Scarborough Arts Annual Report 2020-2021

Cover Image: Out for a Stroll, by Curtia Wright on the Scarborough Sign. Image by Kyle Jarencio.

The land in which Scarborough Arts is located has been the home of Indigenous people and Nations long before colonial documentation of time and is specifically the land of the Huron-Wendat, Anishnabek, Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Haudenosaunee.

The territory of what is known today as Toronto is under the One Dish, One Spoon Wampum belt, a peace treaty between the Haudenosaunee and the Anishinaabek, and is a mutual agreement between nations for sharing land and resources. The territories that encompass Toronto, as well, are under a number of Treaties including Treaty 13, and in Scarborough specifically the Williams Treaties. There have been many Indigenous names and words associated with this place, and today, Scarborough is home to a multitude of Indigenous people, languages, and cultures from around the world.

We as an organization are composed of people from various walks of life.

All of us at Scarborough Arts encourage you to support and advocate for Indigenous people and communities, everywhere.

Learn more at scarborougharts.com/land-acknowledgement-resources

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We Bring Artists to the Community and Community to the Arts.

Scarborough Arts, a not-for-profit charitable organization, serves the Scarborough community by developing, delivering, and promoting innovative arts programming and cultural initiatives in collaboration and partnership with the community.

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Message from the Chair, Board of Directors, Suman Roy

Message from the Executive Director, Derek Spooner

Strategic Plan and the Year Ahead

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Our Programs & Message from the Program Manager, Emily Peltier

Treasurer’s Report, Ashish Shah

Staff & Board of Directors

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Members, Volunteers, Partners, Funders & A Note of Thanks

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Report Design by Kyle Jarencio Back Cover Design by Sarah Alinia Ziazi

Amid the challenges COVID-19 is posing to our local community and organization, our team has executed impacting, targeted and low-barrier programming, including: the City of Toronto supported ArtworxTO joint LASO #LocalDiscoveriesTO neighbourhood, food and public art tours; EAST: H.E.A.R.T. - Year 1 Programming focused on LGBTQ2S+ youth and peer-to-peer sexual health learning / art creation; Sustainable Resistance for BIPOC Folx - a closed-group writing workshop series led by social worker, Krystal Kavita Jagoo; #NoVacancy partnership with #ShowLoveTO, which animates local small-business and non-profit storefronts across the Scarborough region in partnership with the Tamil Archive Project, Royal Crown Academic School, Toby’s Place, Congeetown, Cliffside Village Books and SR Beauty Salon; and the upcoming Healthy Arts for Seniors program coming back in Fall 2022.

Message from the Chair, Board of Directors This past year marks my first full year as Chair of Scarborough Arts’ Board, a remarkable year of resiliency in the organization. With the COVID-19 pandemic, this year has certainly been one of the most difficult years for our country, and the arts community is no exception.

Scarborough Arts transitioned into a hybrid in-person / digital programming model this past year, and will continue to bring renewed and innovative approaches to programming and accessibility into 2021-22.

This past year, we continued the next phase of our Strategic planning journey and will continue this work into 2022 with steps towards revitalizing our mission and core values and consulting with community members on various aspects of the organization’s activities and programs - we are excited to hear what you have to say!

In 2022, Scarborough Arts’ offices at 1859 Kingston Rd., will go through AODA renovations. After the completion, we will have greater capacity to engage with our community through increased functionality of our space, greater accessibility and improved meeting and gallery rooms.

As our Board and Staff team continues to develop and grow its capacity in 2022, I am looking forward to supporting our community in Scarborough, with all your help. Scarborough Arts is more resilient and stronger than it has ever been, under the leadership of our Executive Director, Derek Spooner and with the passion and expertise of our staff team. 2022 will be a year to remember for arts in Scarborough!

Suman Roy, Chair, Board of Directors

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On and offline, our programs are being crafted and shaped with a focus on equity, access, inclusion, and justice under the phenomenal leadership of Program Manager, Emily Peltier. In listening to community requests for more skills and professional development program series, our goals this year have been to deliver quality programming where participants are given the opportunity to delve deeply into their own creative practices.

Message from the Executive Director It’s been an incredible year at Scarborough Arts!

In a year defined by pivots to digital and hybrid arts programming, continuous flexing towards pandemic adaptations and “work-from-home” environments, I have so much pride in our team for their commitment to passion and innovation while serving the Scarborough community through arts and cultural programming, services, and advocacy.

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Recapping our 2020-21 year in programming, we undertook a necessary shift to digital to maintain the health and safety of our stakeholders, showed increased enrolment and reach of programming with a record number of participants attending online workshops and training seminars, and we continued our work in prioritizing organizational inclusivity by hiring underrepresented artists and culture workers, creating sustained economic development opportunities for youth and burgeoning artists.

Some of Scarborough Arts’ most important program outcomes have been closed peer-led spaces for BIPOC artists and community members to write together about experiences with white supremacy and racism through our successful Community+ Connects Online program with Krystal Kavita Jagoo.

The latest iteration of our EAST: H.E.A.R.T (Health, Education, Art, Resilience, Together) program, EAST: Zines, has provided peer-led creative spaces for LGBTQ2S+ youth to professionally develop their creative practices while learning about sexual health and STI prevention, integrating learnings into their art production.

This year, we engaged the public in reimagining a new perspective for Scarborough with Scarborough’s New View Photo Contest, led by photographer Tony Gebrehiwot and with a jury led by Toronto’s Photo Laureate, Michèle Pearson Clarke, and featuring the talents of treasured local photographers Anique Jordan and Esmond Lee. This community-led initiative saw thousands of contest submissions aimed at undoing the unfortunately common negative perceptions of Scarborough perpetuated by mainstream media. There was a real outpouring of Scarborough pride captured by the local community on both our legacy website, and the ongoing use of #scarboroughphoto online. We could not have accomplished such feats without the incredible support of Christopher Jones and Sally Han, Cultural Partnerships at the City of Toronto, as well as Toronto City Council members and Deputy Mayor Michael Thompson - who saw a critical need to ask the local community to respond to and rally against negative regional stereotypes. And, the result was an inspiring flip of the Scarborough story, by Scarborough, who took up the task and truly revitalized the narrative.

Thank you to our local and beloved community members for supporting our work and engaging #scarboroughphoto to revitalize the story of Scarborough, one snapshot at a time. And, in the words of Mike Adler, your photography, “made the Scarborough community proud” (Mike Adler, Toronto.com).

As always, our seniors have been keeping busy.

Under the guidance of facilitator Diana Nazareth, and with the outreach support of Nancy Li and Maithily Uthayasangar, two cohorts of seniors participated in our Healthy Arts for Seniors: Cultural Cookbook program. Each week, seniors gathered at East Scarborough Storefront and Chester Le Community Corner to write, take photographs and share meaningful family recipes and stories together as an act of communal care and creative practice.

Our seniors shared recipes and anecdotal stories that have shaped their lives and histories of migration, which have been captured in each recipe and photographs of each dish.

On our homestead at 1859 Kingston Road, we were excited to partner with BibbCon in summer 2020 to install a pollinator garden on the East side of our building, enabling the creation of sustainable pollinator habitat. We want to thank PollinateTO, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, and Christy of the Birchcliff Butterfly Way for their ongoing love and support for the garden, situated on a migratory pathway for Monarch Butterflies, pollinators and birds. This gorgeous garden supports biodiversity and also serves as inspiration for programs like our much-demanded Botanical Illustration workshop series led by artist Marjan Verstappen. And, to the west side of our building is a bustling community garden in partnership with the Scarborough Food Security Initiative (SFSI) which supports food production for local food bank clients through youth gardening programs. This year, the garden yielded many varieties of vegetables and fruits, as well as a pumpkin patch.

In January 2021, we had the great opportunity to hire a new full-time Administrative & Operations Coordinator. We are fortunate to welcome the

dynamic and skilled Amanda Singh to our team.

Amanda has not only learned the organization’s operational functions in record time, but she continues to grow and mature as an up-and-coming arts and cultural leader.

Our summer 2021 Canada Summer Jobs cohort - Issaq Ahmed, Program Assistant, and Kyle Jarencio, Marketing & Communications Assistant, have come to the table with deep ties to Scarborough and a passion to see the community thrive through the transformative power of the arts. We are incredibly grateful for the work Issaq and Kyle produced to proactively revitalize our branding and social media communications, which has effectively increased cash flow, data collection, and given a trustworthy voice and presence to the work of Scarborough Arts within the local community.

And, significant strides have been made through our Board of Directors. With the leadership of our Chair, Suman Roy, we continue to fill skills and experience gaps on our Board through ongoing recruitment and onboarding. Asish Shah, Treasurer, has streamlined our financial dashboard to more effectively manage monthly finances. And, each of our Directors is actively contributing their skills and expertise to grow the scope and impact of Scarborough Arts’ work. As a collective, we are growing our staff complement, capacity, and strategy vision of the organization, one brick at a time.

COVID-19 has brought to the forefront the essential need for arts and cultural leaders to continue advocating to support community arts and artists across our region. Through this year of arts and cultural programming, we hope that we have risen to the occasion. We are proud of our accomplishments this year and we are proud to serve you - our beloved Scarborough community - one brush stroke at a time.

Sincerely,

Derek Spooner, M.A. Executive Director

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Canada Summer Jobs Program Assistant, Issaq Ahmed, posing with the Scarborough Sign.

Image taken by Kyle Jarencio.

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Strategic Plan & The Year Ahead In the upcoming year, we are excited to announce a slate of online and hybrid arts programs, high quality and dynamic in-person activities that meet the demands of safety while providing experiences to the community, and major accessibility updates to the Scarborough Arts building. We have learned the power of delivering quality online arts programming as a means of providing a sense of community and belonging for patrons across Scarborough to connect through the arts. In the coming year, we will continue to make our online programs accessible to folks of all ages and create more meaningful opportunities for us to all connect in person when the time is right.

Accessibility Upgrades to the Scarborough Arts Building The Scarborough Arts building will be making heightened AODA accessibility upgrades to meet the needs of community members with disabilities.

Visitors can expect wider wheelchair accessible ramps and an elevator lift that will lead directly to the Bluffs Gallery. This will activate flexible programming spaces throughout the entirety of the building for all our stakeholders and revitalize the Bluffs Gallery as an art gallery and community hub.

Scarborough Arts Marketplace It is our honour to announce that we are bringing Scarborough artists and artworks directly to your home! The Scarborough Arts online Marketplace, coming in the Spring of 2022, will connect the work of our artists and seniors to the hands of folks in homes across the community. Scarborough Arts’ publications, merchandise, totes and artworks, in collaboration with local Scarborough artists will be available online for purchase and the proceeds will directly support our programs and initiatives right here in Scarborough!

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Community Consultations & Mission Revitalization

High Quality Online Programming Our instructors and our team have learned best practices around distributing online programs and delivering virtual showcases. We will continue to provide opportunities for folks of all abilities to participate through a hybrid program model slated for COVID-19 reopening offering in-person and digital programming, low-barrier entry, and program materials / supplies delivery where possible; It only gets better from here!

Celebrating Local Art and Supporting Scarborough Culture We are dedicated to continuing the development of Scarborough Arts’ identity online via social media platforms and keeping community members engaged and updated with what’s happening locally. Our team will focus on hiring Scarborough artists and culture workers, and preserving the talent in Scarborough because we see the value in community empowerment. With support from the Scarborough Artists Fund, 100% of all proceeds are allocated towards supporting the livelihoods of artists who deliver our programs.

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Scarborough Arts is collaborating with Parul Pandya and Community Impact Consulting to guide our Board and Staff through the revitalization of the organization’s Mission, Vision and Core Values. There will be four targeted program-focused community consultations in tandem with our ArtworxTO Community Hubs: EAST programs at Scarborough Town Centre as part of our strategic planning initiatives. Upon completion of our strategic planning exercises, we will be releasing a strategic guiding document to foster the growth of the organization over the next 2-3 years with considerations for challenges in long-term planning due to COVID-19.

“Building back stronger” Aligning with the City’s 10 Year Public Art Strategy As we recover from the pandemic, Scarborough Arts will be aligning with the goals and strategies of City of Toronto’s Public Art Strategy 2020/2030, the Economic Development and Culture Divisional Strategy 2018-2022, and such programs as #ArtworxTO, #ShowLoveTO, Cultural Hotspot, #NoVacancy and Cultural Hubs: EAST. These city programs and community pandemic recovery initiatives aim to support arts, culture and economic development growth; which align with our team’s goal to provide economic and mentorship opportunities for Scarborough businesses, organizations, grassroots initiatives, and artists in the coming year.

Our Programs

Drawing by Jayshree, as a part of Community+Connects: Online, Botanicals with Marjan Varsteppen

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2020/2021 Program Highlights

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Workshops+ Online Talks/ Exhibitions

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Artists Engaged

Attendees

418 538

Total Audience Members Photographers Engaged via

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Social Media Followers

#scarboroughphoto

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Wards Served

East Zines taught me a lot, and I was also a peer mentor so it was so great to see everyone grow with me. As much as I pushed and found new things about my art style, the participants would do the same. Truly, that was the most inspiring part

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, Facilitator, Community+Connects: Sustainable Resistance for BIPOC Folx

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Sky-Ravinn Ffrench, Peer Mentor, EAST Zines

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Visits to the Scarborough Sign

Scarborough Arts allowed me to develop community through sustainable arts practices locally. Paid facilitation opportunities for artists are significant because they make space for transformative creativity to be harnessed as marginalized communities can come together.

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Participant, Community+Connects: Botanical Illustrations An amazing team, who really care about the participants. Thank you Scarborough Arts for organizing these free online workshops. They mean a lot to us in the community (especially, more so during the COVID lockdown) as it helps us reduce our stress and enjoy the experience of learning a new skill and enjoying the process of creating art in the comfort of our own home.

This continued, and growing, success within our organization and programs in the last few years - amidst a world-wide pandemic - has been largely due to the ongoing support of our committed and passionate Staff, Board members, community partners, members, and our patrons - who all collectively contribute to our success, always.

Message from the Program Manager I would like to start my Program Manager address this year by referencing the ending of my overview last year: “As an organization we are entering into 2021 with new lessons, ideas, and continued exciting offerings for all who engage with us”. This hope for the future of 2021 became a reality this year as demonstrated through the success of our new programs, worldwide reach of our online workshops, integration of accessibility features into our online programs, and providing new types of engagements with our organization for individuals and communities across Scarborough.

Despite ongoing challenges across the globe as we all adapt to living with COVID-19, Scarborough Arts’ innovative and team-oriented Staff has been able to respond to these challenges through continuous pivoting and adapting models of digital programming for our stakeholders, as well as adjusting project timelines for our much anticipated ArtworxTO programming into our 2021-2022 fiscal year. The results of these difficult programming decisions and pivots were some of our most attended and well received programs in the history of Scarborough Arts! One highlight from this year includes the launch of the Newcomer and Refugee Seniors Cultural Cookbook, which is a Tamil translated cookbook developed by brilliant Tamil senior and elder women as a part of our Healthy Arts for Seniors Program, which was delivered in partnership with the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA). This program brought together senior Tamil women weekly in 2019 at East Scarborough Storefront, prior to the pandemic, to share recipes, stories, and be guided in photography lessons by Program Coordinator, Diana Nazareth. The program was supported by Community Outreach Assistant and Translator, Maithily Uthayansangar, who played an invaluable role in liaising with program participants and supporting the program’s success. Through Maithily’s support, we reached over two hundred attendees, who tuned in via Zoom to celebrate the launch of the cookbook from across the globe! The Healthy Arts for Seniors Program is one example of dozens of programs that Scarborough Arts has led and supported over the last year that both supported, and met the needs of our community members from all walks of life across Scarborough, the GTA, and around the world.

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As an organization a significant lesson we are learning more about in recent years is how our programming impacts our community positively, especially through times of challenge. COVID-19 has demonstrated this, as well as how our programs function to meet service gaps in our community in areas that are not only arts-related. Service gaps being filled by Scarborough Arts include: 1.) integrating mental and sexual health support into our programming for EAST: H.E.A.R.T. (Health, Education, Art, Resilience, Together); 2.) Sustainable Resistance for BIPOC Folx led by writer and social worker, Krystal Kavita Jagoo; 3.) our new 4-year partnership with Workman Arts as part of COMMUNITY+Connects: Online programming; 4.) supporting program partnerships that promote closing the gap on food insecurity in Scarborough (partnership with Scarborough Food Security Initiative); 5.) implementing programs that support the local ecology and educate about being good stewards of the surrounding land (Pollinator Garden and partnership with Birchcliff Butterflyway, Botanical Illustrations with Marjan Verstappen); 6.) supporting the professional development of individuals of all levels of career development in the creative industry (In The Industry Series, Annual Juried Exhibition, COMMUNITY+Connects: Online, Black Women Film! Partnership and Black Girls Film Camp, Intersections with Tony Gebrehewit); 7.) and more! These program integrations are innovative and reflect a commitment to support the overall wellbeing of our community members from all walks of life and generations.

Additionally, I want to highlight and celebrate the brilliant work of our Toronto Urban Health Fund 3-year funded program, EAST H.E.A.R.T., staff, Jega Delisca (Youth Coordinator), Kyana Graham (Peer Mentor), and Sky Ffrench (Peer Mentor). These youth leaders led an incredible first year of new programming that integrates sexual health and wellbeing workshops into arts-based learning and professional

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devleopment for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Scarborough.

With their guidance and leadership this program has been able to support youth online this year in developing their creative practice and in obtaining important knowledge and support around 2LSGBTQ+ specific sexual health and wellbeing. From this program youth participants gained new community connections, developed a beautiful series of individual Zines and a collective Zine, and were able to host their first exhibition of works produced in the program at the soft-launch opening of the Clark Centre for the Arts. I am endlessly proud and grateful to witness the work of youth leaders in the Scarborough community, and I am honoured to support this important programming in our community for the next three years. I would additionally like to thank and acknowledge Parul Pandya, Sienna Pandya-James and Community Impact Consulting who will be working with Scarborough Arts for the next two years on this project in developing annual program reports and a final Executive Summary Report of the program’s impacts to be shared with our community!

Reflecting on the programming we have planned for the next year, and looking back on the programs we delivered over the past year, I am filled with pride and hope. The continued commitment of our Staff, Board, and members of our community has enabled Scarborough Arts to thrive as an organization, and also has given opportunities for our community to thrive as well. Thank you once again to all of our community partners, Staff, Board, Members, and patrons for their ongoing support of Scarborough Arts for over four decades. We are all working together to demonstrate the necessity of art and the ways art has meaningful and impactful effects on communities and people. I look forward to what the next year brings for all of us. .

Emily Peltier Program Manager

Our Programs 2020-2021 PROGRAMS & EDUCATION • •

EAST ZINES

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Black Women THRIVE! Black Girls’ Film Camp COMMUNITY+Connects Online, including these special programs: Krystal Kavita Jagoo: Sustainable Resistance for BIPOC Folx, Laurie Poirier: Goddess Bracelet, Raoul Olou: Painting, Marjan Verstappen: Botanical Illustrations, Angela Chao: Wreath Making, Diana Nazareth: Project Kids and Cameras, Community Story Strategies: Digital Storytelling Series Cultural Hubs: EAST Cultural HUBS: EAST Listen.Learn.Act EAST: Sister Sound System Listening Party EAST H.E.A.R.T. Yr. 1: EAST ZINES Find Your Magic Wellness Series with Creative Flow Healthy Arts for Seniors: Cultural Cookbook Project (English/ Mandarin cohort) Healthy Arts for Seniors: Cultural Cookbook Project (Tamil Seniors Cohort) In the Industry professional development series INTERSECTIONS Public Art & Photography with XVXY Photo #LocalDiscoveriesTO joint LASO ArtworxTO Public Art, Food and Neighbourhood walking tours - Discover Agincourt Tours #LocalDiscoveriesTO joint LASO public art resource website (https://torontolasos.com/) Pollinator Garden and Botanical Illustrations SFSI Feed Scarborough Youth Garden Program (partner) Scarbrite Collective, Malvern HERstory Project (partner) Waverunners - Wave Art Fellowship

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INTERSECTIONS

35th Annual Juried Exhibition Scarborough’s New View Photo Contest

FESTIVALS • • • • • •

360 Stories: The Land of Scarborough Adventures Book Launch (project partner) EAST Sister Sound System Album Launch EAST Zine Online Launch Party Saudade - Riverbed Entertainment (producer) Scarborough - Compy Films (project partner) The Scarborough Sign at Scarborough Town Centre featuring Curtia Wright’s Out for a Stroll (2021)

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SCARBOROUGH FILM LAUNCH

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Community Arts Canopy - Town Hall & Survey (with Arts Etobicoke, East End Arts, Lakeshore Arts, North York Arts, UrbanArts, Jumblies, Vibe Arts, SKETCH, ArtStarts in partnership with Neighbourhood Arts Network) Community Partner, Flourish Research Cluster on Community Engaged Arts and Wellness, UTSC Doris McCarthy Gallery, Acquisition Committee, UTSC (Derek Spooner) Mentor-in-Residence Program, Neighbourhood Arts Network (Mentors: Derek Spooner, Emily Peltier)

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This is no small feat and I applaud the entire Scarborough Arts team for demonstrating their ingenuity and resourcefulness.

Despite the challenging fiscal environment, we continue to make headway towards sustainable operating results. We are thrilled to present this fiscal year with a positive net income of $246,696. This is the second consecutive year the team has driven a positive net result and can largely be attributed to the team’s proactive financial management and government funding.

Treasurer’s Report It is with great pleasure that I report to you on our financial results for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. Our fiscal goal at Scarborough Arts is simple: to ensure the funds we are entrusted with are used responsibly to provide the highest quality community arts programming possible while providing a voice for our local artists. This purpose to support our communities felt especially important over the past year as we all continued to experience the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year, Scarborough Arts once again stepped up to the plate to deliver on a wide range of powerful, unique programming that captured the imagination of the community.

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The organization’s total revenue for 2020-21 was $671,994, while total expenses were $499,262, resulting in a net income of $172,732. The majority of our revenue continues to come from Public Sector Funding and Government Assistance $582,344 (87%). Total expenses of $499,262 were composed of Programs at $293,319 (59%) and Administration at $205,943 (41%).

Scarborough Arts continues to keep fund development and fund diversification front of mind as long term keys to fiscal sustainability.

Ongoing support from our funders and donors combined with the contagious passion our staff exude make it possible for us to continue to expand and refresh our arts programming year after year. Supporting local artists is our passion and enriches our communities in ways beyond measure. We genuinely thank our funders for their support of Scarborough Arts. We encourage everyone reading to learn more about the benefits Scarborough Arts has provided the community in this annual report and to join us as monthly donors. Your support directly enriches the Scarborough community.

Financial results of Scarborough Arts are prepared by bookkeepers and are fairly presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. These financial results have been audited by our external auditors, Hogg, Shain & Scheck.

Ashish Shah Treasurer & Director, Board of Directors

Total Program and Administrative Expenses 2020-21

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2020

Current Assets Endowment Fund GICs Capital Assets Total Assets

$662,449

$458,971

$29, 587 $692,036

$29,587 $533 $489,091

Current Liabilities Non-Current Liabilities

$385,340 $60,000

$375,127 $40,000

Net Assets Total Liabilities & Assets

$246,696 $692,036

$73,964 $489,091

(Canada Emergency Business Account -CEBA)

Administration 41% of Expenses

Programs 59% of Expenses

Net Assets 2020 vs. 2021 $350,000 $300,000 $250,000 $200,000

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2020

Revenues Expenses Programming Administration

$671, 994 $418,393

Excess of Revenue over Expenses

$172, 732 $41,756

$293,319 $205,943

$233, 441 $143, 196

$150,000 $100,000 $50,000

2021

$0

2020

Net Assets Start of Year

Net Assets End of Year

Excess Revenue over Expenses 2020 vs. 2021

Net Assets, beginning of year Excess Revenue over Expenses

Net Assets, end of year

2021

2020

$73, 964 $172,732 $246,696

$32,208 $41,756 $73,964

2020 2021 $0

$40,000

$80,000

$120,000

$180,000

Warden Station Patty, by Alicia Reid, Winner of Scarborough’s New View “Things” Category.

Learn more at scarboroughphoto.ca

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2020-2021 Staff & Board of Directors Scarborough Arts Staff

Derek Sponer, Executive Director Emily Peltier, Program Manager Amanda Singh, Administrative & Operations Coordinator Kyle Jarencio, Social Media & Branding Specialist Tony Gebrehiwot, Project Coordinator, Scarborough’s New View Photo Contest Tara Dorey, Program Coordinator (Summer 2021) ArtworxTO & Cultural Hubs: EAST Jessica Lagoda, Administrative Assistant

Canada Summer Jobs Team

2021-2022 Canada Summer Jobs Issaq Ahmed, Program Assistant Nadine Rifai, Program Assistant Kyle Jarencio, Marketing & Communications Assistant Sarah Alinia Ziazi, Marketing & Communications Assistant 2020-2021 Canada Summer Jobs Nadira Narine, Program Assistant Durga Rajah, Special Projects Assistant Tracy Kong, Administrative, Gallery & Operations Assistant

Board of Directors

Suman Roy, Chair Ashish Shah, Treasurer Daniela Paolantonio, Secretary Mathura Karunanithy, Director Johnny Zhang, Director Kesava Kumar, Director Derek Spooner, Ex Officio

EAST: H.E.A.R.T. Program 2020-23 Jega Delisca, Youth Coordinator Sky-Ravinn Ffrench, Peer Mentor Kyana Graham, Peer Mentor

EAST: MUSIC Program 2019-20 Dynesti Williams, Youth Coordinator Sabrina Wright, Peer Mentor Alisa Kanda-Kovac, Peer Mentor

Scarborough Sign Creative Team

Victor Wong, Designer Marla Hlady, Advisor Greg Hefford, Consultant Kyler Jones, Engineer, Mirkwood Engineering

Scarborough Sign Build Team, University of Toronto Scarborough Victor Wong, Lorena Salome, Nabiha Rizvi, Claudia Wong, Louis Wang, Shirin Karoubi, and Patrick Atienza

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Thank You to Our Members Volunteer Spotlight

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In the past year we have seen a significant transformation and growth in our memberships and community stakeholders. Scarborough Arts is amazed by how our friends, family and neighbours have redefined what togetherness and resilience mean. By integrating digital platforms, redeveloping our website and strengthening our social media communications we strive to maintain this connection with you. Our organization gives back what we receive from the community and we want to thank all of our valued Scarborough Arts members for their loyalty, inspiration and generosity. Your support helps us offer the incredible arts and culture events, exhibitions and professional development services to local children, youth, adults and seniors in Scarborough.

We would also like to thank our volunteers who have given their time and talents to help build the organization and uplift our community. It is with their necessary and abundant contributions that we are able to create a positive presence in Scarborough. Many thanks in particular to Cindy Chen, who volunteered to spend a day with Scarborough Arts to assist in preparing the Scarborough Sign Project for Curtia Wright’s installation! Thank you!

Funders & Community Partners Thank you to the community partners, sponsors, and service agencies who worked with us this past year, allowing us to elevate our programs, engage with new audiences, and extend our organization’s reach.

Our Operating Funders

Project Funders ArtworxTO - City of Toronto Arbonne Charitable Foundation Canon Canada Canadian Heritage Centennial College Clark Centre for the Arts - City of Toronto Cultural Hubs: EAST - City of Toronto Charities Aid Foundation Delta Downsview Bingo and Gaming Employment and Social Development Canada - Canada Summer Jobs Employment and Social Development Canada - New Horizons for Seniors Program Friends of Guild Park Guild Alive with Culture Harbinger Foundation Inspirit Foundation Identify N’ Impact - City of Toronto Kiwanis Club of Toronto Metcalf Foundation Nuit Blanche - City of Toronto

PollinateTO - City of Toronto Red Cross #ShowLoveTO - City of Toronto Scarborough’s New View Photo Contest - Cultural Partnerships - City of Toronto TD Friends of the Environment Foundation The University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) Toronto Arts Foundation (in partnership with the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians) Toronto Urban Health Fund - City of Toronto Toronto Zoo United Way Greater Toronto Area Workman Arts

Media Partners The Bluffs Monitor OMNI Filipino News Scarborough Mirror Toronto.com Toronto Tamil Radio

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Community Partners

Esmond Lee Framing Depot 5N2 Kitchens Friends of Guild Park Agincourt Community Services Association Greenhouse Peace Theatre Agincourt Mall Gnanushan Krishnapillai Agincourt Village Community Association (ACSA) Howard Tam, #EatMoreScarboro AIDS Committee of Durham Region IM Designs Angela Chao Jennifer LaFontaine Anique Jordan Jess Bozzo Anthony Gebrehiwot Jonathan Valelly, Broken Pencil Magazine Alkarim Jadavji Jumblies Arts Etobicoke Kennedy House Youth Services (KHYS) ARTSIDEOUT Kerolos Saleib ArtStarts KPMG B3K Krish Dineshkumar Birchmount Bluffs Neighborhood Centre (BBNC) Labyrinth Studios Birchmount Community Centre Lakeshore Arts Birchcliff Butterfly Way L’Amoureaux Community Recreation Centre Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention Laurie Poirier Black Women Film!

Maithily Uthayasangar Boys & Girls Club of East Scarborough Marjan Verstappen Canada Council for the Arts Michèle Pearson Clarke Catherine Hernandez Mural Routes Cedar Ridge Creative Centre Natasha Ramoutar Centennial College Neighbourhood Arts Network CentreCorp.

North York Arts Chelsea Woolley Nuit Blanche Toronto Chester Le Community Corner Oxford Properties Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto Omniworx Inc. Community Arts Canopy Partners for Youth Empowerment (PYE Global) Community Impact Consulting Parul Pandya Community Story Collective Phoenix Academy of the Arts Compy Films Planned Parenthood Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) Raoul Olou Curtia Wright RISE Edutainment Daniel Rotzstain, The Urban Geographer Riverbed Entertainment Daniel Scott Tysdal Scarbrite Collective Delta Downsview Bingo & Gaming Charities Associ- Scarborough Bluffs Community Association (SBCA) ation Scarborough Business Association (SBA) Diana Nazareth Scarborough Campus Students’ Union (SCSU) Dragon Centre Mall Scarborough Civic Centre Doors Open Toronto Scarborough Community Renewal Organization East End Arts (SCRO) East Scarborough Storefront Scarborough Food Security Initiative / Ella Cooper Feed Scarborough Emmy Pantin Scarborough Town Centre

Scarborough Women of Philanthropy Scarborough Walk of Fame Seniors Write SKETCH STEPS Initiative Story Planet Tamil Archive Project Tarragon Theatre Téa Mutonj The Reading Partnership - 360 Stories Program The S.P.O.T Malvern The University of Toronto Scarborough The Wexford Heights BIA Toby’s Place Toronto Arts Council Toronto Image Works Toronto Public Library Toronto Zoo United Way Greater Toronto Area UrbanArts Dr. Vasuki Shanmuganathan Vivian Rosas Vibe Arts Toronto Wandy Cheng Wave Art Collective XVXY Photography

To the Left: A Triptych of images from Community+Connects: Project Kids & Cameras, Facilitated by Diana Nazareth

Corporate Supporters Above Ground Art Supplies Art Gallery of Ontario B3K Rentals Canon Canada, Inc. Cineplex Entertainment Curry’s Art Supplies Deserres Home Depot #7001 KPMG Photo Ed Magazine Scarborough Town Centre The Birchcliff Coffee Bar The Framing Depot Toronto Image Works XVXY Photography With Special thanks to Jess Bozzo

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