Season’s Greetings from ArtBridges/ToileDesArts! To all our friends and community partners, we wish you a creative, healthy, safe, and joyful time over the holidays! All the best for a happy and healthy new year! ArtBridges/ToileDesArts vous souhaite de joyeuses Fêtes! À tous nos amis et à tous nos partenaires, nous souhaitons
Archive for December, 2021
Become a Member of ArtBridges! / Devenez membre de la ToileDesArts !
ArtBridges is a hub and forum for connection for anyone interested in or active in community-engaged arts and arts for social change in Canada. More than ever, because of the pandemic, connection and community-engagement matters! Through the year, we have learned about the many ways that community-engaged arts initiatives have
STORIES OF NOW: Thinking Rock Community Arts (Thessalon, ON)
Vignette – Thinking Rock Community Arts (Thessalon, ON) www.thinkingrock.ca “STORIES OF NOW” is part of a project ArtBridges is working on with Judith Marcuse Projects’ ASCN (Arts for Social Change Network) and ICASC. It is about gathering and sharing stories emanating from the field now and about what issues and
Mentorship in Community Engaged Arts – A Virtual Dialogue (Jan 11)
“Join us for a virtual dialogue with artist-facilitators, activists and researchers across Canada to share practices, innovations, challenges and hopes for mentorship in the field of community-engaged arts. Through small-group dialogues, we’ll explore key qualities of mentorship, how mentorship has adapted during the pandemic and what supports are needed to
Submit your award nomination! / Soumettez votre candidature pour les prix honorifiques!
(Vous trouverez le message en français à la suite) ArtBridges/ToileDesArts is now collecting nominations for the 7th Annual Recognition Awards! More than ever, because of the pandemic, connection and community engagement matters! We have been learning about the many ways community-engaged arts initiatives have been working with their communities and pivoting
Call for Applicants: SHINE! Music Bursary
“The SHINE! Music Bursary is intended to support youth living in the GTA and surrounding communities who face financial barriers impeding their study or practice of traditional or folk music.” For more information, please visit: https://shinemusicbursary.ca/ -from SHINE!
Calling all Indigenous Screenwriters!: The imagineNATIVE Institute Screenwriting Features Lab 2022
“The Indigenous Screenwriting Features Lab supports four Indigenous screenwriters, two residing in Canada and two residing internationally. Over the course of the year, each participant will develop an original feature film script from concept/treatment to final draft. The program will culminate with the preparation and completion of a pitch package
Call for Artists: Videoconference Platform Digital Backgrounds (Mural Routes, deadline Dec 17)
“Mural Routes invites mural artists from all across Canada, to submit an expression of interest to design and produce a videoconference platform digital background that can be used on apps such as Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex and GoToMeeting. A total of ten (10) digital backgrounds will be commissioned. The
Underneath It All – Climate Change Theatre Action (New Harlem Productions, online plays)
“Underneath it all is what we already know. The ways the earth could heal itself, if we let it. The knowledge of those closest to the land. We consider how to act on the offerings in front of us with four short plays selected from The Arctic Cycle’s global initiative:
Afrique en cirque par Cirque Kalabante Productions
“Le spectacle Afrique En Cirque symbolise la force, l’agilité et le talent artistique que l’on trouve dans la culture africaine. Une poignée d’acrobates audacieux, accompagnés de leurs musiciens, se produisent au rythme palpitant des djembés de Guinée avec leurs chorégraphies et acrobaties authentiques et originales. Au son mélodieux de la Kora, Yamoussa
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