Yitong Lok was born in Beijing, China. He began his painting career under the guidance of his father Lok Tok and other great Chinese masters including Wu Zuo-Ren and Li Rui-Nian. He also studied Fine Art at the Capital Normal University of Beijing. Yitong continued his Fine Art studies in Vancouver, Toronto, and Florence (Italy). He became exceedingly proficient in oil paintings as well as in ink paintings. His work can be seen as a truly unique merging of Eastern and Western style and culture. Yitong’s artwork has been exhibited at art institutes across North America and East Asia, including the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, York University, University of Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Omega Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the Duluth Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at various art fairs including Art Palm Beach, Art Chicago, Art Basel, Art Toronto, and Art Asia in Hong Kong. In 1993, Yitong and his father Lok Tok were invited by the Canadian High Commissioner and Hong Kong Municipal Council to present a cross-cultural father and son exhibition. In 1996, he exhibited his works as part of the OH! Canada Project - Art for a Nation at the Art Gallery of Ontario co-joined by National Art Gallery of Canada; the exhibition was held to commemorate the contribution of the famous “Group of Seven” to the visual arts in Canada. In 1999, Yitong and his father donated huge paintings to the Chinese Cultural Centre for the Greater Toronto, Canada Canadian Scenery in Chinese Painting Style. In 2003, he was honoured to serve as the Painting Juror for the Sumi-e Society of America’s 40th Anniversary exhibition in Maryland, USA. As faculty, participated in an exhibition at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. In 2005, the Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty commissioned a portrait of Dr. Norman Bethune, which is in Queen’s Park’s permanent collection. The prints of the work were given as gifts to Chinese government officials, dignitaries and business leaders who greatly appreciated and received them as memento of Ontario. 2013, Chinese Contemporary Ink - Christie’s (HongKong), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. 2014, Oneness - Father and Son Exhibition - Poly Art Museum, Beijing. 2014, Teaching, Learning, Artistry - 50th anniversary of the Capital Normal University College of the Arts, National Art Museum, Beijing. 2016, The 20th International Calligraphy Art and Culture Exhibition, Soul, Korea. 2016, The First Australian Art Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia.

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Dr. Nasreen Khatri is an award-winning registered clinical psychologist with over 15 years of professional experience. She is a gerontologist, neuroscientist and educator who specializes in the assessment, treatment and research of mood and anxiety disorders in older adults. A graduate of McGill University, from 2001 - 2004 Dr. Khatri completed her clinical internship and CIHR-funded post-doctorate at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). From 2004 to 2012, she led the Mood and Related Disorders Clinic and founded the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) service at Baycrest. Baycrest was recently ranked as a global leader in geriatrics (https://www.newsweek.com/best-hospitals-2019/top-specialized). In 2012, Dr. Khatri joined The Rotman Research Institute, a cognitive neuroscience institute fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, where she studies how depression impacts the aging brain, the neural link between depression in mid-life and the subsequent onset of dementia and innovates non-drug treatments for depression and anxiety in older adults, such as cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and exercise. She is a Scientific Officer of the Centre for Brain Health and Aging Innovation (CABHI) at Baycrest. Dr. Khatri’s research has been funded continually since 2006 by, among others, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), The Alzheimer’s Society of Canada (ASC), The Ministry for Health and Long-term Care (MOHLTC), The Government of Canada and private donors. In 2013 she was awarded the Women of Baycrest Innovators in Research Award. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including PLoS ONE, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada (JOGC), Psychiatry Research, Journals of Gerontologyy, and Journal of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Khatri has completed over 400 presentations, including keynote addresses for the McGill Road to 200, Bell Let's Talk Day Workplace Wellness, The MaRS Discovery District, The Conference Board of Canada, Aging 2.0, CIBC, RBC and TD banks, Tiger21, CanWIT, The CIBC Women's Thought Leadership Series and The Toronto Public Library Thought Leadership Series. Dr. Khatri consults on Psychological Health and Safety Standards in the Workplace to the public and private sector. She is a content expert for health app and website development, including Stress Strategies: https://www.stressstrategies.ca/ , Her Nutrition: https://www.hernutrition.ca/ and the Senior Friendly 7 (SF7) Toolkit: https://www.rgptoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SF7-Toolkit-V1-2018.pdf .

Chef Keung has been working as a professional chef for over 30 years now. His specialty is in Cantonese and Vegetarian cuisines. He is the Head Chef for Red Knot Catering and Events since 2016. He was also the Sous Chef at Golden Lotus Restaurant in Niagara Falls, the Head Chef at Wutai Vegetarian Restaurant in Markham and Chef at Mandarin Golf & Country Club in Markham. Chef Keung enjoys gardening, fishing and spending time with his family.

Marion graduated from the University of Hong Kong with her B.Sc. (Hon) and taught for 32 years in Toronto at Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School with fourteen years as Science Department Head. An enthusiastic advocate for learning, she wrote curriculum，assessment measures for the Ministry of Education, orchestrated March Break travel programs and under her mentorship, her students won many local, provincial and national Science Fair awards. For 21 years, Marion was Director and was an Advisor of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto. She spearheaded their credited Summer China Study Tour; lead Searching for Your Roots Tours, organized summer camps for families with children adopted from China. Shortly before her retirement, she became a member of the ROM’s Department of Museum Volunteers (24 years) and now a member of the Board of Trustees. She pursued her passion for travelling and vegetable garnishing after her first trip to Bangkok in 1989. Later she met her mentor at a wine tasting event in Toronto and learned the art. Her favourite quote is “practice makes perfect”.

My full name is Maria Cristina Rondilla. My Alias when I teach is Zin Tina. I have been teaching Zumba for 5 years now. My desire for teaching Zumba started when my church needed to raise funds for our church. They wanted me to teach Zumba. At that time, I didn’t have a license. So in order for me to teach a legitimate Zumba class, I took the license and helped our church raise the funds they needed. My portfolio includes working as a volunteer at the Scarborough YMCA from 2016 to 2017and the City of Toronto in the Summer of 2018. I have also worked with Innofit, providing dance fitness classes at condominium facilities under their management. Before the pandemic, I was holding regular classes at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto. I have been with the Centre for four years.

Tien Chang is broadly known as an artist who has special passion in the painting of horses. He was born in 1951, Taipei Taiwan where he grew up and had his early education. Through his young age and youth he had grown a tremendous interest in the subjects of arts and developed his talents in painting which was greatly influenced by the Chinese cultures and his love of Asian arts, literatures, humanity, and histories. His path to the art fields was destined but not forced that allowed him wander through the adventure with no boundaries to explore freely. He has found his inspiration in Chinese ink-wash painting world where he could go deep inside emotionally, spiritually and technically. Needless to say that Tien Chang’s paintings reflect his own unique creativity as well as his honesty toward the interpretation of the natural world through his eyes and feelings; he uses brushes, ink, colors, rice paper, and canvas to express the beauty of the “image of mind” and his paintings have been continuously evolving and revolutionary in each phases of his life. There is an abundance of passion showing in his horse paintings. His paintings invite the audience to feel the spirits of the horse and what his insights into the concept of the artistic expressions that based on eastern aesthetics and he passionately substantiate all those concepts through the beautiful shapes, lines, ink shades, shadow, blank, dots and brush strokes in his horse painting that transcendent beyond ancient times in entering into the enormous space as if he catches the moments of horse’s movement. He communicates with you what he sees horses in his mind that can be transformed into art. They are not just horses of animal shapes but animals of spirits and purity that expand your visual sense into another dimension. His art works have been shown in Canada as well as internationally including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and collected by some art galleries, libraries, and private collections. Tien Chang’s Web Site: http://www.tienchangart.com/

Marion graduated from the University of Hong Kong with her B.Sc. (Hon) and taught for 32 years in Toronto at Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School with fourteen years as Science Department Head. An enthusiastic advocate for learning, she wrote curriculum，assessment measures for the Ministry of Education, orchestrated March Break travel programs and under her mentorship, her students won many local, provincial and national Science Fair awards. For 21 years, Marion was Director and was an Advisor of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto. She spearheaded their credited Summer China Study Tour; lead Searching for Your Roots Tours, organized summer camps for families with children adopted from China. Shortly before her retirement, she became a member of the ROM’s Department of Museum Volunteers (24 years) and now a member of the Board of Trustees. She pursued her passion for travelling and vegetable garnishing after her first trip to Bangkok in 1989. Later she met her mentor at a wine tasting event in Toronto and learned the art. Her favourite quote is “practice makes perfect”.

Dr. Nasreen Khatri is an award-winning registered clinical psychologist with over 15 years of professional experience. She is a gerontologist, neuroscientist and educator who specializes in the assessment, treatment and research of mood and anxiety disorders in older adults. A graduate of McGill University, from 2001 - 2004 Dr. Khatri completed her clinical internship and CIHR-funded post-doctorate at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). From 2004 to 2012, she led the Mood and Related Disorders Clinic and founded the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) service at Baycrest. Baycrest was recently ranked as a global leader in geriatrics (https://www.newsweek.com/best-hospitals-2019/top-specialized). In 2012, Dr. Khatri joined The Rotman Research Institute, a cognitive neuroscience institute fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, where she studies how depression impacts the aging brain, the neural link between depression in mid-life and the subsequent onset of dementia and innovates non-drug treatments for depression and anxiety in older adults, such as cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and exercise. She is a Scientific Officer of the Centre for Brain Health and Aging Innovation (CABHI) at Baycrest. Dr. Khatri’s research has been funded continually since 2006 by, among others, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), The Alzheimer’s Society of Canada (ASC), The Ministry for Health and Long-term Care (MOHLTC), The Government of Canada and private donors. In 2013 she was awarded the Women of Baycrest Innovators in Research Award. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including PLoS ONE, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada (JOGC), Psychiatry Research, Journals of Gerontologyy, and Journal of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Khatri has completed over 400 presentations, including keynote addresses for the McGill Road to 200, Bell Let's Talk Day Workplace Wellness, The MaRS Discovery District, The Conference Board of Canada, Aging 2.0, CIBC, RBC and TD banks, Tiger21, CanWIT, The CIBC Women's Thought Leadership Series and The Toronto Public Library Thought Leadership Series. Dr. Khatri consults on Psychological Health and Safety Standards in the Workplace to the public and private sector. She is a content expert for health app and website development, including Stress Strategies: https://www.stressstrategies.ca/ , Her Nutrition: https://www.hernutrition.ca/ and the Senior Friendly 7 (SF7) Toolkit: https://www.rgptoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SF7-Toolkit-V1-2018.pdf .

Jackie Han, a grade 11 high school student, is the founder of Origami Canada, a federal not-for-profit organization that teaches kids the art of origami. Jackie is passionate about creating origami art with his hands from 6 years old. Insects, animals, and architecture geometry) are among some of his favorite subjects. Jackie was awarded the Richmond Hill Arts Award for Youth in 2020. He has been teaching himself for 10 years and has studied a variety of origami methods and origami models. His love and passion for origami have become a vocation for him as he engages the community promoting the traditional art of origami sharing his passion with children and seniors, enriching their lives, and indeed inspiring all of his participants' natural curiosity! Jackie has been teaching the children's origami in the communities from 12 years old (Grade 6) and never stopped. Transforming personal interests and hobbies into the productivity of the service community is his motivation and understanding of learning.

My full name is Maria Cristina Rondilla. My Alias when I teach is Zin Tina. I have been teaching Zumba for 5 years now. My desire for teaching Zumba started when my church needed to raise funds for our church. They wanted me to teach Zumba. At that time, I didn’t have a license. So in order for me to teach a legitimate Zumba class, I took the license and helped our church raise the funds they needed. My portfolio includes working as a volunteer at the Scarborough YMCA from 2016 to 2017and the City of Toronto in the Summer of 2018. I have also worked with Innofit, providing dance fitness classes at condominium facilities under their management. Before the pandemic, I was holding regular classes at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto. I have been with the Centre for four years.

"Himalayan Vibes" is a Toronto based Nepali folk instrumental band, dedicated to promote Nepali folk music and culture in Canada. Malashree dhun , a part of six seasonal dhun of Newar musical heritage played by the Newar people of Kathmandu valley, symbolises the advent of certain season, Autumn. It is specially played during the Dashain, the greatest festival of the Hindus. In old time, this dhoon was used to play by Gandharvas. Now, it is being played by farmers and other people too. As Dashain is observed all around the country , Malshree dhoon has become part of national culture. The dhun, being of slow tempo and melodious, is liked by everybody. So playing of Malshree dhun in any place means Dashain is around.