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Manitoba arts

Based in Winnipeg, The Arts Incubator is a hub for Manitoba arts, connecting local creators with Northern and Indigenous projects across the province and beyond. By supporting community-driven initiatives, mentorship opportunities, and digital innovation, the Incubator strengthens the arts sector while amplifying the unique voices of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. From emerging artists to established cultural leaders, the Incubator fosters collaboration and sustainability, ensuring that Winnipeg and Manitoba’s arts community continues to thrive as a center for creativity and cultural exchange.

This is a snapshot of our arts incubator as a living network rather than a collection of separate projects. We’ve been experimenting with knowledge graphs, mapping, and data visualization, but the process has also become a creative way to look back through our own work and discover relationships that aren't always obvious when everything is sitting in separate folders, spreadsheets, and posts.
Community Projects

Mapping What We’ve Been Up To

Traditional data visualization often flattens complex histories into static, two-dimensional charts that tell a frozen story.
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Ribbon Skirts With a Story
Arts Entrepreneurship

Ribbon Skirts With a Story

A community workshop teaches young makers dress design, sewing, and the art of the traditional ribbon skirt.
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Beyond organizational shifts, Canada is experiencing a quiet erosion of its grassroots civic infrastructure. Informal volunteer rates dropped to 66%, driven by a massive 40% decline in public meeting attendance and a 34% drop in local event coordination. This retreat from local problem-solving weakens the social fabric that helps communities remain resilient during crises. Re-engaging residents will require organizations to pioneer flexible micro-volunteering and modern participatory models.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Canada’s Civic Engagement Is Fraying — And What Community Organizations Can Do About It

From falling volunteer rates to concentrated giving, discover four strategic pathways for Canadian nonprofits to build resilience and capacity.
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This fall and winter, our arts incubator and its nonprofit partners will be exploring boards, governance, and strategic capacity building as a central focus of our programming season.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Exploring Leadership Pipeline Development for Nonprofits

This fall, our arts incubator tackles boards, governance and capacity building grounded in national data.
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Artist and drum dancer Eva Suluk with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew during the Manitoba–Nunavut gathering in Arviat, Nunavut, July 7, 2026. Photo: Wab Kinew
Arts & Creative Leadership

The Drum Brings Us Together

Arts and culture help build stronger northern connections, bringing communities together through tradition, performance and shared experience.
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Did you know that a lot of us do meetings on park benches in funky places and space?
Creative Leadership

Exploring Governance Models

From working boards to collaborative networks, we're exploring governance models that help nonprofits grow while staying community-focused.
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Weeks of collecting wild clay, birch bark sawdust, and wood ash reveal the hidden work behind our summer ceramics project.
Arts & Creative Leadership

The Work Before the Fire

Before the first pit fire, weeks of gathering, processing, and learning transformed local materials into future works of art.
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This beautiful and colourful mural catches our eye every time we're walking through the north end. Photo: Tony Eetak
Winnipeg

Finding Inspiration in Winnipeg’s North End Murals

Thinking about how community murals come together through local stories, artist collaboration, planning, and a shared sense of place.
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Caribou in the City: Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing
Winnipeg

Caribou in the City: Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing

Peter Sawatzky’s Seal River Crossing brings northern Manitoba’s caribou migration into downtown Winnipeg, connecting visitors with wildlife, landscape, and place.
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The tilt shift lens brings focus to the heart of the sidewalk, blurring the heavy traffic and overhead skywalks to emphasize the people who make Winnipeg feel truly, deeply alive.
Winnipeg

Winnipeg’s Biggest Art Show Arrives This August

Support Manitoba artists at the first ARTSPOT Under $100 Art Show in Winnipeg, August 13-16 at Portage Place.
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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!

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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.

Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 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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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
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