Learn about our current Clubhouse Collaborators, or artists, collectives, and organizations that we work with to help animate St. Matthew’s Clubhouse with arts programming and events!
Here at East End Arts, we are committed to making St. Matthew’s Clubhouse (at 450 Broadview Avenue) a lively, thriving community hub in East Toronto! While we use this space to present many of our own arts programs and events, we also partner with many unique artists, art collectives, and creative organizations to support them in their artistic practice, and/or to engage more audiences across the east end.
We know that artists, arts organizations, collectives, and small community groups struggle to find low cost, accessible space, which is why we prioritize the use of our space at discounted rates for artistic activity and local events. Clubhouse Collaborators are artists, collectives, or arts organizations that receive subsidized space at our home for recurring and/or consistent artistic programming that:
- Helps to serve priority groups in our community.
- Focuses on an artistic medium or practice that EEA is not already focusing on through our own programs.
- Offers free or low-cost options for people to participate (if open to the public).
Clubhouse collaborators are typically artists/collectives/organizations that we’ve worked with through other programs and initiatives, and who have demonstrated an ability to present reliable, quality arts programming. If you would like to explore what working in our space might look like, you can visit our Rental Form to submit a request, or our Partnership Form to submit a request.
OUR 2026 CLUBHOUSE COLLABORATORS
Below you’ll find information on our current clubhouse collaborations, which are listed in this order:
- Life Drawing with AGA Arts
- Mini Markers Club with Naz Rahbar
- The GTA Craft Club
- The East End Acts Book Club
- Liquid Architecture Performances
- Smaller Collaborations
#1: AGA Arts Toronto, Life Drawing and Painting
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Come by St. Matthew’s Clubhouse to enjoy drop-in figure drawing Sunday afternoons hosted by AGA Arts. They offer a variety of events with short nude, and costumed gesture drawing, also sustained poses for painters. These are drop-in sessions, (no registration required) but come early to get a spot, as they are first-come-first served. Easels, chairs, drawing benches, boards and clips available to use on site, just bring your own drawing materials. All skill and experience levels are welcome.
- Attendees, please enter the Clubhouse via the back side door – latecomers please enter discreetly! We START our poses right at the time specified.
Nude model sessions are (18 +) no exceptions.
Full schedule for Winter season listed here. All Events this season are on SUNDAYS or TUESDAY EVE (March only):
- Sunday, January 4th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, January 11th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, January 18th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, January 25th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, February 1st, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, February 8th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, February 15th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 – 6:30pm to 9:30pm
- Sunday, March 8th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, March 15th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Tuesday, March 31st, 2026 – 6:30pm to 9:30pm
- Sunday, April 5th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, April 12th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, April 19th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
- Sunday, April 26th, 2026 – 12pm to 3pm
#2: Mini Maker Club with Naz Rahbar
The Mini Maker Club is a monthly meetup for Queer BIPOC adults who are big kids at heart! The club takes place on the 3rd Sunday of each month at our clubhouse, and is led by local artist Naz Rahbar of ArtCave. The club focuses on learning a different medium each month, but always in tiny format! The techniques include things like clay accessories and trinkets, painting, book making, a mix of printmaking techniques, and more. The club is PWYC to attend (registration required) and no experience is necessary. All art materials provided and limited spots! Come out to meet new people, make new friends, and try out new artforms!
*suggested donation $5-10 to cover the cost of supplies.
Upcoming Dates:
- Sunday March 15, 2026, 6:30-8:30PM EST
- Sunday April 19, 2026, 6:30-8:30PM EST
- Sunday May 17, 2026, 6:30-8:30PM EST
- Sunday June 21, 2026, 6:30-8:30PM EST
- Sunday July 19, 2026, 6:30-8:30PM EST
Check out Naz’s Instagram link where they post the registration form for this club!
#3 The GTA Craft Club
The GTA Craft Club’s focus is to build community over the shared love of crafting while sharing space and creativity together. All events are Accessible events! If ASL interpretations are required or any other access needs you have, please DM us! We want to make this a community for EVERYBODY. Created by three artists (Kali Talmon-Longden, Vanessa Leu, and Anna) who came together all with the same goal: to create a safe welcoming space for artists and crafters of all kinds, to come together and be in community!
Upcoming Dates:
- Sunday March 22, 2026, 1:30PM-4:30PM EST
- Friday April 24, 2026, 6:30PM-9:30PM EST
- Saturday May 16, 2026, 4:00PM-7:00PM EST
- Friday June 26, 2026, 6:30PM-9:30PM EST
Check out GTA Craft Club’s Instagram link where they post the registration form for this club!
#4 The East End Acts Book Club
The East End Acts Book Club is a community centered around reading towards resistance in the East End. Taking place on the last Monday of each month, the club follows a “Reading Towards Resistance” theme. It is an anti-colonial book club dedicated to building community through collective reading and critical conversation. Rooted in the belief that stories shape our understanding of the world, we gather to explore complex ideas, challenge oppressive narratives, and imagine liberated futures. Together, we create a reflective space for learning, questioning, and envisioning collective liberation
Upcoming Dates:
- Monday, March 30th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, April 27th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, May 25th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, June 29th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, July 27th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, August 31st, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, September 28th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, October 26th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, November 30th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
- Monday, December 28th, 2026, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
Check out GTA EEA Book Club’s Instagram link where they post the registration form for this club!
#5 Liquid Architecture Performances
Liquid Architecture is a concert series in Toronto featuring intimate solo acoustic performances across genres. Curated by Ryan Kinney, hosted at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse. Ryan Kinney is a guitarist, improviser and educator, he has been performing for nearly thirty years and teaching for over twenty. Beyond his solo work, ongoing projects include the Toronto Improvisors Orchestra, The Coin Operated Duo, noise project Spoils of the Vault, and a guitar duo with Colin James Gibson.
Events start at 8pm (doors at 7:30), with $10 (cash or e-transfer) to enter. To stay up to date with upcoming performance dates, you can join their mailing list HERE, or check them out on Instagram!
Upcoming Dates:
- Saturday March 14, 2026, 8PM (doors at 7:30) to 9:30PM
- Saturday May 9, 2026, 8PM (doors at 7:30) to 9:30PM
#6 Other Smaller Collaborations
A) Mural Networking Potluck + Meetup
Three Toronto mural artists have launched a biannual “Mural Artists Meetup & Potluck” that takes place at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse. These are informal events for connecting with and getting to know other mural artists in this amazing city of Toronto. Mural artists of all experience levels are invited to hang out; share your stories, skills, tricks and tips; bring an item to contribute to the casual potluck (easy dishes for sharing are welcome); and get creative on the edge of Riverdale Park. There will always be an easy and accessible painting activity available for artists to engage with on site.
TO RSVP –> The clubhouse has a capacity limit, so please message any of the lead organizing artists if you want to join!
Organizing Artists:
- Chelsea Virginia: @chelsvcreates on Instagram
- Merryn Connelly-Miller: @merrynmoon on Instagram
- Katika Marczell: @candypress on Instagram
Upcoming Dates:
- Wednesday April 1st, 2026, 6:30PM – 8:30PM
- Date in June or August, 2026, TBD
B) Wide Angle: Women’s Film Collective
Wide Angle: Women’s Film Collective is a new toronto film collective centering women’s cinema through curation, events, and community engagement. They look to provide intimate, low-cost experiences. Join them for their inaugural event, dreaming is in season. The films being presented include, an opening short: stubble directed by emma zuck (2025) exploring where the real and the imagined blur – it’s about the ache to be tender and unbreakable all at once. And feature film: patricia rozema’s toronto cult classic (1987) about a yearning art worker – I’ve heard the mermaids singing.
Upcoming Dates:
- Tuesday April 14, 2026, 6-9PM. Tickets are $10 | RSVP link found HERE.