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This is a list of organizations and projects in Montreal and the surrounding region.
There are many more that will be added over time … If you would like to add an organization to this list, please email Inspire Art at: info@inspireart.org
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Agora’rt is an association founded in Montreal by Sébastien Astoux (Seb Astwo), Candice Archer et Béatrice Astoux. Agora’rt offers artistic activities in schools and community centers to help combat high school drop-out rates and encourage staying in school.
Atelier Nayan
The Atelier Nayan specializes in the coordination of collective mosaics made with recovered ceramics, hand-crafted ceramics, and found objects.
They seek a viable art that is inclusive and accessible to all. They’re developing an innovative artistic practice, a participatory and interdisciplinary ”visual art & craft”. They work within public art, community and environment, combining lyrical expression, critical engagement and transformative action.
The mission of Café Graffiti is to provide a living environment for young people. They can join together to discuss, find a sympathetic ear for their needs. In addition, the Café Graffiti ensure recognition of professional young artists while helping them to combat their exclusion.
DIASOL’s mission is to use photography as a tool for intervention in the lives of children and teenagers from disadvantaged areas - and, through educational and artistic workshops, help them become aware of social, cultural and community life. The organization fosters cultural exchanges between young people from Quebec and Latin America so as to stimulate thought about the social differences linked with the rules and structures belonging to the culture of each country.
Digital Literacy Project (DLP)
An initiative of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre, which encourages youth and community groups to discover new and creative ways to use digital technologies in order to discuss issues important to them, develop skills, and build community.
The Tibetan Artist Collective of Montreal (TACM) is an initiative by Artists, both Tibetan Canadians and otherwise to preserve and promote the Tibetan Performing Arts as well as collaborate with other art forms to preserve and promote Tibetan arts and culture. It is a non-political, non-religious organization.
Elizabeth Fry Society of Quebec
La Société Elizabeth Fry du Québec and Engrenage Noir LEVIER is in the process of coordinating a pilot project – Agir par l’imAGinaIRe - to be carried out in a spirit of collaboration between non-incarcerated artists and women caught up in the criminal justice system who may or may not also have artistic experience. - The entire project will be documented using video and still photography as part of our efforts to deconstruct the prejudices commonly held in our society about criminalized women and poverty.
Since 2002, LEVIER has supported Community Art and Creative Humanist Activism projects in response to proposals from individuals and groups dealing with a wide array of concerns. LEVIER’s desire to nurture the conditions within which individuals could bring significant change to their own lives will continue to guide this new initiative. Added to this is the will to implicate a greater socio-cultural, economic, and political intentionality related to just and sustainable resource sharing and peaceful coexistence.
Exeko is a montreal-based organization that works locally and internationally to support, develop and present social and cultural action projects. Their activities intersect several causes: education, arts and culture, humanitarianism and health.
Since always, Filles Électrique has offered a forum for original voices and emerging talent. In addition to our artistic productions, we want to give space to those voices traditionally excluded: women in the street. Hence the large writing project we are conducting since 2006 called the words belong to all … and all!
At Girls Action we believe that every girl should have what she needs to participate fully in society. Our activities create opportunities for girls and young women to build their strength, discover their power and gain the confidence they need to bring their gifts to the world. Building a movement of active, engaged young women and organizations across Canada, we envision a new generation committed to creating a just and peaceful world.
Groupe d’intervention vidéo (GIV)
Founded in 1975, Groupe Intervention Video (GIV) is a center for artists, non-profit that distributes, broadcasts and produced videos and independent media projects made by women - members of IVM are involved with several community-engaged projects : see article on the history of the organization …
Homeless Nation’s outreach workers across Canada work in a variety of ways in collaboration with the homeless community. We work in shelters, day-centres, squats, at protests, community events, on the street and online. We are dedicated to ensuring that digital tools for media, learning and communication are made available for homeless Canadians.
Ici Par les Arts est un organisme à but non lucratif qui se spécialise dans le développement par le biais des arts. L’organisme est né officiellement en 1998. Au départ, l’action se concentrait principalement en faisant de l’art dans les écoles. L’organisme était beaucoup moins développé qu’il ne l’est aujourd’hui, occupant un espace restreint; petit à petit l’organisme a établi sa crédibilité, a fait boule de neige pour être aujourd’hui un organisme culturel incontournable. Il y a maintenant trois volets principaux : art social, art éducation et médiation culturelle.
A unique project of cultural mediation in Vaudreuil-Dorion (Quebec, Canada) with a mission to lead opportunities for citizens to meet, speak, interact and share, using the pretext of art and culture … 100 events a year where citizens discover, thanks to artists and cultural workers.
Although the work really started in October 2001 in Dharwad, India, Young Musicians of the World was founded in June 2002 in Quebec city, Canada. Young Musicians of the World is a non-profit organization, without any religious or political affiliation, that provides schooling and training in traditional music to children and teenagers for free.
Founded in 1971, L’ATELIER believes that, by learning art production skills and focusing on creative work, people can develop pride and self empowerment. In a warm and reassuring environment, L’ATELIER has welcomed thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds.L’ATELIER has carved for itself a place among the alternative resources in mental health services provided by institutional settings and by the community groups.
L’Infusart believes deeply in the instrinsically therapeutic benefits of art on the individual who has the opportunity to given free rein to express their creativity. In this aim we want to allow the greatest number of people possible to have access to artistic practice.
Our mission is to reduce violence in the lives of youth (from 13 to 18 years old) and in our communities by building a team of youth who communicate a message of non-violence. As to achieve it, we propose a series of unique skill building, media-based, educational programs which motivate and equip youth to find a path of non-violence and then lead others toward it. One the most popular result is the regular exhibitions that we organize to show the creations of the youth…
@ Inter-tribal Youth Centre - a project at Native Friendship Centre Montreal : The objective for the sculpture project is to engage Aboriginal youths in Montreal in an artistic manner, to cultivate their talents, creativity, and traditional knowledge, as well as develop skills beyond their art such as commitment, respect, and responsibility. These works will be showcased in art expositions hosted by the (NFCM). Young artists’ works will be displayed alongside other artworks of elders and community members.
Oxy-jeunes est un organisme à but non lucratif destiné aux jeunes de 12 à 17 ans. Sa mission consiste à soutenir l’expression des préoccupations des jeunes et contribuer à l’accomplissement de leurs rêves en développant des activités et des projets artistiques et culturels.Oxy-jeunes est un organisme à but non lucratif destiné aux jeunes de 12 à 17 ans. Sa mission consiste à soutenir l’expression des préoccupations des jeunes et contribuer à l’accomplissement de leurs rêves en développant des activités et des projets artistiques et culturels.
Inspirés par le désir puissant de faire des films avec les jeunes, nous avons fondé l’organisme sans but lucratif, Productions Oracle, en décembre 2005 avec pour mission de rendre la vidéo accessible à de plus en plus d’adolescents de tous les milieux culturels, en anglais et en français. Déterminés à faire tomber les barrières et à créer de nouvelles raisons d’être, nous avons espéré créer une organisation qui aiderait la jeunesse à trouver sa voix, pour trouver sa place dans la société, pour développer de nouvelles qualifications et par la suite développer ses propres carrières.
This project came about from an urge to demystify contemporary art for an uninitiated public and to set up conditions that would facilitate the involvement of emerging artists wishing to work in a community environment. - Ce projet a émergé du désir de démystifier l’art actuel auprès d’un public non-initié, de mettre en place les conditions qui facilitent l’engagement des artistes de la rélève désirant travailler en milieu communautaire.
The Ste-Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists, primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic expression and self-representation in our communities. The Skillshare collective runs an art studio for people to learn new skills, share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and anti-oppression (anti-racism/ sexism/ classism/ homophobia/ transphobia/ ableism/ sizeism/ etc). The space is open to all.
Theatre and communities program
Télé Sans Frontières creates a space for the voices of young marginilzed youth while it also offers the, professional experience. The combination of life experiences, exploring curiosities and developing various technical skills mark their approach and treatment of subjects, mostly of a social orientation. Another project related to Télé Sans Frontières to check out: Radio - RDV 15.35
Through the performing arts, Trans-Art creates and develops intervention projects for the education and prevention of various issues: racial discrimination, cultural exclusion, crime, problems of integration,intercultural education, delinquency, drug addiction, prostitution,gang, school dropout, violence in dating relationships, etc..
The Wapikoni Mobile gives Aboriginal youth the opportunity to express themselves using video and music. As well as nurturing new talent, it encourages discussion among young people, and gives them a chance to get to know each other, increase their knowledge of the world, and have an influence within and beyond their community.
