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Arts Incubator Winnipeg

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg is a participatory arts collective and living lab, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. It's a space where innovation and creativity thrive. It's latest iteration was launched in 2021 with funding and support from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. Today, working with students and faculty from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, we fuse traditional and participatory media arts with artificial intelligence, music, storytelling and community-driven, land-based artist residencies to cultivate new voices and bold ideas. Whether through collaborative projects or immersive experiences, our small but vibrant community supports creators to explore, experiment, and connect. Join us at the intersection of artistry, technology, culture and community—where every moment is a new opportunity to create.
This is a snapshot of our arts incubator as a living network rather than a collection of separate projects. We’ve been experimenting with knowledge graphs, mapping, and data visualization, but the process has also become a creative way to look back through our own work and discover relationships that aren't always obvious when everything is sitting in separate folders, spreadsheets, and posts.
Community Projects

Mapping What We’ve Been Up To

Traditional data visualization often flattens complex histories into static, two-dimensional charts that tell a frozen story.
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After our first exploration visualized the messy-wonderful mixture of scrambled research roles, we're taking the next big step: figuring out the cognified governance and consortium models that make it all work together. Think of this next phase as adding the bacon to our scrambled eggs; it’s not just a side, but the essential, savory, and structured element that brings everything to its full potential and makes the whole experiment infinitely more complete.
Arts & Creative Leadership

What Happens When Scrambled Research Meets Cognified Governance?

Scrambled Research gets a new ingredient: cognified governance. We’re exploring what happens when intelligence and decision-making become networked.
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Real-world research rarely fits neatly into separate boxes, which is why this fall we’re exploring what might happen if we stopped trying to keep all the ingredients apart. With Scrambled Research, we’re experimenting with ways to bring community partners, artists, students, academics, organizations and other contributors into a more flexible research network, while asking what happens when roles, funding, expertise and knowledge can move in different directions. We’re not starting with a finished model or claiming we’ve figured it out; we’re curious about what becomes possible when the usual institutional boundaries get loosened, rearranged and tested. The fun part is seeing what emerges when we scramble the ingredients and let the research itself show us where it wants to go.
Community Projects

Scrambled Research: Rethinking the Boxes We Put Research In

What happens when research stops fitting neatly into institutional boxes? We're experimenting with Scrambled Research this fall.
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Beyond organizational shifts, Canada is experiencing a quiet erosion of its grassroots civic infrastructure. Informal volunteer rates dropped to 66%, driven by a massive 40% decline in public meeting attendance and a 34% drop in local event coordination. This retreat from local problem-solving weakens the social fabric that helps communities remain resilient during crises. Re-engaging residents will require organizations to pioneer flexible micro-volunteering and modern participatory models.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Canada’s Civic Engagement Is Fraying — And What Community Organizations Can Do About It

From falling volunteer rates to concentrated giving, discover four strategic pathways for Canadian nonprofits to build resilience and capacity.
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Step onto the northern landscape and discover Labrador Tea—the iconic shrub with fuzzy leaves and a fragrant, pine-infused past that has fueled generations of gatherers from the boreal line to the open tundra.
Food Security and Innovation

From Tundra to Timberline: The Lasting Legacy of Labrador Tea

Long before coffee shops dotted the map, northern communities across the Arctic and subarctic relied on Labrador Tea.
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This fall and winter, our arts incubator and its nonprofit partners will be exploring boards, governance, and strategic capacity building as a central focus of our programming season.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Exploring Leadership Pipeline Development for Nonprofits

This fall, our arts incubator tackles boards, governance and capacity building grounded in national data.
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Did you know that a lot of us do meetings on park benches in funky places and space?
Creative Leadership

Exploring Governance Models

From working boards to collaborative networks, we're exploring governance models that help nonprofits grow while staying community-focused.
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Weeks of collecting wild clay, birch bark sawdust, and wood ash reveal the hidden work behind our summer ceramics project.
Arts & Creative Leadership

The Work Before the Fire

Before the first pit fire, weeks of gathering, processing, and learning transformed local materials into future works of art.
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This beautiful and colourful mural catches our eye every time we're walking through the north end. Photo: Tony Eetak
Winnipeg

Finding Inspiration in Winnipeg’s North End Murals

Thinking about how community murals come together through local stories, artist collaboration, planning, and a shared sense of place.
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Caribou in the City: Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing
Winnipeg

Caribou in the City: Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing

Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing brings northern Manitoba’s caribou migration into downtown Winnipeg, connecting visitors with wildlife, landscape, and place.
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In Music

Jukebox In Exile is the new country music album from Flin Flon singer-songwriter C.C. Trubiak, blending classic country, honky-tonk, Americana and traditional storytelling into a collection of songs inspired by resilience, community and life in Northern Manitoba. Written during and after the 2025 Flin Flon wildfire evacuation, the album draws influence from country music legends including Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and George Jones. Featuring the singles "Old Country Songs," "Being Rich" and the charting track "Outlaws Meditation," Jukebox In Exile showcases Trubiak's signature songwriting while celebrating small-town life, northern Canadian culture, queer country music and the enduring spirit of Flin Flon. The album is available now on major music streaming platforms.
Manitoba's own C.C. Trubiak's new album "Jukebox in Exile" dropped on June 5! Check it out!

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Upcoming Events

The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!
The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!

WINNIPEG 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.

Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program

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.

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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