News & Announcements

Post your community arts initiatives’ opportunities for jobs, student placements, internships, or volunteer positions with ArtBridges!

Do you have job opportunities, student placements or volunteer opportunities? Send them to ArtBridges! We have wide readership with people in the community arts field from all across Canada! If you’d like us to circulate your opportunity through the ArtBridges network & in our growing Classifieds section, email us at

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Happy New Year!

On behalf of everyone working with ArtBridges/ToileDesArts, we’re looking forward to getting into all things artbridges/toiledesarts again with the fresh start of a new year! Time to venture into new things, let go of what doesn’t work so well, and challenge ourselves to grow! Keeping all this in mind…. ‘If you

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Canada Council for the Arts: Six new arts projects by Aboriginal artists will explore conciliation & reconciliation

« Ottawa, November 3, 2015 The Canada Council for the Arts, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (The Circle) today announced the six arts projects that will be funded through the organizations’ first {Re}conciliation initiative. The partners also announced their plans to renew joint funding

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Video: What are community-engaged arts all about? / L’art communautaire, c’est quoi? (ArtBridges/ToileDesArts)

What are community-engaged arts all about? ArtBridges asked numerous community partners from across Canada to tell us through their voices and pictures. This short video, created by Andrea Dorfman, had photo and audio contributions from 50 community arts partners from across Canada. This video was made with support from the J.W. McConnell

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Le Théâtre La Barouette annonce son premier spectacle communautaire (ON)

Le Théâtre la Barouette annonce son tout premier spectacle communautaire qui se tiendra les 8 et 9 avril 2016. Ajoutant un second spectacle à sa programmation, la Barouette propose un spectacle qui promet de faire vivre à son public une gamme complète d’émotions. «Dans le cadre du spectacle communautaire, l’organisme

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Award winners for ArtBridges First Annual Recognition Awards! / Félicitations! Les premiers prix honorifiques annuels de ToileDesArts

We are pleased to announce the award winners for ArtBridges First Annual Recognition Awards! The awards showcase remarkable work in community-engaged arts in Canada in three categories: Innovation!, Resiliency! and Creativity! The award process: In late 2014 we did a call for ArtBridges annual fee-paying Members to participate in award

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« Terre d’Accueil »: MU inaugure une nouvelle murale aux habitations Jeanne Mance (Montréal)

« LE MONT ROYAL S’AFFICHE AU CENTRE-VILLE L’organisme de bienfaisance MU inaugurait aujourd’hui la murale intitulée Terre d’accueil de l’artiste américain Phillip Adams. Sise aux Habitations Jeanne-Mance (à l’intersection des rues Ontario Est et Saint-Dominique), la murale produite par MU est la troisième d’une série représentant les quatre éléments. Après un

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Creative arts-based street presence in form of poster art addresses rape mythology and sexual violence (July 14-20, Toronto)

« SIS (the Safety Information System) is a new, revolutionary way for people in the city of Toronto to share information about sexual violence with each other, including rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment. SIS is a METRAC project, funded by the City of Toronto, supported by Toronto Police Services, and

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