As we jump into summer, we’re launching our new website soon, and we would like to make sure all of our community arts partners’ contact information is still correct. We’ll be moving all of the current ArtBridges/ToileDesArts blog content over into the new website. If your community-engaged arts initiative has
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Friday Morning Coffee: Sponsorship Opportunities on the ArtBridges/ToileDesArts Daily Post!
Would you like to have a presence on ArtBridges/ToileDesArts’ Daily Post every day and be seen by our daily subscribers (email, facebook, twitter & blog) and hundreds of blog viewers across Canada? We’ll give your organization or business space for your logo or graphic and a link to your website
Friday Morning Coffee: Top Challenges/Needs of Community Arts Initiatives
We think that if ‘mentorship grants’ could be provided by funders, seasoned community-engaged arts initiatives could be paired with emerging community-arts initiatives and many of these challenges could be addressed via peer support… Last Friday, we posted a summary from a telephone survey on needs and challenges of community arts
Friday Morning Coffee: ArtBridges Needs Assessment Survey
ArtBridging Ontario Researcher, Maxine Sidran, shares valuable feedback from her recent Ontario-wide survey to community-engaged arts initiatives that have been previously profiled on the ArtBridges/ToileDesArts network: “I spoke with 39 of the 132 English-speaking community-engaged arts organizations in the ArtBridges network (30%). My initial approach told them we were looking
Friday Morning Coffee: Presenting ArtBridges/ToileDesArts New Logo!
We are pleased to present ArtBridges/ToileDesArts’ new logo! Just over a year ago, we held a bilingual Canada-wide logo contest on our blog, twitter and facebook page and asked for submissions of creative ideas from community partners, friends and blog readers. We are happy to announce that the winner of
Friday Morning Coffee: What Is Community-Engaged Arts?
What is community arts or community-engaged arts or arts for social change anyway? Is it a field? A process? A practice? A discipline? We’d be fools to try to explain it in our own words, when so many others have done a great job. We’ve found some of our community
Friday Morning Tea: Sharing learning and resources amongst community engaged arts initiatives
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” –Margaret Fuller At ArtBridges/ToileDesArts we are currently developing an online learning & resource portal that will be a feature of our new website. The resource portal will connect community engaged arts groups to helpful tools and information developed by
Friday Morning Coffee: Inviting Stories About Community Arts
“It is our hope that by documenting these stories we’ll be able to show the many benefits of community arts and its value can be raised.” Next Wednesday, March 20th, we celebrate the first day of Spring and although it might not feel like it with Toronto temperatures still dipping
Friday Morning Coffee: A Piece of the Fundraising Pie
Fundraising: I liken it to washing the dishes. It’s not fun, but, it’s got to be done, and done all the time. It’s not creative like cooking, or fun, like eating marvelous food with friends. But, the dishes have got to be done. Just like the grants, proposals, letters of
Le café au lait du jour: Trouver l’équilibre entre l’expérience et la connaissance
Il y a eu plusieurs occasions dans ma vie que j’ai pensé “Si seulement je l’avais su avant!” Étant jeune artiste communautaire, j’ai beaucoup appris lors de mes premières experiences d’animation: par exemple, s’il y a un projet de murale pour enfants, il faut prévoir d’amples linges pour essuyer la
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