started in 2015. We are a grassroots community arts initiative for Tibetan youth navigating exilehood in Tkaronto. We create intentional spaces for storytelling and art with our community who are currently being hosted on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Wendat, Haudenosaunee and the Mississaugas of the Credit.

Events in September!

Weaving Installation 🧶

Tsering Lama Visit to Parkdale!

Origins

MADE IN EXILE started in 2015. We are a grassroots community arts initiative for Tibetan youth navigating exilehood in Tkaronto. We create intentional spaces for storytelling and art with our community who are currently being hosted on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Wendat, Haudenosaunee and the Mississaugas of the Credit.

staff

Tenzin Chime is the Administrative Director of Made in Exile. Her engagement in community arts began as a participant in the first Made in Exile Theatre program. Since her first performance in 2017, she’s been designing and developing arts programming for Tibetan youth in Toronto. Her love for community building with the art of storytelling is what inspired her to get involved with Made in Exile.

Tenzin Chime is the Administrative Director of Made in Exile. Her engagement in community arts began as a participant in the first Made in Exile Theatre program. Since her first performance in 2017, she’s been designing and developing arts programming for Tibetan youth in Toronto. Her love for community building with the art of storytelling is what inspired her to get involved with Made in Exile.

Past Programs

Weaving

Photography in collab with RIC Gallery

Past Workshops & Events

Grant writing 101 w/ ArtReach Toronto

Made in Exile in High Park

རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་|Rinchen Dolma was born in Kathmandu, Nepal and is currently based in Tkaronto. She is the founder and Artistic Director of MADE IN EXILE, an arts-based initiative that engages young Tibetan creatives in exploring their complex identities through contemporary mediums of storytelling in exile. She is a community arts practitioner, an emerging playwright, dramaturge and director. Currently interning at Theatre Passe Muraille in Artistic Direction as the recipient of the 2020 Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Program and a member of The Foundry, a new work creation group at Factory Theatre .

རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་|Rinchen Dolma was born in Kathmandu, Nepal and is currently based in Tkaronto. She is the founder and Artistic Director of MADE IN EXILE, an arts-based initiative that engages young Tibetan creatives in exploring their complex identities through contemporary mediums of storytelling in exile. She is a community arts practitioner, an emerging playwright, dramaturge and director. Currently interning at Theatre Passe Muraille in Artistic Direction as the recipient of the 2020 Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Program and a member of The Foundry, a new work creation group at Factory Theatre .

Kalsang Yangchen is a post graduate in English Literature from Delhi University, New Delhi, India and has worked as a content writer for two years in PR and media field. While she is still navigating her career in Canada, she finds the most joy in reading fictions. Besides reading, she also loves to cook and explore new places. Kalsang is currently the workshop coordinator for the upcoming Creative Writing Workshop with Tsering Lama.

Kalsang Yangchen is a post graduate in English Literature from Delhi University, New Delhi, India and has worked as a content writer for two years in PR and media field. While she is still navigating her career in Canada, she finds the most joy in reading fictions. Besides reading, she also loves to cook and explore new places. Kalsang is currently the workshop coordinator for the upcoming Creative Writing Workshop with Tsering Lama.

COMMUNITY ADVISORS

Tshering Lhamo Bhutia

Tenzin Ngawang Tekan

Sheila Sampath

ARTIST MENTORS

Ange Loft

Marjorie Chan

Tenzin Tsomo

Nina Lee-Aquino

Tenzin Tsetan Choklay

Samay Cajas-Arcentales

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Jumblies Theatre

Theatre Passe Muraille

Liaison of Filmmakers of Toronto

Charles Street Video