Great Lakes Community

TH&B is a visual art collective led by Simon Frank, Dave Hind, Ivan Jurakic, and Tor Lukasik-Foss. Their work often recontextualizes the image of the Great Lakes, or the logo for the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway as a focal point for sculptures, installations, and social actions.

We connect neighbourhoods to nature, providing a network of native habitat gardens and opportunities for inclusive community engagement, education, and collaboration to support our ecological community and foster the connectedness of all of its inhabitants – plants, animals, and humans.

Through projects and partnerships, we collaborate with people and groups across the GTA and beyond with a sense of optimism and agency. Together we can create a flourishing, regenerative world, with a healthy climate, watershed and ecosystem for the children of all species for generations to come.

The Lake Partner Program is a citizen-science based water quality monitoring program that is run by the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks and the Federation of Ontario Cottagers’ Associations.
Every year the program sends out 100’s of free sampling kits to volunteers across Ontario.

We empower communities to protect local waterways with continuous, real-time monitoring technology. By providing accessible tools and actionable insights, we enable volunteers to track water quality, understand environmental impacts, and drive data-informed actions to preserve natural resources.