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 also 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 Maker Club with Naz Rahbar
- The GTA Craft Club
- The East End Acts Book Club
- Liquid Architecture Performances
- Mural Routes
- Draft Reading Series
- Labyrinth Ontario
#1: AGA Arts Toronto, Life Drawing and Painting
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Program Description: 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.
To learn more about upcoming Life Drawing dates, check out their website!
#2: Mini Maker Club with Naz Rahbar
Program Description: 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.
To learn more about upcoming dates and to register, check out the link on the Instagram account!
#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!
To learn more about upcoming dates and to register, check out GTA Craft Club’s Instagram link!
#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
To learn more about upcoming dates and to sign up, check out EEA Book Club’s Instagram link!
#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 learn more about upcoming performance dates, check out the Liquid Architecture’s Instagram account! You can also join their mailing list HERE.
#6 Mural Routes
Mural Routes activates communities by facilitating the creation of responsive, collaborative murals, and provides opportunities to build and advance careers in mural art. Their vision is to be a leading resource for all artists, organizations and communities creating mural art. Mural Routes is an active collaborator at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, offering their seasonal “Working At Heights” training courses, or subsidized practical training in Health and Safety for Mural Artists.
To learn more about upcoming workshops and events with Mural Routes, check out their Instagram.
#7 Draft Reading Series
Draft is a celebration of process. Draft Reading Series invites readers to try something new: reading a new work, writing in a new genre, collaborating with another writer, and more. Every reading includes a wide range of emerging and established writers. The readings are fast paced and very eclectic. Draft has regularly hosted their pop-up reading series at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse since 2018, and through this collaboration we are proud to support both emerging and established writers from the east end and beyond.
To learn more about upcoming reading series, check out their Website.
#8 Labyrinth Ontario
Labyrinth Ontario is a non-for-profit dedicated to sharing and delighting audiences in the GTA with the modal music traditionals of Central, West, and South Asia, and the Mediterranean through programmed concerts, workshops, and video. By providing training and connecting musicians together, Labyrinth aims to develop southern Ontario as a global hub for performance in these modal traditions.
Labyrinth regularly uses St. Matthew’s Clubhouse to run their seasonal rehearsal intensives that feature their entire cohort of musicians and their masterful guest artists to practice together in a closed, comfortable space.
To learn more about upcoming Labyrinth Ontario performances, check out their Website.