Profil: Association franco-culturelle de Hay River (Hay River, Territoires du Nord-Ouest)

Profil: Association franco-culturelle de Hay River
Position: Organisme associatif à but non-lucratif
Communauté visée pour la programmation d’art: Ouvert à tous, mais plus particulièrement les francophones et francophiles.
Discipline d’art: Surtout musique, mais également art visuel.
Langue(s) utilisée(s): Français
Région: Hay River dans les territoires du nord-ouest, mais également le sud du Grand lac des Esclaves en collaboration avec l’Association des Francophones de Fort Smith et l’Association franco-culturelle de Yellowknife.
Objectif de la programmation d’art: Oeuvrer à l’affirmation et à l’épanouissement de la francophonie à Hay River. Plus particulièrement au niveau culturel, assurer une programmation culturelle et favoriser le développement des arts.
Sommaire des activités/projets artistiques principaux: Participer à la programmation de Coup de Coeur francophone en novembre. Faire découvrir des artistes francophones en organisant une tournée dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest. Favoriser la promotion d’artistes francophones locaux lors d’événement organisés dans la communauté.
Contact: Catherine Boulanger, Agente de développement
Tel.: 867-874-3171
E-mail: afchr@franco-nord.com
Site web: afchr.ca et franco-foin sur Facebook
Adresse: 77A Woodland Dr., Hay River, Territoires du Nord-Ouest, X0E 1G2, Canada

soumis par Justin Carey, président, Association franco-culturelle de Hay River

Veuillez s.v.p visiter la carte Google pour l’information de contact.

Profile: Full Circle First Nations Performance (Vancouver)

Shyama Priya, Talking Stick Festival 2010, photo taken by Chris Randle

Profile: Full Circle First Nations Performance
Status: Not-for-profit organization
Community served: Youth/Adults/First Nations/Performing Artists
Arts focus: Visual Arts/Media Arts/Theatre/Dance/Music/Etc.
Language(s): English
Location: Vancouver, BC
Mandate: Full Circle speaks of many images…
- full gathering of people – all races, cultures, communities, perspectives
- completeness, inclusiveness, wholeness
- the completion of a journey
- unceasing movement – no beginning or ending.
Margo Kane established Full Circle First Nations Performance in 1992, with principles in mind that reflect these images. Full Circle creates opportunities for Aboriginal artists, writers and performers to express the reality of First Nations experiences and to work in harmony with First Nations traditions while engaging contemporary, interdisciplinary theatrical techniques. Full Circle provides an environment that fosters the development of skills, ideas, exploration, and collaboration.
The ensemble members are dancers, singers, actors, clowns, writers, and musicians. Margo Kane employs a collaborative approach through workshops that become research and training projects for all participants. Full Circle’s skilled and talented artists are excellent creative ambassadors for Aboriginal communities and valuable role models for emerging Native artists. A number of them have moved on to practice as actors, performing artists, musicians, visual artists, and writers in mainstream theatre in Canada.
Integral to Full Circle’s mandate is networking and collaborating with performing artists and arts organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Main arts activities/projects: Talking Stick Festival, Ensemble Training Program, Creation and Development of New Works, Community Development and Outreach
Contact: Margo Kane, Artistic Managing Director
Phone number: 604-683-0497
E-mail: info@fullcircle.ca
Website: www.fullcircle.ca
Address: PO BOX 12, 206-02, 555 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC, V5T 1E2

Jaime Thomson and Git Hayetsk Dancer, Talking Stick Festival 2010, photo taken by Chris Randle

Submitted by Nyla Carpentier, Artistic Associate & Outreach Intern
Full Circle First Nations Performance

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Sommaire: arts communautaires francophones au Yukon/ Summary: Francophone community arts in Yukon

Yukon: territoire du grand fleuve et les montagnes recouvertes du taïga. Quels sortes de merveilleux oeuvres artistiques et culturels se trouvent dans tous ses coins?

Selon le census 2006, presque 4% des habitants de ce vaste terrain parlent le français comme langue maternelle, et il me semble qu’ils profitent beaucoup des activités artistiques! L’Association franco-yukonnaise, l’organisme francophone principal du Yukon, en est preuve, offrant de nombreux projets et activités artistiques: expositions, ateliers, festivals, galas, etc.

En cherchant d’avantage les projets, programmes, organismes, et ressources en arts communautaires francophones à travers le Yukon, j’ai trouvé qu’il y avait des modèles exceptionels de collaboration entre les francophones et les anglophones, que je n’avait pas su autrement. En fait, Virginie Hamel, directrice de l’Association franco-yukonnaise, affirme que: “On voit de plus en plus de collaboration entre les organismes.” En particulier, le Centre de francophonie de Dawson a un modèle intéressant. Plutôt que d’essayer de créer ses propres projets uniquement francophones, le Centre de francophonie de Dawson travaille avec les organismes anglophones afin de rendre les évènements et projets bilingues. Ceci attire un public plus vaste, et rejoint les francophones et anglophones.

The Yukon Arts Centre/Le centre des arts du Yukon font aussi quelques partenartiats, et ont inclut dans leur mandat de présenter et de souligner les artistes francophones.

J’aimerais aussi souligner le Théâtre Art-Lequin, une troupe de théâtre qui font la mise en scène d’une ou deux pièces par année. Le Théâtre Art-Lequin invite en particulier les membres de la communauté qui n’ont jamais fait de théâtre!

Nous avons donc identifié quatre organismes en arts communautaires francophones d’une liste de 20 différentes sources.

-Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay, Assistante de recherche, ToileDesArts, le 22 juin 2011

Summary

Yukon: the great river territory, where the mountains are blanketed with taiga. What kinds of beautiful works of the Francophone arts and culture can be found in its nooks and crannies?

According to the 2006 Census, almost 4% of the inhabitants of this vast territory claim French to be their mother tongue. It seems to me that most of them also very much appreciate the arts and culture! The proof lies in the main francophone organization in the Yukon: l’Association franco-yukonnaise and its many different artistic projects and activities: art exhibits, festivals, workshops, etc.

While searching for other projects, programs, organizations and resources in Francophone community arts in the Yukon, I found that there were some remarkable models in terms of collaboration between Francophones and Anglophones that I hadn’t previously heard of elsewhere. In particular, le Centre de francophonie de Dawson has an interesting model. Rather than create its own, exclusively Francophone projects, le Centre de francophonie de Dawson works with Anglophone organizations in order to create a bilingual audience. This attracts a larger audience and unites the Francophones and the Anglophones.

The Yukon Arts Centre/Le centre des arts du Yukon has also created a few partnerships, and have included in their mandate to present and promote Francophone artists.

I’d also like to highlight le Théâtre Art-Lequin, a theatre group producing one or two plays per year. Le Théâtre Art-Lequin invites in particular members of the community who have never done any theatre work!

We have identified these 4 organizations as great Francophone community arts initiatives out of a list of 20 sources.

-Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay, Francophone Research Assistant, June 22nd, 2011

Education: Indigenous Interactive Multimedia Program (Ottawa)

We recently posted about Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations and we thought their Indigenous Interactive Multimedia Program deserved a post all it’s own. The 8-month program offers courses in basic graphics, web design and Flash, as well as an Aboriginal/Inuit component that includes Words from the Elders and Cultural Arts. Offered in collaboration with Carleton University in Ottawa, the ICMI program will provide students with the opportunity to develop their portfolios and pursue further post-secondary education and employment opportunities in Media Arts.   – Cora

Please see ArtBridge’s Google Map for contact information.

Read Artbridges’ profile on Indigenous Culture & Media Innovations here.

Download the application form IIMMPApplication.

Submitted by Nicole Quenneville, ICMI

The value of working with students: ArtBridges networks with the educational community

Students Celina Respall, Sarah Boucher and William Feng. Photos by Seanna Connell

From January 27th through April 8th, three students, Sarah Boucher, William Feng and Celina Respall from Centennial College New Media and University of Toronto/Centennial College Joint New Media programs paired with ArtBridges/ToileDesArts for their client project.

Their goal was to examine the ArtBridges/ToileDesArts network and find ways to make our website and blog more user friendly. They prepared navigation maps for the website and blog, the website wireframe and prototype and design layouts. Altogether, they contributed 240 volunteer hours!

The students presented their work to their class and professors on Wednesday, March 30th at Centennial College.

This in-kind project is valued at $5,000!

Over the next few months, ArtBridges/ToileDesArts will be working with their final project and adapting it for use. We are working towards building a fully interactive website, which has been in our strategic plan from day one! Until then, the free social networks – wordpress, google map, facebook and twitter work well to communicate.

Many thanks, Sarah Boucher, Celina Respall and William Feng for your stellar creativity, problem solving and attention to details! Thanks also to Professor and Program Coordinator Marie José Crête for selecting ArtBridges/ToileDesArts as a client for your students!

submitted by Seanna Connell, Project Director, ArtBridges/ToileDesArts

Profil: Institut Tshakapesh (Uashat, QC)

Profil: Institut Tshakapesh
Position: Organisme à but non lucratif
Communauté visée pour la programmation d’art: Toutes les communautés innues membres de l’Institut Tshakapesh qui sont  8 :  De l’Est vers l’Ouest : Pakut-shipu, Unaman-shipu, Nutashkuan, Ekuanitshit, Uashat mak Mani-utenam, Matimekush, Pessamit, Essipit.
Jeunes / Aînés / Femmes /
Portes ouvertes à tous, par exemple : le Symposium de peinture annuel.
Mandat: Le premier mandat du Secteur de la culture est de voir à la conservation du patrimoine, au développement et à la mise en valeur de la culture innue tout en ne dérogeant pas aux métiers d’arts innus.
Discipline d’art: Arts : peinture, visuel, musique. Écrivain : poésie, etc.
Langue(s) utilisée(s): Innu / français / et anglais, s’il y a lieu.  La majorité de la clientèle parle innu ou français.
Région: Partout

CI-DESSUS: Carte de la région servie par l’Institut Tshakapesh venant du site www.icem.ca

Objectif de la programmation d’art: Programme « CULTURE-ÉDUCATION
D’aider le milieu de la culture et le milieu de l’éducation à mettre les jeunes plus directement en contact avec les arts et la culture dans le cadre des enseignements. Ce programme couvre les champs des arts, de l’histoire et de la sensibilisation au patrimoine, de la langue et de la littérature, de l’éducation cinématographique, de l’éducation aux médias et de la culture scientifique et technique et fait appel à des ressources culturelles professionnelles
Où consulter les ressources culturelles: http://www.mcccf.gouv.qc.ca/rencontres/index.htm
Sommaire des activités/projets artistiques principaux:
Volet 1 – Les artistes et les écrivains à l’école;
Volet 2 – Les sorties culturelles;
Volet 3 – Les projets de concertation culture-éducation
Contact: Yvette Mollen, Directrice du secteur culture; Danielle Hervieux, Conseillère auprès du secteur culture
Tel.: 418-968-4424
Télécopie: 418-968-1841
Ligne sans frais: 1-800-391-4424
E-mail: yvette.mollen@tshakapesh.ca; danielle.hervieux@tshakapesh.ca
Site web: www.tshakapesh.ca
Adresse: 1034 Brochu, Uashat, (Québec), G4R 2M3

soumis par Danielle Hervieux, Conseillère Innu-Aitun, Institut Tshakapesh

Veuillez s.v.p visiter la carte Google pour l’information de contact.

Profile: The Dakhká Khwáan Dancers (Whitehorse)

Profile: The Dakhká Khwáan Dancers
Status: Non-profit society
Community served: Everyone
Arts focus: Visual – Traditional Tlingit Dancing/Singing/Drumming/Storytelling
Location: Yukon Territory
Mandate: The Dakhká Khwáan Dancers work to bring opportunity of cultural revitalization and social transformation within our communities by reclaiming our languages, traditional values through the traditional art form of song, drumming, dance, storytelling. We strive to present our culture with the outmost respect to cultural protocol and with the highest form of artistic integrity.
Our Structure: Dakhká Khwáan Development Circle operates as a non-for profit organization, under the Yukon Society Act. The structure consists of a Board of Directors: President, Secretary and Treasure with a membership, the Board and membership are comprised of dance group members, key members of the community and our elders.
Decisions and direction of the group are made as a group in the talking circle process through visioning and strategic planning. We strive to make decisions through consensus, if this is not possible then we will go to a vote.
Our History: Originating in 2007, young aboriginal professionals of the Tagish Tlingit First Nations formulated a small dance/ theatre group, previously known as First Peoples Performances, driven by the desire to provide a space to learn and understand their customs, practices and history while working to raise the public’s awareness of the rich First Nation culture that continues to exist within the Yukon.
Three years following we have been privileged to continue to work with our Elders to create a space and place for other aboriginal people to learn and understand the history and the relevance of the Tagish Tlingit values, customs, languages, stories and songs. Throughout this period Dakhká Khwáan has developed into an organized group that holds regular dance practices, whereby the Tlingit language is taught, traditional regalia is developed, principles, protocols and values are taught through traditional stories and songs while working with both Elders and youth.
Since 2007, our group has grown from 6 to 25 members representing the Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Teslin Tlingit Council, and the Kwanlin Dun First Nation; the common thread between all of us is our Inland Tlingit ancestry; Dakhká Khwáan means Inland People/Nation. We are members of the Dakla’weidi, Ganaxteidi, Deisheetaan, Ishkihittaan, Lukaax.ádi and Wolf Clans.
Our group is comprised of many dancers who have been participating in traditional singing and dancing since childhood and also people who are just learning about their culture.
Our group focuses on bringing the traditional stories into life through dramatization, song, dance, drumming, storytelling and multi-media. We find immense strength and empowerment that provides a solid foundation and sense of pride to us as our journey of reclamation takes us through many challenges but also through times of elation and peace.
We honour our teachers through the years; Angela Sidney, Austin Hammond, George Dawson, Clara Schinkel, Ida Calmegane, Doris Mclean and many many more elders who have provided guidance, support and traditional teachings to members of the group throughout our lives.
Significant Achievements: We have been blessed with countless opportunities to build relationships and friendships with numerous other Indigenous dancers across the Northwest Coast and worldwide. Some of our highlighted performances and significant achievements include:
- Vancouver Olympics  2010, BC Place, Aboriginal Pavilion
- We Yah Hani Nah Northwest Coast Dance Festival 08, 09, 10, Vancouver BC,
- Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver, BC 2010
- Celebration, Juneau, Alaska, 08, 10,
- Winterlude, Ottawa, Ontario 09
- APTN Aboriginal Day Live, Whitehorse, Yukon 09
- Haa Kustee yea Inland Tlingit Celebration, Teslin, Yukon 09
- Moosehide Gathering, Dawson City, Yukon 08’ 10’
- Te Matatini Maori Dance Festival, Gisbourne, New Zealand, 2011
- Northwest Coast Dance Festival, Vancouver BC, 2011
Contact: Marilyn Jensen, President/Manager/Dance Group Leader
Phone number: 867-334-9886
E-mail: dakhakwaan@gmail.com
Address: c/o 109 Finch Cres., Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5X5

Submitted by Marilyn Jensen, The Dakhká Khwáan Dancers

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All above photos courtesy of David Jensen

Profil: Association Théâtre Art-Lequin (Whitehorse)

Profil: Association Théâtre Art-Lequin
Position: Association sans but lucratif
Communauté visée pour la programmation d’art: Art-Lequin vise une clientèle adulte de tous âges et les enfants du primaire avec le Théâtre de la pastèque
Discipline d’art: Théâtre et spectacles multi-disciplinaire
Langue(s) utilisée(s): Français, anglais et bilingue
Région: Yukon principalement à Whitehorse
Objectif de la programmation d’art:
1. Développer l’espace culturel francophone au Yukon et l’avancement artistique par le biais du théâtre;
2. Encourager l’expression artistique francophone au Yukon et assurer son rayonnement à travers le Yukon;
3. Offrir des occasions de formation (production, jeu et technique) grâce à des productions locales et à la participation à des séances d’apprentissage dirigées;
4. Encourager les projets bilingues afin de rejoindre un plus large public et aussi représenter la diversité culturelle du Yukon.
Sommaire des activités/projets artistiques principaux: Mise en scène d’une ou deux pièces théâtrales par année. Le Théâtre de la pastèque produit des pièces pour enfants.
Contact: Pierre Gauthier, président
Tel.: (867) 668-6696 ou (867) 335-0107
E-mail: art-lequin@live.ca ou gautail@northwestel.net
Site web: Non disponible
Adresse: 58 Falcon Drive, unité 35, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6V6

soumis par Pierre Gauthier, président, Association Théâtre Art-Lequin

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Upcoming Tatamagouche Centre Workshop: Theatre for Living, August 12-14 (Tatamagouche, NS)

-submitted by Meghan MacCulloch, Promotions Coordinator, Tatamagouche Centre. 1-800-218-2220 or 902-657-2231

 

Update from ArtBridges/ToileDesArts & Happy Canada Day!

From left to right: Lisa Tran: Social Network Developer and Communications Ass’t., Seanna Connell: Project Director, Cora-Rae Silk: Indigenous Community Arts Assistant and Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay: Francophone Research Assistant/Assistante de recherche francophone.

Gauche à droite: Lisa Tran: Assistante des communications et réseautage social, Seanna Connell: Directrice du projet, Cora-Rae Silk: Assistante des arts communautaires autochtones, Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay: Assistante de recherche francophone.

Not in this photo – but, also integral to making ArtBridges/ToileDesArts happen: Kate Austin: Creative Partner, Patty Porretta: Director of Development, ArtBridges Advisory Committee: Bridget Goldsmith: Chair, Lola Rasminsky, Stephanie Whitehouse and Christina Halliday. Volunteers: Ted Snell web pre-developer and new media students. Tides Canada Initiatives project support team (including: Jillian Witt, Vivian Yeung, Romer Martin, Angie Vickarious, Margaret Dickson, Claudia Popescu), and our dear funding supporters whose commitment to this project makes all of this work possible!

We hope that you, visitors to ArtBridges/ToileDesArts, as well as all of our community partners, friends and supporters from across Canada have a wonderful summer!

We have been working steadily over the past year to create profiles about community arts projects, programs, organizations and resources in under-resourced or under-serviced communities across Canada, in order to highlight the amazing work that is being done in this field: “arts for social change”, “arts for community engagement”, “arts for community development”, “community arts”, etc…. (you say tomato, I say to-mah-to!) Over 275 posts have been submitted by different people from across Canada! and we’ve sourced over 500 different community arts projects/programs/orgs./resources. This is an amazing growing community that is really making a difference.

ArtBridges is just over 2 years old, we are still an “emerging” project, in our “building the foundation” years. We are committed to our strategic plan that was written almost 3 years ago, and are just completing Phase One. Phase One has been all about identifying community arts projects, programs, organizations and resources in under-resourced and under-serviced communities across Canada, and collaborating to make and post profiles.

We hope to go into Phase 2 soon, and become a truly interactive portal. Please feel free to e-mail us any suggestions or opinions on how to make this happen!

We are also moving this summer to a new office. We have been so fortunate to have been able to sublet an office at the back of SKETCH in downtown Toronto, with our community partners Arts Network for Children and Youth and SKETCH for the past year and a half.

While we are transitioning to our new space, we’ll be taking a bit of a break at the office to enjoy the summer heat and the plethora of different arts activities and festivals! Keep posted as we’ll continue to share our discoveries…

Nouvelles de la ToileDesArts / Bonne fête du Canada!

Nous souhaitons une joyeuse été à tous nos visiteurs, partenaires, amis, et patrons à travers le Canada!

Au cours de l’année, nous avons travaillé avec une forte détermination afin de souligner les projets, programmes, organismes et ressources en arts communautaires désservant les communautés à travers le Canada, afin de démontrer ce qui se passe dans le domaine – que se soit les arts pour le changement social, les arts pour engager la communauté, les arts pour développer la communauté, ou tout simplement les arts communautaires. Nous avons affiché plus de 275 histoires, évènements, profils, etc., et nous avons communiqué avec plus de 500 différentes sources en arts communautaires. Le réseau s’accroît de plus en plus et en ce, crée beaucoup de changements importants…

Le projet ToileDesArts n’a qu’un peu de deux ans, et nous sommes encore un projet émergent qui s’établit peu à peu, de plus en plus. Nous some dédiés à la vision que nous avons établi il y a presque trois ans, et nous sommes tout justes en train de compléter la première phase. Cette dernière avait comme but d’identifier les projets, programmes, organismes et ressources en arts communautaires dans les communautés canadiennes désservies, et puis de collaborer avec ceux-ci afin de partager leurs histoires.

Nous espérons atteindre la deuxième phase très bientôt et de devenir un réseau complètement interactif. N’hésitez pas de nous envoyer vos commentaires et suggestions pour rendre cela possible!

Cet été, nous déménagons à un nouvel immeuble. Nous avons étés très chanceux d’avoir fait la sous-location de nos partenaires Arts Network for Children and Youth ainsi que SKETCH au courant de la dernière année et demie.

Lors de notre période de transition à notre nouvel aménagement, nous allons prendre une petite pause du bureau afin de se régaler de l’été chaud et de tous ses activités et ses festivals en les arts! Par contre, tenez-vous au courant, puisque nous allons continuer de partager nos découvertes…

- Seanna Connell, Project Director, ArtBridges/ToileDesArts