Mabelle Arts

Mabelle Arts is making our Doors Open Toronto debut!

We hope you'll join us this weekend to check out The Belle and explore Mabelle Park. Visit the link in our bio for more information.

Saturday, May 23 and Sunday, May 24
10:00 am–5:00 pm
38 Mabelle Avenue

Join us this Saturday for the opening reception of Recollections of the Here and Now, a Mabelle Youth art exhibition!

Recollections of the Here and Now features works by young artists from Mabelle Arts’ Welcome to the Neighbourhood and Mabelle Youth Corps programs. Please help us in celebrating these emerging local artists! Join us at the reception for artist talks and refreshments.

Saturday, May 9
12:00–3:00 PM
Montgomery's Inn (4709 Dundas Street West)

If you're unable to stop by the reception, these works will be on display from May 6–June 7.

For more information, please contact [email protected].

We’re feeling a lot of gratitude following our Iftar Night Market. Thank you to everyone who helped us bring a Mabelle Arts tradition into a new season and for braving the wintery night with us! Thank you, lantern and moon watcher builders of all ages! Thank you to the young cooks who cooked and tested our signature recipes! Thank you, Tazi & Octi Bakerii for food leadership and keeping us happy with sweet and savoury snacks around the fire. To Michael Burtt and Pat Austin for keeping us warm around the fire physically and heartfully. Also, special thank yous are going to the guest artists who brought beauty and magic to the night! The Diar Band: Tarek Ghriri (guitar), Nour (percussion), Asser Abdo (vocals), Puppeteer Afsaneh Zamani, who made birds and ladies dance, architectural designers Safoura Zahedi and Mark Francis, who taught us about the significance of lanterns in Islamic knowledge and who designed and built the Symmetry Lantern installation with us. Also, thank you to Newcomer Artist in Residence Katrin Faridani of Faridani Foto and WTTN Newcomer Artist Ambassador Rishikesh Sharma, who developed our Shedding Light lantern workshops and the installation with the language learner clients from Skills for Change, and lastly to Lukas Barron for bringing flute tunes into the night air to lead us round the park to follow and find the moon!

Join Safoura and Mark for a fun and fascinating hands-on learning afternoon where we’ll explore rich traditions of geometric design to create beautiful new lanterns for our Iftar Night Market!

Safoura Zahedi is an artist, architect, and educator. Safoura’s creative practice intersects art and architecture, craft and technology, spirituality and materiality to connect cultures and traditions. In 2022, Safoura travelled to 17 countries and over 40 cities to study geometric patterns in art and architecture across major historic Islamic dynasties.

Mark Francis is an architectural designer, installation artist, and educator based in Toronto, Ontario. His explorations focus on geometric design traditions and organic shapes in urban architecture. Mark innovative use of 3D design technology allows people to design public spaces they use.

Sunday, March 15, 2026
1:30-3:30 PM
📍The Belle, 38 Mabelle Avenue

For more information and to get involved, please contact Douglas: [email protected]