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This winter’s Community Creations workshop series was an absolute delight to host! 💓A heartfelt thanks to to everyone who joined us across this workshop series. It is an honour to share these spaces with our community, and a privilege to witness creativity being fostered, talent cultivated, and meaningful memories made together. You made this a success! 🙏 👉Swipe to see a few snapshots from the Upcycled Weaving for Collective Imagination, the Arpilleras: Exploring Memory and Identity and the Casa Zine-Making workshops! ✨ And of course, all our gratitude to our phenomenal artist facilitators: @lil_arepa , @an.idrobo , @lapupila999 , @alemacuu and @andreacataro . Your generosity in sharing your passion, craft, and expertise has left a mark on everyone who had the joy of learning from you and creating alongside you. Mil gracias! 🌿 Community Creations exists because of you, the makers, the dreamers, the storytellers of our community. Every workshop, every shared moment a reminder of the power of coming together through art and cultural expression. 🧡All made possible thanks to generous funding and support from @torontoartscouncil and support from @umanotaculture . And a huge thanks to @theyouthfulvengeance , @915dupont , @bacantoronto for your support with our snacks and coffee station! ➡️Stay tuned for some highlights of Collective Colouring Book, and Lettering Our Stories from @gearyartcrawl 📸Photos by: @lupsc

✨ Manifest the essence of your stories through beautiful lettering in the fifth and final workshop of the Community Creations series by @creato_community 🖌️ Facilitated by Andrea CataRo 🇨🇴 @andreacataro “Lettering Our Stories“ is a lettering and illustration workshop where participants design vibrant, hand-drawn artworks inspired by meaningful phrases, language, and cultural memory. Bringing personal and cultural histories to life through lettering, in a celebration of language, artistry and heritage. 🗓️ Sun March 8th ⏰ 4:00 - 7:00 PM 📍22 Geary Ave (RAW Design Studios) 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 @gearyartcrawl 🎟️ $5 Materials included ✨About the Facilitator: Andrea CataRo (she/her) is a Toronto-based creative designer and mural artist whose work blends vibrant colour, bold lettering, and cultural storytelling. Drawing from her Colombian-Canadian roots and the natural world, she creates joyful art experiences that invite connection and celebrate community. 📌PLEASE NOTE: ‣ You don’t need to have any prior skills to take this workshop ‣ This workshop is for folks 16+ years old ‣ Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. ‣ Light refreshments will be available 🧡Community Creations is a workshop series by Creato, led by Latin American creatives in Toronto, celebrating intersectional cultural expression through collaborative art-making, while exploring belonging and community care. 🙏This initiative is possible thanks to generous funding from @torontoartscouncil and support from @umanotaculture and @gearyartcrawl Register on the 🔗link in bio.

✨ Cook up some colour as you illustrate the dishes that raised you in the fourth workshop of the Community Creations series by @creato_community ! 🥘Facilitated by artist @alemacuu “𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸” is a collaborative colouring-book workshop where participants will illustrate and share recipes, celebrating Latin culinary traditions through drawing and storytelling.🖼️📙 🗓️ Sat March 7th ⏰ 4:00 - 7:00 PM 📍22 Geary Ave (RAW Design Studios) 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 @gearyartcrawl 🎟️ $5. Materials included ✨𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Alejandra Macouzet (she/her) is a Mexican illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. Her art studies in Guanajuato, Mexico cultivated a love for vibrant colour palettes and culturally rich artworks. With work ranging from cozy colouring books to illustration for animation, her style is characteristically whimsical and playful with its adorable characters and detailed scenes. She recently self-published a collection of colouring books and loves creating artwork that invites people to slow down and reconnect with their creativity. 📌PLEASE NOTE: ‣ You don’t need to have any prior skills to take this workshop ‣ Participants are invited to think about a recipe they would like to share in advance ‣ This workshop is for folks 16+ years old ‣ Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. ‣ Light refreshments will be available 🧡Community Creations is a workshop series by Creato, led by Latin American creatives in Toronto, celebrating intersectional cultural expression through collaborative art-making, while exploring belonging and community care. 🙏This initiative is possible thanks to generous funding from @torontoartscouncil and support from @umanotaculture and @gearyartcrawl Register on the 🔗link in bio.

✨Its workshop season! And with so many beautiful, creative options out there, let us tell you a little bit more of what to expect at Creato’s Community Creations workshop series (The February edition). 🧡Focused on collective art-making, community care, and connection, this series is happening through February and March and facilitated by Latin American artists in Toronto. 📌For each workshop you can expect: ‣ An intimate setting of about 15 people (spots are limited so register ASAP) ‣ All materials will be included ‣ Snacks and a warm bevvy We hope you’ll join us! Register on the 🔗link in bio. 🙏This is all possible thanks to generous funding from @torontoartscouncil and support from @umanotaculture @gearyartcrawl

🏠Home is where the Art is. Travel home with the magic of zine-making on the third workshop of the Community Creations series by Creato! ✂️Facilitated by artist @lapupila999 , “Casa Zine-Making” Participants will create house-shaped zines using accessible materials as an exploration of personal and collective symbols of home and belonging. 🗓️Sat Feb 21st ⏰ 10:30-1:30 PM 📍225 Geary Ave (Second Floor) 🎟️ $25 or PWYC (materials included) ✨About the Facilitator: La Pupila (Valentina Lozano Leon) (she/her) is a Colombian artist based in Toronto. Her art focuses on exploring feminine energy, often with an aura of melancholy. Through symbols, distorted forms and evocative faces, she hopes to illustrate their fears, hopes and desire for a tender world. While deeply personal, her work approaches these themes with a poetic and gentle visual language, creating space for introspection and connection. It is an exploration of memory, emotion and the transformative power of symbols. 📌PLEASE NOTE: ‣ This workshop is for folks 16+ years old ‣ Spots are available on a first come, first serve basis. ‣ Light refreshments will be available 🧡Community Creations is a workshop series by Creato, led by Latin American creatives in Toronto, celebrating intersectional cultural expression through collaborative art-making, while exploring belonging and community care. 🙏This initiative is possible thanks to generous funding from @torontoartscouncil and support from @umanotaculture Register on the 🔗link in bio.

✨Discover the storytelling power of embroidery in the second workshop of the Community Creations series by Creato!🪡 ✂️Facilitated by artist @an.idrobo 🇨🇱 “Arpilleras: Exploring Memory and Identity.” Participants learn the Chilean textile art of Arpilleras, using fabric and embroidery to tell stories of resilience, memory, and collective healing. Harnessing the power of reflection, dialogue, and art-making, cultivating belonging & collective care rooted in diasporic experience. 🗓️Thu Feb 18th ⏰6:30 - 9:30PM 📍225 Geary Ave (Second Floor) 🎟️ $25 (materials included) ✨About the Facilitator: Andrea Idrobo is an Ecuadorian-Chilean visual & textile artist based in Toronto. Working across graphic design & textiles, her practice is rooted in hands-on making & community spaces. Exploring Latin American identity, memory, and storytelling, with particular care for the experiences of women and children. With experience in Graphic Design, Interactive Media Design, photography, pattern design, & art direction for film and television, and exhibitions with Sur Gallery, A Space, The Textile Museum of Canada, as well as at local design and cultural markets, including Creato, Wychwood Barns, and Evergreen Brick Works’ Day of the Dead celebration. Alongside her professional practice, Andrea is also a part of the Watermelon Seeds Collective and Tatreez Circle, organizing community textile workshops and working as an art instruction assistant, building community through art learning 🎨 📌PLEASE NOTE: ‣ This workshop is for folks 13+ years old ‣ Should have basic sewing skills to participate ‣ Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. ‣ Light refreshments will be available 🧡Community Creations is a workshop series by Creato, led by Latin American creatives in Toronto, celebrating intersectional cultural expression through collaborative art-making, while exploring belonging and community care. 🙏This initiative is possible thanks to generous funding from @torontoartscouncil and support from @umanotaculture Register on the 🔗link in bio

🇻🇪Venezolanos, this one’s for you! The first workshop of the Community Creations workshop series by Creato, is a very special one. 🪡Facilitated by Venezuelan-born artist @lil_arepa , “Upcycled Weaving for Collective Imagination“, participants will be guided through upcycled weaving as a means of calming the nervous system and creating a container for collective imagination of homeland. ⚠️Within the context of the current political turmoil, to center Venezuelan voices, this workshop will be for participants of the Venezuelan diaspora only. 🗓️Thu Feb 12th ⏰6:30 - 9:30PM 📍225 Geary Ave (Second Floor) 🎟️$25 (materials included) Register on the 🔗link in bio ✨About the Facilitator: Camila Salcedo (they/she) is a Venezuelan-born, Tkaronto-based interdisciplinary artist working in textiles, community art and curation. Their work is interdisciplinary in nature and her focus remains consistently on community engagement and sustainable textile practices. They have a decade of experience teaching textiles and professional development practices primarily to emerging artists, queer youth and BIPOC seniors across Toronto. 📌PLEASE NOTE: ‣ Participants for this workshop should be from the Venezuelan Diaspora ‣ All Materials will be provided, however you are welcome to bring your own fabric to upcycle such as tshirts, jersey (avoid tougher fabrics like denim) ‣ This workshop is for folks 13+ years old ‣ Spots are available on a first come, first serve basis. ‣ Light refreshments will be available 🧡Community Creations is a workshop series by Creato, led by Latin American creatives in Toronto, celebrating intersectional cultural expression through collaborative art-making, while exploring belonging and community care. 🙏This initiative is possible thanks to generous funding from @torontoartscouncil and support from @umanotaculture

📣We can’t think of a better time to share that 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 is back! 🎨A workshop series by Creato that centers collective art-making, care, and connection, and invites participants to slow down, work with their hands, and engage through shared stories of home, memory, and belonging. ✨This second edition brings together 5 Latin American artists to facilitate intimate workshops. 📌Except for the Upcycled Weaving workshop, all workshops are open for everyone 16+! 🙏This is all possible thanks to generous funding from @torontoartscouncil and support from @umanotaculture @gearyartcrawl Workshop details in the comments ⬇️ Register on the 🔗link in bio. Poster design by @fi.ore.lla

✨ From Geary Art Crawl 2024 ✨ @creato_community brought their Mercadito to life with a pop-up showcasing the work of 10+ Latin artists and creative entrepreneurs. Co-founded in 2020 by @fi.ore.lla and @hello.ameisa , Creato is a Toronto-based collective connecting, supporting, and amplifying Latin American artists and creatives in Canada. What’s next for Creato? An upcoming art-making workshop series led by Latin American creatives exploring cultural expression, belonging, and community care. More soon ✨ 📸 @joshuabest Geary Art Crawl returns March 7–8, 2026 with FREE, cozy, artist-run workshops, music, food, and art in unexpected spaces. 💖 Proudly produced by @umanotaculture #GearyArtCrawl #GAC24 #UmaNotaCulture #Creato #CreatoMercadito

✈️ ✨ See how imagination takes flight with @danisaduns 🇪🇨🇨🇦 as she opens the doors of her illustration practice to us! 🎨 ✨ 🌆From her cozy Toronto studio we are guided through the rhythm of Dani’s creative process, starting from sketches and moving into carefully refined digital compositions. Wielding power over light, colour, and shadow, she creates intentional and dynamic works layer by layer, balancing precision with play. A big gracias to Dani for sharing her space and creative wisdom with our comunidad! 🧡 ➡️Explore more of @danisaduns magical works! ✨

🪩Ahhh!!! We are still beaming from our anniversary celebration with @sonicsancocho . There are few words to describe the energy we felt that night and it’s all thanks to each and every one of you that showed up to celebrate and support YOUR community 🥹 ✨Between the vibes of the music thanks to @a_l_f_a_l_f_a @astoria.synth @olasconola and @analuisaaaaaa + the energy brought by @consequencephoto @dixydixy @mar.hair @by.drawingto and all the artists featured at the mercadito the space was just absolutely buzzing with joy, style and creativity. Endless gratitude to everyone who amplified this event, the volunteers who ran around doing whatever they could to make this happen, the bartenders who served with a smile, the incredible sponsors who kept us hydrated and happy @bellwoodsbeer @drinksoandso @casadelreytequila and our wonderful venue host @itsok.world - it really takes a village. And finally a massive thanks to the visionary organizers @hello.ameisa @fi.ore.lla from @creato_community and @olasconola and @gogojuana (who we missed so much and even when sick was doing what she could from home) from @sonicsancocho - WE DID THAT! Here’s to many more reasons to celebrate in the years to come 😘😘😘 📸 by the talented @hoelrodriguezz

Excuse me!? The results for the Community Portraits at La Quinta Cosecha created by @consequencephoto @dixydixy and @mar.hair are literally on fire!!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 Here’s a little preview! 🥰This was such a fun experience — bursting with amazing vibes, style, joy and creative energy! We cannot thank you enough for participating. 💌If you had the pleasure of being photographed, check your email (and spam) for details on how to receive your digital portraits. If you didn’t get an email, please DM us for next steps!