“Welcome to the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival! This year’s festival theme, Stories We Need to Hear, resonates today as our community grapples with the dramatic impact of the pandemic, ongoing displacement, the fentanyl crisis, and the reality of bigotry and systemic racism. In the words of late DTES poet Sandy Cameron,
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Fluid Fest (Oct 28 – Nov 7)
“Springboard Performance’s Fluid Festival features the work of local artists, celebrating our histories and potential futures in the current moment. A loving series of live theatre experiences and digital performances, artist talks, and creative offerings to keep you fluid and inspired. Embrace getting cultured at the Fluid Fest. Our hybrid program
Call for Applications: Indigenous Artists in Residence
“The National Theatre School offers a two-year training program to Indigenous artists who have been working for a number of years in their respective artistic or cultural fields, and who wish to grow as theatre-makers. This flexible training program allows artists the opportunity to design their own course of study at NTS.
20th National Mural Symposium (Nov 15-18, Mural Routes, online)
“The National Mural Symposium is a professional development and networking event for mural artists, administrators and mural producers to teach, learn, share and explore current trends and challenges in the field of mural art. Mural Routes hosts The National Mural Symposium every second year. 20th National Mural Symposium theme: REPRESENTATION
Call for Submissions: Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts 2022
“The MAYWORKS FESTIVAL OF WORKING PEOPLE & THE ARTS is a community-based multi-disciplinary festival which annually presents new works by a broad range of artists. We present bold and insightful responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour. We are currently seeking film submissions of
Call for Applications: SoundStock Academy
“SoundStock Academy (SSA) is a 7-week artist development boot camp that aims to provide 5 Black artists with the knowledge, tools, and access to resources to help advance their music careers. If accepted, artists will receive: $500 to invest within their music Access to weekly workshops led by music industry professionals
Call for Applications: FUTURES/forward
“We now welcome applications to the FUTURES/forward mentorship program! → Are you a community-engaged artist – aged 21 or older – who would benefit from being mentored by a senior community-engaged, art for social change (ASC) artist? Are you passionate about climate justice? → Are you a seasoned community-engaged artist interested
Rendezvous with Madness Festival (Oct 28 – Nov 7)
“The Rendezvous with Madness Festival is the first and largest arts and mental health festival in the world. Using art as the entry point to illuminate and investigate the realities and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction, Rendezvous With Madness’ 2021 programming spotlights the human capacity for endurance in the
Conference: Creative Convergence 2021 (Oct 28 & 29, virtual)
“The world has endured a collective traumatic experience throughout the past eighteen months. As arts and learning practitioners, we regularly see the impact that the arts have in students and participants’ lives. As we eagerly, yet tentatively, look towards pandemic recovery, we recognize the vital role that the arts must
UNLOCKED project Exhibit: Online Now!
“THE EXHIBIT IS ONLINE Discover the work of the 15 selected artists of this first edition of UNLOCKED. VISIT THE EXHIBIT UNLOCKED project, is an online art exhibit created by young Canadians across the country. From visual arts, to poetry, photography and video, we invited young Canadian artists (ages 9 to 25) to submit