« Fort York hosts the Indigenous Arts Festival from June 18 to 20 and the 14th Annual Na-Me-Res Traditional Outdoor Pow-Wow on June 21 Fort York National Historic Site will become a centre of Aboriginal cultural expression with two large free events that honour and celebrate National Aboriginal History Month.
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ArtBridges at Dream Big: The Northern Conference for the Arts, May 27-30 (North Bay, ON)
ArtBridges is excited to be part of Dream Big: The Northern Conference for the Arts this week in North Bay, ON. Representing ArtBridges will be Seanna Connell (Co-Founder & Project Director) and Cora-Rae Silk (Indigenous Community Arts Coordinator). Please come say hi or drop us a line at cora@artbridges.ca if
Uncovering Colonial Legacies: Artwork by Indigenous Youth in Child Welfare (dis)Placements (Calgary)
Youth artist Tyler Blackface / Photo courtesy of Deloria Many Grey Horses Uncovering Colonial Legacies: Voices of Indigenous Youth in Child Welfare (dis)Placements opened at Calgary’s artBOX on April 17th as part of the This Is My City arts festival. Facilitated in partnership with the Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth
Young musicians needed! – Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective: Youth Songwriting & Hand-drum Making Camp (Regina)
Contact Dale at (306) 53305857 or kinderscoutband@hotmail.com for more information. Posted with permission from Adam Martin, Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective Read Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective Inc.’s profile on our Community-Engaged Arts Directory and Map
Call for Nominations: Barbara Laronde Award for Emerging Indigenous Female Artists, Deadline June 15 (Northern ON)
« Call for Nominations for the Barbara Laronde Award for Best New Northern Artist! About the Award: Native Women in the Arts’ (NWIA) inaugural 2015 Barbara Laronde Award will celebrate the career of an emerging Indigenous female artist based in Northern Ontario. This award has been created to acknowledge the achievements
Embassy of Imagination: Youth Arts Workshops in Cape Dorset, NU
« Embassy of Imagination is a multidisciplinary arts initiative for youth lead by visual artists Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson. Their workshops introduce youth to a global perspective of art practices and a variety of art mediums, specializing in printmaking and mural painting. Embassy of Imagination leads youth to achieve self-empowerment
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival: Call for Submissions, Deadline May 15
« Submissions are now open for our 16th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which takes place October 14-18, 2015! We have developed a brand new online submission process for film and video works. The deadline for submissions is May 15 and June 1 for late submissions. ($25 CAD late
The Onaman Collective Engages Students in Mural-making Project (Brampton, ON)
The Onaman Collective was founded in November 2014 by Christi Belcourt, Isaac Murdoch and Erin Konsmo. The collective seeks to empower Indigenous youth through the creation of art and preservation of Indigenous language and traditions. This past March, Belcourt and Murdoch traveled to St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Brampton,
Explore how the arts can be used to make change! May 2nd & 3rd – unchARTed: Youth ARTivist Laboratory (Antyx, Calgary)
Laboratory aims to explore how youth can make a positive impact in their community with the arts « unchARTed: Youth ARTivist Laboratory is a multi-disciplinary art event where youth will explore, create and discover new and inventive ways to use art as a tool for social change in their schools, communities
Opportunity for Aboriginal artists from across Canada to submit an EOI for Bala Pedestrian Underpass Project in Toronto
« The City of Toronto invites Aboriginal artists to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to participate in StreetARToronto’s Bala Pedestrian Underpass Project. The goal of this project is to beautify and animate the underpass with a mural representative of the local, historical indigenous perspective. This project is being implemented by