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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.

Each month, we will creatively explore a different theme. This month's theme is "I am Art". 🖼️ 💖

What you can expect:

🖐️ Introductions and emotional check-in

🖍️ Creative warmup

🗣️ Sharing

🎨 Main art activity (visual art, writing, poetry, and more)

🖼️ Sharing process & artwork

🤗 Check-out

*📓 Optional homeplay and journaling prompts for after

Bring whatever supplies you'd like to work with (crayons, markers, collage, textiles, even just a paper and pen is fine, there will also be digital options ).

Note that this is NOT a psychotherapy group. It is a community arts group facilitated by an expressive arts therapist.

I hope you will join our creative community!

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Meet the facilitator:

Jasper Bryan (he/they) is a queer expressive arts therapist, facilitator, artist, and children's book author & 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 rainbows!

You can find out more about Jasper on his website, www.queerarttherapy.com, or instagram @queerarttherapy.

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No Hate Policy:

This space centres 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent, mad, indigenous, and BIPOC voices. It is led by a white neurodivergent facilitator, who practices allyship and strives for an anti-oppressive, decolonizing, anti-racist, anti-ableist, abolitionist and depathologizing lens.

In other words, there is a zero tolerance policy for discrimination or hate. In this group, we acknowledge that we are always learning and unlearning, and we will be messy and imperfect. We also promise to do the work to be better humans and take accountability when we cause harm.

This group is not based on identity. ALL are welcome, as long as you hold these values. As a bi+ and genderqueer person, I strongly believe in welcoming everyone into queer spaces without having to disclose or own any particular label. There is no gate keeping here, and self-exploration is encouraged! This group is centred around radical queer politics, not queer identity. This is a space for you!