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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.

While discussing a new mural series, we found ourselves reflecting on Winnipeg's arts community, creative collaboration, and the importance of making time for big ideas in the middle of a busy summer. Photo: Tony Eetak
Winnipeg

Murals, Meetings, and a Summer Afternoon at Stella’s

From mural planning and arts programming to film, research, and community development, a productive afternoon in Winnipeg highlights a busy summer season.
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Planning a community market requires careful coordination, from choosing the right venue to marketing the event effectively. Discover how to create an engaging summer experience that benefits both vendors and attendees.
Creative Entrepreneurship

Hosting a Pop-Up Artist or Farmer’s Market?

Discover how to organize thriving summer artist and farmer's markets across Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario.
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Community workshop addresses grief, resilience, and support systems, encouraging open dialogue and creative approaches to healing.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Supporting Grief and Healing Through Art and Conversation

Artist-led workshop examines mental health, grief, and healing through art, focusing on storytelling and emotional processing.
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Jukebox In Exile is the latest country music album from Flin Flon, Manitoba singer-songwriter C.C. Trubiak. Rooted in classic country music traditions, the album combines heartfelt storytelling, honky-tonk influences and contemporary songwriting inspired by life in Northern Manitoba. Written during a period of wildfire evacuation and displacement, Jukebox In Exile reflects the resilience, creativity and strong community spirit found throughout Flin Flon and across Manitoba. Featuring the singles "Old Country Songs," "Being Rich" and "Outlaws Meditation," the album highlights Trubiak's growing presence in Canadian country music while celebrating the people, places and experiences that shape life in Manitoba's North.
Music

Jukebox In Exile: Country Songs for Coming Home with C.C. Trubiak

Northern Manitoba artist C.C. Trubiak releases fourth album Jukebox In Exile, shaped by wildfire evacuation and country music traditions.
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The Real Value of Creative Entrepreneurship
Creative Entrepreneurship

The Real Value of Creative Entrepreneurship

Supporting small teams is the most reliable strategy to keep local communities financially strong.
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This summer, we're exploring how WordPress, React, and artificial intelligence can help artists and community organizations build more engaging digital experiences. Through hands-on experimentation and creative research, the project examines new ways to support digital storytelling, cultural initiatives, and community innovation with accessible technology.
Community Projects

From WordPress to AI and Web Apps

Exploring how AI, React, and WordPress can help artists and communities build better digital experiences together.
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The Exchange District perfectly masquerades as Bastion, Illinois, with this convincing theater set advertising Karloff and Price, built specifically for the chilling atmosphere of David Slade’s Dark Harvest.
Photos and Short Stories

Cellulose Illusion

The line between reality and cinematic illusion blurs beautifully on the historic pavements of downtown Winnipeg.
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The ultimate primitive boardroom: an intimate, fire-lit space that coaxes creative thinkers outside to connect, brainstorm, and stay warm beneath the dark night sky.
Winnipeg

Primordial Kilns

Working with raw fire and earth reminds us that the best artistic connections are entirely unscripted.
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A battered and broken payphone keypad in downtown Winnipeg stands as a raw, gritty piece of accidental street art, capturing the textured history of old public communication.
Winnipeg

Dial Tone Ghosts

A shattered payphone in Winnipeg transforms ordinary street damage into a beautifully haunting monument to human voices.
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One of this summer's creative projects will explore how clay connects art, geology, history, and human storytelling across generations and landscapes naturally.
Climate Entrepreneurship

What Is Slip Clay?

This creative project explores how clay connects art, geology, history, and human storytelling across generations and landscapes naturally.
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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!

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.

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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