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Community Projects

Discover community projects that support artists, strengthen organizations, and build more vibrant communities. Our work combines community arts, creative entrepreneurship, climate action, public art, placemaking, and cultural programming to create meaningful local impact. Through artist professional development, leadership training, community engagement initiatives, nonprofit capacity building, and creative economy projects, we help artists, cultural organizations, and communities develop the skills, partnerships, and opportunities needed to thrive.

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.
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Small Town, Smart Data

This Northern Ontario arts incubator and living lab uses advanced AI to drive climate entrepreneurship and regional innovation.
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From hours of manual work to a single click, our system turns hundreds of social assets into instant reality.
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Escaping the “Pixel Mines”

From hours of manual work to a single click, our system turns hundreds of social assets into instant reality.
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Many northern communities face barriers to basic digital literacy. Our community-built EPUB reader makes accessing digital books simple and accessible.
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Easy EPUB Reader

Our EPUB reader was built to meet real users’ needs, directly integrating with platforms they already use.
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From Process to Impact
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From Process to Impact

Sharing process communicates creative impact and engages audiences while highlighting the journey behind the work.
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Across the vast, culturally rich landscapes of Northwestern Ontario and the broader Canadian North, a powerful creative movement is taking shape. From the intricate beadwork of the Anishinaabe and Dene to the striking sculptures of Inuit carvers and the digital art of a new generation, creativity in these regions has always been more than expression — it is storytelling, identity, and survival.
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What is ECO-STAR North?

A Framework for Decolonizing Northern Innovation and Building Data Sovereign Creative Economies Across the vast, culturally rich landscapes of Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario and the broader…
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AI tools meet community research: a youth-built tool for designing ethical, participatory action projects with real impact.
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Introducing ECO-STAR North

ECO-STAR North empowers northern artists to decolonize innovation, blending Indigenous knowledge, creativity, and applied AI research.
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Tired of the expensive and time-consuming communication treadmill imposed by third-party schedulers, the administrative team built the Bluesky Auto Poster, a custom WordPress plugin designed for precision content syndication. This specialized module allows for reliable, set-and-forget scheduling directly from the dashboard, bypassing external subscription costs and securing complete control over credentials and timing to efficiently reclaim valuable administrative hours.
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The Administrative Victory

We ditched the administrative treadmill and endless subscriptions to build our own precise, powerful Bluesky Auto Poster.
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The methodology and philosophy behind this program, which uses the creative process of narrative construction as a primary vehicle for learning about and internalizing the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Stories for the SDGs

The Sustainable Development Goals are not a checklist to be completed but a future to be built, and building requires imagination.
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Sarah's Steady Note by Tony Eetak.
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Binding the Digital Book: The Craft of Digital Publishing

Youth and community arts initiative combining writing, design, and coding to craft professional, accessible e-books using open EPUB 3.
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AI for Community Resilience: Arts and Northern Regions
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AI for Community Resilience: Arts and Northern Regions

Democratizing AI technology for the arts and northern, underserved and under-resourced communities.
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Upcoming Events

The Under $100 Art Show is coming to Winnipeg August 13-16, 2026. Get your tickets now for this amazing event! The Art Spot Canada Under $100 Art Exhibition is coming to Winnipeg, Manitoba this August! ART SPOT was created in 2008 in Calgary to support local emerging artists.  ART SPOT has curated and facilitated over 100 successful art events, including solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, workshops, concerts, body painting competitions, markets, community events and more.

WINNIPEG 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.

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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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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.

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