Arts classes for youth, we created a Holiday Market showcasing local artisans that spanned two weekends, hosted two exhibitions, and organized a concert! We are thrilled to continue this partnership with QuadReal and look forward to many more years of inclusive community arts programming.

Pg 20 Photo: Jeremy Sale Pg 21 Our volunteer program off ers a variety of ways to connect with VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT our community and develop skills. From assisting professional Collette Murray is an award-winning dance Murray has been a tremendous support in helping artists with classes/workshops to special event support and educator, cultural arts programmer and to guide the organization in working within administrative tasks, our volunteers do it all. We could not operate dance instructor, and contributing writer equity frameworks and through her commitment in dance media. With a performance to ensuring that the communities we serve are without their generosity of time and spirit. Volunteerism is an background over 20 years, Collette has a properly supported. Arts Etobicoke is extremely eff ective way to build relationships, learn new skills, and contribute mobile, dance education business grateful for all of the amazing work that Collette to the vibrancy of your community. Thank you to our hard working (www.misscocomurray.com) and is has done to support equitable and accessible arts and dedicated volunteers. Artistic Director of Coco Collective, an programming in Etobicoke. intergenerational team offering culturally Volunteers responsive arts projects that represent African and “Communities are spaces where we can Alex Song Jasmin Pannu Lamis Haggag Moira Ness How We Caribbean arts. Collette incorporates equity studies safely engage in common interests, learn Claudia Arana Jenny Chen Lone Smith Nancy Newton to her arts education, mentorship, arts advocacy, and about ourselves and cultivate creative Collette Murray Juan Licea Loretta Faveri Nati Romero socially-engaged community arts projects. relationships with others. I support Dominique Sanguinetti Judith H.Winston Lorraine DeGasperis Rozeta Aleksov Elizabeth Malak Julia Rim Shepard Marilyn Cade Sajeda Manzoor Get It Done! organizations willing to curate equitable Emily Anderson Karl Sprogis Mark Zadorozny Sonya Young A committed volunteer of Arts Etobicoke, Collette spaces that vitalize art communities.” Everything we do is in collaboration with Eneas Kolacz Kathryn Asaro Megan Cugliari Tasnim Patel joined the Board of Directors in 2019 and has been COLLETTE MURRAY Hana Pour Khalilah Brooks Megan Ellen MacDonald Theresa Bryson our incredible volunteers, staff , members, an invaluable member of the Arts Etobicoke team. Immanuel Locke Krista Parker Michelle Gauci Veronica Bila partners, funders, and our donors. Ina Anthony Kristen Francis Michelle Marchetti

Pg 22 Headshot provided by Collette Murray. Photo credit: Jeremy Sale Pg 23 S t a ff Individual Members Organizations Akshata Naik, Programs and Gallery Manager Agnes Mo Deborah Mills Joyce Carter Miyoun Jun Sonya Young Etobicoke Centennial Choir Alina Kuzma (August 2020), Project Coordinator Ailene Candelario Dominique Sanguinetti Julia Rim Shepard Moira Ness Sue Belitski Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra Dani De Angelis (August 2020), Project Coordinator Aisha Malik Dominique-Charles Lecocq Karl Sprogis Monica Jurkovic Suzan Hall Franklin Carmichael Art Group Heather Ervin, Development & Communications Manager Albana Canga Don Moffat Katherine Brown Monique D’Sa Tanya Zemlyanska Humber College Faculty of Media & Creative Arts Ian Dodds, Development & Communications Coordinator Alex Dunsmuir Donald Wilson Kathryn Bosnitch Nancy Moniz Tatjana Sukovic Ontario Pops Orchestra John Del Rosario, Special Projects Manager Alexandra Iorgu Eileen Roehr Khalilah Brooks Nancy Newton Teresa Chan The Harmony Singers Wendy Kshama John Heather Aliya Mahmood Elaine Odetoyinbo Kurt Rostek Neena Avery Touffa Taha The Kingsway Conservatory of Music Kshama Patel, Operations Manager Ann Hollingworth Elizabeth Malak Laura French Pat Rice Tracy Francis The Music Studio Laura-Anne Graul (September 2019), Project Coordinator Anne Noble Elizabeth Stanton Liana DiMarco Patty Jarvis Valentine Bezdicka Theatre Direct Canada Magdiel Espinal, Community Research Coordinator Aruna Jamadagni Enzo Mazzulla Lisa Murzin Paula Solano Vera Sevelka Margie Macdonald (March 2020), Art Rental Coordinator Ashley Kurtz Gaetano Giordano Lone Smith Ross Breen Veronica Bila Sair Raut, Outreach Coordinator Bev Morgan George Novotny Loretta Faveri Ross Williams Zenia Wadhwani Wendy Rading, Executive Director Brulinda Karavoqiri Gerardina Duenas Maria Stanchev Roxanne Tull Cam Tyers Gita Zamcija Marianne Gibson Rozeta Aleksov Carolyn Colagiovanni Ian Grant Marilyn Cade Samuele Bariani Magdiel Akshata Ian Sair Charles Weiss Ina Anthony Mark Zadorozny Sandra Scott Board of Directors Photo credits (except Ian): Lisa Murzin Christine Audet Jacqueline Crawley Megan Cugliari Sarah Leonard Collette Murray Karl Sprogis (June 2020), Co-Chair Marilyn Cade, Treasurer Nancy Newton Christine Charles Jane Orr Novotny Michael Deborah Skoff Saumya Verma Dominique Sanguinetti, Chair Kathryn Asaro Mark Zadorozny Rozeta Aleksov Cinna Faveri Jeanan Khairallah Michelle Carillo Se ok Choi Elizabeth Malak Khalilah Brooks Michelle Gauci, Vice-Chair Veronica Bila, Assistant Treasurer Collette Murray Jenneen Shortreed Michelle Gauci Shailja Jindal Daniela Grantcheva John Long Michelle Kast Sharon Kawabata Ina Anthony Krista Parker Michelle Marchetti David Wistow Josephine Olinski Michelle Marchetti Sladana Zivkovic Julia Rim Shepard Lone Smith Moira Ness

Pg 24 Pg 25 Individuals Corporate Foundations & Service Clubs Adam Hanley Gail Faveri Megan Cugliari LOLA MACANOWICZ DONOR SPOTLIGHT WITH LORETTA AND PHIL Adam Rawn Gita Zamcija Miyoun Jun Loretta Faveri and Phil Ridge are both longtime donors and Alicia Zavitz Haijin Lee Monique D’Sa supporters of Arts Etobicoke. This year, Phil’s company Ridge Energy Angus Campbell Heather Ervin Nan Levitt KINGSWAY HUMBER Consultants sponsored New Canadian artist David Chinyama’s Aniko Kaszas Ina Anthony Nancy Newton Assa Timera Jeanan Khairallah Pam Palmer HELEN THOMPSON & GOLI TOURSERKANI fi rst Canadian solo show, Sacred Narratives. Loretta served on Arts Barbara Sheffi eld Jennifer Ritchie Pranvera Thana Etobicoke’s Board of Directors for three years and now donates her Beth Pollock Jihye Byun Radenko Kamberovic time and talents as an active member of the gallery committee and Blair Jurecka Joan Ervin Sameer Jain as a volunteer in our After School Arts classes. Both Loretta and Phil Blake Eligh Julia Rim Shepard Shelley Martino Government Support have purchased art through the Storefront Gallery at Arts Etobicoke, Carol Jones Karl Sprogis Suzan Hall Carolyn Colagiovanni Laura Byl Tara Dunphy NATIONAL supporting both the organization and the artists we represent. They have Cindy L. Titus Linda M Ervin Taylor Kutner SILICATES also supported Arts Etobicoke through their attendance at gallery openings, Cinna Faveri Linda Sumner Teodora Milkin fundraisers, and special events. We are very grateful for donors like Loretta David Kutner Lone Smith Theresa Bryson and Phil who, through their generosity, make all of our work possible. Debra Perkins Loretta Faveri Toula Ernikos In-Kind Arts Don Moffat Lori Kado Veronica Bila Baker Street Katherin Ludwig Dolgy Donald Wilson Louise Garfi eld Vesna Petrovik Craft Brand Co Panago Pizza An agency of the Government of Ontario. “We are so happy to support Arts Etobicoke! It is very important to Eileen Roehr Lynn Berry Wendy Rading Crayola Star Metro Land - Relève du gouvernement de l’Ontario. Etobicoke us that local art, in all its forms, thrives in our community.” Elisaveta Andonova Marilyn Cade Yu Seog Jung Dean Tudor The Etobicoke Elizabeth Jay Zaray Marulanda- PHIL RIDGE & LORETTA FAVERI Mary Ashley Delmanor Prince Edward Guardian Evgeniy Seminenko Marzena Dawid Ocampo Diane Soward Terry Paine Donors Fumitada Sakamoto Maureen McLean Jane Theodore Pg 26 Pg 27 The presentation of the Fiscal 2019 – 2020 Condensed Statement of Financial Position and Condensed Statement of 2020 2019 Financial Operations are derived from the Audited Statements of Arts Etobicoke, dated June 30, 2020, as audited by J & J, Statement of Operations and Changes in EXPENSES $ $ Financials Chartered Professional Accountants. The full audit and accompanying notes may be obtained by contacting 416-622-8731. Net Assets as of June 30, 2020 Wages and benefits 369,462 323,426 Artist fees 177,268 171,702 2020 2019 Statement of Financial Position Member communiciations 94,347 66,071 REVENUES $ $ as of June 30, 2020 2020 2019 Exhibitions and programs 83,479 76,829 Government grants 713,395 630,203 Marketing and promotion 65,451 62,751 2020 2019 LIABILITIES $ $ Donations 132,340 145,680 Rent 51,138 51,138 ASSETS $ $ Current Workshop and program fees 60,851 64,053 Education 44,182 43,623 Current Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 18,788 11,513 Miscellaneous 14,653 16,426 Interest and investments 19,470 20,080 Cash and cash equivalents 396,342 46,333 Government remittances payable - 5,745 Depreciation 10,413 10,981 Art and rental sales 11,556 18,438 Investments 488,996 286,215 Taxes payable - 3 Premises expenses 10,242 14,624 Wage subsidies 7,155 - Telephone and internet 6,509 6,975 Accounts receivable 15,847 33,867 18,788 17,261 Membership 5,057 10,117 Office and general 5,203 10,649 HST recoverable 2,276 - Legal and audit fees 5,895 6,122 Deferred revenue 568,420 49,000 Fundraising events 535 12,275 Prepaid expenses and deposits 7,158 6,079 Bank charges and interest 2,603 3,035 TOTAL LIABILITIES 587,208 66,261 TOTAL REVENUES 950,359 900,846 910,619 372,494 Fundraising events - 16,330 TOTAL EXPENSES 940,845 880,683 Capital 9,964 17,628 NET ASSETS Excess of revenues over expenses 9,514 20,163 Art collection 1 1 Net assets - unrestricted 333,376 323,862 Fund balance, beginning of year 323,862 303,699 TOTAL ASSETS 920,584 390,123 TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS 920,584 390,123 FUND BALANCE, END OF YEAR 333,376 323,862

Pg 28 Pg 29 Village of Islington BIA Humber College Sladana Zivkovic Sketch Working Arts Moises Frank The STEPS Jumblies Theatre Music Program Montgomery’s Inn Initiative Stonegate Cirillo’s Culinary Academy Art Starts Metrolinx

Folk Camp Samara Stern Neighbourhood Community Arts Network Albion Mural Routes Luke Garwood Alex Song Richview Boys and Etobicoke Historical Society Melanie Jones Health Centre Franklin Carmichael Art Gallery Library Akin Department of Girls Club Clapperton Shakespeare Marjan Public Memory Josh Vokey Monro Law Islington United Church Verstappen Womxn Paint Kingsway Humber Kiwanis Let’s Get Together in Action Etobicoke Camera Club Dixon Rd TO 360, Seneca College Seneca

Albion Library North Etobicoke Community House Humber Summit Sanguinetti & Associates Maureen Da Silva

Residents’ Association Generation 7th Image Makers Community Islington Junior Islington Liz Johnston Doell Jason Health Centre Kingsway FixtPoint Conservatory Surface Hector A Community of Partners of Music Panago Young Associates Vibe Arts Edith George StART Impression Albedo Informatics Centeno Elspeth Heyworth Humber College Arts Administration QuadReal Leave Out Albion Islington Centre for Women Janet Sayers East End Arts Senior & Cultural Management Program Violence Bareket Support Toronto Outdoor Native Women AGO Services Properties Square BIA Picture Show in the Arts Etobicoke Group Everywhere Kezwer Rexdale Community Hub Etobicoke School of the Arts Arts Rotary Toronto West Neilson Park CC Concentra Bank Rexdale Tanya Neumeyer Woodbine Stage Ten CYGN Somali Women & Etobicoke Centennial Choir Urban Arts 22 Division Community Women’s Chidren’s Support -

Parul Pandya Holdings Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) Centre Network The Westway NAP Philip Cote City of Toronto, Dept. of Culture Entertainment Scarborough Arts CCRM on Violence Jacintha Krish Jacintha Delta Family & Economic Development Susan Blight Resource Centre Artscape Youngplace Natalie Very B Lakeshore Arts Albion Mall Tupman & Bloom LLP Action METRAC Pg 30 Woodbine Backstretch Pg 31 How Can You Help

There are many ways for you to help your community If you want more information about and get involved with Arts Etobicoke. We are a what we do, how to register for people-focused organization and we create ways programs, volunteer, become a for you to give back to your community through member, join the board, or become a volunteerism, sponsorship, patronage, and donorship. donor, please contact us!

Your contribution will not only increase exceptional Contact info arts experiences within our Etobicoke neighbourhoods, www.artsetobicoke.com you will also provide opportunities for Etobians to 4893A West grow, push the boundaries of what they think is 647.807.8731 Photo Credits, middle and right inset circles: Jeremy Sale; far right: possible, and have the freedom to create. [email protected] Catherine Cachia.

Pg 32 Pg 33 In July 2019, Arts Etobicoke started our fi ve-year We have been attending festivals, events, and story gathering and artist-led data collection project programs asking our community questions in through a grant awarded to Arts Etobicoke by the unique ways like button graphs, asking questions on Canada Council of the Arts, as part of their Digital takeaway cups, dropping beads in jars marked with Strategies Fund. The project, entitled Visualizing questions, hosting interactive dinner parties, and of Deep Data, focuses on artist-led data collection course, the always faithful participant surveys! Exploring and interpretation to better map and evaluate arts needs and delivery in Etobicoke. We will be using all the We have hired a full time Community Research information collected to help us discover methods to Coordinator, Magdiel Espinal, and seven Community Community better understand the community, develop stronger, Story Coordinators - Amnna Attia, Abir Abouel more inclusive programming, visualize our fi ndings, and Saadat, Angela Walcott, Harleen Sekhon, Pearl Bawa, Arts and Culture share our information with the community at large. Reyash Ghabayen, and Yusra Mukhtar. It is important that these hires represent the communities that they in Etobicoke: We have an incredible team that helps us explore are working within; and among Magdiel and the Story new and artistic ways of fi nding data and evaluating Coordinators, eight languages are spoken including and sharing it. The team includes digital experts, Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Punjabi, Visualizing Surface Impression, and community experts from the Spanish, and Urdu. Department of Public Memory, Maggie Hutcheson Deep Data and Elinor Whidden. Pg 34 Pg 35 Photo Credits, Inset circle and below: Submitted by We have been using the data we collected from the Jeremy Sale. Submitted by Reyash Ghabayen community to improve our programs and offer the Ian Dodds community more of what they want. We specifi cally heard that our audiences wanted more opportunities to experience music in their own community. So we partnered with Tafelmusik to bring one of their shows Submitted by Akshata Naik featuring baroque chamber music into Cloverdale Help Us Mall! The event was a huge success and we had over a hundred people show up for an intimate mall Get To concert. During COVID-19 we built on this success and offered two online live-streamed concerts Know Our that drew thousands of views and featured over twenty local performers. Additionally, we have been Submitted by applying the feedback to our classes and workshops, Community John Del Rosario offering improv and fi lm acting for teens and more professional development for emerging visual artists. Better!

We always want to hear from you! If you are We asked our team members Submitted by interested in sharing your stories, or getting involved to submit examples to get the Submitted by Pearl Bawa with this project, email [email protected]. project started. Amnna Attia Pg 36 Pg 37 Submitted by Abir AbouelSaadat We’d like to learn more about you! Community members sharing with Share a photo of an object that us ensures that we create programs you love which has cultural or A t H that best suit your interests and the ng ot a artistic signifi cance to you. ia ela alc rle on t A tt W en kh interests of everyone in Etobicoke. a mn a A Se d n P a e A a ar bir lS l Ba Please answer the prompt by texting For example: Aboue wa R e • A painting y us a picture to 647.807.8731, make a s • A cultural object of signifi cance h sure to include your postal code. You G • A tool that you use to create your craft h can also post on instagram and share Share your thoughts on Etobicoke with aba en • An object that came from another country or home y a story about the object using the one of our Community Story Coordinators! • An article of clothing Community hashtag #EtobicokeCreates and we Email [email protected] to arrange • A tool for cooking or baking Y an interview. You can be interviewed in Arabic, u will share it on our channel. • A photograph Story s English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Punjabi, ra • Your favourite food M Spanish, or Urdu. uk • Something that makes music Submitted by you! Coordinators htar Pg 38 Pg 39 Why Should You Support Arts Etobicoke?

Etobicoke is geographically large and is Over 45% of Etobians are By supporting Arts Etobicoke you home to an incredibly diverse community. New and with are offering local, emerging artists With your help, we can reach more your help we can offer from a variety of disciplines an communities that could benefit from free them a space to freely opportunity to grow, develop and programming and access to arts and culture! express their culture. get paid for their artwork. artsetobicoke.com