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The Arts Incubator

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The project is grounded in a dynamic process of collaborative engagement and capacity building, utilizing arts-based research methodologies to ensure the work is both relevant and empowering. A key focus is Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), which positions young people as leaders in investigating their own economic realities and co-designing their futures. Through a series of co-design workshops, digital storytelling projects, and community forums, ECO-STAR North facilitates intergenerational knowledge transfer, connecting youth with Elders and established creators. This hands-on, community-led approach ensures the resulting toolkit is not an academic exercise, but a living, practical resource built by and for Northern innovators, strengthening a resilient and interconnected creative ecosystem.
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Designing our Creative Journeys

Join us August 16, 2024 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. for an engaging session on designing our collaborative journeys.
Jamie Bell July 27, 2024
Collaboration with local communities and exchanging traditional knowledge will be vital components of our framework moving forward. Working even more closely with community members and regional champions like the Minneapolis College of Art and Design will allow us to create more relevant and impactful solutions.

Collaboration with local communities and exchanging traditional knowledge will be vital components of our framework moving forward. Working even more closely with community members and regional champions like the Minneapolis College of Art and Design will allow us to create more relevant and impactful solutions.

Join us August 16, 2024 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. for an engaging session on designing our collaborative journeys. Our goal is to further build and maintain our international relationships with Minnesota and Manitoba youth, Art Borups Corners, Global Dignity Winnipeg and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). 

Details:
Building on the incredible success of the 2024 Arctic Congress in Bodø, Norway, we’re excited to continue the conversations. This next semester’s activities are supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, offering fantastic opportunities to showcase your work and come together as a community of practice: design a zine, lead a workshop, host a mini hackathon, plan an art exhibition, conduct data scraping, or explore other creative avenues. Let’s support each other’s capacity and talents as we contribute to this growing international arts and community-based research collective.

Students take to the world stage: Canadian and American collaborators came together in Norway for the program’s first international conference session at the 2024 Arctic Congress. This unparalleled platform for knowledge sharing, research collaboration, and innovative discourse brought together Manitoba, Minnesota, British Columbia, Alaska alongside projects from across the circumpolar Arctic. Video and music by Tony Eetak.

What to Expect:

  • Discussion on collaborative opportunities and projects
  • Exploration of creative and organizational development
  • Brainstorming and planning for professional and artistic growth

Who Should Attend:
Artists, students and youth, designers, and anyone from the research and food communities interested in contributing to an international arts collective with a focus on cross-cultural relationship building.

Join Us:
Be part of this exciting conversation and help shape the future of collaboration. Contact Kami or Tony for video link details!

About our summer programming

Youth, Arts and Media Team summer activities are supported with funding and support from a number of partners and collaborators, including: Global Dignity Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the University of Minnesota Duluth, Manitoba Agriculture and the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership. We also thank the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, Agri-Food and Agriculture Canada and the Government of Canada’s Youth Employment Skills Program. Thank you for supporting the Youth, Arts and Media Team.

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Jamie Bell

Jamie Bell

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Jamie Bell is a Winnipeg-based interdisciplinary artist and strategist working at the intersection of media arts, community engagement, and public affairs. Among others, his work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, with a focus on participatory media, strategic communications, and arts-based collaboration across northern and urban contexts.

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MANITOBA ARTS PROGRAMS

This platform, our Winnipeg, Manitoba hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Arts Incubator was seeded and piloted with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. We thank them for their investment, supporting northern arts capacity building and bringing the arts to life.

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NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS

This platform, our Northwestern Ontario hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

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