Sommaire de la recherche du projet ToileDesArts en arts communautaires francophones au Québec le 21 avril, 2010, Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay De notre liste de 63 projets, ressources, organismes, et programmes en arts communautaires, nous avons trouvé 11 ressources et 27 groupes d’art communautaire au Québec jusqu’à maintenant, dont
Archive for April, 2010
Profile: Engrenage Noir/LEVIER (Montreal)
“Engrenage Noir / LEVIER (2001-2012) Engrenage Noir / LEVIER was a Montreal-based non-profit community and activist arts support organization intended to stimulate dialogue about healthy interdependence and ethical responsiveness while encouraging artistic creation addressing the systemic causes of poverty.” (web) LEVIER was co-directed since its inception in 2001 through to
Profile: UrbanArts (Toronto)
UrbanArts is a charitable community arts organization that was founded in 1988 as “Art York.” In 2002 the organization refocused its services to addresses the many needs of local youth in the community it serves. Its mission is to enhance community building by engaging youth through the arts. Its mandate
News: International ArtBridging
Here’s a recent article “ Finding Musical Sanctuary in the Slums of Caracas” that was written up in the Toronto Star newspaper on Saturday (April 24th) about El Systema by William Littler. This free music program for youth in the Caracus, Venezuelan slums has become globally renowned and as
“Why do you have to be so good?!”
I am getting compassion fatigue listening to your stories. The small part-time staff group at ArtBridges has been calling you and interviewing you with a questionnaire over the past 4 months, building profiles about your community arts centres/programs/resources. In the course of about 45 minutes (our shortest interview was
Reminder: Upcoming Conference hosted by Common Weal Community Arts Inc. May 14-16
“Connect: towards a socially-engaged aesthetic” Click here for the brochure! Common Weal is a community arts organization in Saskatchewan.
Conference: Arts for Community Engagement (Halifax)
Registration opens today! Click here to register for the conference.
Visual Arts in Minority Francophone Communities / Les arts visuels dans les communautes francophones minoritaires
As we were researching Francophone community arts in Nova Scotia recently, we googled upon a report written by Rachel Gauvin and Marc Haentjens, in 2001 for the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage: Visual Arts in Minority Francophone Communities. We found that it provided us
Story: Stephen Leafloor, the Canadian Floormasters and BluePrintForLife.
“We do these five day intense workshops, 8 hours a day, blood sweat and tears with the kids. Stretching with them, working with them, teaching them how to do- spin[s] on their back. And we also, progressively- as relationships develop with the kids- we do these intensive social work talks
Social Work Through Hiphop in Canada’s Arctic
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Q9EpqgfF0&playnext_from=TL&videos=AaNEt-y0Tw0&playnext=1] “BluePrintForLife is considered one of the worlds leading companies using HipHop as both a community development tool and as a model for alternative education and healing. BluePrintForLife (www.BluePrintForLife.ca) offers dynamic, culturally appropriate programs designed for First Nations and Inuit youth that are founded on HipHop, rooted in traditional culture,
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