Webinar

This webinar explores how culture and arts education can foster empathy, ethical awareness, dialogue, and more peaceful futures in times of global uncertainty, violence, and displacement. Through personal reflections and panel discussion, participants will consider how art teaching and learning can address human and non-human suffering, cultivate critical awareness of world events, and support more inclusive, caring, and socially engaged communities.

As part of UNESCO Culture and Arts Education Week 2026, IDEA brings together international artists, educators, and theatre practitioners to explore how drama and theatre education can foster peace, empathy, dialogue, sustainability, and democratic engagement.

Featured Presentations：

Peaceful Resolutions Through Drama and Dance, Michelle Gram Giesen (Canada)

Currents of Change: Climate Justice, Water, and STEAM, Matthew Sheahan & Heather Newman (Canada)

From Vision to Practice: Implementing the UNESCO Culture and Arts Education Guidelines" is a webinar focused on the newly published Implementation Guidance for the UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education.

The session will explore how the framework can be put into practice across educational contexts to support more holistic, inclusive, creative, and culturally responsive learning through the arts.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ellie Barrett will be the opening speaker in the CSEA/SCEA Early Childhood Art Education Dialogue Series.

This dialogue series aims to highlight how artists, researchers, and/or educators involved in early childhood education up to grade 3 have explored, created, taught, and reflected on art through material encounters with young children. Additionally, these speakers will also share ideas, issues, and concepts that drive their work.

We look forward to seeing many of you!

Date: Thursday, October 30th

Join over 300 drama and theatrical arts teachers from across Canada for TAEA's National Drama Teachers' Conference. Oct 24th we gather in 10 different in-person conference locations and on Oct 25th we all gather online to celebrate our shared Canadian culture, network and learn from some of Canada's best theatrical arts professionals. Gatherings are taking place in: Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Victoria, Moose Jaw, Stratford, Fredericton NB, St. John's NL and Online

Imagining in Public is a new public conversation series focused on bringing creative approaches to challenging questions, facilitated by artists in the community.

Donner de l’espace aux arts :

Approches innovatrices allant de l’accès à la propriété

Joignez-vous à nous le mercredi 18 juin 2025 pour le prochain volet de notre série de conférences.

Josh O’Kane animera une conversation nationale centrée sur l'exploration de solutions créatrices qui émergent d'enjeux d'ordre immobilier touchant le secteur des arts.

Making Space for the Arts:

Innovative Approaches to Access and Ownership

Join us on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, for the next edition of the Speaker Series.

In this national conversation moderated by The Globe and Mail’s  Josh O’Kane , we’ll explore creative solutions emerging in response to the arts sector’s real estate challenges.

Urban Art Biz S3 –  Ep2 CARFAC + Indigenous Protocols

Wednesday Oct 25, 2023 from 12pm – 1pm CST

Register for this free webinar talk...

https://creativemanitoba.ca/events/urban-art-biz-carfac-indigenous-protocols-for-visual-art/

Anastasia Vaillancourt
Andrée Harvey
Véronique Marino