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DigitalASO: Co-Creation Through Learning, Creating, Validating
What is co-creation? Design Thinking Lead Margaret Lam discusses how collaborative learning, creating, and validating informs DigitalASO's activities.
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DigitalASO: Story So Far (Part 2)
How ready are we to reassert the role of the artist in both real and virtual communities? A look back at DigitalASO roundtables in 2020.
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Together There, Soon
Coming this summer, Together There is a new effort to help collectively envision a just digital future in Canadian arts and culture.
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Access Art
Access Art is a new collaborative effort to explore and challenge what shapes art spaces and places during Toronto's 2021 Year of Public Art.
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Rejuvenate, Percolate, Elevate
Taking the human space and time we need to rejuvenate, percolate, and elevate new ideas in these challenging pandemic days.
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Job Alerts (Spring 2021)
Join us! Multiple job opportunities are available in 2021 for our digital transformation projects, DigitalASO and Hatch Open.
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aHa! Managing contacts with spreadsheets (Video)
Learn how to use spreadsheets to build your own contact management system in this ongoing video training series with Jessa Agilo, updated semi-weekly.
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Arts in the Digital World (Australia)
Australia's Feral Arts brings together Canadian digital leaders and funders including ArtsPond to reflect on the impact of the Digital Strategy Fund on Feb 17, 2021.
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Job Alerts (Winter 2021)
We are seeking multiple changemakers to help grow our impact with multiple new employment opportunities in 2021. Join us!
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Stay tuned for updates on upcoming events and new job opportunities in 2021.
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DigitalASO: Indigenous Circle
Explore what a positive digital future looks like for Indigenous communities in the arts and culture with Brit Johnston on Nov 4, 2020.
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2020 Brief: Year In Review (Video)
A variety of resources providing an overview of our actions and insights for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2020 are available now. Check them out!
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A spotlight on our current resources, events, and activities
I Lost My Gig
I Lost My Gig Canada is a shared space for arts and other vulnerable freelance and gig workers in Canada and beyond to share stories and resources addressing the impacts of COVID-19.
COVID19 Response
Inviting Canadian leaders to join a collaborative research task force designing shared strategies to evaluate the impacts of COVID19 on the arts, culture, tourism, and heritage organizations.
What Space
What Space is a major resource investigating the roots, ripples, and responses to spatial precarity and gentrification in the arts. Early previews available now prior to final publication in Fall 2020.
Research Insights
Research Insights is a series of reports on designing a cooperative digital future for managing the arts. Early previews are available now prior to final publication in Fall 2020 to Spring 2021.
Actions
Introducing our core creative actions on-the-ground and in-the-cloud
Digital Shift
Launched 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.
Hatch Open
Initiated in 2019, Hatch Open is an open source Arts Resource Planning software solution that serves as the core technology for Artse United. Early-stage prototyping includes financial and project management and business intelligence analytics.
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.