Button Blanket 2009, Canada Director: Zoe Leigh Hopkins credit to: imagineNATIVE, Button Blanket & NFB “The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will celebrate its 11th year with the festival running October 20 – 24, 2010 at the Al Green Theatre and various other venues in downtown Toronto. imagineNATIVE celebrates
Conferences, Education & Training
Upcoming: Downtown Eastside ARTS FOR ALL INSTITUTE- Oppen-Art: 5-day intensive community arts leadership training & project course (Vancouver)
“Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in association with Vancouver Moving Theatre and Jumblies Theatre (Toronto) and in cooperation with Carnegie Community Centre/Oppenheimer Park presents 2nd Downtown Eastside ARTS FOR ALL INSTITUTE: Oppen-Art Nov. 9-14, 2010, Oppenheimer Park 488 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC The 2nd Downtown Eastside Arts For
Upcoming Certificate Program: Creative Arts Facilitation for Transformational Learning (Tatamagouche, NS)
Tatamagouche Centre: Creative Arts Facilitation for Transformational Learning April 11-15 2011 Monday 7pm to Friday 1pm “This certificate program fuses popular education theory and practice with the creative arts. You will experience art practices such as movement, visual art, theatre and voice; discovering how each practice contributes to transformational learning experiences
Workshop: Neighbourhood Arts Network (Toronto)
This workshop is open to the public free of charge, but you need to register first with Skye Louis, Neighbourhood Arts Network Coordinator, call (416) 392-6802 ext. 212 or e-mail: skye@torontoarts.org -submitted by Skye Louis, Neighbourhood Arts Network Coordinator
Call for Conference Speakers/ Demonstrators: Art For All Canada (AFAC)
Submitted by Sheila J. Mitchell, Executive Director, Art For All Canada: “Art For All Canada (AFAC) is a not-for-profit organization, run by artists, to help visual artists develop, show and sell their work commission-free. Our web site is at www.artforallcanada.org Call for Conference Speakers / Demonstrators: Following two very successful
Upcoming conference: ArtsSmarts eXchange 2010 (Montréal)
To find out more about how to register for ArtsSmarts eXchange 2010 (October 4-5) , please visit the ArtsSmarts webpage. (The following are excerpts from ArtsSmarts’ e-bulletin)
Education: “Certificate in Community-Based Arts Practice the first of its kind east of Montreal” (Halifax)
“New NSCAD program promotes art as a tool for community development and education Certificate in Community-Based Arts Practice the first of its kind east of Montreal (Halifax, September 2, 2010) NSCAD University’s School of Extended Studies is launching a new professional development program designed to train leaders in developing, managing
Upcoming Arts Program at the Tatamagouche Centre (Nova Scotia)
Community Building through Art: The Methodology of Lily Yeh September 17 – 19 “Join internationally celebrated artist and activist, Lily Yeh, and explore the capacity of art to transform the most pressing social issues. Learn Lily’s powerful methodology for grassroots action and use of metaphor to connect with people’s existing
Workshop: “Reclaiming Images: Decolonization Through Video” (Toronto)
Community Arts Ontario and OPIRG-Toronto present… “Art of Decolonization Workshop Series A participatory workshop series which explores how indigenous peoples express the experience of colonization across artistic disciplines, how colonization is resisted through arts expression, how art contributes to the maintenance/recovery of culture and language, the intersections of decolonization work
New: NSCAD Certificate in Community-Based Art Practice, Fall 2010 (Halifax)
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design – School of Extended Studies: Certificate in Community-Based Art Practice (Fall 2010) Please see ArtBridges’ Google Map for contact information.