Share well. Live well.
The mission of ArtsPond is to bolster big ideas and untapped potential in the arts into exceptional, everyday realities for collective impact on-the-ground and in-the-cloud.
As a catalyst for positive systemic change, our vision is to propagate a radical new normal in the facility of arts services to eradicate deeply-rooted barriers for multidisciplinary arts and culture professionals and their devotees across diverse urban, rural, remote, and digital communities in Canada.
Actions
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.
Events
A spotlight on our upcoming events and activities
Groundstory Advisory: Summer 2018
Advisory convening for Groundstory continues throughout Summer 2018 with sessions at Toronto Public Library (Parkdale Branch) on July 10 & September 12 from 5 to 7:30 pm, and Hamilton on July 9 (Spice Factory) & August 20 (Players’ Guild of Hamilton) from 7 to 9 pm. Visit Groundstory.ca for more information.
Hacking Arts Data
Are your digital systems beat? Join us on July 24, 2018 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm for Impact 3.0, an exploratory English-language “hackinar” to gauge interest in the launch of Artse United, an emerging next-generation arts management platform cooperative serving both individual creators and larger organizations across all disciplines in Canada.
Call for Proposals
What would it take for your artistic voice to better flow? We are now accepting applications to Inflow / Afflux, a multi-arts creative residency program for emerging and mid-career artists, curators, and producers from diverse backgrounds in Toronto. Deadline to apply is September 14, 2018.
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 from March 18 to 20, 2019. Detailed programming announcements will be released in August 2018 at DigitalASO.ca.
Blog
Keep up with all the news
Summer Reflections: Melanie Cohen
Melanie Cohen joined ArtsPond on May 28, 2018 as our Canada Summer Jobs Education and Outreach Assistant. Here are some of her reflections on completion of her contract with us. We wish she didn’t have to go back to school so we could keep her with us much longer! […]
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Impact 3.0 Webinar
This week ArtsPond founder Jessa Agilo was delighted to present an English-language webinar on hacking data in Canadian arts & culture with our valued colleague and partner Margaret Lam of BeMused Network. The hour-long presentation provided an overview of the proposed vision for Artse United, an open source, open data […]
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2018 Annual General Meeting
You are cordially invited to ArtsPond’s 2018 Annual General Meeting on Saturday Aug 11, 2018 from 11 am to 12 noon. You may attend in person or online. RSVP for details to hello@artspond.com. Come and learn more about the highlights of our 2017-18 season where our reach expanded more than […]
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Volunteer Researchers
Groundstory is seeking volunteer researcher(s) to help identify the roots, ripple effects, and responses to growing gentrification, urban densification, social-spatial displacement, loss of affordable housing, increasing income inequality, and other challenges facing contemporary, urban cultures in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Volunteer researchers will contribute to an international literature […]
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Board of Directors
ArtsPond is actively seeking individuals with expertise or deep interest in the arts, cultural placemaking/urban planning, and/or technology to join the Board of Directors, including the roles of Director (three positions) and Chair. The ideal commitment for a Director is a one-to-two-year term, while the Chair is a two-to-three-year term. […]
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Toronto Reflections
Detailed minutes and support material process documents from the first public convening for Groundstory at Dancemakers in Toronto on May 3, 2018 are now available for download from our resource repository. This repository will be updated on an ongoing basis. The image above features a summary of the Toronto participants’ […]
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Summer 2018
Mark you calendars! The next free advisory convening sessions for Groundstory are in West Toronto at the Toronto Public Library Parkdale Branch Auditorium on Jul 10 and Sep 12 from 5 to 7:30 pm, and Hamilton at the Player’s Guild on Jul 9 and Aug 20 from 7 to 9 […]
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#MyGroundstory
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 […]
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