The Digital Greenhouse is a digital innovation initiative for Canadian individuals, groups and organizations. It supports short-term projects that leverage digital technology to address sectoral and digital challenges, including:
The Digital Greenhouse is a digital innovation initiative for Canadian individuals, groups and organizations. It supports short-term projects that leverage digital technology to address sectoral and digital challenges, including:
the development of new digital tools and solutions that increase the resilience, sustainability, and discoverability of the arts sector
the development of sector-wide and cross-sector collaborations, partnerships, and networks to support innovative digital business models, revenue models and monetization strategies
sectoral approaches aimed at strategically increasing the digital/data literacy and ongoing digital transformation of the arts sector
addressing challenges and exploring digital solutions related to accessibility, equity, diversity, decolonization, social justice, and climate responsibility created by, or relevant to, the digital world
addressing challenges and exploring solutions related to the lack of access to digital infrastructure for remote regions and Northern and under-represented communities.
It's been a long road for our program. From our struggles at the beginning where everything was being cancelled or postponed, to the difficulties of being able to come together as a group; we're excited to see the spaces and places we've worked so hard to shape this past year finally coming to life.
Take a few moments to look back at the amazing digital, arts and community experiences we've been able to have in 2021-2022 thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Program.
With our summer programming coming to a close, this is a great opportunity to look back on the amazing experiences and all the activities we've been able to accomplish. Here is a short clip we will be presenting this December.
With our pilot wrapping up and an expanded fall-winter iteration of our incubator for digital arts and cultural entrepreneurship set to begin in October 2022, we wanted to share some of our experiences in the form of short teaser trailers.
The last conferences of the season are over and summer is here! Constance Menzies captured this delightfully colourful wall of guitars while picking up guitar strings with Tony Eetak at the Long & McQuade music store in Winnipeg this week.
Youth, artists and culture connectors from Arviat, Victoria and Tuktoyaktuk and the Carving Out Climate Testimony; Happening to Us and Our People, Our Climate digital arts and cultural entrepreneurship and Inclusion in Northern Research projects gathered at Qaumajuq and the Winnipeg Art Gallery during the 2022 Auviqsaqtut Inuit Studies Conference.
Tony Eetak re-connects with Jordan Konek, both from Arviat, Nunavut on campus at the University of Winnipeg during the Inuit Studies Conference earlier this month. Ten years ago this October, Jordan was a student with the original Nanisiniq Arviat History Project. This project draws on many of those early experiences.
Ethan Tassiuk, Chase Nogasak, Eriel Lugt and Maeva Gauthier led a hybrid roundtable discussion on the use of arts in support of inclusive and participatory learning environments at the University of Winnipeg June 21, 2022. The special session was held during Auviqsaqtut, the 2022 Inuit Studies Conference held in Winnipeg, June 19-22, 2022. #CINUK
Incubator for Digital and Cultural Entrepreneurship mentor and Inclusion in Northern Research Elder Dorothy Atuat Tootoo is among this year's recipients of the Order of Nunavut. Congratulations, Atuat!
June 2022 is the month we've all been waiting for, and working towards since our pilot program began last November!