SuiteLife has been operating out of West Neighbourhood House (formerly St. Christopher House). This partnership has enabled SuiteLife to bring young aspiring performers (ages 14-24 years) together with professional artists in an intimate setting where learning and creativity are fostered. Annually, SuiteLife offers a 16-week multidisciplinary performing arts program which consists of workshops on: acting, singing, dance, percussion, improvisation, performance, and theatre production.

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The Suite 16 program aims to instill participants with the positive attributes of punctuality, commitment, responsibility, and respect for their peers, their work, and themselves. This intensive program culminates in an end of season live performance at Harbourfront Centre.

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After almost 10 years of success in downtown Toronto, SuiteLife was invited to replicate its multi-disciplinary arts program in Scarborough Village by the United Way of Greater Toronto, in collaboration with TD Bank, Youth Link and Action for Neighbourhood Change, an opportunity SuiteLife enthusiastically accepted. 

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In 2010, SuiteLife began mentoring selected alumni to create StArt Youth Presenting Art (StArt YPA), a youth-led initiative which provides Scarborough’s young emerging artists with accessible art education, opportunities to network with professional artists, collaborate with peers, create new works, and share their viewpoints creatively with the community at large. The StArt Youth Presenting Art Festival is a community building event that provides young people a much needed arts platform.