Upcoming Events
The Art of Community with Ruth Howard (Day 1)
Newcomer Artist Training
Thank you for your interest in registering for this session! We are now full. Please complete the form below to be placed on our wait list.
About the Training: Under the Welcome to the Neighbourhood Program, Mabelle Arts has created a FREE training program in community arts and facilitation for newcomer artists*. This training is intended to provide you with the foundation to turn your artist practice and community interest into a vocation. Led by Ruth Howard (past and founding Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre and Mabelle Arts’ founding organization), this hands-on workshop will take place on site at Mabelle Arts within an interactive gallery installation called 'Mementos and Marvels!', and will include presentations, creative activities, discussions, and learning resources.
We support all artists from a diversity of practices and backgrounds. Training is provided in English, with possible translation support.
Questions? Email Deanna Di Lello at deanna@mabellearts.ca
Friday, October 16, 1 pm - 5pm
Saturday, October 17, 10 am - 5 pm
Presto reimbursement available for those who qualify
Light refreshments will be provided.
Unable to attend? Email deanna@mabellearts.ca to be placed on an email list for our January training.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada / Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
*Prioritizing IRCC eligible clients (permanent residents of 5 years or less and conventional refugees).
Interested in joining our team?
Mabelle Art’s Welcome to the Neighbourhood program employs art facilitators throughout the year in partnership with newcomer settlement agencies. Completion of this training is required if you wish to be considered for these opportunities.
The Art of Community with Ruth Howard (Day 2)
Newcomer Artist Training
Thank you for your interest in registering for this session! We are now full. Please complete the form below to be placed on our wait list.
About the Training: Under the Welcome to the Neighbourhood Program, Mabelle Arts has created a FREE training program in community arts and facilitation for newcomer artists*. This training is intended to provide you with the foundation to turn your artist practice and community interest into a vocation. Led by Ruth Howard (past and founding Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre and Mabelle Arts’ founding organization), this hands-on workshop will take place on site at Mabelle Arts within an interactive gallery installation called 'Mementos and Marvels!', and will include presentations, creative activities, discussions, and learning resources.
We support all artists from a diversity of practices and backgrounds. Training is provided in English, with possible translation support.
Questions? Email Deanna Di Lello at deanna@mabellearts.ca
Saturday, October 17, 10 am - 5 pm
Presto reimbursement available for those who qualify
Light refreshments will be provided.
Unable to attend? Email deanna@mabellearts.ca to be placed on an email list for our January training.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada / Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
*Prioritizing IRCC eligible clients (permanent residents of 5 years or less and conventional refugees).
Interested in joining our team?
Mabelle Art’s Welcome to the Neighbourhood program employs art facilitators throughout the year in partnership with newcomer settlement agencies. Completion of this training is required if you wish to be considered for these opportunities.
Mementos to Marvels Exhibit With Ruth Howard (Closing Celebration)
Visits welcome during open hours
Join Ruth Howard, artist and community catalyst, for an evolving gallery exploring 25+ years of art-making with Jumblies, Mabelle Avenue, and beyond!
FREE ADMISSION!
Closing Celebration:
Thursday, October 22, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
For more information: info@mabellearts.ca / mabellearts.ca
Mabelle Arts After School Into the Wild!
Mabelle Arts’ Into the Wild after school program was a (watermelon) SMASH success! Thank you to everyone that brought their joy and play from Winter to Spring!
Summer is over, and it is back to school time….and we’re dreaming and scheming new plans for Wednesday afternoons, 4:00 - 5:30 in Mabelle Park. We’ll continue welcoming students, their family and friends to explore all-season, outdoor play and artful adventures!
Watch here for updates and dates. If you would like to be put on our Afterschool Program update list, please contact us at: info@mabellearts.ca
See you soon!
Mementos to Marvels Exhibit With Ruth Howard
Visits welcome during open hours
Join Ruth Howard, artist and community catalyst, for an evolving gallery exploring 25+ years of art-making with Jumblies, Mabelle Avenue, and beyond!
FREE ADMISSION!
HOSTED COMMUNITY DROP-INS:
Thursday, October 15, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Closing Celebration:
Thursday, October 22, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
For more information: info@mabellearts.ca / mabellearts.ca
Mementos to Marvels Exhibit With Ruth Howard
Visits welcome during open hours
Join Ruth Howard, artist and community catalyst, for an evolving gallery exploring 25+ years of art-making with Jumblies, Mabelle Avenue, and beyond!
FREE ADMISSION!
HOSTED COMMUNITY DROP-INS:
Wednesday, October 14, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 15, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Closing Celebration:
Thursday, October 22, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
For more information: info@mabellearts.ca / mabellearts.ca
Mementos to Marvels Exhibit With Ruth Howard
Visits welcome during open hours
Join Ruth Howard, artist and community catalyst, for an evolving gallery exploring 25+ years of art-making with Jumblies, Mabelle Avenue, and beyond!
FREE ADMISSION!
HOSTED COMMUNITY DROP-INS:
Saturday, October 10, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, October 14, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 15, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Closing Celebration:
Thursday, October 22, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
For more information: info@mabellearts.ca / mabellearts.ca
Mementos to Marvels Exhibit With Ruth Howard
Visits welcome during open hours
Join Ruth Howard, artist and community catalyst, for an evolving gallery exploring 25+ years of art-making with Jumblies, Mabelle Avenue, and beyond!
FREE ADMISSION!
HOSTED COMMUNITY DROP-INS:
Thursday October 8, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 10, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, October 14, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 15, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Closing Celebration:
Thursday, October 22, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
For more information: info@mabellearts.ca / mabellearts.ca
Mabelle Arts Nuit Blanche Toronto 2026 - Mementos & Marvels
The Artist
Ruth Howard, Toronto, Canada
Ruth Howard is the founding Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre + Arts: a radically inclusive, community-engaged arts organization based in Toronto. With Jumblies, she created and produced multi-year Toronto residencies, resulting in large-scale performances and lasting offshoots, and many other projects with places and people in Toronto and across Canada. In 2023, Ruth stepped down from Jumblies' leadership, continuing to work as an independent artist and consultant.
Step into an evolving installation where 20 years of our community creations, artifacts, stories and artworks interweave to imagine and build a new tomorrow.
The Project
“Mementos & Marvels” invites audiences into an evolving installation that connects Mabelle Avenue’s past, present, and future through community-made art, storytelling and participation. Curated by Ruth Howard, past Artistic Director of Jumblies and founder of Mabelle Arts, the project features photography, lanterns, puppetry, textiles, video, ceramics, poetry and interactive sculptures created with Mabelle Avenue residents, and the many people we have welcomed to our Avenue. Inside Mabelle Arts’ studio, audiences explore a retrospective gallery shaped by over 20 years of community artmaking. Outside in Mabelle Park, artists and audiences work together to build and transform a temporary structure using installation materials, prompts, rituals and shared memories. Throughout the night, the work changes as new elements are added, carried away, burned, recycled or returned to the installation. The project explores how communities preserve stories, celebrate change and imagine the future together.
Acknowledgements
Mabelle Arts would like to thank all associated Jumblies and Offshoot organizational staff, artists and many participants whose hands crafted the works that make up this installation.
Contact the Deanna Di Lello with any questions: Deanna@mabellearts.ca
In Full Bloom Wednesday Workshops — Cyanotype Printing Series (Merle Harley)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Friday Cyanotype Printing Workshops in July!
This weekly workshop series captures the life cycle of plants through light and time. Participants will use leaves, flowers, and botanical materials to create cyanotype prints — deep blue sun prints that record the shapes of nature. Each session adds new prints to a growing collection, and over time, all contributions will be assembled into large community banners or costume. These elements become a living archive of participation, growth, and collective creativity — a lasting reminder that gardens, like communities, are built together.
Merle Harley is an interdisciplinary artist working across printmaking, textiles, and mixed media. Their practice embraces experimentation, humour, and community participation, with a strong focus on accessible, process-driven art-making.
In Full Bloom Friday Workshop — Crown Yourself in Colour (Hanan Hazime)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Tuesday Crown Yourself in Colour Workshop in July!
As plants grow and unfold, they develop leaves, blossoms, and fruit — each stage holding meaning and purpose. In this workshop, participants will create nature-inspired headbands drawing from these forms, using simple materials and decorative techniques. Alongside making, Hanan invites reflection on growth, transformation, and what we carry forward from each season of life. The result is a wearable piece that honors both personal growth and the ongoing cycles of the natural world.
Hanan Hazime is a Lebanese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, writer, and community arts facilitator whose practice focuses on storytelling, identity, and collective creativity. Through accessible making and gentle prompts, Hanan creates welcoming spaces where participants can explore personal expression and shared reflection.
In Full Bloom Wednesday Workshops — Cyanotype Printing Series (Merle Harley)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Friday Cyanotype Printing Workshops in July!
This weekly workshop series captures the life cycle of plants through light and time. Participants will use leaves, flowers, and botanical materials to create cyanotype prints — deep blue sun prints that record the shapes of nature. Each session adds new prints to a growing collection, and over time, all contributions will be assembled into large community banners or costume. These elements become a living archive of participation, growth, and collective creativity — a lasting reminder that gardens, like communities, are built together.
Merle Harley is an interdisciplinary artist working across printmaking, textiles, and mixed media. Their practice embraces experimentation, humour, and community participation, with a strong focus on accessible, process-driven art-making.
In Full Bloom Tuesday Workshops — Pollen Grains and Seeds (Charmaine Lurch)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Tuesday Pollinator Power workshop in July!
As flowering plants rely on pollinators to continue their life cycle. Each participant will create and embellish a wire sculpture of grains of pollen, which will then become wearable or form parts of a clod of pollen grains - the spark that becomes the seed, each of us may be granular but together we become a garden. This tactile, reflective session emphasizes how creativity, like nature, depends on interdependence and shared responsibility.
Charmaine Lurch is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores environmental relationships, ecology, and interconnected systems through sculpture, painting, and community engagement. Her bee sculptures highlight the essential role pollinators play in sustaining life and creative ecosystems.
In Full Bloom Block Party: Friday Movie Nights – Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Friday Movie Nights this July!
Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, family, and friends for a series of free outdoor films under the stars. From magical adventures and beloved Disney classics to imaginative journeys and award-winning animation, there's something for everyone to enjoy.
Movies will be showing from 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM.
Come early and make a night of it!
Free admission | Family-friendly | All welcome
Lineup announcement coming soon!
In Full Bloom Wednesday Workshops — Cyanotype Printing Series (Merle Harley)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Friday Cyanotype Printing Workshops in July!
This weekly workshop series captures the life cycle of plants through light and time. Participants will use leaves, flowers, and botanical materials to create cyanotype prints — deep blue sun prints that record the shapes of nature. Each session adds new prints to a growing collection, and over time, all contributions will be assembled into large community banners or costume. These elements become a living archive of participation, growth, and collective creativity — a lasting reminder that gardens, like communities, are built together.
Merle Harley is an interdisciplinary artist working across printmaking, textiles, and mixed media. Their practice embraces experimentation, humour, and community participation, with a strong focus on accessible, process-driven art-making.
In Full Bloom Tuesday Workshops — Floral Fashions (Trixie & Beever)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Tuesday Floral Fashions workshop in July!
This workshop celebrates the moment when a garden bursts into colour. Guided by Trixie and Beever, participants will create bold, flower-inspired wearable elements using vibrant materials, textures, and playful embellishments. Colour becomes a language of identity, and each bloom reflects the maker’s personality — some loud, some subtle, all essential. Together, participants form a metaphorical garden made up of wildly different flowers, thriving side by side in joyful contrast. A celebration of abundance, diversity, and self-expression at full bloom.
Toronto-based design duo Trixie and Beever are known for their exuberant use of colour, camp aesthetics, pop culture references, and an unapologetic love of glitter. Their collaborative practice spans wearable design, objects, and participatory experiences that invite joy, play, and bold self-expression. Together, they create spaces where individuality is celebrated and creativity flourishes in full colour.
In Full Bloom Block Party: Friday Movie Nights – Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Friday Movie Nights this July!
Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, family, and friends for a series of free outdoor films under the stars. From magical adventures and beloved Disney classics to imaginative journeys and award-winning animation, there's something for everyone to enjoy.
Movies will be showing from 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM.
Come early and make a night of it!
Free admission | Family-friendly | All welcome
Lineup announcement coming soon!
In Full Bloom Wednesday Workshops — Cyanotype Printing Series (Merle Harley)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Friday Cyanotype Printing Workshops in July!
This weekly workshop series captures the life cycle of plants through light and time. Participants will use leaves, flowers, and botanical materials to create cyanotype prints — deep blue sun prints that record the shapes of nature. Each session adds new prints to a growing collection, and over time, all contributions will be assembled into large community banners or costume. These elements become a living archive of participation, growth, and collective creativity — a lasting reminder that gardens, like communities, are built together.
Merle Harley is an interdisciplinary artist working across printmaking, textiles, and mixed media. Their practice embraces experimentation, humour, and community participation, with a strong focus on accessible, process-driven art-making.
SCALE Mural Project with Oddside Arts and Jacquie Comrie: Workshop 8
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
In Full Bloom Block Party: Friday Movie Nights – Encanto (2021)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Friday Movie Nights this July!
Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, family, and friends for a series of free outdoor films under the stars.
From magical adventures and beloved Disney classics to imaginative journeys and award-winning animation, there's something for everyone to enjoy.
Movies will be showing from 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM.
Come early and make a night of it!
Free admission | Family-friendly | All welcome
Lineup announcement coming soon!
In Full Bloom Friday Workshops — Cyanotype Printing Series (Merle Harley)
Join Mabelle Arts for our Friday Cyanotype Printing Workshops in July!
This weekly workshop series captures the life cycle of plants through light and time. Participants will use leaves, flowers, and botanical materials to create cyanotype prints — deep blue sun prints that record the shapes of nature. Each session adds new prints to a growing collection, and over time, all contributions will be assembled into large community banners or costume. These elements become a living archive of participation, growth, and collective creativity — a lasting reminder that gardens, like communities, are built together.
Merle Harley is an interdisciplinary artist working across printmaking, textiles, and mixed media. Their practice embraces experimentation, humour, and community participation, with a strong focus on accessible, process-driven art-making.
Brian's Big Hearted Barbeque
For more information, please contact michael@mabellearts.ca.
SCALE Mural Project with Oddside Arts and Jacquie Comrie: Workshop 7
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
SCALE Mural Project with Oddside Arts and Jacquie Comrie: Workshop 6
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
Into the Wild! After-School Program
Join Mabelle Arts for our new after-school program, Into the Wild!
Make art with professional artists, learn about nature, play outside and help take care of Mabelle Park!
Snacks provided. This program includes lots of outdoor play, no matter the weather; please dress accordingly.
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
SCALE Mural Project with Oddside Arts and Jacquie Comrie: Workshop 5
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
SCALE Mural Project with Oddside Arts and Jacquie Comrie: Workshop 4
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
SCALE Mural Project with Oddside Arts and Jacquie Comrie: Workshop 3
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
Into the Wild! After-School Program
Join Mabelle Arts for our new after-school program, Into the Wild!
Make art with professional artists, learn about nature, play outside and help take care of Mabelle Park!
Snacks provided. This program includes lots of outdoor play, no matter the weather; please dress accordingly.
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
DIY Bike Maintenance Workshop with Cycle TO & Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition
Keep your bike rolling smoothly this summer!
Join us for a FREE Bike Maintenance Workshop with Cycle Toronto and learn the essential skills to keep your ride safe and in great condition.
Topics include:
Safety checks
Assessing air pressure & fixing flat tires
Adjusting your brakes
Lubing your chain
Making sure your bike is the right fit
Whether you're a daily cyclist or just getting back on your bike, this workshop is for you!
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
Shared Distance — Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery Exhibition
We’re very pleased to share that Mabelle Arts is partnering with the Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery to present Shared Distance, a group exhibition featuring artists who participated in our Welcome to the Neighbourhood Newcomer Artist Ambassador program.
Shared Distance brings together the work of newcomer and immigrant artists Parmeet Arora Bori, Ghida Barraj, Fer Sierra Suárez, Yuyo, and Ebru Winegard. Through mixed media, water marbling, oil, acrylic, collage, lino print, and paper quilling, the exhibition explores memory, migration, belonging, and ideas of home.
A special highlight of the exhibition is a collaborative diorama created by all five artists, weaving together their distinct styles and memories into one shared landscape.
Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 13, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery
Exhibition Dates:
June 10 - July 9, 2026
Location: Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery
There will be opportunities to meet the artists, view over 50 artworks, and connect with community members and partners.
We look forward to welcoming you to the exhibition and celebrating this meaningful collaboration together.
SCALE Mural Project with Oddside Arts and Jacquie Comrie: Workshop 2
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
Into the Wild! After-School Program
Join Mabelle Arts for our new after-school program, Into the Wild!
Make art with professional artists, learn about nature, play outside and help take care of Mabelle Park!
Snacks provided. This program includes lots of outdoor play, no matter the weather; please dress accordingly.
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.
Into the Wild! After-School Program
Join Mabelle Arts for our new after-school program, Into the Wild!
Make art with professional artists, learn about nature, play outside and help take care of Mabelle Park!
Snacks provided. This program includes lots of outdoor play, no matter the weather; please dress accordingly.
For more information, please contact info@mabellearts.ca.