Culture/Shift is committed to facilitating community-engaged creativity and meaningful and impactful arts and cultural exchanges. Culture/Shift Projects work with communities to activate engagement, empower voices and facilitate change.
Arts Beyond the Pages
In September 2021, Culture/Shift in partnership with the Ward 20 Parent Arts Advisory group located in Scarborough-Agincourt and the TDSB Ward 20 Trustee Manna Wong will launch Arts Beyond the Pages.
As a continuation of Arts Intersections, a previous project in the region that supported the engagement of parents in understanding the value of arts in the health and well-being of children, Arts Beyond the Pages will offer up to 24 families the opportunity to engage in story-telling and art-making with a professional artist in a series of virtual sessions. Starting with the reading and exploration of a story that is relevant to each family, participants will develop their own story and create responses to the story through puppetry, their own short scene, a sculpture, or visual arts piece. The project will culminate in a community gathering (in person or virtual) that showcases the work of all of the families and will include free arts workshops for all community members.
The artist team: Diana Tso, Sandra Whiting, Aqua Nibii Waawaaskone, Erika Strestha, and Debora Sarti.
Applications will be available by October 8, 2021.
For more information please contact:
Dani De Angelis, Program Coordinator – cultureshiftarts@gmail.com
Here are some of the ways that we would love to work with you:
Bring diverse members of your community together to develop creative new ideas, innovative approaches to persistent problems, and build alignment and momentum for action
Facilitate workshops
Facilitate planning of meaningful neighbourhood spaces
Supporting cultural mapping and planning
Here are some questions that guide our work with communities:
How does bringing people together through creative facilitation(s) and civic engagement help address community concerns, aspiration, planning and empowerment?
How can a variety of stakeholders within a community (social service, business, non-profit, education, artists) come together to foster the well being of young people?
How might successful inter-sectional community strategies be applied more broadly?
How might we engage young people with diverse creative practices and processes in ways that matter to them?
“There is a need for art that emphasizes our essential interconnectedness rather than our separateness. Art that evokes the feeling of belonging to a larger whole.
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