Featured Projects

Jambassador bands, youth rock bands led by our AIFEC instructors in weekly rehearsals, are often invited to perform in the community. For the past several years, the Jambassadors have been invited to open the Mohawk Stage at Supercrawl, Hamilton's largest arts and music festival.

This was a two hour exploratory workshop held at the DIY Homesteader Festival, 2019. Children were given an intro into the wild, colourful plants that make beautiful paint colours and how natural pigments have been around for a long time. Children from ages 3-12 were given paper, brushes and...

My band, Glenn Marais and The Mojo Train, have been performing our Black History program for several years now, for high schools and elementary schools in the GTA. The show is a musical walk through history, celebrating Black History at the begining with a recollection of ancient civilizations,...

This week-long Art Smarts project involved students from Grades 1, 2, 3 from École James Nisbet. I harvested birch trees and 1/4" circles were cut to represent 'beads' for the pattern which was inspired by a Métis floral pattern I designed according to the space provided. The...

Since October of 2016, Arts Canopy has been providing arts based programming in music, visual arts, dance/movement, and poetry for people with dementia. It addresses the mental wellbeing of this growing population by providing meaningful ways for them to remain active, to retain their dignity,...

Kathryn Patricia Cobbler is a multi-faceted musician–educator who engages audiences of all ages in interactive performances, residencies and musical workshops.  Kathryn uses Multiple Intelligence Theory and interdisciplinary programming to fuel creative experiences. Interested in...

Art Vancouver, produced by The Vancouver Visual Art Foundation a non profit society, is held annually at the Vancouver Convention Centre for 4 days. We have just completed our 5th annual art fair, exhibiting between 90 - 120 artists/galleries coming from across Canada and around the world. Our...

Negotiating Spaces is an evolving installation working to continue an intergenerational dialogue about the effect of the railway on individuals memory and identity in Canada. Bringing together Indigenous and settler narratives, this project strives to create an alternate archive of images and...

The Littlebirds started in 1990 as part of an education program run by the Yardbird Suite. Gordon Towell was the director of the youth band that met every Saturday morning from 9am to 12 pm. Gordon’s tenure was short lived as he returned to school to start a doctoral degree. Dean McNeill...