Directory
Welcome to the ICASC directory of national and international art for social change organizations, networks, educational programs and opportunities.
This is a curated list focusing on art for social change – by no means a comprehensive community arts listing.
If you are looking for more complete Canadian community arts listings, we highly recommend ArtBridges’ directory at http://artbridges.ca/community/community_map.
This is a living resource. We will be updating and revising it as new information becomes available. You can filter this list by selecting from the various options below.
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Red Dress Productions Red Dress Productions is a not-for-profit arts company that works with/in communities on large-scale, community-engaged mosaic public artworks and interdisciplinary art and performance projects. Red Dress Productions grounds itself in the knowledge that community engaged art is an important contributor to the culture, vibrant neighbourhoods, and healthy communities. We are particularly interested in the interaction between community narratives and urban public space. |
Organization | Multidisciplinary | Canada |
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Red Pepper Spectacle Arts Red Pepper Spectacle Arts co-creates and facilitates multidisciplinary collaborative art engagement cross-culturally and primarily within the Native community. We work inter-generationally with social services agencies, community organizations, municipalities, band councils, neighborhoods, and other arts organizations towards greater social justice, accessibility, and equality in cultural production. We pursue the highest standard in artistic practice and work to create an environment where all skill levels have access and opportunity to achieve significant results and create success with a wide variety of media. |
Organization | Multidisciplinary | Canada |
Red Threads of Peace: Playback Theatre Red Threads of Peace is a playback theatre project in Winnipeg, MB that uses improvisational theater forms to tell personal stories from the audience to build social support and increase personal well-being. The project works with First Nation youth, newcomers, marginalized populations and seniors. Red Threads is supported by the Gas Station Arts Centre and other generous community partners. Their diverse community of actors, musicians and facilitators are available for workshop facilitation and community performances. |
Organization | Theatre | Canada | |
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Reel 2 Real Through public screenings, hands-on workshops, interactive panel discussions, and public forums, our mission is to involve youth in actively viewing and discussing professionally made films; expose youth to new ideas and cultural perspectives; offer high-quality cinematic entertainment outside the mainstream; explore issues that are important to youth; engage youth in discussions with filmmakers about their work; increase understanding of the art and craft of filmmaking; and promote the production and presentation of high quality independent films for youth. |
Organization | Digital Media | Canada |
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Reel Youth Reel Youth is a not-for-profit, media empowerment project supporting youth, adults and organizations to create and distribute engaging films about the issues they care about most. Reel Youth also offers programs for youth and adults in producing and distributing digital media. Various programs include: Video production, Claymation, Music Video, Intergenerational Film Program, Youth and Mentors Film Program, Touring Film Festival, Photography, Broadcasting, Adult Training and Professional Service. Check out their website for more information! |
Organization, Training and Education | Digital Media | Canada |
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Regent Park Focus Operating since 1990, Regent Park Youth Media Arts Centre is a community driven, not-for-profit organization located in Regent Park, Toronto. The organization is motivated by the belief that participatory media practices can play a vital role in building and sustaining healthy communities. Regent Park Focus serves as a Community New Media, Radio, and Television Arts Broadcasting Centre dedicated to best practices in training and mentorship of youth in radio and television broadcasting and digital arts. |
Organization | Digital Media | Canada |
Rex Cultural Center REX Cultural Center is a place for contemporary, socially engaged art and analytical cultural practice. Through our programs, we research and present fields of culture and social engagement and fields in which different branches of art overlap. The aim of projects is to educate and empower individuals and groups by articulating their ideas, putting those ideas into practice, developing an understanding of social relations, and using knowledge and skills in a creative way. We devote special attention to young authors and audiences. |
Organization | Multidisciplinary | Serbia | |
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Rexdale Youth For Change (RYFC) Rexdale Youth For Change is a youth-led non-profit organization whose mission is to create awareness and engage the youth of Rexdale socially and politically, through the integration of education, arts and activism. |
Organization | Multidisciplinary | Canada |
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RISE Edutainment Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE) is a community led by youth, comprised of artists, activists, free-thinkers and revolutionaries. Together, they help to create a safe and welcoming platform for self-expression and healing through the performance arts. Located primarily on the east-side of Scarborough, RISE is able to reach out, and draw youth from all corners of the GTA and beyond. |
Organization | Theatre | Canada |
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Roadside Theater Roadside Theater’s mission is to enlist the power of theater, music, media, education, and other arts:
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Organization | Multidisciplinary | United States |
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S.A.F.E Kenya We're a Kenyan NGO and UK Charity that uses street theatre, film and community programmes to educate, inspire and deliver social change. |
Organization | Multidisciplinary | Kenya |
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Saathi Sweet 16 Saathi is a non-profit organization that believes in valuing women in terms of self-independence and motivation and empowers womanhood to an all new level. It paves out a stress free path to relieve a woman from her daily routine and enter into this zone of happiness and self-satisfaction. |
Organization | Multidisciplinary | India |
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Saathi Youth Trust Saathi is a non-profit organization that projects a platform to outshine every youth who is aspiring to grow. We believe in growing with the youth, by the youth and for the youth. It's a young approach towards expanding our x generation and building a stage to make them perform on diaries of life. Starting from self-development exercises to treating the youth with health problems and personal qualms, Saathi caters to every bit that's bothering our young generation. |
Organization | Multidisciplinary | India |
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Saint James Music Academy Saint James Music Academy is a free afterschool program that teaches classical music to children and youth who live in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), most of whom live in low-income families. The DTES is a vibrant community and yet also struggles with significant social problems, including high unemployment, poor living conditions, crime, and substance abuse. Children who are exposed to these conditions are vulnerable to these social realities. We believe it is crucial that the needs of these children and youth be met with creative and new possibilities. |
Organization | Music | Canada |
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SaludArte SaludArte is a nonprofit organization based in Uruguay that aims to promote health through the use of art and humor. We are independently run and free from any political or religious affiliation. In our view, health is understood as a state of physical, psychological and social well-being that transcends the mere absence of illness. SaludArtes aim is to promote health by fostering human contact and by developing the creative imagination. We aspire to improve social integration, encourage personal and social responsibility, spread hope, and improve the quality of life. SaludArte does not try to act on people, rather with them and through them. |
Organization | Multidisciplinary | Uruguay |