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Arts & Creative Leadership

Here, we cultivate arts and creative leadership through participatory, arts-based community initiatives. We offer news, features and stories on developing essential skills such as collaboration, innovative thinking, and effective communication, empowering artists and communities to lead with creativity and purpose. Through hands-on training, mentorship, and community engagement, we provide opportunities to build confidence, foster resilience, and drive social impact. Connecting artistic practices with leadership development, we prepare individuals to inspire change and strengthen their communities through the transformative power of the arts.

Shirley Franklin brings a distinctive visual perspective from Dryden to this year’s fall exhibition.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Fall Arts Exhibition Starts Saturday

Featuring Dryden artist Shirley Franklin, the new exhibition brings regional artists together in Northwestern Ontario.
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Momentum 2026 Concludes: Rethinking Nonprofit Governance
Arts & Creative Leadership

Momentum 2026 Concludes: Rethinking Nonprofit Governance

Rethinking how nonprofit organizations can structure leadership, accountability and decision-making.
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After our first exploration visualized the messy-wonderful mixture of scrambled research roles, we're taking the next big step: figuring out the cognified governance and consortium models that make it all work together. Think of this next phase as adding the bacon to our scrambled eggs; it’s not just a side, but the essential, savory, and structured element that brings everything to its full potential and makes the whole experiment infinitely more complete.
Arts & Creative Leadership

What Happens When Scrambled Research Meets Cognified Governance?

Scrambled Research gets a new ingredient: cognified governance. We’re exploring what happens when intelligence and decision-making become networked.
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Real-world research rarely fits neatly into separate boxes, which is why this fall we’re exploring what might happen if we stopped trying to keep all the ingredients apart. With Scrambled Research, we’re experimenting with ways to bring community partners, artists, students, academics, organizations and other contributors into a more flexible research network, while asking what happens when roles, funding, expertise and knowledge can move in different directions. We’re not starting with a finished model or claiming we’ve figured it out; we’re curious about what becomes possible when the usual institutional boundaries get loosened, rearranged and tested. The fun part is seeing what emerges when we scramble the ingredients and let the research itself show us where it wants to go.
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Scrambled Research: Rethinking the Boxes We Put Research In

What happens when research stops fitting neatly into institutional boxes? We're experimenting with Scrambled Research this fall.
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Beyond organizational shifts, Canada is experiencing a quiet erosion of its grassroots civic infrastructure. Informal volunteer rates dropped to 66%, driven by a massive 40% decline in public meeting attendance and a 34% drop in local event coordination. This retreat from local problem-solving weakens the social fabric that helps communities remain resilient during crises. Re-engaging residents will require organizations to pioneer flexible micro-volunteering and modern participatory models.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Canada’s Civic Engagement Is Fraying — And What Community Organizations Can Do About It

From falling volunteer rates to concentrated giving, discover four strategic pathways for Canadian nonprofits to build resilience and capacity.
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This fall and winter, our arts incubator and its nonprofit partners will be exploring boards, governance, and strategic capacity building as a central focus of our programming season.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Exploring Leadership Pipeline Development for Nonprofits

This fall, our arts incubator tackles boards, governance and capacity building grounded in national data.
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Artists with this year's summer arts incubator program show their newly painted creations.
Arts & Creative Leadership

When Bones Become Art

The fourth annual Summer Arts Program brought community members together to learn, create and paint animal bones and skulls.
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Artist and drum dancer Eva Suluk with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew during the Manitoba–Nunavut gathering in Arviat, Nunavut, July 7, 2026. Photo: Wab Kinew
Arts & Creative Leadership

The Drum Brings Us Together

Arts and culture help build stronger northern connections, bringing communities together through tradition, performance and shared experience.
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Weeks of collecting wild clay, birch bark sawdust, and wood ash reveal the hidden work behind our summer ceramics project.
Arts & Creative Leadership

The Work Before the Fire

Before the first pit fire, weeks of gathering, processing, and learning transformed local materials into future works of art.
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The shores of Hudson Bay. This is where many of the projects that shaped our work today started. Happy Nunavut Day! Photo: Tony Eetak
Arts & Creative Leadership

Happy Nunavut Day!

Celebrating Nunavut Day on July 9.
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Jukebox In Exile is the new country music album from Flin Flon singer-songwriter C.C. Trubiak, blending classic country, honky-tonk, Americana and traditional storytelling into a collection of songs inspired by resilience, community and life in Northern Manitoba. Written during and after the 2025 Flin Flon wildfire evacuation, the album draws influence from country music legends including Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and George Jones. Featuring the singles "Old Country Songs," "Being Rich" and the charting track "Outlaws Meditation," Jukebox In Exile showcases Trubiak's signature songwriting while celebrating small-town life, northern Canadian culture, queer country music and the enduring spirit of Flin Flon. The album is available now on major music streaming platforms.
Manitoba's own C.C. Trubiak's new album "Jukebox in Exile" dropped on June 5! Check it out today!

Upcoming Events

The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!

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

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.

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects 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.

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