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Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2026, InSitu has, since 2016, embraced the potency of creativity in defining “place"; an opportunity to reconsider, redefine and reclaim the Small Arms Inspection Building.
InSitu Multi-Arts Festival: The Storied Edition is a signature biennial festival presented by CreativeHub 1352 that transforms the historic Small Arms Inspection Building into an immersive landscape of art, performance, and shared stories.
Taking place March 5 to 7, 2026, InSitu 2026: The Storied Edition invites visitors to ask the question ‘Where do stories live?’. The Festival explores the diversity of storytelling embodied in ourselves and surroundings, taking on many forms including visual arts, theatre, dance, music, craft, and digital media. Join us to take part in writing InSitu’s collective narrative by entering a fully immersive space with site-specific installations, performances, and participatory experiences. InSitu celebrates creativity, cultural exchange, and place-making while positioning Mississauga as a destination for innovative, multi-arts experiences.
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Explore InSitu 2026's Artists & Collaborators: Click a category to jump to each section.
Contributing Student Artists, perfromers and community groups
Cawthra Park Secondary School - Visual Arts Department, Dance Department
York University - Dance Department
Humber Polytechnic - Visual Arts Department
Queen Elizabeth Sr PS
Port Credit Secondary School - Digital and Visual Arts Departments
Peel Alternative School South - Visual Arts Department
Mind Forward
Artists & Outreach Artists
Claudio Ghirardo
Artist/Performer
Visual artist Claudio Ghirardo uses the comics medium, such as painting and
drawing, to explore stream of consciousness, narrative, process, and people.
My artwork has been published in “The 27 Club” which got a Harvey Award
Nomination for Best Anthology in 2016 and The Long River Review, an arts and
literary magazine published through the University of Connecticut. I exhibited my
self-published zines/comics at the Fumetto Comics Festival in Luzern, Switzerland,
APE in San Francisco, TCAF and Canzine in Toronto.
Oksana Berda
Artist/Outreach Artist
Oksana Berda is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, writing and installation. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, which informs the narrative quality of her work. Blending canvas and clay, Berda investigates how processes of unraveling and reconstruction reflect both personal and collective histories. Her work was selected for Untapped Artists at The Artist Project in 2024, it is part of the Hyatt Hotel’s interior art collection, has appeared on HGTV, and has been included in group exhibitions and art fairs across Toronto.
Fehn Foss
Outreach Artist
Fehn Foss (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, athlete, and writer based in Tkaronto/Toronto, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe (including Mississaugas of the Credit), Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples and subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. Foss completed her MFA, Visual Arts at York University (2023). Her thesis project was funded by a Canada Graduate Scholarship from SSHRC and nominated for a Thesis Award. Foss has exhibited her work at Cedar Ridge Cultural Centre, York U, shell, NAMARA Project Space, the Image Centre, and Gallery 44 (Toronto), Knot Project Space (Ottawa), Eastern Edge (St. John's), and the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Canada.
Mai El-Mostafa
Artist
Mai El-Mostafa is a visual artist, muralist and researcher. Her practice investigates
storytelling across cultures and historical narrative through theoretical and artistic
aspects. Her work often involves community art projects and public engagement, with a
particular emphasis on public art forms as murals and installation. Her artworks are
typically expressive and figurative, blending traditional methods with contemporary
approaches to communicate through unspoken language with the viewers, and to
convey meaning via idea, symbolism, colour, and emotion.
Stephen Urhaney
Artist
Stephen Uhraney is a Canadian photojournalist based in Port Credit, documenting life with honesty and depth. With over four decades in media, his work looks beyond the surface and has earned national and international recognition through award-winning projects that reveal humanity, resilience, and quiet, powerful moments.
Kat Honey
Outreach Artist
Kat Honey is a graduate of OCAD. Her collage is informed by her graphic design background. Recent exhibitions: In Situ, Artist Project, Fashion Art Toronto, Quest Art Midland, Station Gallery Whitby, Union Hotel Toronto and several downtown office building lobbies. She also teaches collage & hosts Virtual Collage Jam on Youtube.
Mina Keykhaei
Artist/Outreach Artist
Mina Keykhaei is a textile artist and researcher based in Tkarón:to/Toronto as a settler-immigrant on the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, and the Haudenosaunee. Her practice investigates discarded textiles as sites of embodied knowledge, examining what persists in material when official narratives fail to hold it.
Storytellers
Andrea Josic
Storyteller
Andrea Josic is the Mississauga Poet Laureate and an award-winning writer and performer. Her work has been featured on CBC Radio, the TTC, Global News, Meridian Arts Centre, and more. She has performed on global poetry stages and was the champion of the 2019 Boston Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam and the 2020 Toronto Poetry Slam. Andrea channels her passion into teaching across Canada, inspiring others to find belonging, healing, and joy.
Brandon Lista
Storyteller
Brandon Lista (he/him) is a storyteller, educator, and community animator. He has a passion for telling folktales from around the world, and believes everyone should know at least one good story. With a background in engineering and education, he believes that stories are the key to help people build bridges and learn together.
Miguel Turato
Storyteller
Miguel Turato is a storyteller who moves as a messenger between memory and becoming. Through quiet reflection and a deepening reconnection with his Indigenous roots, he transforms lived experience into writing and spoken word. His work invites others to feel themselves as past, present, and future—held within one continuous story unfolding.
Performers
Andrew Gaboury
performer
Andrew Gaboury is a performer, writer and educator based in Port Credit. He is an associate artist with Frog in Hand, the executive director of & a therapeutic clown practitioner with Red Nose Remedy. Past projects include: Seasonal Activities; Pastel’s Imaginarium; Nanatasis; The Inhabitants of In Situ 2024.
Catherine Gava
Performer
Catherine approaches each song, script, and day as an opportunity to illuminate her mind and heart. You may have spotted her performing at previous SAIB events including the Lakeshore Art Trail and the Lakeview Farmers’ Market. She is thankful for CreativeHub 1352’s support in her musicianship growth and puppetry vision.
Sawitri Theatre Group
Performers
SAWITRI (pronounced Savvytree) Theatre Group (SAWITRI) serves to educate, entertain, and heal through theatre arts that are South Asian in character, origin, or topic and foreground women as well as the new generation, focusing on issues of social or political importance. SAWITRI works to create a gathering place for artists and audiences in Mississauga with year-round affordable programming in theatre-a space for multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-sectoral artistic experiences, explorations, and experimentation, fostering an exchange of ideas and experiences.
Asha Ponnachan, Shivani Joshi, Jaasmaan Rathore
Performers
Asha is a multi-disciplinary artist- writer, actor, dancer. Bestselling author of three books, she has also written multiple scripts for stage and screen. Her acting career spans a vast repertoire of theatre productions on stage and screen. Her dance form uses a fusion of Indian classical dance and contemporary styles. @jaasmaanrathore @shivanicreations
Mafa Makhubalo
Performer
Movement poet trained in folk forms from the Regions of African tradition, Southern African contemporary, and Western-Contemporary. I am influenced by my understanding of dance as an accumulation of memories and my culture's history. I believe dance is an invisible evolution that becomes visible through movement, music and singing
Cami Ariza
Performer
Actress, improviser, clown, and theater educator with 15 years of experience. Colombian-born, Canada-based cultural facilitator and event planner. Co-founder of Colectivo Play. Performs internationally and teaches through comedy to create authentic, joyful connections while designing meaningful cultural experiences, focused on gender equity, collaboration, community impact, and inclusion.
Maria Riano
Performer
Candace Kumar
Performer
Candace Kumar is a Filipino-Indo Fijian dance and educator artist from Mississauga, Ontario. As a diasporic artist, Candace reimagines dance forms to tell stories about what she envisions as past, present, and future, embodying our shared humanity and channeling movement as a way to connect across land, time, and worlds.
Ruy Nieves
Performer
Ruy Nieves is a clown, actor, director, and writer with a long career in Mexico. He has taken part in many festivals and created stage works that mix theatre, clown, dance, music, and video. He currently works in Toronto, performing as a clown, puppeteer, musician, and actor.
Musicians
Callahan Connor
Musician
Callahan Connor is a fiddler, composer, spoken word artist, actor, and music therapist (MMT, MTA). He has been a longtime collaborator with Frog in Hand, most recently playing the Tortoise in TOUR (2025). He also performs in the clown trio of Pastel's Imaginarium. It is his great delight to be bringing music and story to In Situ 2026!
Dhaivat Jani
Musician
Dhaivat Jani is a Toronto-based award-winning drummer, tabla player, and composer from Ahmedabad, India. Blending Indian classical roots with contemporary jazz, he leads Dhaivat Jani PLUS, tells stories through music, and creates boundary-pushing work through projects like Sounds of Stories, weaving tradition, innovation, and multidisciplinary artistic expression.
John Daivd Williams
Musician
John David Williams plays the clarinet, harmonica, and diatonic accordion. He studied classical clarinet and later turned towards acoustic traditional musics of various kinds: Blues, Klezmer, Traditional Jazz, Fiddle folk dance music - exploring all the rattles and hums in the heart, the breath, and the hands.
Dancers
Abby Silvera
Dancer/Outreach Artist
Abby Silvera is an interdisciplinary artist trained in dance, theatre and music. They are a company member with Frog in Hand, working as a dancer, choreographer, and mentor. They create work based in impulse and exploration, with a desire to connect fully to their body and the spaces they inhabit.
Colleen Snell
Dancer/Outreach Artist
Colleen holds an MA in contemporary dance, and she is the Artistic Director of Frog in Hand, a dance company she co-founded. For over 10 years Colleen has devised and performed with Frog in Hand, generating cultural capital in Mississauga and advocating for contemporary dance in a suburban setting.
Frog in Hand
Dancers
Frog in Hand is a dance-theatre company based in Mississauga, Ontario. We are curious about human nature and the spaces we inhabit. Our mission is to uncover, make, and share stories through dance. We contribute to community by sharing resources, knowledge and experience through creation, performance and education. Colleen Snell
Abby Silvera
Bri Clarke
Miah Lewis
Julia Mak
Shelby Nilsen
Production Team
Bill Soper
Head of Audio/Operator
Ken Snell
Lead Builder
Father, Husband, Architect (retired), Professor (also retired), Maker of things (never
retired), artist, care-giver-for-dogs. Ken has contributed in the making of buildings as
large as hospitals and as small as one’s hand. Ken still likes to draw the old fashioned
way – with a pen and pencil!
Heather Snell
Co-Curator
As this bio might suggest, Heather has trouble saying ‘no’ to opportunities. After a career that
included supporting young people and families in care, academic postings at Canadian and
international universities, coaching Canadian Paralympic teams, and rowing for Canada at the
World Masters, Heather’s retirement is now filled with arts, artists and possibilities.
As a member of the Small Arms Society - the original Creative Hub Board, Heather led the first
InSitu Multi-arts Festival in 2016. After 10 years evolving with InSitu, Heather remains
committed to the InSitu model of mentorship and placemaking and committed to the InSitu
objectives of demonstrating the capacity of our community and the untapped potential of the
Small Arms Inspection Building. For Heather, InSitu challenges us to remain curious about the
‘in between-ness’ of things, the possibilities of ‘what-if’ and the potential of 2 + 2 is 5.
Nick Blais
Lighting Designer
Nick Blais designs across Canada in all manner of discipline and venue: creating thematic, impactful designs, and transforming unconventional spaces into immersive, dramatic environments.
As Head of Design for Outside the March, Nick has been working to expand the reach and importance of design in storytelling and placemaking.
Jessica Cen
Stage Manager
Jessica is a theatre arts worker and administrator from Scarborough, currently the Director of Operations of Frog in Hand and the Marketing & Social Media Coordinator of Kaeja d'Dance. A graduate of TMU in Theatre Production, she has worked with Jaberi Dance Theatre, CreativeHub 1352, and Flato Markham Theatre, among other organizations.
Noelle Hamlyn
Scenographer
Hamlyn is an artist, designer and maker based in Mississauga, with a practice
blending installation design, fine and theatre (costume, set and props). Intrigued
by textures, ideas, the world and being in it, she believes objects have power to
absorb time, conjure experience, and hold story. Her work has been shown
nationally and internationally.
Jill Hollingsworth
Co-Curator
Jill Hollingsworth has a 65 year relationship with the arts. Jill was on the
2016 and 2018 InSitu teams, Co-Artistic Director for InSitu 2021 & 2024
and Co-Curator for InSitu 2026 . Jill taught dance with the Peel District
School Board for 28 years and headed the ballet division of the University
of Tennessee Knoxville. She was Assistant Artistic Director for the Oak
Ridge Ballet Association, Soloist with the Des Moines Ballet Company,
Dancer with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and Looking Glass Dance
Theatre (Ballet Y’s), and a dancer for CBC Montreal. Jill holds an Honours
B.F.A. from York University, a Diploma in Dance from Ryerson University
and a B.Ed from University of Toronto. Presently, Jill continues to work with
‘Frog in Hand’ as a performer and ‘outside eye’.
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