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Borups Corners

Step into the artistic heartbeat of Melgund Township. As the home of our living lab for land-based artistry, this section explores the creative narratives shaping Borups Corners, Northwestern Ontario. From site-specific wilderness art to storytelling labs we bridge traditional northern heritage with digital innovation.

Arts, Creativity and Community

Explore community-driven public art, seasonal photography walks, and immersive exhibitions that redefine the Highway 17 corridor. Our participatory arts research even transforms complex regional issues—like nuclear waste management and the Deep Geological Repository—into human-centric media stories, ensuring local voices resonate with creativity and care. Stay connected with the artists, mural projects, and pioneering creative spaces that make Art Borups Corners a beacon for rural arts in the North.

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.
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Into the National Record

Our storytelling club deposited our first book into Canada’s national archive through Digital Legal Deposit.
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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.
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Youth, Artists Publish Dignity Stories

Youth and artists unite for a book of 20 short stories on dignity and kindness.
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Thanking our Artists: Tanya McArthur
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Thanking our Artists: Tanya McArthur

This summer, our program has been dedicated to empowering artists in Northwestern Ontario, providing them with the tools to thrive in a challenging arts ecosystem.…
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An ISBN is a unique identifier for books, enabling easier cataloging, sales, distribution, and library management worldwide.
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What are ISBNs?

An ISBN is a unique identifier for books, enabling easier cataloging, sales, distribution, and library management worldwide.
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Gerry is setting up the microphones, sound system and equipment to power this weekend's live music at the Dyment Recreation Hall.
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Thanking our Artists: Gerry McArthur

We extend a very special thank you to Gerry McArthur, a long-time Dryden musician and dedicated community volunteer.
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Bridging the Gap
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Bridging the Gap

Arts organizations: Stop relying on social media alone. Use your website as a communication hub.
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Celebrating Northern Arts
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Celebrating Northern Arts

A grassroots arts incubator in Borups Corners empowers Northern Ontario artists with skills, mentorship, and opportunity.
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Working Together
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Working Together

Northern Ontario's arts scene thrives when boards and staff work together for capacity building.
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What Staff and Volunteers Do
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What Staff and Volunteers Do

Understanding how staff and volunteers can build nonprofit capacity is key to the Northern Ontario arts community.
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Understanding Northern Boards
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Understanding Northern Boards

Understanding Northern Boards: What They Do (and Don’t Do) This month, we’re exploring governance — what it really means, why it matters, and how it shapes the…
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  • Nuclear waste DGR workshops engage with community

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ART BORUPS CORNERS SOCIETY

Art Borups Corners is a non-profit arts incubator based in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario. We bring artists, youth, and local residents together through hands-on creative projects, workshops, and storytelling rooted in everyday life in the North. Our focus is on making space for people to try things, share skills, and build confidence through art that grows out of where they live.


We’re also a place for testing ideas and working across different ways of making — from land-based practice to digital work and everything in between. Much of what we do happens through partnerships and shared projects, connecting local creative work with wider conversations while keeping things grounded, practical, and community-led.


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ESTABLISHED WITH FUNDING FROM

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This program was seeded with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program. This program allowed us to explore strategic arts innovation, capacity building and new technologies. Programming was also supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program and the Province of Ontario. We thank them for their support.

PROGRAMMING SEEDED BY

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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