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Who Cares? (Coming Soon)
Who Cares? is an upcoming podcast series featuring creative women, transgender, and nonbinary changemakers in arts and culture.
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Caring Cultures (Coming Soon)
A new creative thought residency to collectively envision what a care-centered economy and ecology looks like in Canadian arts and culture.
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Digital Ecosystem Meetup
Digital Ecosystem Meetup is a casual gathering on First Thursdays for digital champions and novices in arts and culture to network and share knowledge.
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Nurturing Ecosystems – Eastern Canada
What might a national ecosystem nurturing digital innovation and care look like to you? A co-creation workshop with Eastern Canada.
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DigitalASO Update
We have a few exciting updates to share for DigitalASO, including several job opportunities. Express interest by April 20, 2022.
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Youth Voices: Open Source and Co-Creation
A few thoughts on the applications and benefits of open source software for co-creation, prepared by Sydney Sheridan.
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Found it! Streams of language
Finding the words to express hidden truths is like floating down a cool, refreshing stream with a warm summer's breeze on the skin.
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Jobs: Funding Advisory
We are seeking a few community advisors to provide feedback on our new operating grant proposal. Honoraria provided for your time.
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Access Insights
Summarizing insights from Access Art discussions in 2021 on shaping and mapping public spaces for the Toronto Year of Public Art.
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Jobs Galore
Join our team and play a role in advancing equity and justice in Canada. We are currently seeking to fill 20 jobs for 2022 and 2023!
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Jobs: Software Developers
We are seeking four Software Developers to join our team this spring and summer for Hatch Open, an open source arts management software platform.
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The essential elements guiding all that we do
Create
Centering values of artistic wisdom that foster social cohesion and well-being for the public good.
Engage
Amplifying attitudes that nurture the vitality of thriving cultural economies.
Share
Deepening beliefs in cooperative systems that bolster access for equity-seeking groups.
Care
Realizing behaviours that sustain ecosystems of care for all human, digital, and natural life.
Spotlight
A spotlight on our current resources, events, and activities
Access Art
Access Art is a collaborative effort to explore and challenge what shapes art spaces and places during Toronto’s 2021 Year of Public Art.
DigitalASO Dialogues
Help envision the future of Canada’s digital arts services ecosystem in the next iteration of DigitalASO Dialogues 2021.
Together There
Together There is an artistic residency and literacy project to collectively envision a just digital future for equity-seeking groups in Canadian arts and culture.
Research Insights
Research Insights is a series of reports on designing a cooperative digital future for managing the arts. What Space investigates the roots, ripples, and responses to spatial precarity and gentrification in the arts.
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.