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Home / Arts & Creative Leadership

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.

This is our dried and smashed up wild clay that we are now going to turn into powder.
Community Projects

Crushing Wild Clay the Simple Way

Learn how we process harvested wild clay into fine powder using simple tools, natural materials, and traditional methods for pottery.
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A lot happens when people from different backgrounds crowd around one canvas. Everyone is focused on the same thing at the exact same time—some people fill in the backgrounds with blue paint, others sharpen the edges of the graffiti letters, and phones actually stay in pockets. It’s simple, hands-on work, and it forces people to talk and connect without any awkwardness.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Connecting Generations: The Impact of Community Painting Sessions

Shared painting events give youth and older adults a casual, hands-on space to hang out. It lets different generations drop their assumptions, trade skills, and…
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While discussing a new mural series, we found ourselves reflecting on Winnipeg's arts community, creative collaboration, and the importance of making time for big ideas in the middle of a busy summer. Photo: Tony Eetak
Winnipeg

Murals, Meetings, and a Summer Afternoon at Stella’s

From mural planning and arts programming to film, research, and community development, a productive afternoon in Winnipeg highlights a busy summer season.
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Community workshop addresses grief, resilience, and support systems, encouraging open dialogue and creative approaches to healing.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Supporting Grief and Healing Through Art and Conversation

Artist-led workshop examines mental health, grief, and healing through art, focusing on storytelling and emotional processing.
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Cooking caribou over an open fire creates moments of connection that strengthen family ties and keep cultural traditions alive.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Cooking, Connection and Caribou

Eva Suluk reflects on family, tradition, and the lasting connection to her late mother while preparing country food on the western shores of Hudson Bay.
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Sociocracy helps nonprofits move beyond top-down leadership toward governance models emphasizing collaboration, accountability, participation, and collective responsibility.
Arts & Creative Leadership

What Is Sociocracy?

How circle-based governance models can support youth involvement, community stewardship, and healthier organizational cultures.
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Most small organizations don’t need bigger boards; they need lighter ones that match how work actually happens.
Arts & Creative Leadership

What are Focused Boards?

A Focused Board holds only what is legally necessary, leaving space for everything else to move freely.
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A small square of moose hide pinned close to the heart, symbolizing a personal commitment to stand against violence and support safer, more respectful communities.
Winnipeg

Moose Hide Campaign Day 2026

Moose Hide Campaign Day reminds us that preventing violence starts with everyday choices, actions, and accountability.
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Speculative design mixes storytelling, art and critical thinking into experiences that feel playful, immersive and slightly unsettling sometimes.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Speculative Design: Designing Weird Futures?

Speculative design transforms future anxieties into creative projects that challenge assumptions about technology, culture and everyday human life.
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Fire, Flight & Country Songs with C.C. Trubiak
Arts & Creative Leadership

Fire, Flight & Country Songs with C.C. Trubiak

C.C. Trubiak says fleeing Flin Flon during wildfires reignited creativity that ultimately shaped his new album.
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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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