FORUM 2006 COMMUNITY ARTS MATTERS
June 9 - 10, 2006 at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton
The first session is properly titled, Community Arts Matters, and will be led by Robin Pacific - community arts practioner.
In A Living Wage for Artists Bryce Kanbara will take a candid look at the coordination of a community-funded project (in progress) aimed at improving the lives of Hamilton artists, writers, and visual artists.
 
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The welcoming ceremonies will be led by Walter Cooke, who will take us Smudging to prepare us for the day's journey. Smudging is a ritual way to cleanse a person, place or object of negative energies, spirits or influences.
Community Arts Ontario's Cultural Development Coordinator Diane Roberts will facilitate the focus group, How To Decolonize Your Art: How The Legacy of Colonialism in Canada Affects the Work We Do With Communities. Diane is also responsible for leading the community building workshop series, Weaving Tapestries. For more information, contact Diane.

Forum 2006 Community Arts Matters
June 9 - 10, 2006

Community Art Matters is a forum whose purpose is to explore the complex and vital relationship that exists between the artist, community and the general public. The forum is organized jointly by Community Arts Ontario, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre and the Immigrant Culture and Arts Association.

The Forum will tackle critical issues that affect all community arts organizations and artists as well as community centres, service and advocacy organizations.

Topics addressed include:

  • Artists’ continued poverty
  • The legacy of colonialism
  • Issues that affect young artists
  • The way forward for community arts

There will be opportunities to see the dynamic work of the Workers Art and Heritage Centre, discover local performers, visit the thriving galleries of Hamilton and brainstorm with like-minded people.

The forum will take place at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.

Community Arts Matters! ‘It holds the collective and individual in exquisite balance; finds common threads and celebrates differences’, Robin Pacific, Community Arts Practitioner and session leader at the Forum.

 
Community Arts Ontario - Workers Arts and Heritage Centre - Immigrant Culture and Art Association
Canadian Heritage - Ontario Arts Council - Ontario Trillium Foundation - City of Hamilton