http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA-qBRS7Iwg Elder DJs of the Arctic – Inukjuaq 2012 by Buddha of BluePrintForLife Inuit youth do the hussle Inukjuaq 2012 by Buddha of BluePrintForLife For more BluePrintForLife videos, see Buddha’s youtube page. – Posted with permission from Stephen Leafloor Read our previous posts on BluePrintForLife: Profile (part 1), Profile (part
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Why Community Arts Matters: A Testimonial from DAREarts
DAREarts artist-as-teacher, Glenn Marais, on Evan, Webequie, Ontario, 2011: “I met Evan the first year I went to Webequie. We were hanging out after school and he picked up my guitar and started playing Metallica, Johnny Cash, riffing out on some solos and just jamming. His playing caught my ear
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
Project Highlight: Art Starts’ Mosaic Project (Toronto)
– photos by Andy Moro (Red Pepper Spectacle Arts) and Tamara Haberman (Art Starts) Mosaic Project, 2008, former City of York, Toronto “This mosaic was designed and crafted in response to local concerns relating to the wall – people were hanging around the area, intimating local residents. The residents, police
Photo Story: inside ArtHouse (Oakville, ON)
ArtHouse “provides a full range of cost-free after-school, summer camp and workshop experiences in music, drama, dance, visual art and ethnic cooking to young people aged 7-11 from all socio-economic backgrounds who may otherwise not be able to benefit from an arts education,” (Don Pangman, Founder and Artistic Director of