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On February 19th 2010 Robyn Shyllit spoke with Kaje Johnson, the founder of Elevated Grounds about community arts, and destigmatizing mental health.
 

Art Starts programming responds to community needs and interests while training local residents to take ownership of and responsibility for the programming.

On February 3rd, Robyn Shyllit sat down with Andrea Raymond from Cedar Ridge to talk about some of the successes and challenges of Project Random.

MABELLEarts projects celebrate the possibilities of transient, makeshift and imperfect spaces that make room for creative activity and transformation.

Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre is a youth driven, not-for-profit organization located in the heart of Regent Park, Toronto.

SOY is an exciting, dynamic community development project designed to improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and transgendered youth in Toronto...

On Thursday February 18th 2010 Robyn Shyllit met with artist Piotr Adas at his studio to discuss the Fasade project.

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The Urban Sight Block Project (USBP) encourages users to block things that they do not wish to see by asking the...
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After a 5-star, sold-out run in the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival and an extension at the Best of the Fringe at the...
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Glendower is now proud to present its very own hip hop dance crew led by renowned dancer/choreographer Paul Thurton,(...
Multigenerational drop in arts workshops feature everything from basketmaking, t-shirt design and graffiti to dance,...
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One World: Glendower is a music/recording program conceptualized and designed in its entirety by youth in Scarborough’s...
Music
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Art Starts, working in partnership with facilitating artists Red Pepper Spectacle Arts, worked with Glendower residents...
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Jasp has decided to write a book about ‘going green’ so that she can become a famous author. Only one problem: she...
Performance Arts, Theatre, Other
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Art Starts is proud to have formed a three year partnership with Dusk Dances to co-produce an outdoor dance festival...
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The Tale of a Town by FIXT POINT THE TALE OF A TOWN is a neighbourhood arts project about Queen West that will take...
Performance Arts
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Look Up: Live Large is the culmination of six weeks of workshops with renowned artist Dan Bergeron and the children and...
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The Trans Partner Network is a Toronto-based group of partners of trans and gender-variant people who came together to...
Storytelling, Other
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In the fall of 2008 over 45 youth participated in the creation of a permanent public art piece at Maria A. Shchuka...
Over a four-week period, Mixed Company Theatre artists collaborate with youth who are ‘at-risk’ or have experienced...
Theatre, Other
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Through the creation of the Glendower Arts Council, Art Starts is sharing its expertise in developing and managing...
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http://burninglibrarian.wordpress.com/ The Burning Library is a mobile, pedestrian-oriented library created for the...
Literary, Performance Arts
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ArtHeart's Adults Arts Program is held three days each week year-round and has an attendance of up to 30...
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Five artists and 12 youth aged 11 to 16 spent a summer turning an abandoned, boarded up house into a Kingdom of Awesome...
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Program Without Walls is a collaborative initiative comprised of many components, from nutrition to education to...
A 10 session program bringing together youth and seniors from the Eglinton/Keele neighbourhood with renowned dub poet...
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Artscape is pleased to announce the launch of the tenancy process for the Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre with two...
Other
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LUME LUME is a collective of wanderers who follow their curiosities around the world and make jewellery. Our pieces are...
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TOURING MARCH 22 – APRIL 16 Why is gang life so appealing? Follow one youth’s journey from the beginnings of a...
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Once a week we open our doors to host weekly multidisciplinary art drop-in workshops for youth in our community....
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ArtHeart's Children and Youths Arts Program runs two days a week as an after-school drop in and as an art camp in...
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The Style Council is a fashion media program that brings together a collective of emerging writers, stylists, and...
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Participants aged 6 to 19 work with professional artists to explore their community & its people, its space, its...
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TAC and the City Parks Department would like your opinion!   We know that quite a few artists and arts organizations enliven our parks with...
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Every year as part of our Spring production, our youth performance arts company features an aspect of our African and Caribbean musical heritage that...
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Hi my name is Kurt Rostek. I am a Visual Artist-painter. I think this network is a great idea.
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