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.

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.

Submitted by Colette Surovy, Executive Director
Women’s Place Kenora

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-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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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.

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:

Voluntary or forced migration to a new country and culture brings many challenges, which can manifest themselves in tension and conflict at home. (Studies on Parenting Issues of Newcomer Families in Ontario, CCBR, 2001)

• Loss of support/extended family, devaluation of culture, feeling marginalized and disempowered in community
• Adult and Youth peer pressure relating to cultural differences and adjustment
• Power and role reversal issues at home due to differences in English skills.

The FEMC Multicultural Center and partners, working with new immigrants daily, have witnessed the effects of these challenges and recognized the need to provide social support through this transition. Yet, because many of these challenges manifest themselves at home, we find it difficult to engage the community and increase understanding on these issues. We partnered with ADCID, recognizing the potential of SDT as a community facilitation tool, and developed the X Gen Conversations Project to increase our capacity to respond to this need.

The X Generations Project will provide a forum to gain insight into the intricacies of these dynamics and bring the discussion into a safe, constructive, community context. Both youth and adults will have an opportunity to explore these issues with their peer groups and then come together to engage in dialogue to increase understanding of each other’s perspective. We recognize that tensions can arise when dialoguing around sensitive issues, where words have multiple interpretations and toxicity. The SDT process contains periods of non-verbal participation and dialogue, which allows participants the chance to explore their personal positions and realities in a confidential way, before framing and discussing the social and community realities objectively and constructively.