Share well. Live well.
The mission of ArtsPond is to bolster big ideas and untapped potential in the arts into exceptional, everyday shared 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 interdisciplinary, intercultural, intergenerational, and interability 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 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.
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.
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.
Groundstory Advisory: Summer 2018
Advisory convening for Groundstory continues throughout Summer 2018 with sessions at Toronto Public Library (Parkdale Branch) on July 10 from 5 to 7:30 pm, and Hamilton on July 9 (Spice Factory) from 7 to 9 pm. Additional previously announced dates in August and September will be rescheduled for Fall 2018. Visit Groundstory.ca for more information.
Blog
Keep up with all the news
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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Artse United
Are you curious to learn more about Artse United? ArtsPond is submitting a proposal for Phase 1+2 development activities for Artse United to Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Strategy Fund in October 2018. Have a look at a selection of text from this proposal to receive a more detailed […]
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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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