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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.

Seasonal short fiction captures the spirit of spring, blending northern landscapes, imaginative storytelling, and volunteer-driven interdisciplinary arts programs.
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Storytelling with Spring Short Stories

Enjoy spring short stories set in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario, highlighting storytelling, technology, and creative capacity-building initiatives.
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Wonder as a Resource
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Wonder as a Resource

Imagination is the only tool that can actually build something out of nothing.
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The power of invisibility
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The power of invisibility

Imagination is not the reward for stability; it is the engine that creates it.
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Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council, we were able to run our workshops on digital arts. We now have the skills for image processing and creating a stronger online presence for our community.
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Spring 2025 Programs and Activities

We welcome everyone in the community to join us as we support community programs and activities.
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The Power of the Side-Step
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The Power of the Side-Step

Your refusal to mirror corporate hierarchies is your most radical act of creativity.
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Chasing the Alternative
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Chasing the Alternative

Bucking the status quo is deciding that your reality is more valid than an outdated handbook.
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The Side Door Strategy
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The Side Door Strategy

The status quo is often just a collection of expensive habits disguised as rules.
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The Art of the Workaround
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The Art of the Workaround

You don't need a seat at their table when you are already building a better one.
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A Permissionless Path
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A Permissionless Path

You don't need a key to a room you can build yourself.
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The Long Game
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The Long Game

Meaningful change is a slow practice of showing up for your vision every single day.
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Get Involved!

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is inviting residents and land users in the area of Canada's proposed Deep Geological Repository for used nuclear fuel to participate in a Diet and Land-Use Survey. The information collected will help inform local perspectives as the project moves through the federal regulatory process.

The survey can be completed online or through an in-person interview at the Ignace Learn More Centre. It is open until September 7, 2026, and participants will have the opportunity to enter a draw to win one of twenty C$125 gift cards redeemable at local businesses.
Join Art Borups Corners on July 18, 2026 at the Dyment Recreation Hall for an evening of food, music, creativity, and community connection. Enjoy a community BBQ, connect with neighbours, and help imagine the future of local parks and greenspaces through drawing, mapping, storytelling, and conversation. Part of the national Everyone Outdoors Together initiative led by the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA).

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

Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Logo

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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