08/30/2026
✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Youth Workshop Series: Your Art, Your Story! 🎨💫
Through zine making, mask making, and collaborative sculpture building, youth artists ages 12–17 explored social connection in the modern age and reflected on identity, belonging, self expression, community, and what it means to connect with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. 🌐🤝
Our mask making workshop invited participants to explore how they experience and express themselves with others. Through colours, symbols, words, images, and abstract forms, each artist created a mask reflecting the different ways we present ourselves to the world and the parts of ourselves that may exist beneath the surface. 🎭✨
A special thank you to Jennifer Fader, RP, Registered Psychotherapist & Expressive Arts Therapist, for representing the Artists’ Health Centre and supporting this meaningful creative exploration.
We are incredibly grateful to Linda Wu, founder of ThriveTogether, for her collaboration in bringing this workshop series to life and for creating a space where youth could explore connection, identity, and self expression through the arts. 💛🎨
Reflecting on the experience, Jennifer shared that “participants expressed they enjoyed learning to create in a process oriented way that wasn’t just about making something that looked good or for grades!”
Thank you to all of the young artists who joined us throughout the Youth Workshop Series. Your creativity, perspectives, curiosity, and willingness to explore big questions about connection and identity made this series so special. 🙌
We can’t wait to see how your zines, masks, and collaborative sculptures come together in the October community art exhibit, celebrating youth perspectives and the many different ways we experience and create connection. ✨
ThriveTogether
Integrative Therapy Studio
