Community Arts Ontario is a provincial service organization comprised of cultural centres, community arts groups, municipalities, artists and public supporters.  CAO cultivates and connects the arts, artists and people across Ontario from urban, rural and remote communities, and provides network, exchange, and professional development opportunities for community arts practitioners.

COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAMS IN ONTARIO

York University - Community Arts Practice (CAP)

REPORTS FOR DOWNLOAD

The Cultural Mapping Project

Leading Community Arts into the Future

Community Arts Matters

Forum 2008: Artists as Workers, Workers as Artists

Forum 2007: Breathing Northwinds | Supplement

ART OF DECOLONIZATION WORKSHOP SERIES

A participatory workshop series which explores how indigenous peoples express the experience of colonization across artistic disciplines, how colonization is resisted through arts expression, how art contributes to the maintenance/recovery of culture and language, the interesections of decolonization work for both racialized and indigenous communities and, how relationships within and among communities are built using artistic processes.

Dates: August 24, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: University of Toronto - OISE (Room 2199)
Cost: $ 25
[Students & CAO members: 20% discount]

"Reclaiming Images: Decolonization Through Video" by Malinda Francis

Presented in partnership with OPIRG-Toronto

For more information please call 1-800-806-2302/ 416-598-1128 or email cao@communityartsontario.ca.

PAST EVENTS

Storytelling...from Ancestral Memories to Digital Narratives: June 18-19, 2010

More about the Digital Storytelling workshop.

Weaving Tapestries, a series of one-day interactive workshops held across Ontario. Report: Part I | Part II | Part III

Temagagi Gathering: Traditions of Storytelling: June 19-21, 2009

Breathing Northwinds Report: 2007 - 2009