Arts Incubator and Land Lab News

Mona’s Secret Songs

Art Borups Corners Sep 23, 2025

"Mona's Secret Songs": a youth story about digital kindness and standing up for dignity.

Into the National Record

This week, our storytelling club took an important step in ensuring that our work will be preserved for generations to come. We submitted our first Digital Legal Deposit to Library and Archives Canada (LAC). The submission included the EPUB edition of our book Where Dignity Grows: Stories of Self, Others, Nature, and Community. While the process itself is straightforward—uploading the digital file along with basic publisher information—it carries great meaning. By depositing our publication, we are contributing to Canada’s national collection and making sure that our voices are part of the country’s permanent cultural record.

Into the National Record

Art Borups Corners Sep 22, 2025

Our storytelling club deposited our first book into Canada’s national archive through Digital Legal Deposit.

The Sakoose Compass

This story is a proud outcome of the Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba storytelling program, an initiative spearheaded by the Art Borups Corners collective. The program is dedicated to fostering new voices and narratives from our region, ensuring that local experiences and perspectives find a wider audience. Through projects like "The Sakoose Compass," the collective provides vital arts-focused skill development, equipping emerging writers like Jamie Bell with the tools to share their unique visions.

The Sakoose Compass

Art Borups Corners Sep 22, 2025

Gaming teen Myles faces wilderness survival in Northwestern Ontario, discovering nature's true strength beyond the screen.

Watch your step! The old deck terrace and outdoor performance space at the Dyment Recreation Hall was pulled out this week. It's being replaced with a new, expanded area that will support outdoor concerts and community events for years to come. Photo: Terri Bell

The old deck terrace and outdoor performance space at the Dyment Recreation Hall was pulled out this week. It's being replaced with a new, expanded area that will support outdoor concerts and community events for years to come. Photo: Terri Bell

Watch your step!

Art Borups Corners Sep 22, 2025

A new outdoor performance space is being constructed in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario.

Exploring EPUB 3.3 This summer we learned about creating and publishing our own short stories and oral histories. This fall, we'll be expanding on what we learned.

This summer we learned about creating and publishing our own short stories and oral histories. This fall, we'll be expanding on what we learned.

Exploring EPUB 3.3

Art Borups Corners Sep 22, 2025

The Invisible Architect: How EPUB 3.3 Is Quietly Building the Future of Reading This summer, our arts...

Sharing Stories

Where Dignity Grows is a collection of short stories about dignity and kindness To mark two decades of promoting dignity and kindness, youth, artists and community volunteers from Art Borups Corners and Ottawa-based Global Dignity Canada launched a heartwarming community arts project. The groups, with funding from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects program, worked with youth and artists to explore introductory storytelling as part of their summer program, and decided to publish a collection of 20 short stories.

Sharing Stories

Art Borups Corners Sep 20, 2025

Art Borups Corners project turns simple storytelling project into a published book of 20 short stories on...

Youth, Artists Publish Dignity Stories

Art Borups Corners Sep 20, 2025

Youth and artists unite for a book of 20 short stories on dignity and kindness.

Thanking our Artists: Tanya McArthur tanya-multi-inter-arts-borups-corners-september-2025

Thanking our Artists: Tanya McArthur

Art Borups Corners Sep 20, 2025

This summer, our program has been dedicated to empowering artists in Northwestern Ontario, providing them with the...

What are ISBNs? An ISBN is a unique identifier for books, enabling easier cataloging, sales, distribution, and library management worldwide.

What are ISBNs?

Art Borups Corners Sep 20, 2025

An ISBN is a unique identifier for books, enabling easier cataloging, sales, distribution, and library management worldwide.

Sarah’s Steady Note A new short story, "Sarah's Steady Note," by Inuk youth artist Tony Eetak, will soon be available, bringing a thoughtful look at a young girl's quiet determination. This narrative introduces readers to Sarah, a ten-year-old who finds deep satisfaction in playing the tuba, despite the doubts of her friends and even her own brother.