SYiM (Southern Youth in Motion) is a campaign of North-South Partnership for Children that aims to connect youth from southern Ontario with youth in northern Ontario’s First Nation communities through art, music, videos, etc. We’ve been following SYiM since August 2012 and they’ve accomplished a lot in the past 7
Photo Stories
ArtBridges / ToileDesArts: A Visual Celebration
A huge thank you to the community arts initiatives across Canada that contributed to ArtBridges / ToileDesArts in 2012! Above photo collage created by Cora-Rae Silk, ArtBridges / ToileDesArts.
Art Project: dIE ActIvE Art Collective Graffiti Project (Thunder Bay, ON)
Photo courtesy of Definitely Superior Art Gallery. Thunder Bay’s dIE ActIvE Art Collective recently completed a project where youth artists were invited to paint a train car donated by local company, Mission Terminal. dIe ActIvE hosted a week of workshops in preparation for the project that included graffiti stencil design
Photo Story: ArtsExpress (Halifax)
Many thanks to Sabine, who generously gave us a treasure trove of wonderful photos of ArtsExpress collaboration projects to show to our readers! We love hearing about thriving community arts initiatives, but it’s even better to see them! So send us photos/videos of your community art initiative–we’d love that! As promised,
Video: Alexandra Park Youth Street Art Mentorship Project (Toronto)
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/36098823] “In the summer of 2011 community arts heavyweights Art Starts teamed up with Emerging Artist Gallery Whippersnapper, to launch a groundbreaking program called the Youth Street Art Mentorship project. Throughout July and August five local youth from the Alexandra Park and Chinatown area worked along side 7 different
Photo Story: Art City in St. James Town (Toronto)
photos by Gillian Foster Art City in St. James Town is the “most recent mural project “Escape and Explore – An urban Adventure” is at the corner of Sherbourne and Wellesley. The mural will be up until the end of 2012, we hope you get a chance to stop by and
Photo Montage: Les Productions des Paysages éclatés – 2e Festival International du Masque du Québec à Saint-Camille
Les photographies par Jean-Claude Ételain “Festival international du masque du Québec: Pour (re)vivre quelques moments marquants du Festival MASQ’ALORS 2011 à travers les yeux du photographe Jean-Claude Ételain et les capsules vidéo de Sylvain Laroche, rendez-vous au Portail Mes Sources. L’équipe de MASQ’ALORS!” – affiché avec l’autorisation de Hildegund Janzing,
Photo Montage: Association franco-culturelle de Yellowknife
Crédit: Caroline Lafontaine Crédits: Caroline Lafontaine Crédit: Pascaline Gréau Crédit: Caroline Lafontaine Crédit: Pascaline Gréau – soumis par Pascaline Gréau, Animatrice Culturelle, L’Association franco-culturelle de Yellowknife. Lisez notre mini profil de l’Association franco-culturelle de Yellowknife. Veuillez s.v.p visiter la carte Google pour l’information de contact.
Photo Story: Creative Spirit Art Centre (Toronto)
-photo from Creative Spirit Art Centre website “Mandate: Advancing the Creative Power in Artists with Disabilities. To provide a public art gallery/studio/information centre dedicated to universal access in arts and disabilities.” (from Creative Spirit Art Centre profile) Presentation by Gabe Anderson to Hon David Onley photo by Richard Picton Left: 2 Hanni
Project Hightlight: Art Starts’ Demolition Art House (Toronto)
– photos by Tamara Haberman Art Starts’ Demolition Art House “Working with 5 professional artists and local youth aged 11 – 17, Art Starts took an abandoned, creepy house, slated for demolition Toronto’s Oakwood-Eglinton area, and turned it into a “Kingdom of Awesome!”. Demolition Art House galvanized local youth, changed community perceptions