About this Event
These arts-based Storytelling workshops, hosted by Jingshu Yao, invite newcomers in Toronto to engage in artmaking and conversations about immigration, sensory memories, and community building. Each of the 3 workshops will centre one sensory element. The sensory and art-based pedagogy seeks to prioritize alternative ways of learning and knowing that contrast with the traditional Western institutional focus on visual and text-based knowledge transmission. The workshop will offer newcomers, others with language barriers and/or anyone who needs an alternative style of expression to find their own methods through art-making also offer opportunities for newcomer artists to build connections and create a sense of belonging through an artistic community.
Jingshu Yao will hold three (3) special Saturday sessions on November 14, 21, and 28, at 3 pm for Newcomers to Canada at the Art Museum, University of Toronto.
This Storytelling for Newcomers with Jingshu Yao was made possible through a partnership with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
Who Should Attend:
We invite newcomers, others with language barriers and/or anyone who needs an alternative style of expression to join these sessions. Participants can be any age.
About TBA 2026:
The Toronto Biennial of Art’s mission is to make contemporary art accessible to everyone. A twelve-week event every two years, the Biennial commissions artists to create new works for a city-wide exhibition in dialogue with Toronto’s diverse local contexts. The 2026 Biennial, titled Things Fall Apart, is shaped by Curator Allison Glenn’s research-driven and site-responsive approach. The fourth edition will centre on artists whose practices engage rupture as a generative force, reconsidering histories, geographies, and systems that shape contemporary life while proposing new ways of understanding the present. The upcoming edition of the Biennial will open on September 26, 2026 - December 20, 2026.
Learn more about TBA on our website.
Event venue & nearby stays
Art Museum at the University of Toronto - University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto, Canada
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