“Join over 100 youth from the GTA, Calgary, Vancouver and Halifax to kick-off National Youth Arts Week at the AGO, May 1st at 6:00 pm! Special guest speakers include Canada’s former Governor General Michaëlle Jean & Jean-Daniel Lafond, Co-Founders & Co-Chairs of the Michaëlle Jean Foundation! The evening will feature a
Archive for April, 2013
Friday Morning Coffee: Presenting ArtBridges/ToileDesArts New Logo!
We are pleased to present ArtBridges/ToileDesArts’ new logo! Just over a year ago, we held a bilingual Canada-wide logo contest on our blog, twitter and facebook page and asked for submissions of creative ideas from community partners, friends and blog readers. We are happy to announce that the winner of
Labyrinth Builds Community at Common Roots Urban Farm in Halifax, NS
Adrian in Halifax, NS, submitted this story in response to our post ‘Friday Morning Coffee: Inviting Stories About Community Arts.’ Read how he started building a labyrinth out of found materials and ended up creating much more! If you have a personal story about community arts that you’d like to
Grant Writing 101 & Creative Facilitation: ArtReach Workshops (May, Toronto)
Creative Facilitation Workshop: Express Yourself – “This introductory workshop provides a framework for using arts-based practices to strengthen your effectiveness as a facilitator.” (May 3) Grant Writing 101 Workshop – “This interactive session will explore the basics of preparing a grant application.” (May 8)
Updated Information: Kick-off National Youth Arts Week at the AGO (May 1)
“Join over 100 youth from the GTA, Calgary, Vancouver and Halifax to kick-off National Youth Arts Week at the AGO, May 1st at 6:00 pm! Special guest speakers include Canada’s former Governor General Michaëlle Jean & Jean-Daniel Lafond, Co-Founders & Co-Chairs of the Michaëlle Jean Foundation! The evening will feature a
SKETCH Community Arts Youth Training Program is “currently accepting applications” (Toronto)
“The SKETCH Community Arts Youth Training Program is a one year intensive training, arts education internship, artist residency, and art business incubator. This is a paid employment opportunity for young artists living homeless, street-involved or on the margins, who are looking to take their community arts practice & career to
Friday Morning Coffee: What Is Community-Engaged Arts?
What is community arts or community-engaged arts or arts for social change anyway? Is it a field? A process? A practice? A discipline? We’d be fools to try to explain it in our own words, when so many others have done a great job. We’ve found some of our community
Videos: BluePrintForLife, Mental Health Outreach & Social Work Through Hip Hop and Traditional Culture
Check out these recent videos about social work through hip hop organization, BluePrintForLife, and their work with Inuit youth in Arctic Canada. So far, BluePrintForLife founder, Stephen ‘Buddha’ Leafloor, has visited 4000 Inuit and First Nations youth, creating links between their ancestral traditions and hip hop as a means of
Runoff Exhibition: “a creative celebration of the water cycle as it relates to the intersection of art and science” (Simcoe Watershed Art Project, ON)
Simcoe Watershed Art Project (watershedart1@gmail.com) Runoff Exhibition –to take place at Quest Art School and Gallery Grey Bruce Simcoe “The Simcoe Watershed Art Project and Quest Art present- Runoff on May 8 in the Atrium Gallery in the Midland Cultural Centre. RunOff is a creative celebration of the water cycle as
Workshop: Becoming a Muralist with Michael Cywink, May 4-5 (North Bay, ON)
Community artist, Michael Cywink, is leading a two-day workshop on creating public art murals May 4th and 5th in North Bay. The hands-on workshop is open to everyone and the first eight people to sign up will have a portion of their registration fees subsidized by W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery and
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