PROJECTS
Since 2020, we have published books and magazines, filmed dozens of live performances, created music videos, and produced community events—all powered by volunteers and supported by our community.
On the eve of La Palette’s 25th anniversary, co-founder’s Rashid Mohiddin and Celeste Ganon, as well as award-winning journalist Bill Taylor, editor Lesley Ciarula Taylor and designer Valentin Tsatskin made a 204-page full-colour love letter to our favourite restaurant/clubhouse. Replete with over 70 original submissions combining decades of stories and wisdom, the La Palette book is a treasure to behold. Published in November of 2025.
Inspired by vampiric lore, co-founder Celeste Ganon proposed craving as the next theme for our annual community magazine. Co-founder Rashid Mohiddin and Valentin Tsatskin joined to help and we made a 138-page full-colour magazine that we published in October of 2025. Yet again there were over 50 original submissions from the community.
With yet another winter on the horizon, co-founders Rashid Mohiddin and Celeste Ganon, with Valentin Tsatskin made a community magazine framed around the intertwined themes of rest and hibernation. Much like Togetherness and noise, rest relied on community submissions, with over 50 original pieces of storytelling and art. Published in November of 2024, rest is 144 pages, full colour.
Due to the success of Togetherness, co-founders Rashid Mohiddin and Celeste Ganon returned to their original dreams and made a full community arts magazine. Accompanied by designer and editor Valentin Tsatskin, the magazine is 108 pages, full colour, with over 40 original submissions from members of the community. Framed around the central theme of "noise", the magazine was published in February of 2023.
Inspired by the vibrancy of our multicultural arts community, co-founders Rashid Mohiddin and Celeste Ganon as well as editor Ilinca Stafie compiled a 64-page full colour booklet of storytelling, poetry, visual art and photography. This was our first community book that opened the door to community submissions with an open call for content. Published in February 2022.
As the global pandemic deepened, and countless local restaurants, bars and cafes were forced to close, DAC co-founders Rashid Mohiddin and Celeste Ganon made a 140-page black and white book about the essential importance of third places in modern society, framed through Drom Taberna and La Palette. Published in February 2021.
Local artist julia-marcello approached DAC to co-produce a short-run of a 32-page full colour poetry/photography collection called "It was an uncertain spring". Published in January of 2021.
Inspired by travel writers and poets, Drom Publications co-founder David Gulyas and Rashid Mohiddin made a poetry collection with handwritten notes and old black and white photographs. Published in July of 2020.
Motivated by the worldwide protests against police brutality, DAC co-founders Rashid Mohiddin and Celeste Ganon made a 72-page illustrated booklet about the history of the police, seeking to understand: why they exist. The first edition was published in July 2020, and sold out by October 2020. The second edition sold out earlier this year.
In the summer of 2021, DAC co-founders Rashid Mohiddin and Celeste Ganon were joined by videographers Devin Loran and Conrad Gluch, as well as editor and set-designer Jack Considine to film five high quality artistic music videos.
In January of 2022, co-founder Rashid Mohiddin and videographer Conrad Gluch conducted 5 interviews with local musicians at Drom Taberna, seeking to understand and appreciate the journey they had taken to the stage in front of us. All 5 interviews are approximately 40 minutes long, and on our YouTube channel.
Inspired by the success of season 1, Conrad Gluch and Rashid Mohiddin conducted a further 5 interviews, with Fethi Nadjem, Max Senitt, Charlotte McAfee-Brunner, Donne Roberts and Rebekah Hawker. Rashid devised a new approach to the series, emphasizing live performances as well as the interview, creating a 60-minute long interview, broken into three parts, at 20 minutes each. Due to shifting priorities the other four interviews remain unpublished.
Starting in the spring of 2022, inspired by La Blogoteque style videos, DAC co-founder Rashid Mohiddin and videographer Camille Neirynck-Guerrero filmed dozens of live performances throughout Kensington Market and Queen West. The particular focus was on performances at Pedestrian Sunday events in Kensington, aiming to capture local legends as well as internationally renowned bands, as well as performances at the Cameron House.
Starting in the fall of 2024, with an initial investment of $5,000, DAC produced five live music events centred on the interconnected multicultural arts scene. These events were dedicated to interdisciplinary art forms, including live music, performance art, visual art, and dance. Following the success of the first event at Revival in October 2024, DAC reinvested its resources to produce additional events.
In the fall of 2023, working with an initial monthly budget of $500, DAC began producing a monthly Instagram reel series showcasing live performances at DROM Taberna, with a focus on highlighting the diverse talent featured on the stage.