Events

Campfire Rest: Year-end Art Hive and Virtual Workshop

Everyone is invited to Campfire Rest!

In-person Art Hive: Friday November 6 at 4-7pm at TATI (124 Merton St., Unit 407)

Art therapists Leanna Scheitrowsky and Alex Nicholls at Storied Therapy will be facilitating art-making with storytelling informed by tabletop roleplaying games.

We’ll also have Tarot reading with Athena Bee, astrology reading with Fern de la Mora, potluck, and an art sale in collaboration with Creative Arts Therapists and Students Against Genocide to support mutual aid projects: Water is Life Gaza and Displacement & Health Relief Network (Sudan).

Virtual Workshop: Friday November 27 at 4-6pm via Zoom

Guest speaker: Blue (they/them), a Korean-Canadian queer, Disabled, and Mad illustrator and immigrant-settler residing in Tkaronto/Toronto. They adore playing Dungeons & Dragons, and find the restorative power of telling stories and building worlds deeply enriching.

Co-facilitated by TATI student A Beaumont (they/them). A is a white settler, queer, transsexual, fat and disabled artist, community organizer, and graduate student in art therapy (DTATI Candidate, Registered Psychotherapist Qualifying). They are committed to work and art grounded in disability justice, fat liberation, 2SLGBTQ+ resistance, and the importance of mutual aid and accessibility.

How do we combat cycles of burnout? Through the lens of table-top roleplaying games, we’ll examine the conditions which lead us (and our characters) to burnout, discuss how systemic forces develop a harmful culture of over-work and hyper-productivity, and gain a clearer understanding of what it really means to rest– and perhaps what we need ourselves!

Join us on November 27th at 4PM EST for an online “Campfire Rest” session– a moment of pause to explore restfulness, recuperation, and introspection through the player-character relationship.

Beginner friendly– no prior experience with role-playing games needed! If it’s your first time, we’ll guide you through making a character.

Events organized by TATI alumni, students and staff.

Looking forward to sharing art, food and stories! Bring your friends! Free to attend, registration required. 

Register to attend either or both events: https://forms.gle/X7hdKLFsgCrbDGjo6

Past Events

Climate Cafe

Tuesdays Sept 8, Sept 22, Oct 6
7:00-9:00 pm ET
Online via Zoom

Climate Café is a place to share feelings about the climate crisis. The gatherings aim to:

• Create a circle of care
• Offer art invitations and grounding practices
• Offer an opportunity to share emotional responses and connect with others

Facilitated by TATI students Julia Aplin and Maria Sergio.

TATI x OATA art hive: Seeds & sprouts

Monday March 30, 2026
4:00-7:00 pm
In-person at TATI (124 Merton St, Unit 407, Toronto, ON)

Inspired by the upcoming spring season, join us for creative ways to explore and express growth. 

Event organized by TATI students + instructors and OATA members.

TATI Community Art Hive for Disability Pride Month

Monday July 6, 4:00-7:00 pm
In-person at TATI

Join us for screen-printing (bandanas, patches BYO shirts), art-build, and an art + used book sale for grassroots mutual aid in support of the Toronto Disability Pride March (TDPM) and Water is Life Gaza.

Event organized by TATI students + instructors.

Singing in the Dark Times: Shadow Work for Social Change with Kai Cheng Thom

Friday June 26, 2026
2:00-5:00 pm ET
Online via Zoom

Join us in learning from Kai Cheng Thom, somatically trained coach, consultant, author, and conflict resolution practitioner working at the intersection of mind, body, and collective soul. Through presentations, embodiment practices, creative experientials and group discussions, we will explore depth psychology and anti-oppression methods for: 

• Working in conditions of social and political polarization
• Transforming group dynamics
• Healing collective wounds
• Working with emotional triggers
• Interrupting cycles of conflict

Thriving Future Horizons: Gatherings of CATS

Sunday March 30, 2025
1:00-5:00 pm In-person at TATI

Sunday April 27, 2025
1:00-5:00 pm ET online via Zoom

A gathering of creative arts therapists and students (CATS), designed to explore the essential elements of thriving in our community, in our present and for future generations.

In challenging times, thriving can feel like a lofty and distant concept. It is therefore all the more important for us CATS to bring our best tools – creativity and imagination – to our shared timeplace. This gathering was developed from the belief that if we can collectively envision, in vibrant details and vivid descriptions, what thriving will look like 150 years or 7 generations into the future horizons, then we can access the wisdom about what thriving means to us now, and practice that thriving future into being. 

Facilitated by Alexis Flanagan and Ed Heisler of the Collective Acceleration Network, and hosted by TATI community and friends Suzanne Thomson, Jean Tsai and Patricia Ki.

TATI x OATA Art Hive: Collective Care in the Sign of Cancer

Monday July 14, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 pm ET
In-person at TATI (124 Merton St., Unit 407, Toronto) & Online via Zoom

Inspired by the astrological archetype of Cancer, we’re exploring making art and caring for each other in community. Join us for astrology resource sharing, community art-making, and fun.

Organized by TATI students & instructors and OATA members.

TATI x OATA Arts-making Events: Transformation

Facilitated Arts-making Group
Monday Oct 6, 2025
5:00-7:30 pm ET 
Online via Zoom

Art Hive
Friday Oct 17, 2025
5:00-8:00 pm ET
In-person at TATI

Organized by TATI students & instructors and OATA members.

Emergent Play: Connecting to Play Through Art, Eco, & Body-Based Practices

A virtual professional development series facilitated by Dave Cho, Jacquie Compton, and Dr. Evelyn Kissi

Explore the inherent connection between play and creativity in a transformative journey of self-reflection and discussion. This virtual professional development series invites participants to engage in art-based and somatic inquiry to redefine play, understand its significance in working with children, and integrate it into their practice. Open to students and practitioners in psychotherapy, art therapy, care work, and education practices.

• Self-paced learning with video presentations available from August to October 2024.
  
• Two live facilitated sessions for discussions and connections on Sept 27 & Oct 9, 2024, 2:00-4:00 pm ET / 6:00-8:00 pm Ghana 

TATI x OATA Student-led Research Symposium

Sunday June 23, 2024
10am – 5pm ET

Read the Symposium Zine here, created by Sheridan intern Liv Hara, with support by TATI student Kate Moo King-Curtis.

The TATI x OATA Research Symposium was a student-led event that featured research and projects by art therapy / creative arts therapies students and new grads, with the intention to:

• Connect research and practice
• Make space for new voices to be heard
• Promote diversity in art therapy / creative arts therapies knowledge
• Learn from and inspire each other and make research more accessible

Presenters:
Sydney Adams (Concordia University)
Mollia May Weidman (TATI)
Candice Burnett (KATI)
Emmily Lai (Concordia University)
b Hope (KATI)
Leanna Scheitrowsky (TATI)

TATI student / grad organizers:
Rhys Castro, Fern de la Mora, Rachel Karantayer, Liviya Hara (student intern, Sheridan College).

TATI x OATA Art Hive: Mending, Weaving, Repair

Friday March 7, 2025
3:00 – 6:00 pm ET
In-person at TATI & Online via Zoom

Skills-shares of cardboard weaving by TATI instructor/supervisor cc Chau, and visible mending by OATA member Susan Beniston.

Organized by TATI students & instructors and OATA members.