Community Projects

Our Arts and Creative Leadership programming is designed to empower individuals and communities through innovative, participatory approaches to art, culture, and leadership. By blending artistic expression with leadership development, the program fosters creative thinking, resilience, and community cohesion. Participants are encouraged to explore and develop their leadership potential while engaging in hands-on artistic practices that reflect their unique cultural identities and experiences.

Deep Time Storytelling and the One-Million-Year Neighbourhood Deep-time storytelling connects speculative design, environmental change, community memory, and the difficult challenge of communicating across millennia.

Deep-time storytelling connects speculative design, environmental change, community memory, and the difficult challenge of communicating across millennia.

Deep Time Storytelling and the One-Million-Year Neighbourhood

Arts Incubator Winnipeg 17 May 2026

What kinds of stories, materials, and symbols could remain meaningful to societies living tens of thousands years...

Annual Spring and Summer Land Lab Program Underway Raspberry transplanting starts soon as the Art Borups Corners Land Lab program enters its third year of food security and community gardening.

Raspberry transplanting starts soon as the Art Borups Corners Land Lab program enters its third year of food security and community gardening.

Annual Spring and Summer Land Lab Program Underway

Art Borups Corners 28 Apr 2026

Art Borups Corners Land lab program prepares grow beds and expands community gardening at Dyment Recreation Hall...

Milkweed Planting begins in Melgund The Art Borups Corners Living Lab, one of our sister hubs in Northwestern Ontario started germinating Blood Flower Milkweed this month as part of their new Milkweed to Market project.

The Art Borups Corners Living Lab, one of our sister hubs in Northwestern Ontario started germinating Blood Flower Milkweed this month as part of their new Milkweed to Market project.

Milkweed Planting begins in Melgund

Arts Incubator Winnipeg 27 Apr 2026

Milkweed germination begins in Melgund Township as part of a three-year ecological and creative land lab program.

Milkweed to Market: Art, Activism, and Monarchs Milkweed, Monarchs and Nuclear Waste

Milkweed to Market: Art, Activism, and Monarchs

Arts Incubator Winnipeg 24 Apr 2026

Ditch the weeds and join a movement blending fine art with the fight for regional environmental justice.

Code, Clues, and Conservation Digital Literacy - learning to create puzzles

Code, Clues, and Conservation

Arts Incubator Winnipeg 19 Apr 2026

Digital Literacy project designs simple apps to create puzzles and games.

Spring Journeys and Community Engagement Northwestern Ontario Arts and Nuclear Engagements

Spring Journeys and Community Engagement

Arts Incubator Winnipeg 17 Apr 2026

So we’re heading out again.

One Million and Counting Monthly website visits (2025–2026), highlighting the record-breaking surge toward our one-millionth visit milestone this April.

Monthly website visits (2025–2026), highlighting the record-breaking surge toward our one-millionth visit milestone this April.

One Million and Counting

Arts Incubator Winnipeg 12 Apr 2026

With one million visits in 2026, the Arts Incubator celebrates record-breaking engagement across our diverse creative collections.

Small Town, Smart Data

Art Borups Corners is a Northwestern Ontario arts and technology collective using artificial intelligence, climate innovation, and community-led research to strengthen rural economic development and environmental stewardship. Operating across Winnipeg and Melgund Township, the incubator combines AI-assisted regulatory analysis, digital literacy training, open-source creative tools, and land-based programming to support Northern and Indigenous communities. The initiative demonstrates how rural organizations can leverage advanced AI technologies, participatory research, and cultural entrepreneurship to build resilient local economies and regional innovation capacity.

Small Town, Smart Data

Arts Incubator Winnipeg 7 Apr 2026

This Northern Ontario arts incubator and living lab uses advanced AI to drive climate entrepreneurship and regional...

Canada Integrates AI Into Environmental Impact Assessments Grassroots organizations and Canada’s federal regulators are researching and integrating ethical AI technologies to streamline environmental reviews, Indigenous consultation, stakeholder analysis, and participatory regulatory engagement frameworks.