Community Partners: Exhibitors

MUKA

Instagram: hellomuka

We are a small company of four artists and life-long friends with big dreams. In 2018, we founded MUKA with one goal in mind: to create more opportunities for LGBTQ+ BIPoC and AAPI communities to see themselves represented in authentic and nuanced ways. We believe diversity should be respected and celebrated, creative expression is our most powerful ability as humans and that art has the power to inspire positive change in the world. We are building a future where all culture, skin colours and gender expressions are celebrated, where businesses like ours thrive by valuing creativity and respecting artists. We hope you will find something that makes you feel confident and joyful in being unapologetically yourself here at MUKA.

Hope Leads Mental Health Care website: hopeleads.ca

Hope Leads Mental Health Care provides holistic mental health care that is empowering, kind, hopeful and flexible. As a Black and Filipino owned virtual psychotherapy and counselling service in Ontario, Hope Leads strives to center the experiences of diverse communities across the gender spectrum, while practicing anti-racist, intersectional, sex positive and anti-oppressive approaches to caring for your mental health. Hope Leads values building meaningful connections, embracing discomfort, and fostering community care. They also provide mental health workshops, program consultation, group psychotherapy and healing circles, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Anti-Racism, and Anti-Oppression Trainings. To learn more, visit www.hopeleads.ca.

B.Jiang

Email: hello@brian-jiang.ca

Brian Jiang (they/she) is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinesedescent based in Tkaronto. Her practice comprises of animation, illustration, painting, graphic design and beyond. Brian graduated from OCADU’s illustration program in 2020. As an artist collaborator working within the cultural sector, their arts- practice is informed by their love for the communities that they belong to. Brian’s work draws upon mythology, the natural world, and lived experiences to explore the ties between identity, diasporic migration, kinship, and ecological connections. She has been commissioned by Pride Toronto, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Inside Out Film Festival, Xpace Cultural Centre, Maisonneauve Magazine, LinkedIn StreetARToronto and more. Her work can be found at @_brianjiang.

Tammy Lamkhong Pita Thai Massage

Thai healing massage expert

Jenny Ma

Email: jennyjhma@yahoo.com

Hello everyone! I am Jenny. My life's mantra is to be happy every, don't put pressure on yourself, don't miss every opportunity to eat, drink and have fun. This is who I am now.

Dento Dream Foods

Facebook and Instagram: @dentodreamfoods

Dento Dream Foods is one Queer Trans Asian Man’s mission to create food that makes you go WHOA. With a large catalogue of what he is capable of, the ability to go with the flow, and 15 years experience in the food industry… we believe in eating and in eating fabulously!

Something Nice Supply

Instagram: @somethingnicesupply

Something nice supply is a queer, Asian, female owned small business that explores the design of pins, patches, and small apparel aimed to spark joy and emotional expression.

Charlie's Angle

Instagram: @cipherwei

A Portraits and Pets photographer. With a decade-long set in creating commercials and content in the marketing and design industry, Charlie is a woman of many talents. It is evidenced by her extensive work with various clients, including Nestlé, Wrigley, Johnson & Johnson, and Samsung. Having worn hats of all during her career, Charlie has hands-on experience as a TV commercial director, photographer, columnist, and animal behaviour therapist. She is wearing a new hat as a new Community and Justice Services graduate student. Recently, the Canada Council rewarded her with the title of New/ Early Career Artist. All these roles inspire her to discover how to serve from a fresh perspective and to integrate her studies and life experiences into a lively, quick-witted background. Charlie had an art exhibit show in the TPL Yorkville branch in 2023. Her camera is more than a tool; it is an enchanted key to unlock the depths of human and pet emotions. With an inspired glint in their eye, she brings forth portraits that whisper secrets and shout joy, revealing the authentic beauty that lies within each individual. Charlie's photographs are a passage into another dimension, where every frame narrates a unique story. Each click of the shutter is a promise to preserve love, laughter, and life itself.

StyledByMissTrish website: styledbymisstrish.com

Professional Makeup Artist + Hair + Fashipon Stylist + Image Consultant & Fairy godmother medsEXPERT Clinic + Pharmacy website: medsexpert.ca

At medsEXPERT Clinic + Pharmacy, our mission is to provide a safe-space for everyone - especially our LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and HIV+ communities. medsEXPERT aims to provide an inclusive, stigma-free, and sex-positive care environment for all, through our full-service pharmacies and our PrEP, PEP, and HIV specialists. Our flagship location is still the only queer-owned healthcare service in Toronto’s LGBTQ+ Village and our new location on Queer West is bringing that service even further!

Fabulous Items For Sale For Our Pha Funds Fundraising

For almost 30 years now, providing supportive services for PHAs or people living with HIV/AIDS has been one of the core programs at ACAS.

We work hard to ensure that we can sustain and maintain all the services of our Support Program.

We are all going through tough times, and funding for AIDS services organizations is slimming down. And we at ACAS diligently work to help maintain and sustain our PHA funds for our programming.

Every item featured in this section is for sale at the listed price and can be purchased instantly. Should you donate on top of your item purchase, please inform one of the staff at the exhibitor's area. For convenience, you can also email Trisha at volunteer@acas.org to request a tax receipt.

When purchasing these featured items, we accept all major credit cards, including debit cards. Some items are available for cash and carry; we can arrange to deliver the oversized items.

We thank you in advance for your support and hope you will enjoy your new fabulous item.

Intricate Vase

Height: 24 inches

Value $275

Asking price $200

Dimensions: 33 * 48 inches

Value $500

Asking price $425

Dimensions: 27 * 28 inches

Value $250

Asking price $200

Dimensions: 19 * 25 inches

Value $420

Asking price $380

About the artist: Charmaine Olivia is a self-taught fine art painter born in Southern California in 1988. She was raised by deeply spiritual parents who started teaching her yoga and meditation when she was four years old. Charimaine began oil painting at seven years old and has been a professional artist since she was 17. Growing up she spent the summers in the mountains at meditation camp studying intuition, metaphysics, and scientific methods of meditation. Spirituality and mysticism is a heavy influence in her art and her life. She is aware there is more to this physical world that we can see with our eyes, and uses painting as a means to explore these other dimensions of mind and thought. Charmaine Olivia is seeking to explore who we are as conscious begins in the universe, and the role color, emotion, and self-discovery play in living a harmonious, fulfilled life. She believes that every being is an artist in their own way, and allowing that creative spark to express itself is virtual for the future world we want to create. Her illustrations, photographs and paintings have appeared in publications, museums, galleries and private collections all over the world. Some of her clients and projects include Urban Outfitters, Lady Gaga, Hallmark, Volcom Stone, Vans Shoes, Element, Nylon Magazine and Burton.

Dimensions: 30 * 28 inches

Value $250

Asking price $200

Handmade woven scarf.

Size:74 (include end threads 83 inches) * 7.5 inches

Value $100

Asking Price $85

Swarovski Crystal Wildlife Ornaments - Koala

Height: 2.4 inches (left)

2 inches (right)

Retail price estimated at around $125 each

Asking price $170 (set)

Swarovski Crystal Pyramids

Height: 2.2 inches (left)

2.3 inches (right)

Retail price estimated at around $125 each

Asking price $170 (set)

Swarovski Crystal Wildlife Ornaments

Dog and Mushroom

Height: 1.5 inches (left)

1.2 inches (right)

Retail price estimated at around $125 each

Asking price $170 (set)

Swarovski Crystal Wildlife Ornaments

Puffer Fish, Bear, Turtle, Elephant, & Pig

Height: 1 inch (Puffer fish)

1.8 inches (Bear)

0.8 inches (Turtle)

2.2 inches (Elephant)

1.6 inches (Pig)

Retail price estimated at around $125 each

Asking price $370 (set)

Swarovski Crystal Wildlife Ornaments

Hedgehog, Crow, Frog, & Rhinoceros

Height: 1 inch (Hedgehog)

2.2 inches (Crow)

1.2 inches (Frog)

1.3 inches (Rhinoceros)

Retail price estimated at around $125 each

Asking price $370 (set)

Dimensions: 28 * 38 inches

Value $400

Asking price $320

In Dreams’ Original painting - with frame

Original pastel drawing by Dorothy Palse/Waddell in gold frame

Dimensions: 25 * 32 inches

Value $600

Asking price $500

Timothy Swift

Unknown Artist

Dimensions: 13 * 15 inches

Value $300

Asking price $220

Home decoration

Made in Thailand

Dimensions: 23 * 4 inches

2 pieces

Value $110

Asking price $80

Buddhist Lotus

Diameter: 11 inches

Value $65

Asking price $50

Thank You.

MAJOR SPONSOR TD PARTIAL SPONSOR

Viiv Healthcare

Our long term individual donors: Dr. Alan Li Andre Goh

Dedicated Volunteers, Community Members And Board of Directors

Community Partners: B.Jiang

Charlie’s Angle

Dento Dream Foods

Hope Leads Mental Health Care

Jenny Ma Calligraphy medsExpert

MUKA

Somehting Nice Supply

StyledByMissTrish Tammy Lamkhong Pita Thai Massage Moss Park

Special Thanks To: Mayor Olivia Chow Coun. Christopher Moise