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THE ARTISTS

An evening of live music, comedy, visual art, and performance. The Unite for Sight lineup features artists whose work spans textured painting, acoustic blues, stand-up, and theatre — brought together for one night at The Eglinton Grand in support of vision research.

Pat Foran, photographed against a light grey background, smiling at the camera in a blue suit, white shirt and gold tie.

Pat Foran

Pat Foran is an award-winning video journalist with CTV News Toronto and the host of "Consumer Alert," the segment Canadians have turned to for decades to recover money, avoid scams, and spot unsafe products.

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In 2024, he received the Order of Ontario, the province's highest civilian honour, for more than thirty years of work at CTV News. He is the author of four national bestselling books on consumer and financial issues, and served on the federal government's financial literacy task force.

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We are excited to welcome Pat on November 5 as our emcee for Unite for Sight.

Close-up of acoustic duo The Blind & The Beautiful, Lucas Haneman and Megan Laurence, laughing together — Lucas in the foreground on the left and Megan facing the camera on the right with curly brown hair and a bright smile.

The Blind and the Beautiful

The Blind and The Beautiful is an acoustic blues and roots duo made up of guitarist, singer, and songwriter Lucas Haneman and vocalist Megan Laurence. Haneman's original material sits at the intersection of blues and funk, built on bold melodies and finely crafted lyrics. Paired with Laurence's sultry delivery and command of an audience, the duo trades seamlessly blended vocals and soaring harmonies.

Adam Lancia stands smiling in front of two of his large, vibrant portrait paintings — one on the left of a figure with a yellow flower in her hair on a pink background, and one on the right of a figure rendered in green and orange with intricate line detail,

Adam Lancia

Adam Lancia is a Toronto-based contemporary artist whose work explores human connection, mental health, and the effect of digital culture on perception and reality. His practice is informed by lived experience with vision loss, producing a visual language that holds chaos and clarity in tension. He has exhibited internationally, including Art Basel Week Miami, and has been represented by commercial galleries in Canada and abroad.

How to describe myself? In this picture, as always, my brown hair is swept up into a puffy bun that sits high atop my head – my signature do! I am semi-reclined in a plush red velvet seat in the audience of Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto. My legs are outstretched, and my feet are crossed resting on the back of the seat in front of me. A chandelier hangs, glowing, in the background. I have just removed my dark sunglasses; they are in my right hand with one of the arms of the glasses pressed between my lips. As I sat in this empty theatre, I thought about all the stories that had been told on this stage and, of the people that had sat in this seat before me and all that would after me. A smile began to travel across my face as my blue-eyes moved to the left. SNAP! The photographer captured me in this moment as my thoughts turned to blindness and all the stories to come…

Devon Healey

Devon Healey is an Assistant Professor of Assistant Studies at OISE, University of Toronto, and the author of Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative. Her first play, Rainbow on Mars, developed Immersive Descriptive Audio (IDA) — a stagecraft practice that treats accessibility as integral to the creative process rather than an add-on. Scholar in Residence at Fall for Dance North, her work on blind perception has been featured by The Royal Ballet, the Queensland Ballet, Vienna State Opera, and the National Ballet of Canada.

Studio portrait of Robyn Rennie, wearing blue-framed glasses and a black top, with shoulder-length grey and dark hair, looking to the side against a grey backdrop.

Robyn Rennie

Robyn Rennie is a Canadian painter and writer whose highly textural abstract works use acrylic grounds, iridescent and interference colours to challenge what we assume about sight. Her public installations are designed for access and incorporate Braille where applicable, and her collaboration with astrophysicist Matt Russo on a nation-wide planetarium show for the Dunlap Institute drew coverage in print, radio, and television across Canada. A documentary on her practice aired nationally on AMI TV in May 2024.

Shellyann Siddoo stands outdoors wearing dark sunglasses and a black-and-white patterned blouse, smiling softly, with a city skyline and blue sky with clouds in the background.

Shellyann Siddoo

Shellyann Siddoo is an award-winning international artist working in heavily textured painting, where surface and touch carry as much of the composition as colour. Named Artist of 2026 by Sight Savers America, she is a TEDx speaker and a featured artist in the film Unsinkable. Her work hangs in private collections across several continents.

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Todd Blenkhorn

Born in Hamilton Todd has been performing comedy across Canada for nearly a decade. He performed at the 2025 Halifax Comedy Festival as well as showcasing for JFL New Faces and performing at JFL Toronto events.  He co-hosts a barrier-free monthly open mic called ICU Open Mic and performs in the local and touring Laughs Without Limits show which features comedians with disabilities.  

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Be Part of Something Inspiring

Thursday, Nov. 5 | 6 p.m. | Eglinton Grand | Toronto

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