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Watercolour Painting for Teens x Toronto Public Library
🎨 🍪 Calling all creative teens!
Join us at Toronto Public Library for an afternoon of watercolour painting.
Expressive arts therapy believes that everyone is an artist, and that the
arts are inherently healing. Participants can expect to explore new ways
of expressing themselves, reduce feelings of isolation, learn skills to
improve their mental health and build resiliency, and connect with
community as their authentic selves, all while having fun.
Monday, May 1, 2025
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Maria A. Shchuka Library
No registration required. Supplies are limited, so arrive early to secure your spot.
TPL Cookies & Art for Teens
🎨 🍪 Calling all creative teens (with a sweet tooth)!
Join us at Toronto Public Library for an afternoon of cookie decorating and conversation.
Expressive arts therapy believes that everyone is an artist, and that the
arts are inherently healing. Participants can expect to explore new ways
of expressing themselves, reduce feelings of isolation, learn skills to
improve their mental health and build resiliency, and connect with
community as their authentic selves, all while having fun.
Monday, April 7, 2025
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Northern District Room 200, For Teens
Limited 24 Spots! Please register by calling 416-393-7610 or in Person
QAT Drop-In
Welcome! Do you want to make space for creativity in your life? Connect with community? Receive mental health support in a loving, creative, affirming environment? Join our monthly Queer Art Therapy drop-in! 🌈
Create art and support mental health in a community setting. Open to everyone (queer people and friends). 🏳️🌈 No art experience or special supplies required. No art experience or special supplies required. It's not about the final result, it's about the process---playing together! In our group, everyone is an artist.
Creative Pride: Expressive Arts Workshop
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈 🥳 Let’s celebrate Pride together with expressive arts. Learn about the history and importance of Pride around the world through experiential expressive arts activities. You’ll get a chance to make art, reflect on your own relationship with gender, sexuality, and social justice, and get some take-home activities to use with 2SLGBTQIA+ clients (and all demographics!)
This workshop is brought to you by OEATA, the Ontario Expressive Arts Association. Everyone is welcome, whether you’re a practicing expressive arts therapist, psychotherapist, social worker, teacher, support worker, or anyone interested in learning more about expressive arts therapy. This is not a therapy group.
Pride Zine Making Workshop
Join Jasper, a queer expressive arts therapist, in a fun Pride zine-making workshop at Toronto Public Library. Learn about the history of Pride and zines in Toronto, and make your very own zine to bring home and give to your friends and community. We will use visual art, collage, and/or writing to express ourselves. No art experience required! This program is aimed for youth and young people. Everyone is welcome.
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Jasper Bryan (he/him/they) is an expressive arts therapist, facilitator, artist, and children's book author and illustrator. He is a leader in Toronto’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community, exploring the intersections of art and mental health to empower everybody. He loves glitter, arts and crafts, and rainbows!
You can find out more about Jasper and Pink & Blue on his website, www.queerarttherapy.com, or instagram @queerarttherapy.
Pride Cookie Decorating for Teens
Join Jasper, a queer expressive arts therapist, for Pride cookie decorating at Toronto Public Library's Youth Hub. Celebrate 2SLGBTQIA+ pride by getting creative and bringing home something sweet!
Come by TPL Albion Branch on June 18th at 4pm-5pm (1515 Albion Rd., Etobicoke) or S. Walter Stewart Branch on June 20th at 4:30pm-6:00pm. Don’t forget to bring your sweet tooth!
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Jasper Bryan (he/him/they) is an expressive arts therapist, facilitator, artist, and children's book author and illustrator. He is a leader in Toronto’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community, exploring the intersections of art and mental health to empower everybody. He loves glitter, arts and crafts, and rainbows! You can find out more about Jasper and Pink & Blue on his website, www.queerarttherapy.com, or instagram @queerarttherapy.
Pride Cookie Decorating for Teens
Join Jasper, a queer expressive arts therapist, for Pride cookie decorating at Toronto Public Library's Youth Hub. Celebrate 2SLGBTQIA+ pride by getting creative and bringing home something sweet!
Come by TPL Albion Branch on June 18th at 4pm-5pm (1515 Albion Rd., Etobicoke) or S. Walter Stewart Branch on June 20th at 4:30pm-6:00pm. Don’t forget to bring your sweet tooth!
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Jasper Bryan (he/him/they) is an expressive arts therapist, facilitator, artist, and children's book author and illustrator. He is a leader in Toronto’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community, exploring the intersections of art and mental health to empower everybody. He loves glitter, arts and crafts, and rainbows! You can find out more about Jasper and Pink & Blue on his website, www.queerarttherapy.com, or instagram @queerarttherapy.
Tarot Transformations
Tarot Transformations – 6 Week Virtual Expressive Arts and Tarot Group
Sundays from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST held virtually on Zoom
February 18th – March 31st (There will be no group held on March 10th)
Come join therapists Julie and Jasper on a magical art tarot journey that focuses on cultivating a witchy community of peers where we:
-Develop our intuition
-Deepen self-awareness
-Connect to the unconscious
-Develop our tarot reading skills and use them for self-care, exploration and fun!
-Connect to sense of spirituality, holistic and universal wellbeing
-Use of creativity, visual art, poetry, journaling, movement, and other forms of self-expression
Overview of group activities:
Group Check In
Mindfulness Exercise
Brief Discussion
Tarot Card Pulling and Art Exercises
Processing Discussion
Group Check Out
Fill out our google form if you are interested in attending or would like to know more!
* while this group is facilitated by therapists, it is NOT a psychotherapy group.
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Julie Guterres (She/Her) is a Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist who works in private practice supporting individuals and couples to heal their relationships to themselves and others. Julie is passionate about cultivating spaces of community that promote relationship building, authentic self expression and tapping into your own intuitive wisdom.
Julie has been using tarot practices and art to promote mental wellbeing and self exploration for herself and others for over a decade.
You can find out more about Julie on her website, www.pathwaystohealingtherapy.com or her Instagram @pathwaystohealingtherapy
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Jasper Bryan (he/him) is an expressive arts therapist, facilitator, artist, writer, and tarot enthusiast. He creates spaces of magic and healing through art, enchanting the world with creativity.
You can find out more about Jasper on his website, www.queerarttherapy.com, or instagram @queerarttherapy.
TDOR Art Making
Join me @the519 this Sunday at 1:30-3pm (drop-in anytime!) and craft to a multimedia community quilt. We will honour our trans loved ones and celebrate trans resilience. The quilt will be on display for the Trans Day of Remembrance. No art experience required! All are welcome. 🏳️⚧️🦋🌸
Pink & Blue Book Launch
Celebrate the launch of Pink & Blue: a children’s picture book at Glad Day Bookshop on October 14th, 7-8:30pm. The book is about Jay, a both/and kid in an either/or world who discovers that things may be more rainbow than they seem. Gather with kids and kids-at-heart in an affirming space to be yourself and connect with community.
Gender Euphoria Dolls Trans* Drop-In
Hey, friends! Come build-a-buddy and make your own gender euphoria doll or plushie at the 519 in a trans* only space.
An affirming drop-in program for 2 Spirit, trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, and questioning folks. We particularly welcome folks who are low-income, street-active, experiencing homelessness, and/or engaged in sex work. Share a hot meal, connect with your community, and access referrals and supports.
Meal Trans is a trans-only space. Partners, friends, families, and allies are asked to respect its trans-only policy.
Program : Tuesdays, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Meal served from 6pm to 7:30pm
Zine Making 519 Drop-in
Join us for zine-making to honour community members we have lost. We will remember our 2SLGBTQIA+ ancestors and loved ones through art making and a communal memorial space. You are invited to bring pictures, mementos, or offerings to put on the memorial.
Sunday Drop-In offers a safe and welcoming space for 2SLGBTQIA+ people of all ages who may be experiencing poverty or are under-housed. It is a 2SLGBTQIA+ only space. A takeaway dinner is served after the Drop-In, from 4pm to 4:45pm. This meal is open to all.
Queerscapes Art Camp
Let’s gather our inner children in collective art making. Through paint, drama, tie dye, and many more activities, our bi-weekly meetups will hold space for self-discovery and social healing through play.
Queerscapes Art Camp
Let’s gather our inner children in collective art making. Through paint, drama, tie dye, and many more activities, our bi-weekly meetups will hold space for self-discovery and social healing through play.
Queerscapes Art Camp
Let’s gather our inner children in collective art making. Through paint, drama, tie dye, and many more activities, our bi-weekly meetups will hold space for self-discovery and social healing through play.
Queerscapes Art Camp
Let’s gather our inner children in collective art making. Through paint, drama, tie dye, and many more activities, our bi-weekly meetups will hold space for self-discovery and social healing through play.
Queerscapes Art Camp
Let’s gather our inner children in collective art making. Through paint, drama, tie dye, and many more activities, our bi-weekly meetups will hold space for self-discovery and social healing through play.
Creative Self-Love
Ever wondered what it would be like to seduce yourself? Write a love letter to *you*? Paint yourself like one of your French girls? Kiss yourself in the rain? This is a sign to dig deeper into self-love this spring.