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Winnipeg, Manitoba

The project is grounded in a dynamic process of collaborative engagement and capacity building, utilizing arts-based research methodologies to ensure the work is both relevant and empowering. A key focus is Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), which positions young people as leaders in investigating their own economic realities and co-designing their futures. Through a series of co-design workshops, digital storytelling projects, and community forums, ECO-STAR North facilitates intergenerational knowledge transfer, connecting youth with Elders and established creators. This hands-on, community-led approach ensures the resulting toolkit is not an academic exercise, but a living, practical resource built by and for Northern innovators, strengthening a resilient and interconnected creative ecosystem.
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Innovative Outcomes from 2021-2022 Pilot Program

We’re proud of our program, overcoming challenges like the 2022 flood, fostering creativity and inclusion, thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts' support.
Digital Salvage December 24, 2022
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We’re excited to let you know about what we did in our 2021-2022 Pilot Program. The Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Greenhouse Program supported us on this adventure. It was a big step for us, as we looked into how we could use digital tools in art and community events.

With this program, we tried new ways to connect with people creatively and got more people involved with digital tools. We also set things up for what we want to do in the future. Even though we faced problems like a flood in 2022 that affected where we work, our team and participants showed great spirit and imagination, which helped us make a positive change and build strong relationships.

A big thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts for supporting this program!

If you want to know more about our experience and results, click here: Download PDF

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The Digital Salvage Art Collective is a Winnipeg, Manitoba-based experiment in memory, machine, and the North—where AI drifts through abandoned archives and forgotten code, reassembling echoes into something new. It’s art as algorithm, history as signal, a collaboration between human instinct and artificial perception. Here, youth and artists don’t just recover the past—they rewire it, remix it, let it glitch and evolve, forging a living archive that pulses with both human and machine imagination.

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MANITOBA 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.

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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.

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