Arts Incubator and Land Lab News

Small Farms, Big Impact: Agriculture in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario Small-scale farms in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario are helping to strengthen local food systems, create rural jobs, and boost Ontario’s economy. From direct-to-consumer sales and CSA programs to renewable energy and women-led operations, agriculture in Northern Ontario is growing with resilience and purpose.

Small-scale farms in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario are helping to strengthen local food systems, create rural jobs, and boost Ontario’s economy. From direct-to-consumer sales and CSA programs to renewable energy and women-led operations, agriculture in Northern Ontario is growing with resilience and purpose.

Small Farms, Big Impact: Agriculture in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario

Art Borups Corners May 8, 2025

Learn how small-scale farms in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario are boosting food security, creating jobs,...

Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Weekend Workshop with Jamie Bell Join us for a hybrid presentation on this year's upcoming Food Security, Food Production, and Sustainable Agriculture program, hosted by interdisciplinary artist and community-based researcher, Jamie Bell.

Join us for a hybrid presentation on this year's upcoming Food Security, Food Production, and Sustainable Agriculture program, hosted by interdisciplinary artist and community-based researcher, Jamie Bell.

Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Weekend Workshop with Jamie Bell

Art Borups Corners May 5, 2025

Join us for a hybrid presentation on this year's upcoming Food Security, Food Production, and Sustainable Agriculture...

Back to the Land Lab! The Arts Incubator Land Lab in Northwestern Ontario is a funky outdoor space where we connect art with nature.

Back to the Land Lab!

Jamie Bell May 3, 2025

Our program is hitting the road this summer, from our home base in Winnipeg to Northwestern Ontario!

Weaving Time's Depths

Jamie Bell May 1, 2025

Uncover non-linear narrative magic. Weave time, craft suspense with flashbacks, and engage readers in your story's past.

Shifting Horizons: Edges of Ice and Snow This virtual exhibition, inspired by the "Our People, Our Climate," program showcases Tony Eetak's photographs of Nunavut, providing a unique Inuit perspective on the environmental shifts affecting his homeland.

This virtual exhibition, inspired by the "Our People, Our Climate," program showcases Tony Eetak's photographs of Nunavut, providing a unique Inuit perspective on the environmental shifts affecting his homeland.

Shifting Horizons: Edges of Ice and Snow

Art Borups Corners May 1, 2025

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA -- Inuit youth photographer Tony Eetak is using his lens to capture the changing Arctic...

Light for the Sleeping The sky sings above those who sleep. The wind carries stories no longer spoken aloud. In this northern hush, every tilted cross is a line in a poem written by ancestors — not to be read, but to be felt. Nothing here is gone. Everything waits beneath snow, beneath stars, beneath the turning light.

The sky sings above those who sleep. The wind carries stories no longer spoken aloud. In this northern hush, every tilted cross is a line in a poem written by ancestors — not to be read, but to be felt. Nothing here is gone. Everything waits beneath snow, beneath stars, beneath the turning light.

Light for the Sleeping

Tony Eetak May 1, 2025

Weathered crosses rise from snowdrifts like prayers etched into wind, quietly watching the horizon. This is not...

Whispers on the Ice Ice and sky. A world without end. But the whispers on the wind, they tell a different story. A story of change, of melting, of a shifting world beneath our feet. This isn't just a view; it's our heritage, our future, stretched out before us, waiting to be understood.

Ice and sky. A world without end. But the whispers on the wind, they tell a different story. A story of change, of melting, of a shifting world beneath our feet. This isn't just a view; it's our heritage, our future, stretched out before us, waiting to be understood.

Whispers on the Ice

Tony Eetak May 1, 2025

The ice stretches out forever, meeting the sky in a blur of white and blue.

Where the Snow Meets Our Homes Sky and snow, meeting our homes. A soft light touches everything. Familiar shapes, but a different feel in the air. The edge of our community, where the wild meets our lives. We watch, we remember, we see the subtle shifts in the world around our doors. This is our place, changing with the light.

Sky and snow, meeting our homes. A soft light touches everything. Familiar shapes, but a different feel in the air. The edge of our community, where the wild meets our lives. We watch, we remember, we see the subtle shifts in the world around our doors. This is our place, changing with the light.

Where the Snow Meets Our Homes

Tony Eetak May 1, 2025

This is where we live. Our homes, nestled in the snow.

Sun on a Frozen Land Sun and ice. We stand here, on the edge of forever. Where does the light lead us? What will we find on the other side? That horizon... it's shifting, changing, like the world beneath our feet. This isn't just a view; it's our story, written in ice and light, waiting to be told.

Sun and ice. We stand here, on the edge of forever. Where does the light lead us? What will we find on the other side? That horizon... it's shifting, changing, like the world beneath our feet. This isn't just a view; it's our story, written in ice and light, waiting to be told.

Sun on a Frozen Land

Tony Eetak May 1, 2025

Sun and ice. We stand here, on the edge of forever. Where does the light lead us?

My Arctic Street Snow and street. Our path, right here in town. Where does it lead? What will it look like tomorrow? The light on the snow, it tells a story. A story of change, even here, where we live. This isn't just a street; it's our future, covered in white, waiting to be seen.