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Getting Bi+ Expressive Arts Therapy Group
Getting Bi+ is a 7-week expressive arts therapy group created to celebrate identity, engage creatively in community, and explore challenges that come with bisexuality, pansexuality, questioning and multi-gender attraction, whatever part of the journey you are at.
It is a customized experience shaped by the participants’ therapeutic needs where we play, create, discuss, form relationships through collective art making. No art experience required!
Expressive Arts Therapy is a way of using the arts (visual, writing, drama, dance, music, play, and more) to explore life’s challenges and build on strengths. Through the arts, people can gain new meanings and perspectives. Expressive Arts Therapy believes that everyone is an artist.
The group will meet weekly on Monday from 6-8pm at 519 Church Street. The full cost is $250 + HST ($282.50).
Fill out the form to secure your spot!
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Jasper Bryan (he/they) is an expressive arts therapist, facilitator, multimodal 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. Jasper loves glitter, arts and crafts, and rollerblading!
Anto Chan has recently completed his education in Expressive Arts therapy at Create Institute. He also graduated from Guelph-Humber’s Early Childhood Education program, actively learning through play, inner child work and family dynamics. He has been a performance artist, producer, mentor and creative entrepreneur for the past 18 years. He has facilitated workshops on creativity, grant writing, intergenerational trauma, poetry, leadership, anti-oppression and so much more.
Jasper & Anto work from an anti-oppressive, social justice perspective. They use the arts to encourage individuals’ unique resources, skills, and strengths, encouraging resilience among individuals and communities. They value diversity, equity, justice, sex positivity, intersectionality, compassion, and harm reduction perspectives, which are at the heart of their psychotherapeutic approach.
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.
