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Meet the SesayaArts Team

Arpita Ghosal

Writer & Curator
BEd, OISE/University of Toronto; PhD (English), University of Toronto

Arpita was born into an arts-adoring family, and raised with music, dance and theatre, beginning as shared experiences with her family: her violinist grandfather, her singer/actor father and her dancer mother. As a long-time arts journalist, she has worked in radio, TV and print media, speaking with fascinating people in various areas of the performing and literary arts.

After founding the Sesaya music studio in North York, she began Sesayarts Magazine as a way to engage the community more broadly with local arts and artists. In addition to writing, she teaches full-time at the TDSB, and is the mother of 3 creative and outspoken children (5, counting her indulged dogs Scrabble and Apricot). She is an avid reader with insatiable wanderlust and deep curiosity about new arts experiences . . . and is troublingly unfussy about cheese and chocolate. 

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Scott Sneddon

Senior Editor & Contributor
MA (English), Rutgers University; PhD (English), University of Toronto 

Outside of half-hearted childhood piano lessons and an unexpected starring role as the villain in a high school soap opera, Scott’s primary claims to artistic fame are his PhD in English from the University of Toronto, his abiding love of comic books and popular culture, and his talented children.

In his day job at CIBC, Scott’s job is to find creative and effective ways to build the capability of the bank’s leaders. Scott is the Senior Editor of SesayArts and contributes articles, as well as theatre and comic book reviews. He is continually surprised by unexpected and useful insights that arise from the interplay of these very different roles.

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Sayak S-G

Columnist & Social Media Coordinator

Sayak began music lessons as an infant and continues to grow with music, dance and theatre. In addition to taking drama and singing lessons, he reviews theatre, music and books for young audiences. He participated in Everyone’s A Critic at Young People’s Theatre from 2016 to 2018 and the New Young Reviewers Program, sponsored by the Toronto Fringe Festival and Jon Kaplan Fund, in 2021 and 2022.

He is a graduate of an arts-based high-school program, where he majored in drama, and is currently a student at Wilfred Laurier University.

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Olivia DeSouza

Social Media Community Manager & Arts Magazine contributor

Originally born and raised in Southern Ontario, Olivia currently lives in Ottawa where she attended the University of Ottawa, obtaining an Honours BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing. She is passionate about many forms of art and the way that it brings communities together, sometimes beyond reason. In her free time, you can find Olivia reading, baking, or playing chess.

Denise Albeanu

Contributor

Denise is an advocate for using the arts as a tool to help us understand one another better. She has a strong music background and grew up playing the piano and cello. Creative writing was also a significant part of her growth and development into the person she is today. Currently, she is a student at the University of Waterloo studying Psychology. She spends her free time reading, playing chess, doing crossword puzzles, and going to the gym.

Emilia Voudouris

Contributor

Emilia Voudouris is a Mexican storyteller who believes in magic. From a young age, she has gravitated to cinematography and writing as instruments for connecting with the heart of the stories she explores. 

It’s her love for creative expression through music, visual arts, and dance that drew her to Sesayarts, and she is grateful for the opportunity to continue growing and learning from those around her.