Responsibilities: Work alongside ArtBridges/ToileDesArts Project Director to: Communicate with community arts projects, programs, resources and organizations that are based in or focused on indigenous communities across Canada in order to: Highlight what’s going on and what’s being offered in community-engaged arts in: education, studios, projects, organizations, events, outreach projects and
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Update: Community Arts Network (International)
It is with great sadness to hear that the Community Arts Network (CAN) has decided to shut down their website. CAN provided (and still provides, through their archives) enumerable amounts of resources for those in the Community Arts—from the professional to the academic side of this field. It was one
Update: Focus On Nature. Children & Youth Photography Program (Guelph)
– photo by Katelynne Matthews-Lindsay, grade 10 With the start of the new year, ArtBridges would like to highlight Focus On Nature, which has recently launched a new website. The website includes a developing toolkit of activities. From their toolkit page: “Focus on Nature is all about nurturing a love
Reminder: Tatamagouche Centre: ‘Theatre for Social Change’ Workshop (Tatamagouche, NS)
Theatre for the Living January 28-30 Friday 7pm to Sunday 1pm “This vibrant ‘theatre for social change’ technique, developed by David Diamond (Headlines Theatre, Vancouver), is based on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. Used in community-based cultural work to address issues such as violence, suicide-prevention, anti-racism, bullying and community
Inner City Angels: “This is my Neighbourhood” Exhibition (Greater Toronto Area)
“Each year Inner City Angels collaborates with the Toronto District School Board and Arts Etobicoke in a family of schools celebration of community through visual arts. Inner City Angels participating artists are Lynette Gillis and Amelia Jimenez. Please join us for the opening reception on Wednesday January 12, 2011 at the
Happy New Year! Bonne Année!
photo by Cara StHilaire Happy New Year! Bonne Année! We are back at the office of ArtBridges/ToileDesArts, and getting reoriented. The coffee is made…and poured. I admit it’s like looking at a giant canvas all nicely gessoed and holding a palette of paint and just standing there thinking…”where do we
Season’s Greetings! Joyeuses fêtes!
-photo by Beverly & Pack Season’s Greetings! Joyeuses fêtes! to you from all of us here at ArtBridges/ToileDesArts. Wishing everyone a creative and warm holiday season. Our small team is going to be taking a break from posting blogs, though we will be doing some behind-the-scenes work over the next
Story: Locked out on Christmas Eve, but Candles were on at the Art Centre
It was Christmas Eve, about 17 years ago. There was over two feet of snow on the ground. I returned from my family’s Christmas Eve dinner at about midnight to find that I was locked out of my home. The Cabbagetown streets in Toronto’s downtown eastside were quiet. My boyfriend,
Input needed: arts-based approaches to pre-employment/skills development training
Resource Assistance for Youth (RAY) (Winnipeg) staff is “seeking research material supporting arts based approaches to pre-employment/skills development training.” If you have research material or can direct us to people who do, please contact us at ArtBridges (artbridgestoiledesarts@gmail.com) and we’ll pass on the information.
Update: On the Road
photo by Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay Last Saturday, I drove to Montréal and attended Engrenage Noir/LEVIER’s “Community Art: About? With? For? Community? /”L’Art communautaire: Sur? Avec? Pour? Une communauté?” workshop. It was an amazing opportunity for participants – artists, psychologists, directors, government grantors, art therapists, students, community arts practitioners – to really