Join artist and educator, Taryn Lee, to co-create a community art project in celebration of Neurodiversity Awareness Week 2025.
Over the course of 6 sessions, you and the other participants will think, plan, and create a community art piece out of textiles, fabrics, and other materials for display in March 2025.
Co-creation allows for all participants to contribute to the ideation and creation of any given project.
Join us for this unique art-making and community building experience!
Learn more and register here: Co-Created Community Art Series: Celebrating Neurodiversity Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
About the artist and facilitator, Taryn Lee:
Taryn Lee (she/her) is a neurodivergent artist and educator with lived experience from Oakville, Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Design from Toronto Metropolitan University in Fashion Communication. Her own art practice focuses on colourful, representational figurative works, portraits and stylized fashion sketches using mixed medias. She’s had experience teaching art to youth in a classroom setting and teaching online art courses with Workman Arts. She is a Fellow of the CAMH Yale Let(s) Lead program and a longtime Workman Arts member. She’s completed CAMHs Collaborative Learning College peer support and facilitation training courses and peer support training with the Mood Disorders Society of Canada. She is an Active Listener for Workman Arts online and in person events. She believes the act of creating art in safe and encouraging community spaces builds connections, encourages mindfulness, and ignites ideas that lead towards transformations.
About the RBC Patient and Family Learning Space at CAMH
The RBC Patient and Family Learning Space is an interactive hub for patients, families and the community to access FREE reliable information about mental health, substance use and recovery.
Intended For: CAMH patients, families and the general public.
Location: Queen Street site - 1025 Queen Street West
Additional Location Details:
The RBC Patient & Family Learning Space is located on the ground floor of the McCain Complex Care & Recovery Building. The entrance is on Queen Street, just east of Ossington. Services are available in-person (no appointment needed, just walk-in), email or phone.
Contact Email: pfls@camh.ca
Phone: 416 535-8501, extension 33995
Types of Treatment and Services Offered
- A safe and welcoming space, with a child-friendly area
- An information corner with pamphlets, books, guides and memoirs about mental health and substance use/addictions
- Access to mental health-related websites, apps and other reliable online sources of information
- Information about CAMH programs and community-based services and directions to get there
- New workshops, webinars and clinics each month related to mental health, substance use/addiction and recovery
