Updates & Ideas

Update from ArtBridges/ToileDesArts & Happy Canada Day!

From left to right: Lisa Tran: Social Network Developer and Communications Ass’t., Seanna Connell: Project Director, Cora-Rae Silk: Indigenous Community Arts Assistant and Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay: Francophone Research Assistant/Assistante de recherche francophone. Gauche à droite: Lisa Tran: Assistante des communications et réseautage social, Seanna Connell: Directrice du projet, Cora-Rae Silk:

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ArtBridges/ToileDesArts Report 2010 Accomplishments, Highlights & Evaluation

Photo collage by Kate Austin, ArtBridges Creative Partner; community arts programs, organizations and projects represented in profiles on this blog ArtBridges/ToileDesArts’ main activities: outreach, collaboration and communication: In 2010, we made hundreds of phone calls and e-mails to people across Canada who deliver arts projects, programs, organizations or resources in

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Update: SKETCH Calendar (Toronto)

ArtBridges is posting the May and June program calendars for SKETCH (at their request) as they are in the middle of packing up their studio and arranging to move to a new studio site for next year (see yesterday’s post for information). We think that SKETCH is truly innovative for

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Update: Important News from SKETCH (Toronto)

IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATE from SKETCH! “We’re excited to announce that SKETCH will move to Artscape’s Shaw Street Centre in 2012. Relocating to the west end of Toronto, SKETCH looks forward to repurposing an old school building into an innovative hub with other artists and arts organizations, devoted to supporting all

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Update: Sommaire de la recherche pour les arts communautaires en Colombie-Britannique/ Summary of research for Francophone community arts in British Columbia

photo by Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay Sommaire de la recherche pour les arts communautaires en Colombie-Britannique, le 7 avril 2011. En les dernières six semaines, nous avons soigneusement assemblé une liste de 31 sources en notre recherche pour les arts communautaires francophones en Colombie-Britannique. Cette belle province compte à peu près

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Update: Sommaire de la recherche pour les arts communautaires francophones au Alberta/Summary of research for Francophone community arts in Alberta

Photo by Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay Sommaire de la recherche en arts communautaires francophones en Alberta, le 10 mars, 2011. En continuant notre voyage virtuel à travers le Canada, nous entrons l’Alberta, la province des rodéos, du pétrole, et de la rose sauvage. Aujourd’hui, le français compte pour à peu près

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Creative Mosaics: Mentoring in Community Arts and Culture – A Needs and Capacity Assessment (Scarborough)

“In 2010, Scarborough Arts collaborated with a range of organizations including Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAS), Catholic Crosscultural Services (CCS) and Cultural Pluralism in Performing Arts Movement Ontario (CPPAMO) to work on a new project entitled Creative Mosaics: Mentoring in Community Arts and Culture – A Needs and Capacity

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Happy New Year! Bonne Année!

photo by Cara StHilaire Happy New Year! Bonne Année! We are back at the office of ArtBridges/ToileDesArts, and getting reoriented. The coffee is made…and poured. I admit it’s like looking at a giant canvas all nicely gessoed and holding a palette of paint and just standing there thinking…”where do we

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