Mini Profile: Frozen Eyes Photographic Society (Yellowknife)

Mini Profile: Frozen Eyes Photographic Society
Status: Non-profit
Community served: We exist primarily to teach photography to northern youth. We also deliver workshops to the general public, and provide professional development for photography mentors/society members.
Arts focus: Photography
Language(s): English & French
Location: Yellowknife and across the North
Mandate: The primary goal of the Frozen Eyes Photographic Society is to promote photography and mentor youth across the Northwest Territories. To better perform their role as mentors, members of the society will be offered photo-related workshops and other opportunities to further develop their skills. Members of the society may offer photographic workshops on topics of interest to the general public. To help promote the Society and it’s programs, student and mentor work will be shown in exhibitions. This work may also be printed in publications and presented on the Internet. These goals are accomplished with the understanding that funding obtained for a specific purpose (i.e. youth photography workshops) will not be used for another purpose (i.e. professional development workshops for members)
Contact: President – Brent Reany, Vice President – David Pritchard
E-mail: info@frozeneyes.com
Website: http://www.frozeneyes.com

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Mini Profile: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (Dawson)

Mini Profile: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (operated by the Dawson City Arts Society)
Status: Not-for-profit organization
Community served: Dawson, Yukon Territory and it’s visitors
Arts focus: visual arts/media arts/theatre/dance/music/arts education
Location: Dawson City, Yukon
Language: English
Mandate: Dawson City Arts Society (DCAS) is a community organization created to enrich the quality of life in the Yukon through the enhancement of arts, culture and an art based economy.
Mission: Dawson City Arts Society is a catalyst, creator and facilitator in arts education, arts presentation and arts celebration. DCAS seeks involvement from the community and from emerging and professional artists at the local, national and international level.
Contact: Karen DuBois, Executive Director
E-mail: kiac@kiac.ca
Website: www.kiac.ca

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Mini Profile: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (operated by the Dawson City Arts Society)
Status: Not-for-profit organization
Community served: Dawson, Yukon Territory and it’s visitors
Arts focus: visual arts/media arts/theatre/dance/music/arts education
Location: Dawson City, Yukon

Language: English
Mandate: Dawson City Arts Society (DCAS) is a community organization created to enrich the quality of life in the Yukon through the enhancement of arts, culture and an art based economy.
Mission: Dawson City Arts Society is a catalyst, creator and facilitator in arts education, arts presentation and arts celebration. DCAS seeks involvement from the community and from emerging and professional artists at the local, national and international level.
Contact: Karen DuBois, Executive Director
Phone number: (867) 993-5005
E-mail: kiac@kiac.ca
Website: www.kiac.ca
Address: Box 913, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Y0B 1G0

Mini-Profile: The Borough Most Thorough (Community Arts Project, Scarborough)

photos  by Jennifer D. Fabico

“Presented in partnership by the Scarborough Arts Council & Beatz to da Streetz, The Borough Most Thorough is a series of fully immersive urban music creation workshops for youth ages 14 -19. The Borough Most Thorough reinforces for participating youth the depth of cultural wealth that currently exists within themselves and their own communities.

One local community organization from each of Scarborough’s six priority neighbourhoods plays host to an intense, week-long series of mobile music recording workshops. Each workshop allows 10 youth to collaborate on the creation of original hip-hop tracks. Participants explore the writing, recording, production, and performance phases of an original album. The program culminates in the creation of a professionally produced album and digital .mp3 files. The Borough Most Thorough participants gain first hand recording experience, and are free to use their final album to promote themselves and their art form. The recording is free to be shared and distributed by its creators, fueling future musical endeavours without traditional music industry parameters.

The Borough Most Thorough 2010 creates a forum in which it is possible for Scarborough youth to directly develop important life skills, while networking in a safe environment and collaborating with like-minded individuals.”

- Submitted by Jennifer D. Fabico (BFA, BEd), Program and Outreach Coordinator, The Borough Most Thorough,  e-mail or call (416)698 -7322

Here’s a great video from a TBMT rehearsal of at the McGregor Community Centre in Dorset Park (July 2010, video by Jennifer D. Fabico):

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Mini Profile: 4Cs Foundation (Halifax)

Mini Profile: 4Cs Foundation
Status: Resource
Community served: “children, youth, artists, schools and community members in Halifax Regional Municipality” *
Arts focus: “We are a grant-giving private foundation that embraces a role of community animator to stimulate the growth of community arts in the Halifax Regional Municipality. We provide training in community arts facilitation, a small resource library, and take part in many activities, meetings and groups related to community arts.”*
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mandate: “The mandate of the 4Cs Foundation is to build connections between children and their communities through arts projects in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. To fulfil our mandate, the 4Cs provides grants for community engaged arts projects. We also work to support, train, and connect people interested in community engaged arts.”*
Contact: Terri Whetstone, Executive Director
E-mail: director@4csfoundation.com

* 4Cs Foundation’s About Us page.

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Culture Days (Canada-wide)

“Celebrating Arts and Culture from Coast to Coast to Coast: September 24-26“

“Culture Days is a collaborative pan-Canadian volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. A national Steering Committee, together with provincial committees (known as Provincial Task Forces) are self-mobilizing at the grassroots level to implement concurrent annual province-wide public participation events each September beginning in 2010. The annual, concurrent Culture Days events across Canada will feature free, hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to participate “behind the scenes,” to discover the world of artists, creators, historians, architects, curators, and designers… in their community.” (from “About Culture Days” page)

- provided by Helen Yung, Community Engagement Manager, (514) 873-2692

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Workshop: Neighbourhood Arts Network (Toronto)

This workshop is open to the public free of charge, but you need to register first with Skye Louis, Neighbourhood Arts Network Coordinator, call (416) 392-6802 ext. 212 or e-mail: skye@torontoarts.org

-submitted by Skye Louis, Neighbourhood Arts Network Coordinator

Nouvelles d’Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay, assistante de recherche francophone pour ToileDesArts/ Update from Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay, ArtBridges Francophone Research Assistant

Bonjour à tous!

Je suis de retour au bureau de ToileDesArts aujourd’hui après un été long et délicieux…En auto de Toronto à Vancouver, je vois maintenant le Canada à travers de nouveaux yeux. Je suis arrêtée à quelques centres d’arts formidables, et j’ai hâte de vous raconter mes histoires!

Aujourd’hui il pleut fort et le ciel est gris, mais en entendant toutes les nouvelles de l’été de la part de Seanna, la météo n’affecte pas mon humeur et j’ai hâte de recommencer mon travail comme poste d’assistante de recherche francophone, en cherchant des projets, programmes, organismes et ressources en arts communautaires qui améliorent l’accès aux arts au Canada. Je suis contente aussi de recommencer à l’université York en études de l’environnement et en arts communautaires.

Virgile Kpodar, l’assistant de recherche qui a travaillé récemment à ToileDesArts, avec l’aide de notre bénévole Aurélia Bizouard, ont tous deux trouvé et communiqué avec d’extraordinaires projets, programmes, organismes et ressources au Manitoba ainsi qu’au Québec. Nous avons aussi reçu des informations sur des les arts communautaires à travers le Canada sans en demander, ainsi que des demandes pour faire partie du projet. Il me semble que le projet de ToileDesArts accumule beaucoup d’intérêt à l’échelle nationale!

Nous continuons donc notre trajet à travers le Canada. Puisque nos recherches initiales dans l’est francophone du Canada sont terminées, nous nous avançons vers l’ouest, pour trouver les arts francophones communautaires au Saskatchewan, l’Alberta, la Colombie-Britannique, le Yukon, les territoires du Nord-Ouest, et finalement, le Nunavut. Saskatchewan, nous voilà!

Hello everyone!

I’m back at the ArtBridges office today after a long and hazy summer… Traveling in the car from Toronto to Vancouver, I see Canada differently now, through a new lens. I stopped at a few amazing arts centers on the way, and I’m excited to share some of my stories!

Today, it is raining hard and the sky is grey, but after hearing Seanna talk about everything that’s happened over the summer at ArtBridges, the weather does not dampen my spirits and I can’t wait to start working again as the Francophone research assistant, searching for community arts projects, programs, organizations and resources that enhance access to the arts in Canada. I am also excited to start my third year at York University in Environmental Studies and Community Arts.

Virgile Kpodar, ArtBridges’ recent Francophone research assistant, along with our volunteer Aurélia Bizouard, have both identified and communicated with amazing projects, programs, organizations and resources in Manitoba and Québec. We’ve had people coming to us with community arts information and asking if they can be a part of our project. It seems to me that the ArtBridges project is gaining a lot of interest nationally!

Thus we continue our journey across Canada. As our initial research in Francophone Eastern Canada is complete, we roll on towards the West, to find whatever Francophone community arts lurk in Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia,Yukon, the North-West Territories, and finally, Nunavut. Saskatchewan, here we come!

-photos and text by Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay, Francophone Research Assistant/ Assistante de recherche francophone

E-Newsletter: Community Arts Council of Vancouver

ArtBridges has been subscribing to this e-newsletter for more than a year. It is a great resource that provides communication about all sorts of community arts events, developments and programs happening in Vancouver and the surrounding area. Anyone interested in learning more about what is going on community art-wise in the Vancouver area, we’d suggest that you subscribe to this newsletter! (See below on how to subscribe.)

“Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) creates community through the arts.

Our mission: CACV is the voice for the community arts in Vancouver. We explore critical social issues through creative processes. CACV fosters and supports programs, practices and initiatives that develop common understanding through shared experiences.

From its founding in 1946 as the first community arts council in North America to today, CACV has been influential in the arts and culture scene in Vancouver. 2010 program priorities are to support community arts programming and infrastructure in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver; provide leadership in community arts in the City as a whole; and be a leader in the developing field of environmental art.”

- provided by Mary Bennett,  Administrator, Community Arts Council of Vancouver, 604-617-0142, mary@cacv.ca

To subscribe to the e-newsletter, look for the sidebar on the right side of the website and enter your e-mail in the “Join Our Newsletter List” box!

You can also visit their social media network site where you can view upcoming community arts events, meet CACV board and volunteers and participate in dialogue about community arts. (Registration required.)

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Call for Conference Speakers/ Demonstrators: Art For All Canada (AFAC)

Submitted by Sheila J. Mitchell, Executive Director, Art For All Canada:

“Art For All Canada (AFAC) is a not-for-profit organization,
run by artists, to help visual artists develop, show and sell their work commission-free.
Our web site is at www.artforallcanada.org

Call for Conference Speakers / Demonstrators:

Following two very successful annual events, plans for our third annual Conference and Art Show are under way to help artists – painters, sculptors, photographers – to develop, show and sell their work.

Tell us about anyone who you think is a good communicator and a successful painter, sculptor, photographer or art expert and who would make a compelling conference speaker at Art For All Canada’s 3rd annual Conference and Art Show is to be held in March 2011 in Metro Hall, Toronto.

Please email me the name(s) and a short biography about your nominee(s) – or yourself if you are interested in participating.

Also, please pass this email along to any artists you know who could be interested, or ask them to join our e-mail list (at our web site) or get in touch with me.

Yours in art,  Sheila J. Mitchell, Executive Director, Art For All Canada, Tel: (416)-756-3221, sheila@artforallcanada.org “

Mini Profile: Arts for Children and Youth (Toronto)

Mini Profile: Arts for Children and Youth
Status: Not-for-profit, charitable organization
Community served: Children and Youth living in Toronto’s under-serviced neighbourhoods including marginalized, special needs, homeless, First Nations, new immigrants.
Arts focus: visual arts/media arts/performance arts including dance, dub poetry, spoken word, theatre, music
Location: Toronto
Mandate: Arts for Children and Youth’s (AFCY) mandate is to engage young people living in priority neighbourhoods in high quality and accessible arts educational programs that are meaningful, relevant and collaboratively developed with community and education partners. AFCY positions arts programs in schools and neighbourhood venues as a means of building community, and empowering marginalized children and youth to reach their full potential as artists and social contributors.
Contact: Julie Frost, Executive & Artistic Director
E-mail: julie@afcy.ca

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