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.

Creative Leadership & Entrepreneurship: Youth Driving Sustainable Arts & Community Futures Youth Driving Sustainable Futures: Lifelong learning culminates in creative leadership and entrepreneurship. See how youth innovation is shaping a vibrant and sustainable future for arts and communities.

Youth Driving Sustainable Futures: Lifelong learning culminates in creative leadership and entrepreneurship. See how youth innovation is shaping a vibrant and sustainable future for arts and communities.

Creative Leadership & Entrepreneurship: Youth Driving Sustainable Arts & Community Futures

Jamie Bell March 20, 2025

Youth Driving Sustainable Futures: Lifelong learning culminates in creative leadership and entrepreneurship. See how youth innovation...

Youth Leadership Pipelines: Arts as a Catalyst for Future Recreation Leaders Who will lead community recreation tomorrow? This article highlights the power of arts as a catalyst for developing youth leadership, ensuring a vibrant and dynamic recreation sector for years to come.

Who will lead community recreation tomorrow? This article highlights the power of arts as a catalyst for developing youth leadership, ensuring a vibrant and dynamic recreation sector for years to come.

Youth Leadership Pipelines: Arts as a Catalyst for Future Recreation Leaders

Tony Eetak March 20, 2025

The future of recreation depends on nurturing young leaders today. This article delves into how arts-based recreation...

Funding Without Hierarchy: Alternative Economic Models This week, we explore how alternative funding models like community-supported art and mutual aid are empowering independent artists. Moving beyond traditional grants, artists are finding new ways to sustain their work. Discover how decentralized financial support is changing the landscape of the Canadian arts scene.

This week, we explore how alternative funding models like community-supported art and mutual aid are empowering independent artists. Moving beyond traditional grants, artists are finding new ways to sustain their work. Discover how decentralized financial support is changing the landscape of the Canadian arts scene.

Funding Without Hierarchy: Alternative Economic Models

Jamie Bell March 18, 2025

Explore community-supported arts, mutual aid funding, and alternative economies reshaping decentralized funding models for independence.

Centering Indigenous Youth: Culturally Relevant Learning for Northern & Remote Communities Culture as Curriculum: Empowering Indigenous Youth: Understand the critical importance of culturally relevant learning for Indigenous youth in northern communities. Tradition and heritage are key to leadership.

Culture as Curriculum: Empowering Indigenous Youth: Understand the critical importance of culturally relevant learning for Indigenous youth in northern communities. Tradition and heritage are key to leadership.

Centering Indigenous Youth: Culturally Relevant Learning for Northern & Remote Communities

Jamie Bell March 13, 2025

Culture as Curriculum: Empowering Indigenous Youth: Understand the critical importance of culturally relevant learning for Indigenous youth...

Inclusion & Innovation: Arts Addressing Systemic Barriers in Recreation Leading the Way: The future of recreation depends on nurturing young leaders today. This article looks into how arts-based recreation programs are building essential leadership skills in youth, creating a vital pipeline for the next generation of community champions.

Leading the Way: The future of recreation depends on nurturing young leaders today. This article looks into how arts-based recreation programs are building essential leadership skills in youth, creating a vital pipeline for the next generation of community champions.

Inclusion & Innovation: Arts Addressing Systemic Barriers in Recreation

Jamie Bell March 12, 2025

Arts-based recreation programs offer innovative strategies to dismantle these barriers and create more equitable and welcoming community spaces.

Level Up: Why Artists Need Capacity Building Helping artists get better at the business side isn't just about them as individuals. It's about making the whole art world stronger, and that's good for everyone.

Helping artists get better at the business side isn't just about them as individuals. It's about making the whole art world stronger, and that's good for everyone.

Level Up: Why Artists Need Capacity Building

Art Borups Corners March 11, 2025

Artists make the world more alive, you know? They're full of talent and drive. But just having...

Networks & Collectives: Decentralizing the Arts This week, we explore the power of decentralized networks in the arts. Artist-run collectives and open-source platforms are disrupting traditional structures, giving artists the freedom to collaborate without gatekeepers. Learn how these networks are empowering independent creators and reshaping the future of art.

This week, we explore the power of decentralized networks in the arts. Artist-run collectives and open-source platforms are disrupting traditional structures, giving artists the freedom to collaborate without gatekeepers. Learn how these networks are empowering independent creators and reshaping the future of art.

Networks & Collectives: Decentralizing the Arts

Jamie Bell March 11, 2025

Artist-led collectives and decentralized networks are challenging traditional systems, offering new pathways for independent artists and fostering...

Winter Workshops & Outdoor Visions: Learning to Build Our Own Easels This easy, experimental and hands-on project is more than just building; it's about empowering our program participants and preparing for our upcoming outdoor pop-up exhibition.

This easy, experimental and hands-on project is more than just building; it's about empowering our program participants and preparing for our upcoming outdoor pop-up exhibition.

Winter Workshops & Outdoor Visions: Learning to Build Our Own Easels

Tony Eetak March 6, 2025

Learn how our arts mentorship program is building DIY easels from local materials for upcoming outdoor art...

Formal Learning: Building Bridges & Strategic Pathways in Arts & Leadership Beyond passion, leadership requires strategy. Explore how formal education empowers young creatives with essential skills in management, policy, and more. Part 3 shows how academic learning builds bridges for youth leadership.

Beyond passion, leadership requires strategy. Explore how formal education empowers young creatives with essential skills in management, policy, and more. Part 3 shows how academic learning builds bridges for youth leadership.

Formal Learning: Building Bridges & Strategic Pathways in Arts & Leadership

Art Borups Corners March 6, 2025

Beyond passion, leadership requires strategy. Explore how formal education empowers young creatives with essential skills in...

Deterritorialization and the art of Creative Takeovers Creativity isn't static, it's about constant evolution. Deterritorialization embraces this dynamic spirit. It's the process of intentionally shaking things up, letting go of rigid structures in art, AI, and music, and allowing your practice to transform and become something you couldn't have predicted. Embrace the flow of creative change!