Archive for avril, 2010

Sommaire: arts communautaires francophones au Québec/ Summary: francophone community arts in Québec

  Sommaire de la recherche du projet ToileDesArts en arts communautaires francophones au Québec    le 21 avril, 2010, Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay   De notre liste de 63 projets, ressources, organismes, et programmes en arts communautaires, nous avons trouvé 11 ressources et 27 groupes d’art communautaire au Québec jusqu’à maintenant, dont

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Profile: Engrenage Noir/LEVIER (Montreal)

« Engrenage Noir / LEVIER (2001-2012) Engrenage Noir / LEVIER was a Montreal-based non-profit community and activist arts support organization intended to stimulate dialogue about healthy interdependence and ethical responsiveness while encouraging artistic creation addressing the systemic causes of poverty.” (web) LEVIER was co-directed since its inception in 2001 through to

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Profile: UrbanArts (Toronto)

UrbanArts is a charitable community arts organization that was founded in 1988 as « Art York. » In 2002 the organization refocused its services to addresses the many needs of local youth in the community it serves. Its mission is to enhance community building by engaging youth through the arts. Its mandate

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News: International ArtBridging

  Here’s a recent article “ Finding Musical Sanctuary in the Slums of Caracas”  that was written up in the Toronto Star newspaper on Saturday (April 24th) about El Systema by William Littler. This free music program for youth in the Caracus, Venezuelan slums has become globally renowned and as

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« Why do you have to be so good?! »

  I am getting compassion fatigue listening to your stories. The small part-time staff group at ArtBridges has been calling you and interviewing you with a questionnaire over the past 4 months, building profiles about your community arts centres/programs/resources. In the course of about 45 minutes (our shortest interview was

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Social Work Through Hiphop in Canada’s Arctic

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Q9EpqgfF0&playnext_from=TL&videos=AaNEt-y0Tw0&playnext=1] « BluePrintForLife is considered one of the worlds leading companies using HipHop as both a community development tool and as a model for alternative education and healing. BluePrintForLife (www.BluePrintForLife.ca) offers dynamic, culturally appropriate programs designed for First Nations and Inuit youth that are founded on HipHop, rooted in traditional culture,

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