« In Culture Days’ first webinar of 2019, Hill Strategies President Kelly Hill presented key findings from Hill Strategies’ recent report on arts participation in Canada, including overall attendance, active participation, and engagement by different groups of Canadians. The research was also linked to concepts of well-being through arts participation. Webinar
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Webinar – Culture Days and Get Creative Festival: Recent findings from across the pond on personal well-being and arts participation
« On May 29, 2019 Culture Days was joined by BBC Arts Editor Stephen James-Yeoman and University College London (UCL) Senior Research Fellow Dr. Daisy Fancourt to discuss new research on the benefits of arts participation. A recent study conducted by Dr. Fancourt and UCL identified the different ways that people
Webinar: Deepening Sense of Belonging Through Arts and Culture (Culture Days & CAPACOA)
« What is belonging? How does it relate to arts and culture? And how can we strengthen belonging to each other and our communities? In 2017, Community Foundations of Canada and the Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA) sought to answer these questions in Vital Signs: Arts & Belonging. Building on this
Vidéo : « Hors Piste », un cirque qui change une vie (Cirque Hors Piste)
« Ce reportage sur le Cirque Hors Piste, présenté en primeur hier soir au Téléjournal de Radio-Canada, est une belle façon d’en connaître plus sur leurs actions auprès des jeunes. Cirque Hors Piste Cirque Hors Piste est un organisme dédié au cirque social, qui offre un espace alternatif et inclusif de
Arts in the Parks Toolkit: a Vital New Guide to Animating Local Parks
« Toronto Arts Foundation presents insights and expertise from its successful Arts in the Parks program in new online guide to facilitating arts programming in neighbourhood parks. Toronto Arts Foundation, in partnership with the Ontario Trillium Foundation, is sharing its expertise animating local parks with the launch of the new Arts
Ressource | Entrevues avec des artistes représentés dans Encadrer la communauté (Conseils des arts de l’Ontario)
« Entrevues avec des artistes représentés dans Encadrer la communauté Dans ces courtes séquences audio, les artistes pluridisciplinaires Djennie Laguerre, Nicole Bélanger et Stef Paquette décrivent leur expérience de la création de projets artistiques communautaires. Ils mentionnent entre autres la façon d’aborder la collaboration avec les membres de la communauté, l’évolution
Resource | Shared experiences in creating community-engaged arts projects (Ontario Arts Council)
« In these short audio segments, artists Maggie Hutcheson, Emmy Pantin, Angola Murdoch and Cheryl L’Hirondelle describe their experiences in creating community-engaged arts projects. Topics discussed include how to approach collaborations with community members, the evolution of projects over time, and outcomes – both for participants and for themselves as arts
Video: Art as a Tool for Social Change (ArtBridges/ToileDesArts, previously posted)
(Previously posted) ArtBridges/ToileDesArts is proud to present Art as a Tool for Social Change, a video directed by Emily Laliberté (Funambules Médias) focusing on the impact of community arts and arts for social change and on ArtBridges’ role. In the making of this second of three ArtBridges’ videos, we
Resource Highlight | Dimensions of Music Care Part 3: Community Music
Dimensions of Music Care Part 3: Community Music Room 217 – Music Care | Canada wide | 2017 | Sarah Pearson « In this, our third instalment of this blog series on the ten dimensions of music care, we are focusing on Community Music. There is exciting academic research being done
Resource Highlight | Art Hives How-to-Guide
Art Hives | QC | 2015 Janis Timm-Bottos, Rachel Chainey « The Art Hives How-to-Guide was created to address a need expressed by many community members who share a desire to regroup to respond creatively to issues in their communities, and are wondering “How do we begin?” The information we have gathered