Community Arts

Join us this summer at MUSE Arts for Creative Explorers, a vibrant, arts-based camp for school-aged children! Each week features a unique theme that sparks imagination through visual arts, storytelling, nature, and movement. Campers will enjoy hands-on workshops, group games, daily yoga, and special outings—including a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum. 🗓 Weekly Camps:

The Stories We Share: Creative Writing for Immigrant,Newcomer, and Refugee Women The Stories We Share is an empowering creative writing program by MUSE Arts, specifically designed for immigrant, newcomer, and refugee women living in Toronto. Since 2019, this program has provided a safe and inclusive space for women to share their personal stories of migration

Memory And Wisdom Our art-based engagement programs involve communities of all backgrounds and ages.  For the past three years, we have partnered with the Davenport-Perth community to deliver programs that recognize seniors’ skills and abilities, as well as to foster space for the development of new skills.  Our in-person and online programming aims to support

Doves of Peace Building on a project that was born in Colombia in 2019, the Doves of Peace aims to promote peace-building through the arts. Using a canvas dove as the backdrop, this project encourages participants to portray what “peace” and “community” means to them, whether that be through text or image. We acknowledge that

Creative Writing Workshops We foster a safe gathering space for a series of workshops where we allow ourselves to express our innermost feelings and let them flow. The aim of these workshops is to create spaces for conversation but, above all, spaces for using writing as a tool for creative exercise that is simultaneously therapeutic,

Weaving Community : Crocheting Project Weaving Community, while being a reason to gather in the process of creating crochet mandalas, was also a way to weave networks and conversations, gather in intergenerational groups, and deal with the impacts of winter and isolation due to the pandemic on our mental health. Throughout this project, spending time

Creative Thinkers: Literacy, Storytelling and Empowerment Through the Arts. By opening ourselves up to investigate our surroundings, we activate our senses, explore the city, and create stories through a variety of artistic expressions. Youth between the ages of 14 and 19 who have migratory experience in their families are invited to build stories collectively over

Visual Poetry Youth Photography Project Along with our cameras and big smiles on our faces, we walk around and explore the city— not only to capture beautiful landscapes and memories, but also to involve the youth participants in conversations about place, identity, migration, and belonging, while discovering visual poetry in our surroundings. Using photography as a

Our World of a Thousand Colours Our World of a Thousand Colours is a mosaic of creativity and imagination— a colour explosion that amuses and entertains while holding space for conversations about a better world. Throughout this program, we generate spaces for children ages 4-11 to learn alongside emerging and professional artists and youth completing

Our Homes, Our Communities This project sees the creation of virtual and in-person spaces where creative conversations are held and over 100 participants of all ages are invited to identify correlations between their idea of home and that of location, land, and physical structures. These conversations are centred on the participants’ own sense of belonging