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Propagating a radical new normal in the facility of Canadian arts services to eradicate deeply-rooted barriers for interdisciplinary, intercultural, intergenerational, and interability arts and culture professionals and their devotees across diverse urban, rural, remote, and digital communities.
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Leading Change @ TAC Leaders Lab
We are delighted to announce that ArtsPond’s Founder, Jessa Agilo, has been chosen as a fellow to the 2019 cohort of Toronto Arts Council’s Leaders Lab. A few of Jessa’s responses to selected questions from the application process follow. What does strong leadership look like to you and why is […]
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Seeking Focus Group Participants
Are you an artist or arts professional impacted by gentrification? Groundstory, a collective impact effort, is seeking arts and culture professionals from any discipline and background in Toronto to participate in a 2-hour focus group session with other peers from the community to share stories, perspectives, and possible solutions to […]
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8K Milestone
Another milestone passed: thanks to each of you for downloading our online educational resources investigating new models and practices in arts services more than 8,000 times! We look forward to sharing more perspectives in 2019.
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6K Milestone
For the first time, this November we are delighted to have surpassed the milestone of more than 6,000 monthly visitors to our websites! As a young startup, our heartfelt thanks goes out to each of you for following and supporting our efforts to establish new solutions and practices in arts […]
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Round the Block Podcast – Episode 1
As a part of the collective impact effort, Groundstory, we are delighted to share Episode 1 of Round the Block, an occasional podcast uncovering untold effects of gentrification on the arts featuring guests Oliver Pauk and Michael Vickers of Toronto’s Akin Collective. The podcast is currently available at Groundstory.ca and via […]
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Digital Shift @ Humber
This week ArtsPond Founder Jessa Agilo was delighted share “Digital Shift“, a new presentation on the digital transformation of arts services, with arts administration and cultural management students at Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. The presentation provided an introduction to the nascent industry of digital arts services and emerging […]
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Artse United: White Paper #1
We are delighted to share our first in a series of white papers on the evolution of Artse United, a proposed arts management platform cooperative providing robust digital tools for artists and companies in all disciplines. The first white paper features the results of market research and preliminary financial modelling […]
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Canada Council Funding for Groundstory
Roseneath Theatre, ArtsPond and Hill Strategies Research are delighted to announce a new applied research effort on the status of affordable housing and workspaces for vulnerable arts and culture workers in Ontario, generously funded by Canada Council for the Arts. The initiative will take place throughout 2019 as part of […]
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Introducing our core creative actions on-the-ground and in-the-cloud
Digital Shift
Initiated in 2016, DigitalASO is a cross-sectoral effort to empower the digital transformation of Canadian arts services through digital literacy research, training, platform and alliance-building.
De-gentrify Ontario
Founded in 2017, Groundstory is a collective impact effort with a mandate to uproot the adverse effects of gentrification on the arts and other vulnerable, low-income groups in Ontario.
Creativity Well
To be launched in 2019, Inflow is a community-engaged, multi-arts residency program for emerging and mid-career artists, curators, educators, and producers from diverse backgrounds in Toronto.
Go Artsy
Artse United is an emerging digital arts management platform cooperative serving individual creators and producers and larger organizations across all disciplines in Canada.
Spotlight
A spotlight on our resources, events, and activities
DASSAN19: All Digits on Deck
The second edition of the Digital Arts Services Symposium, “All Digits on Deck”, takes place at the Toronto Reference Library and other venues from March 15 to 20, 2019. Detailed programming announcements are available at DigitalASO.ca.
Hacking Arts Data
Are your digital systems beat? Impact 3.0, was an exploratory English-language “hackinar” to gauge interest in the launch of Artse United, a proposed arts management platform cooperative. Also check out the first in a series of white papers on market research and financial modelling for Artse United’s minimum viable platform.
Groundstory Applied Research 2019
Groundstory applied research continues throughout Winter and Spring 2019 including two province-wide general public and arts industry worker surveys, an international literature review, and regional focus groups. Visit Groundstory.ca for more information.