What does “ArtBridging” mean to you?
We think it’s time to change our look and in the community spirit of things, we need your help! Help us create a new logo for ArtBridges/ToileDesArts.
Help us spread the word by posting this flyer at your local community arts centres/ projects or programs, etc. Download the flyer here! (right click, save as)
Logo contest submissions are due by January 31, 2012.
Que pensez-vous de la ToileDesArts?
Nous croyons que c’est le temps de changer notre “look”! Dans un esprit communautaire, nous sollicitons votre aide pour la création d’un nouveau logo. Suivez ce lien pour télécharger notre affiche!
La date d’échéance du concours est le 31 janvier 2012.
Profile: Women’s Place Kenora
Status: Charitable Non-Profit
Community Served: Women
Arts Focus: We provide opportunities for different forms of art. Art forms are utilized for a healing approach to dealing with all issues affecting women and their families.
Language(s): English
Location: Kenora, Ontario
Mandate: Women’s Place is women’s resource centre, owned and operated by a feminist collective, which exists to advocate for dignity and equality for all women.
Main Arts Activities/Projects:
SWEETGRASS FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – This festival was just held Sep 30-Oct 2, 2011 during Culture Days. Three days of film screenings, filmmakers, entertainment, food and much discussion and learning.
REGULAR ART ACTIVITIES – We hold a variety of art workshops throughout the year with themes such as healthy lifestyles, gardening, dreams, self-esteem, culture, etc.
PUBLIC EDUCATION – At awareness events, we have a canvas available for persons who participate and feel they would like to paint, draw, spray, glue, sprinkle, sew their feelings and thoughts about what the event means to them.
Contact: Colette Surovy, Executive Director
Phone Number: (807) 468-9095
E-mail: info@wpk.ca or colette627@shaw.ca
Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Womens-Place-Kenora
Address: 530 3rd Street North, Kenora, Ontario, P9N 2M3
Submitted by Colette Surovy, Executive Director
Women’s Place Kenora
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Profile: Smooth Rock Falls Art Center
Status: Not-for-profit Organization
Community Served: Adults and Youth 15+ years. Special young children’s programs are held in other venues, such as the SRF Public Library.
Arts focus: Visual & Textile Arts (Anyone may join but visual and textile arts is our focus.)
Language: French/English (Bilingual)
Location: SRF Heritage Centre, basement.
Mandate: To promote the creation of art within the community, to educate the public about the arts, and to encourage, and mentor, young artists in the community.
Main arts activities/projects: We are a Partner with the SFR Heritage Centre. We have Open Studios (twice weekly) where artists can create in a group environment, working on their own projects. We schedule workshops on specific Thursday dates, and have occasional weekend workshops from Visiting Artists. We have a small ongoing art exhibition in the clubhouse and an annual Art Exhibition/Sale during the Smooth Rock Truckfest in September.
Contact: President 2012, Pamela Dallaire
Phone number: 705-262-1506
E-mail: pameladallaire@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.srfartists.webs.com/
Address: The clubhouse is located at 45 Third Avenue, Smooth Rock Falls, ON. Letters should be mailed to Pamela Dallaire, PO Box 466, Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario, Canada, P0L 2B0.
-submitted by Pam Dallaire, Centre Art SRF Art Center
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Profile: Porcupine Art Club
Status: Not-for-profit organization, incorporated. Established Sept 1947.
Community served: Adults 18+ years but some special projects involve children.
Art focus: Visual Arts – Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, and other two dimensional fine artwork (does not include photography).
Location: The corner of Pine St.N. and Eighth Ave. (in the Roy Nicholson Park), Timmins, Ontario, Canada.
Mandate:
Aims and Objectives
a) To foster interest in the appreciation of art.
b) To promote professional development of members.
c) To promote professional relationship with art centers and art groups.
d) To further art education in the community.
Main art activities and projects: Once a week (usually on Thursday evening) the PAC holds either a workshop, group free paint (working on their own projects), business meeting, outing, slideshow, or artist demonstration. Examples of workshops are Charcoal Drawing from photo reference or a live model, Graphite, Pastel, Watercolour techniques, Printmaking, Oil Painting, Framing, and more. Weekend workshops by visiting artists can be held at any time and cost is determined by the artist teacher. Most workshops are open to the public at a small charge or standard fee for weekend workshops. Workshops for children are held in the Timmins Museum, schools, or the Timmins Public Library. Annual exhibitions (one themed and the other open) encourage members to create new artworks. Annual Sales in different venues, and Sunday Open Studio’s during the summer, allow the public to view or purchase artwork and speak to the artists. Mentoring and social networking are important aspects of the PAC. The PAC website and FACEBOOK page encourage communication between accomplished artists and the beginners in art.
Contact: Ellen Catherwood, President 2011/2012
E-mail: ellencc@hotmail.com
PAC website: http://www.freewebs.com/porcupineartclub/
PAC FACEBOOK page: Friends of PAC page
-submitted by Pamela Dallaire, Porcupine Art Club
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What does “ArtBridging” mean to you?
We think it’s time to change our look and in the community spirit of things, we need your help! Help us create a new logo for ArtBridges/ToileDesArts.
Help us spread the word by posting this flyer at your local community arts centres/ projects or programs, etc. Download the flyer here! (right click, save as)
Logo contest submissions are due by January 31, 2012.
What does “ArtBridging” mean to you?
We think it’s time to change our look and in the community spirit of things, we need your help! Help us create a new logo for ArtBridges/ToileDesArts.
Help us spread the word by posting this flyer at your local community arts centres/ projects or programs, etc. Download the flyer here! (right click, save as)
Logo contest submissions are due by January 31, 2012.
Profile: Combat Paper Project
Status: Program
Community served: Military service members, veterans, families and members of the non-veteran community
Arts focus: Hand papermaking, printmaking and bookbinding
Language: English
Location: San Francisco, CA, with traveling projects in the USA and Canada
Past projects in Canada:
April 7, 2009 – Champlain Regional College, Lennoxville, Quebec: Combat Paper Project members engaged [sic] the campus community with readings and performances. Sponsored by Scratch Magazine, the college’s literary annual.
November 28 – 30, 2008 – Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Combat Papermakers conducted [sic] a Combat Paper Workshop with area veterans. The workshop is in conjunction with a small exhibit in the OSA Gallery, a Combat Paper presentation and performances.
Mandate/Main arts projects: Combat Paper Project uses the traditional hand papermaking techniques to facilitate intergenerational workshops with veterans, family members and the non-veteran community. The uniforms that were once worn in service are transformed into handmade paper, prints and books. In this way, there is a shared understanding, dialogue and commemoration for those who have returned with communities in which they live.
The artwork is both a public record and testament while shown in exhibition, and also a form of empowerment and artistic expression. The workshops promote and understanding between the civilian and the veteran; contribute to reconciling the experiences in conflict and military service as well as fostering community between misrepresented populations.
Contact: Drew Cameron
Phone number: 802.316.1124
E-mail: info@combatpaper.org
Website: www.combatpaper.org
Address: PO Box 40477 San Francisco, CA 94140-0477
-submitted by Drew Cameron, Combat Paper Project
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First JUMBLIES SEMINAR of 2012
co-hosted by Making Room Community Arts
“Special Guest: Noah Kenneally presenting his work in Nunavik.
Location: Parc Activity Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen Street West
Date: Thursday January 19th
Agenda: 6:30: meet, greet, refreshments, 7:00: presentation, 8:00: questions, discussion, mingling, 9:00 end.
Cost: PWYC donations gratefully accepted
Solo Chicken Productions, led by Lisa Anne Ross, has coordinated the Nunavik Theatre Arts Program in Northern Quebec for nine years, working in schools in remote Inuit villages to develop community arts projects. In 2010 and 2011, Noah Kenneally joined the team as coordinator of the Innalik Mask and Puppet Project, in Inukjuak, Nunavik. Using masks, puppets and other visual theatre elements, the children of Innalik Public School tell stories about their experiences, their ideas and their community.
Noah Kenneally worked for several years as a community artist, primarily in visual theatre and performance. He was an associate artist with Jumblies Theatre for eight years. In 2008, he began undergraduate studies in Early Childhood Education at Ryerson University, and still did small community arts projects here and there. Noah plans to continue in academia for a while, and his graduate studies involve an inquiry into children’s autonomous spaces for for a while, and his graduate studies involve an inquiry into children’s autonomous spaces for play.”
-posted with permission from Ruth Howard, Jumblies Theatre
Please read ArtBridges’ Jumblies Profile and Making Room Community Arts Profile.
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Profile: Aiding Dramatic Change in Development
Status: Not-for-profit organization
Community served: Youth, adults, seniors, children, newcomers
Arts focus: visual arts, media arts, theatre
Language(s): English, Spanish. Also use of non-verbal exercises which bridges the language divide (in South Africa Zulu, Xhosa)
Location: Based in Toronto. Projects based in Toronto, Niagara, and South Africa
Mandate: Dramatic Change is a non-profit organization working to empower communities in Canada and abroad through participatory arts processes reflecting the culture, desires, and life experiences of the people in the community.
Main art projects: In Canada we are running Cross-Generation Conversations (Niagara) and The World of AAC (North Yorkers Disabled Persons, Toronto)
Main arts activities: To facilitate the accessibility of theatre, and art as powerful forces for change, particularly to those in marginalized communities. To work on artistically challenging projects where community and cultural dialogue remain at the core.We also conduct evaluations and/or research in collaboration with all of our community partners to monitor and evaluate effectiveness, improve knowledge translation, and inform the work of stakeholders.
Project profile: Cross “X” Generations Conversations
Main Partner Organisations: Fort Erie Multicultural Centre, Centre for Community Based Research, Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre
Project summary: Cross “X” Generations Conversations involves a series of Art Dialogue Community Workshops in both St. Catharines and Fort Erie focused on increasing understanding on relevant intergenerational issues within the Niagara Newcomer community. The workshops will use Socio-Drama Topography (SDT) – an arts-based community engagement process that combines community mapping with non-verbal dialogue and socio-drama exercises. It is a community capacity building process that allows the participants to guide the exploration and discussion and ultimately the change in the community. SDT was developed by, Aiding Dramatic Change in Development (ADCID), during their 7 years work with marginalized communities in South Africa. The project also involves a Developmental Evaluation, by the Centre for Community Based Research (CCBR), to adapt the SDT tool to a Canadian and Niagara regional context.
Contact: Executive directors: Stephen Sillett and Jennifer Jimenez
Phone number: +1 416 823 4957
E-mail: stephen@adcid.org
Website: www.adcid.org
Address: Suite 215, 1000 King Street West, Toronto, Canada M6K 3N1
- Submitted by Stephen Sillett, Aiding Dramatic Change in Development
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Project profile continued:
ArtBridges / ToileDesArts: Project of Tides Canada Initiatives
Contact ArtBridges at: 416-691-7777
or 1-877-278-3002 (toll-free)
sconnell@artbridges.ca
artbridgestoiledesarts@gmail.com
ArtBridges Office Address: 2006 Queen St. East, Suite 6
Toronto, ON, M4L 1J3
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