We nourish positive change and care with, by, and for creatives of all kinds.
ArtsPond is a changemaker of a different kind.
MISSION
Our mission is to nurture thriving ecosystems of care in all realms of life via the wisdom and creativity of arts and culture.
VISION
Our vision is to empower artists and other creatives from the margins to guide radical social change and real community care within and beyond their usual surroundings.
We realize our vision by co-creating new platforms for care and equipping creatives of all kinds to overcome obstacles and crises that hamper their potential to nurture bright and caring futures in an uncertain world. By doing so, we believe we will help boost their capacity to grow springs of wellness with, by, and for us all.
MANDATE
Our mandate is to strengthen prosperity and wellbeing by cultivating cultures of creative care in both human and natural life.
We work with artists, curators, educators, producers, and other creatives from across Canada and beyond to respond to the complex challenges that amplify vulnerabilities in their lives and communities.
We seek to unpack and address the many root causes and wicked consequences of precarity. These include spatial, social, environmental, economic, digital, disability, accessibility, and other concerns. Our aim is to promote justice and support thriving cultural ecosystems in solidarity with other social impact movements.
For example, in alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, to date we have worked on arts and culture-led remedies and therapies to urgent issues that threaten our society. These include gentrification, digitalization, economic exploitation, pandemic disruption, regional and disciplinary disconnection, and social injustices such as racism, colonialism, and ableism. In the future, we also aim to encourage creative responses to environmental disasters, such as the climate crisis and freshwater conservation.
We remain an unwavering advocate and ally in solidarity with caring, justice-deserving groups of all kinds. We do so by weaving threads of Belonging, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (BIDEA) into the fabric of our every action. The many dynamic communities we serve include 2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous, Racialized, D/deaf, Disabled, Outside the Core, Youth, Newcomers, Official Language Minorities, and other diverse groups. We do so with the assumption that the full spectrum of humanity is better together than we are apart, and community-engaged creativity is a crucial element to bolster and intertwine the best in us all.