The next free advisory convening sessions for Groundstory are in West Toronto (Jul 10 + Sep 12) and Hamilton (Jul 9 + Aug 20). Mark your calendars!

ArtsPond and Groundstory are delighted to announce MemeYou 2018, our first anti-gentrification meme competition for Ontario arts and culture workers of all ages. 

Have you been impacted by gentrification at home or work? If you are an arts and culture professional living or working in the Greater Toronto to Hamilton Area, we would like to hear your #MyGroundstory.

Your personal or work experiences coping with increasing inequality and precarity of #income and the rising costs of property will contribute to baseline research for Groundstory. $50 to $100 honoraria are available for a small focus group session or an in-person interview 1 or 2 hours in duration. Deadline to apply is September 14, 2018. 

ArtsPond is pleased to announce we have two summer student positions available for 2018 with funding from Canada Summer Jobs.

In a new paid opportunity, ArtsPond is seeking two or more individuals to provide event support for upcoming Groundstory public outreach events across the GTHA in the Spring and Summer of 2018.

Our heartfelt thanks goes to the Ontario Trillium Foundation, who recently awarded $30,000 to ArtsPond for Groundstory. Upcoming activities include advisory convening sessions and public arts and culture worker roundtables in Toronto and Hamilton in May 2018. 

Interested in affordable housing and spaces for the arts? Check out a video recording of a recent orientation webinar for volunteer researchers with Groundstory. 

ArtsPond is seeking Volunteer Researchers to help with Groundstory, a collective impact initiative addressing gentrification in Ontario.

Cross-sector leaders from the arts, business, non-profit, and government sectors are invited to come together to cultivate consensus and urgency to move forward with Groundstory, an emerging collective impact collaboration to address the drivers and adverse ripple effects of gentrification in Toronto, Hamilton, and other communities across Ontario.