“The Sharon Wolfe Artist in Residence Program is intended to allow a disability and/or mad-identified artist to undertake a project that advances their own artistic goals and practice, and which has the potential to benefit the wider community of artists with Get your Get your applications in for the 2014-2015
Events
grunt gallery’s 30th Anniversary Kick-off Party! Aug. 28 (Vancouver)
“You’re invited to grunt gallery on Thursday, August 28th for a cake-cutting event that will kick off grunt’s year-long 30th Anniversary celebrations! The event will take place from 6:30-8:30pm at grunt gallery and in the adjoining Amenity Space. We will cut the cake at 7:15pm. Please join us for a
The Bridging Festival Celebrates Year Five with Cultural Hotspot – East (Scarborough Arts, ON)
Annual festival brings KGO community together under the Lawrence Avenue Bridge for a fifth year “Scarborough Arts is excited to announce the fifth edition of the Bridging Festival, an annual event that brings Scarborough’s Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park community together under the Lawrence Avenue Bridge for music, performances, food, workshops, and more.
Decolonizing Street Art: Anti-Colonial Street Artists Convergence, Aug.22 – Sept.3 (Montreal)
[Watch video here] SUMMARY: Decolonizing street art: Anti-colonial street artists convergence will take place at the end of August 2014. This project fosters the idea of bringing together street artists of indigenous and settler origins and build an artistic community of shared anticolonial values. The convergence will promote a type
Rock for Youth! / Rock Pour Les Jeunes! Aug. 12 / 12 août (Sudbury, ON)
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Run As One Youth Conference & Music Festival, Aug. 5-6 / Register by July 31 (Siksika Nation, AB)
“Siksika Health Services and Canada Bridges are pleased to present the upcoming Run as One 2014 Aboriginal Youth Conference! The Run As One youth conference is part of a weeklong celebration known as the Siksika Nation Youth Awareness Week. Open to youth from across Treaty 7! This year’s conference themes
3rd Annual Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival, July 23-27 (Ottawa)
The Asinabka Festival is excited to announce our 2014 film festival line-up, screening Canadian and International Indigenous film. This years festival takes place over 5 days, and includes 2 outdoor film screenings on Victoria Island (Opening & Closing Night), an evening of film and live music at Club SAW, film
UNITY Festival & UNITY Days (July 23-26, Toronto, Fort McMurray, Halifax, Montréal, Winnipeg)
Hip Hop festival celebrating youth, their voice and their art “Check out this year’s UNITY Festival with exciting performances from emerging artists, world-renowned artists, headliners,door prizes,workshops and much more! Bring your friends & family and celebrate with us the love of Hip Hop.” UNITY Festival Schedule July 23-July 26 2014
Le Festival International Nuits d’Afrique (du 8 au 20 juillet, Montréal)
Evénement à ne pas manquer : Le Festival International Nuits d’Afrique – du 8 au 20 Juillet à Montréal – propose une multitude de spectacles, animations et ateliers gratuits célébrant les cultures et musiques africaines traditionnelles et modernes. -soumis par Le Festival International Nuits d’Afrique Lire le profil du Festival International
Alianait Arts Festival: June 27 – July 1 (Iqaluit)
“Alianait’s 10th Anniversary Festival takes place from June 27 to July 1 and we have a stellar line-up of performers, including a few favourites from previous years — Namgar, a Mongolian/Chinese collaboration from Moscow, New Zealand’s Pacific Curls, Nunavut’s favourite storyteller Michael Kusugak,Canadian singer/song-writer Nathan Rogers and the “Minister of