“Stories of Now” is a project of ArtBridges, a member of the Art for Social Change Network (ASCN), hosted by the International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC). The video was produced by Seanna Connell (ArtBridges), Flick Harrison (Polity) and Aquil Virani.
“The project is about gathering and sharing stories emanating from the field – community-engaged arts & arts for social change – now and about what issues and areas of focus matter,” says Seanna Connell. “The stories will be unique vignettes – and together – a chronicle or snapshot of the field and practice now, at this moment in time.”
Learn more at the following links:
Read more in-depth written stories from the Stories of Now project on the ArtBridges blog here.
Watch the whole zoom recording of the “Stories of Now” session when it was live at the Art for Social Change NOW national gathering on Youtube here.
Find more links to other panels and presentations from the national gathering in the archive here.
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ArtBridges/ToileDesArts is now collecting nominations for the 7th Annual Recognition Awards!
More than ever, because of the pandemic, connection and community engagement matters! We have been learning about the many ways community-engaged arts initiatives have been working with their communities and pivoting through lockdowns, pandemic relief measures, and health & safety mandates. It has taken great imagination, capacity, and resiliency. We have also been hearing and reading stories about how initiatives are growing in response to the social and environmental justice issues of our time.
We’d like to highlight your stories of innovation, resiliency, and creativity. Perhaps your story will be an inspiration to someone else. Perhaps new connections will be made, ideas spawned and amplified, and support generated. Let’s hear about the amazing work that continues to happen in this field, despite everything, because of everything!
These awards will showcase remarkable work in community-engaged arts taking place in Canada.
There are three categories:
Innovation
Resiliency
Creativity
One award will be given in each category. Each award-winning initiative will receive a certificate and $350 award as well as recognition on the ArtBridges hub. You can apply for one, two, or all three award categories. The awards jury will be comprised of three active leaders in community arts in Canada.
You are eligible to nominate a community-engaged arts initiative that you are involved with or one you would like to support. To be considered, please fill out the attached one-page nomination formhttp://goo.gl/forms/Unv1GClZHm and submit it back to ArtBridges by March 1st, 2022.
Vous pouvez soumettre la candidature d’un organisme pour lequel vous travaillez ou avec lequel vous collaborez, ou celle d’un autre organisme dont vous voulez soutenir le travail. Pour participer, veuillez remplir ce formulaire d’ici le 1 mars 2022: http://goo.gl/forms/Unv1GClZHm
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ArtBridges/ToileDesArts is now collecting nominations for the 7th Annual Recognition Awards!
More than ever, because of the pandemic, connection and community engagement matters! We have been learning about the many ways community-engaged arts initiatives have been working with their communities and pivoting through lockdowns, pandemic relief measures, and health & safety mandates. It has taken great imagination, capacity, and resiliency. We have also been hearing and reading stories about how initiatives are growing in response to the social and environmental justice issues of our time.
We’d like to highlight your stories of innovation, resiliency, and creativity. Perhaps your story will be an inspiration to someone else. Perhaps new connections will be made, ideas spawned and amplified, and support generated. Let’s hear about the amazing work that continues to happen in this field, despite everything, because of everything!
These awards will showcase remarkable work in community-engaged arts taking place in Canada.
There are three categories:
Innovation
Resiliency
Creativity
One award will be given in each category. Each award-winning initiative will receive a certificate and $350 award as well as recognition on the ArtBridges hub. You can apply for one, two, or all three award categories. The awards jury will be comprised of three active leaders in community arts in Canada.
You are eligible to nominate a community-engaged arts initiative that you are involved with or one you would like to support. To be considered, please fill out the attached one-page nomination formhttp://goo.gl/forms/Unv1GClZHm and submit it back to ArtBridges by March 1st, 2022.
Vous pouvez soumettre la candidature d’un organisme pour lequel vous travaillez ou avec lequel vous collaborez, ou celle d’un autre organisme dont vous voulez soutenir le travail. Pour participer, veuillez remplir ce formulaire d’ici le 1 mars 2022: http://goo.gl/forms/Unv1GClZHm
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ArtBridges/ToileDesArts is now collecting nominations for the 7th Annual Recognition Awards!
More than ever, because of the pandemic, connection and community engagement matters! We have been learning about the many ways community-engaged arts initiatives have been working with their communities and pivoting through lockdowns, pandemic relief measures, and health & safety mandates. It has taken great imagination, capacity, and resiliency. We have also been hearing and reading stories about how initiatives are growing in response to the social and environmental justice issues of our time.
We’d like to highlight your stories of innovation, resiliency, and creativity. Perhaps your story will be an inspiration to someone else. Perhaps new connections will be made, ideas spawned and amplified, and support generated. Let’s hear about the amazing work that continues to happen in this field, despite everything, because of everything!
These awards will showcase remarkable work in community-engaged arts taking place in Canada.
There are three categories:
Innovation
Resiliency
Creativity
One award will be given in each category. Each award-winning initiative will receive a certificate and $350 award as well as recognition on the ArtBridges hub. You can apply for one, two, or all three award categories. The awards jury will be comprised of three active leaders in community arts in Canada.
You are eligible to nominate a community-engaged arts initiative that you are involved with or one you would like to support. To be considered, please fill out the attached one-page nomination formhttp://goo.gl/forms/Unv1GClZHm and submit it back to ArtBridges by March 1st, 2022.
Vous pouvez soumettre la candidature d’un organisme pour lequel vous travaillez ou avec lequel vous collaborez, ou celle d’un autre organisme dont vous voulez soutenir le travail. Pour participer, veuillez remplir ce formulaire d’ici le 1 mars 2022: http://goo.gl/forms/Unv1GClZHm
We hope that this new year finds you and yours in good health and spirits.
We look forward to highlighting what’s going on in community-engaged arts across Canada again this year. Through the day-to-day blog posts we gather and share, a story unfolds about how people continue to pivot their arts initiatives and work within the challenges of the pandemic. A story also unfolds about what issues and areas of focus matter and how the field is evolving due to social justice and environmental issues of our time.
We’d like to hear from you! Please email in stories, pictures or posts about your community-engaged arts initiatives, stories and opportunities. Perhaps they’ll inspire others! Perhaps you’ll find some support, idea or opportunity you’re looking for too.
Stay healthy, creative and hopeful!
We wish for you and your loved ones: health, fortitude, and joy to stay nimble, keep pivoting, and persist reach out, extend a hand rest draw, paint, imagine, sing, dance, act, perform, photograph, film, write, tell a story get creative to come together in the ways we can and celebrate the small and wonderful moments
Season’s Greetings from ArtBridges/ToileDesArts!
To all our friends and community partners, we wish you a creative, healthy, safe, and joyful time over the holidays! All the best for a happy and healthy new year!
ArtBridges/ToileDesArts vous souhaite de joyeuses FĂŞtes!
ArtBridges is a hub and forum for connection for anyone interested in or active in community-engaged arts and arts for social change in Canada. More than ever, because of the pandemic, connection and community-engagement matters!
Through the year, we have learned about the many ways that community-engaged arts initiatives have been working with their communities and pivoting through lockdowns, government health and safety mandates, and pandemic relief measures. It has taken great imagination, capacity, and resiliency. We have also heard and read stories about how initiatives are growing in response to the social and environmental justice issues of our time.
Your Membership support will help ArtBridges continue to gather and share about innovative community-engaged arts activities and about how initiatives are adapting their programs through the pandemic and transitioning into a “new normal.”
Membership fees help support the work of ArtBridges all year! As a Member you will be a vital partner in ArtBridges’ important work by helping us to raise awareness, connect people to community-engaged arts initiatives, gather and share resources, and highlight what’s going on in the practice and field.
UNLOCKED Project:https://unlockedproject.ca UNLOCKED became an official project of ArtBridges in June! “UNLOCKED is an online exhibit of art created by young Canadians – their personal and creative response to the pandemic.”
The Art Boxes Project: ArtBridges matches people with art supplies to community-engaged arts initiatives that reach out. This year, we received a donation to purchase art supplies and deliver them directly to community-engaged arts initiatives. These included: Thrive Like a Girl, The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit at Humber River Hospital and Ernestine!s Women’s Shelter.
ArtBridges became a Regional Hub and Steering Committee Member with the recently launched Art for Social Change Network (ASCN): https://icasc.ca/ascnetwork/. This project is hosted by: Judith Marcuse Projects (JMP) and the International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC).“ASCN is designed to connect and support hundreds of arts for social change (ASC) organizations and independent artists across Canada”. As a Regional Hub, ArtBridges is leading a project called: “STORIES OF NOW” about gathering and sharing stories emanating from the field and about what issues and areas of focus matter.
ArtBridges’ Executive Director, participated for the second time as a mentor in FUTURES/forward – a National Mentorship Program …”designed to connect seasoned ASC practitioners with early-to-mid career community-engaged artists, foster peer to peer exchange with others doing change work with diverse communities, and bridge the urban/rural divide. (FUTURES/forward is hosted by the International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC), an initiative of Judith Marcuse Projects”.)
For almost three years, ArtBridges has been operating as a charitable organization, not-for-profit, and registered National Arts Service Organization (NASO). (ArtBridges was previously a project of Tides Canada for 10 years.) Like numerous arts organizations across Canada, ArtBridges is navigating through the challenges of working through the pandemic and adapting to new ways of working to continue to be relevant, viable and sustainable.
We have worked hard to keep the information flowing about what’s going on in the field viaartbridges.ca, with blog posts, Facebook & Twitter, Learning and Resources. We’ve responded to people with special requests—assisting with finding mentorship, connections, art supplies, and writing letters of support. Over the year, we have worked hard to preserve our website/hub.
We concluded the 6th Annual Remarkable Community-Engaged Arts Awards and announced the finalists: Remarkable Innovation: Silver Scenes Film Festival (Toronto); Remarkable Creativity: Indigenous Women’s Augmented Mural Series (Calgary); Remarkable Resiliency: This Way Up Collective (Toronto). Awards were sponsored by the Ruth Mandel – WHO GIVES Fund. We are currently kicking off our 7th Annual Remarkable Community-Engaged Arts Awards. Our hope is that these stories inspire.
As an ArtBridges Member, you or your arts initiative can:
Have your website reviewed for accessibility, mobile responsiveness, and clarity in a one hour professional consultation.
Call for mentorship, brainstorming ideas, networking, or project / organizational development support with the ArtBridges team.
Member Spotlight: Have your community-engaged arts initiative featured on ArtBridges’ Canada-wide Community Blog
Receive consideration for a letter of support for your initiative from us.
Be listed under Membership Recognition on the ArtBridges website.
Receive a Membership card: become a card-carrying member!
Join our Membership today!Please fill out the Membership registration form online at artbridges.ca. Your membership fee will cover from now through to the end of 2022.
Thank you for believing in this work!
Wishing you joy, health, and lots of creativity during this holiday season and into the new year!
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ArtBridges/ToileDesArts is now collecting nominations for the 7th Annual Recognition Awards!
More than ever, because of the pandemic, connection and community engagement matters! We have been learning about the many ways community-engaged arts initiatives have been working with their communities and pivoting through lockdowns, pandemic relief measures, and health & safety mandates. It has taken great imagination, capacity, and resiliency. We have also been hearing and reading stories about how initiatives are growing in response to the social and environmental justice issues of our time.
We’d like to highlight your stories of innovation, resiliency, and creativity. Perhaps your story will be an inspiration to someone else. Perhaps new connections will be made, ideas spawned and amplified, and support generated. Let’s hear about the amazing work that continues to happen in this field, despite everything, because of everything!
These awards will showcase remarkable work in community-engaged arts taking place in Canada.
There are three categories:
Innovation
Resiliency
Creativity
One award will be given in each category. Each award-winning initiative will receive a certificate and $350 award as well as recognition on the ArtBridges hub. You can apply for one, two, or all three award categories. The awards jury will be comprised of three active leaders in community arts in Canada.
You are eligible to nominate a community-engaged arts initiative that you are involved with or one you would like to support. To be considered, please fill out the attached one-page nomination formhttp://goo.gl/forms/Unv1GClZHm and submit it back to ArtBridges by March 1st, 2022.
Vous pouvez soumettre la candidature d’un organisme pour lequel vous travaillez ou avec lequel vous collaborez, ou celle d’un autre organisme dont vous voulez soutenir le travail. Pour participer, veuillez remplir ce formulaire d’ici le 1 mars 2022: http://goo.gl/forms/Unv1GClZHm
