Skip to content

The Arts Incubator

Winnipeg, Manitoba

cropped-1.jpg
Primary Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • Winnipeg, Manitoba
    • Art Borups Corners
    • Artists, Collaborators And Mentors
    • Hubs
      • Borups Corners
      • Dyment Recreation Hall and Complex
      • Minneapolis, Minnesota
    • Funders and Supporters
      • Canada Council for the Arts
      • Global Dignity Canada
      • Local Services Board of Melgund
      • Manitoba Arts Council
      • Minneapolis College of Art and Design
    • Reports
      • 2023-2024 Report
      • 2021-2022 Report
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Tracker
  • Projects
    • 2025 Climate Entrepreneurship Survey
    • Food Security
      • Towards a Framework for Northern Food Systems Innovation
      • Food Preservation Training and Curriculum Development
      • Relationship Development and Engagement with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and University of Minnesota Duluth
      • Relationship Development and Engagement Activities with the University of the Arctic
      • The Art of Canning and Creative Entrepreneurship
      • Come Eat With Me: Manitoba Cookbook
    • Incubating Artificial Intelligence
      • Artist Bio Builder Writing Tool
      • Art Idea Generator
      • Asteroids
      • Northern AI Tools Get Trashy
      • Participatory Action Research Assistant
      • The Eco-Innovator’s Journey
      • Step Inside Your Content
    • Media Arts and Storytelling
    • Melgund Township Oral History Project
    • Recreation
      • Art Borups Corners
      • Arts and Recreation for an Aging Population
      • Creative Arts for Community Recreation
      • Facilities
        • The Cook Shack
        • Dyment Recreation Hall
        • Melgund Lake Boat Launch
        • Ice Fishing Shack
      • Storytelling
        • Stories & Publishing Skills
        • The Arts Incubator at Barnes and Noble
        • The Arts Incubator Books at Palace Marketplace
        • The Arts Incubator Books on Thalia
      • Youth Engagement
  • Resources
    • Adaptive Phased Management
    • Climate CO-STAR Builder (ECO_STAR)
    • Entrepreneurship Resources
    • Framework for Recreation in Canada
    • Funding Programs and Sources
    • Parks for All
    • The Common Vision
  • News
    • Borups Corners News
    • Creative Entrepreneurship
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Arts & Creative Leadership
    • Food Security and Innovation
    • Melgund Township News
    • Photos and Short Stories
    • Winnipeg
  • Events
    • Canada Day 2025
    • 2025-2026 Melgund Township Music Series
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Community Projects
  • ReCreating Environments of Inclusion to showcase during Inclusion in Northern Research 2021
  • Community Projects

ReCreating Environments of Inclusion to showcase during Inclusion in Northern Research 2021

Our incubator’s collaborators with the Inclusion in Northern Research project are back for another iteration and we’re excited to be invited to be part of these amazing and much-anticipated sessions. This year’s theme will feature a special topic, ReCreating Environments of Inclusion: Northern Research.
The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg December 6, 2021
IMG_0061

Our incubator’s collaborators with the Inclusion in Northern Research project are back for another iteration and we’re excited to be invited to be part of these amazing and much-anticipated sessions. This year’s theme will feature a special topic, ReCreating Environments of Inclusion: Northern Research.

So join us this week for the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meetings!

What will we be doing for our first event as an incubator for digital and cultural entrepreneurship? We’re going to present our very first participatory project!

Recreating Environments of Inclusion: Northern Research is a unique, evolving audio visual series featuring the Inclusion in Northern Research knowledge exchange community; and debuts an equity and inclusion toolkit with tangible actions for research and impact creation communities, and their emerging, collaborative partnerships.

Recreating Environments of Inclusion: Northern Research is an original transformation design creation from the ongoing Recreators series by LembasWorks. This year’s conversations saw Northern and Southern scientists, researchers, cultural impact creators and community builders outline experiential challenges and bridge their insights into required solutions for co-creating a collaborative impact movement to address planetary challenges being faced in Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions.

We thank ArcticNet Network Centre of Excellence; the Arctic Buying Company; Lembas Works; Sentinel North for their support in making this project and its many collaborations possible.

Part 1: Recreating Environments of Inclusion with Catherine Girard

Part one features Dr. Catherine Girard from the Microbial Heritage Lab at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Department of Fundamental Sciences. Focusing on the North and at the intersection of environmental studies and human health, the lab endeavours to develop collaborative research projects with Northern communities in the areas of studies human-associated and environmental microbiomes.

Dr. Catherine Girard from the Microbial Heritage Lab at the Department of Fundamental Sciences, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi 

Part 2:  Recreating Environments of Inclusion with Maeva Gauthier

Maeva Gauthier is a PhD Candidate in Geography and Research Assistant for the UNESCO Chair in Community-based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. For her PhD, she is using Participatory Video as a tool to engage Arctic communities around global change, such as plastics in the environment, climate change and what it means for the youth in Tuktoyaktuk.

Maeva Gauthier, MSc and PhD Candidate at the University of Victoria Community Based Research Lab

Originally from Quebec, she moved to Victoria to complete a MSc in Marine Ecology (Univ. of Victoria) after a BSc in biology (Univ. of Quebec in Montreal). Her interest for the poles started with expeditions to the Antarctic and the Arctic in 2009, and she has been going back to the Arctic multiple times ever since. She is also the co-founder of Live It, which provides K-12 online educational content about nature. For more information, visit Maeva’s website.

Part 3:  Recreating Environments of Inclusion with Paul Sokoloff

As a senior research assistant in the botany and a member of the Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska project, Paul Sokoloff’s work boils down to cataloguing plant and lichen biodiversity in the Arctic and beyond. On any given day, he may be in a faraway place doing field work, in the museum’s herbarium studying specimens, or taking part in outreach activities on behalf of the museum.

Paul Sokoloff, MSc from the Canadian Museum of Nature

In the quest for science, he’s had his clothes stolen in southern Labrador, flipped over a canoe full of samples in New Brunswick’s Jacquet River, and hiked to the top of McGill Mountain on Ellesmere Island while wearing rubber boots.

Part 4:  Recreating Environments of Inclusion with Marie-José Naud

Dr. Marie-Josée Naud, PhD from the Vice-Rectorate for Research, Creation and Innovation at Université Laval.

Part 5: Recreating Environments of Inclusion with Jamie Bell

Jamie Bell, Inclusion in Northern Research

We are grateful to each contributor for informing this toolkit, and committing to aware action as one ecosystem. Join our conversation and contribute your own insights and actions with #InclusionNorthernResearch #RecreatorsDesigns on social media.

Upcoming Conferences

Race and Systemic Bias in Arctic Sciences Cross-Cutting Workshop –
March 19-26, 2022,  Tromso, Norway – Winnipeg, Manitoba — Cancelled until 2023
https://iasc.info/our-work/working-groups/cross-cutting-activities/cross-cutting-funded-projects/697-race-and-systemic-bias-crosscutting-workshop

In March 2021, Inclusion in Northern Research released the second installment of its highly-successful experimental Vox Pops in Northern Inclusion initiative for Arctic Science Summit Week, hosted virtually from Lisbon Portugal. This joint session, in partnership with the University of Cardiff successfully advocated for and was awarded 12,381 Euros in funding towards a joint race and systemic bias cross-cutting workshop, which will take place March 19, 2022 in Tromsø, Norway.

This international co-developed workshop titled “Towards an Inclusive Arctic Research Community.” is being designed in collaboration with Cardiff University, the UK British Antarctic Survey, the US Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), the University of Alberta and will be hosted with support from The Arctic University of Norway, the Norwegian Polar Institute and The Research Council of Norway. 
*update this event was cancelled and postponed until 2023.

Auviqsaqtut: the 22nd Inuit Studies Conference 
Cancelled – Event moved to June 19-21, 2022
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba 
https://sites.grenadine.co/sites/uwinnipeg/en/inuit-studies-conference-2022-auviqsaqtut/home

This experimental pilot program was made possible with financial investment from the following organizations and we gratefully acknowledge their encouragement and support.

Arctic Buying Company Kivalliq and Winnipeg
ArcticNet Network Centre of Excellence
Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse - Winnipeg, Manitoba

About the Author

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg

Administrator

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg is a participatory arts collective and living lab, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. It's a space where innovation and creativity thrive. It's latest iteration was launched in 2021 with funding and support from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. Today, working with students and faculty from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, we fuse traditional and participatory media arts with artificial intelligence, music, storytelling and community-driven, land-based artist residencies to cultivate new voices and bold ideas. Whether through collaborative projects or immersive experiences, our small but vibrant community supports creators to explore, experiment, and connect. Join us at the intersection of artistry, technology, culture and community—where every moment is a new opportunity to create.

Visit Website View All Posts
Tags: 7015-21-0023 ASM2021 Climate Change inclusion in northern research

Post navigation

Previous: December 2021 Incubator Update
Next: Recreating Environments of Inclusion with Catherine Girard

Related News

ai-north-research-arts-creative-leadership
  • Community Projects
  • Technology

AI for Community Resilience: Arts and Northern Regions

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg July 10, 2025
Refreshing our online space to better connect with communities and share the latest from our arts and sustainability programs. Thanks for your patience as we build something new!
  • Community Projects
  • Photos and Short Stories

Welcoming a Fresh New Platform

Art Borups Corners June 25, 2025
Construction almost complete! The new Melgund Township Pavilion is ready to become the heart of our community's food, arts, and gathering events. Photo: Terri Bell
  • Community Projects
  • Melgund Township News
  • Photos and Short Stories

New Pavilion for Food, Arts, and Community Events

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg June 23, 2025

Recent Posts

  • Nature’s Digital Press
  • The quiet of fall
  • Orange Shirt Day
  • Cataloguing Workshop
  • Next stop: Apple Pie
Book cover for Where Dignity Grows, a book of stories about kindness and dignity

You may have missed

Proving that art is everywhere: With nothing more than a scanner and a handful of fallen leaves, participants at The Arts Incubator are discovering the accessible, high-impact possibilities of digital collage.
  • Ontario
  • Photos and Short Stories
  • Winnipeg

Nature’s Digital Press

Jamie Bell October 1, 2025
4da3225d-77a9-49f1-8cca-218abd06ab95
  • Photos and Short Stories
  • Winnipeg

The quiet of fall

Eva Suluk September 30, 2025
national-day-truth-reconciliation
  • Photos and Short Stories
  • Winnipeg

Orange Shirt Day

The Arts Incubator - Winnipeg September 30, 2025
publishing-and-isbns
  • Creative Entrepreneurship
  • Photos and Short Stories
  • Winnipeg

Cataloguing Workshop

Jamie Bell September 29, 2025

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.

Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program

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.

Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Logo

NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS PROGRAMS

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.

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
Copyright ©2020-2025 All rights reserved. | MoreNews by AF themes.