Our Current Activities

• Highlight what’s going on and what’s being offered in community-engaged arts in: education, studios, projects, organizations, events, outreach projects and in resources.
• Connect people working, volunteering and participating in community arts/arts for social change/arts for social engagement across the country.
• Provide a forum about accessible community arts/arts for social change/arts for community engagement projects, programs, organizations and resources.

Click to read our 2011 and 2012 Activities

Please see “A Growing Community” and “Locate on the Map” for contact information or profiles.

Please find the following in our sidebar or click on each category below. All of our posts to date are filed within these categories :

Announcements
Books and Reports
Conferences, Education and Training
Event
Input needed/Knowledge Exchange
News
Opportunities
Photo-Stories
Profiles
Quotes
Resources
Stories
Updates & Ideas

We see this process of building Artbridges as a collaborative, organic adventure. This blog is our way to keep in touch and provide up to date information on where we’re at and what we’ve learned. Please let us know what you think, send us your story about your work in community arts/ arts for social change/ arts for community engagement, or just say Hi!

Feel free to post a comment, email us at sconnell@artbridges.ca or artbridgestoiledesarts@gmail.com, or call us at 416-691-7777 or toll-free 1-877-278-3002. We’d love to hear from you!!

2013 Staff:
Alexa de Repentigny-MacAulay (read bio), p/t : Assistante de Recherche Francophone
Cora-Rae Silk (read bio), p/t: Indigenous Community Arts Coordinator & Communications Assistant
Lisa Tran (read bio), p/t: Social Network Developer and Communications Assistant
Seanna Connell (read bio), f/t: Project Director
Skye Louis, p/t: ArtBridging Ontario Resources Developer

2013 Consultants:
Dawn Comber, Digital Dialogues, Web Copy Writer;
Jacinthe Laforte, French-English translator;
Kate Austin, Creative Partner
Maxine Sidran, ArtBridging Ontario Researcher/Writer/Editor;
Patty Porretta, Director of Development (read bio)
Susan Ward, Boost, Ad & Sponsorship support;
ViUU Inc., Website Developer.

2013 Volunteers:
Ted Snell, Web Developer

Advisory Committee:  Bridget Goldsmith, Dr. Christina Halliday, Chris Little, Rosemary Maseman, Lola Rasminsky, Stephanie Whitehouse

Student involvement: George Brown College Faculty of Business, Arts & Design third-year marketing students – ArtBridges Case Study (2012).
Students from Centennial College New Media and University of Toronto/Centennial College Joint New Media programs using ArtBridges/ToileDesArts for their client projects. (2011)

Past Staff: Alli Melanson, p/t: Assistante de Recherche Francophone; Ania Stypulkowski, p/t: ArtBridging Ontario Coordinator; Virgil Kpodar, p/t : Assistant de Recherche Francophone

Past Volunteers:  Aurelia Bizouard (see website), p/t : Assistante de Recherche Francophone