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The Arts Incubator Winnipeg Hub showcases Winnipeg arts programming and Manitoba arts sector development through a dynamic platform for exhibitions, artist residencies, creative workshops, and community-based cultural initiatives. It highlights Winnipeg artists, Manitoba arts organizations, and Northern and Prairie creative networks working across visual arts, digital media, performance, and interdisciplinary practice. The hub supports arts programming in Winnipeg, including artist development programs, cultural events, public art initiatives, and collaborative projects that strengthen the local creative economy. It also features Manitoba arts funding opportunities, arts incubator programming, and innovation in contemporary Canadian arts practice, connecting emerging and established artists with audiences, partners, and cultural institutions across Winnipeg, Manitoba, and beyond.

A change of seasons and a lot on the horizon. From exhibitions and independent studies to food production and new collaborations, there’s plenty ahead.
Winnipeg

Update: Looking Ahead to Fall

Students, artists and community projects are getting underway as we head into another busy fall.
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Here's why toast is perfect: it knows things are going to get messy. Jam drips. Butter melts. Peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth. Toast doesn't judge. It just holds it all together long enough for you to take a bite. Our infrastructure is built on that same principle. Research in the arts is inherently sloppy—half-formed ideas, process artifacts, things that don't fit in boxes. The system isn't there to clean it up. It's there to catch it before it hits the floor.
Community Projects

The Infrastructure Is Toast

Toast, not hard hats: the lightweight infrastructure keeping our research network connected over time.
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After our first exploration visualized the messy-wonderful mixture of scrambled research roles, we're taking the next big step: figuring out the cognified governance and consortium models that make it all work together. Think of this next phase as adding the bacon to our scrambled eggs; it’s not just a side, but the essential, savory, and structured element that brings everything to its full potential and makes the whole experiment infinitely more complete.
Arts & Creative Leadership

What Happens When Scrambled Research Meets Cognified Governance?

Scrambled Research gets a new ingredient: cognified governance. We’re exploring what happens when intelligence and decision-making become networked.
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Real-world research rarely fits neatly into separate boxes, which is why this fall we’re exploring what might happen if we stopped trying to keep all the ingredients apart. With Scrambled Research, we’re experimenting with ways to bring community partners, artists, students, academics, organizations and other contributors into a more flexible research network, while asking what happens when roles, funding, expertise and knowledge can move in different directions. We’re not starting with a finished model or claiming we’ve figured it out; we’re curious about what becomes possible when the usual institutional boundaries get loosened, rearranged and tested. The fun part is seeing what emerges when we scramble the ingredients and let the research itself show us where it wants to go.
Community Projects

Scrambled Research: Rethinking the Boxes We Put Research In

What happens when research stops fitting neatly into institutional boxes? We're experimenting with Scrambled Research this fall.
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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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Fresh birch bark from Northwestern Ontario, ready to inspire fall arts and crafts projects in Manitoba.
Winnipeg

Arts and Crafts! Bringing Birch Bark Back to Manitoba

Birch bark arrives in Winnipeg thanks to Art Borups Corners, bringing natural materials to Manitoba fall arts and crafts workshops.
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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.

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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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