Arts Incubator Team Meeting – 8/8/2025

Storytelling and Oral History

This week, our exploration of oral history projects continues, and we’re thrilled to present a dedicated professional development opportunity designed to deepen your understanding and skills in this vital field. This is a great opportunity for Northern and Northwestern Ontario artists, collectives, and groups to immerse themselves in the art and science of preserving community narratives. Throughout this engaging session, we’ll delve into different approaches to storytelling, master effective interviewing techniques, and learn best practices for how to store and archive invaluable community history.

Join us to develop the practical expertise needed to initiate, manage, and safeguard your own oral history projects effectively, ensuring the longevity of powerful local stories for generations to come.

About the Program

Welcome to our 2025 Summer Arts Internship and Mentorship program. Our core artistic idea is to empower community artists by merging traditional knowledge with contemporary digital technologies, fostering sustainable self-employment and community-driven arts sector development.

Each week will have a different theme, ranging from digital arts, tools and technologies, to administration skills, like grant writing, proposal writing, budgeting and advertising. It’s open to all, and we meet both in-person and online most weeks. We encourage you to contact us at info@artsincubator.ca for more information!

Acknowledgements

This program is funded by the the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects program, and we are immensely thankful for their support. We also acknowledge and thank Ottawa-based Global Dignity Canada, the Local Services Board of Melgund, The Arts Incubator and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Creative Entrepreneurship Program.