Articles of Interest

Statistics Canada Launches Pilot for New Culture and Well-Being App

Submitter: 
The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning / Le réseau canadien pour les arts et l'apprentissage

Statistics Canada is launching a new mobile app to understand the impact of cultural participation on well-being in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage. The Vitali-T-Stat app asks participants in-the-moment questions about their daily activities and feelings. Anyone over the age of 15 is invited to download the app and participate from January 10 to March 31, 2022. Participation is voluntary and does not relate to any funding that you might receive from public funding agencies.

 

Hill Strategies Research Presents - PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE ARTS EMERGING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CANADIAN ANALYSIS AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES

Submitter: 
The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning / Le réseau canadien pour les arts et l'apprentissage

December 1, 2021

With the goal of enhancing the arts sector’s understanding of engagement behaviours and trends, this SIA Brief analyzes several Canadian information sources related to public engagement and spending in the arts.

Introducing the Art for Social Change Network (ASCN)

Submitter: 
International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC)

The Art for Social Change Network (ASCN): A New Canadian National Community-Engaged Arts Network

Led by community-engaged arts organizations acting as regional hubs, ASCN is designed to connect and support hundreds of arts for social change (ASC) organizations and independent artists across Canada. The ASC sector in Canada and around the world works in service to the needs of diverse communities through artmaking, new forms of dialogue, and partnerships with local non-arts organizations.

Conference information: Keynote speaker Dr. Brian Goldman

Submitter: 
The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning / Le réseau canadien pour les arts et l'apprentissage

The world has endured a collective traumatic experience throughout the past eighteen months. As arts and learning practitioners, we regularly see the impact that the arts have in students and participants’ lives. As we eagerly, yet tentatively, look towards pandemic recovery, we recognize the vital role that the arts must play in the health and wellbeing of Canada’s citizens, communities and society as a whole.

Digital Toolkit: Online Strategies for Artists and Arts Organizations

Submitter: 
Kick Start Arts Society

Over the last six months, Kick Start Arts has been leading a Digital Strategy Project funded by
Canada Council for the Arts. This exploratory work happened in partnership with Toronto-based
organization SKETCH, as well as The Department of Illumination in Prince Edward County,
Ontario.