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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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#DegentrifyON
Got some elbow grease? Uprooting the adverse effects of gentrification on the arts and other low-income groups in the Greater Toronto to Hamilton Area requires thoughtful, gutsy, deeply collaborative responses across the entire golden horseshoe region in southwestern Ontario...
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#FutureWorks
ArtsPond was originally established in 2014 with a mandate to become a national, multidisciplinary “Charitable Venture Platform” (CVP) or “Shared Charitable Platform” (SCP) for the arts. We initially made this effort in response to Jane Marsland’s landmark paper “Shared...
Read moreOntario Trillium Foundation
Our heartfelt thanks goes to the Ontario Trillium Foundation, who recently awarded $30,000 to ArtsPond/Étang d’Arts for Groundstory’s Stage 1 activities spanning Winter 2018 to Spring 2019. Thank you for this generous support!
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