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.

Are you an artist or arts professional experiencing first-hand the negative impacts of gentrification? Are you being priced out of your studio or home? Have you already or are you currently considering moving to a new neighbourhood or a new city due to a lack of affordable cultural spaces and housing? Considering leaving the arts sector altogether?