Ongoing Community Research & Connections
Community Events
The ongoing community arts activities run within the Crafting Community Project involve professional artists and community members working collaboratively to design, develop and produce collective creative experiences. Check this page often to learn about new events and engagements.
To propose a community initiative that builds on our practices and principles, click here.
Fragmentation and Flag Books: Make Your Own Artist Book
June 12, 2024.
Workshop led by Cristina Pietropaolo.
Who’s your bias?: Communal Desire and Expression in Fandom
March 14, 2024
Photocard creation workshop
The Good Word: A Celebration of Black History, Faith and Poetry with Andrea Thompson.
April 27, 2023. Spoken Word Album Presentation 'The Good Word!' (external link, opens in new window)
Free School. 'Against the Grain: Documenting Resistance'.
September 28, 2023. Show 'Audible Songs from Rockwood'. (opens in new window)
Collage: Re-envisioning Civic Discourse in Urban Space.
December 15, 2022. Collage Show.
"Community, much like the collage, is open to being made, unmade, remade, interpreted and continuously reinterpreted. It is rooted in notions of identification with and across markers of similarity or difference that we may hold with others. <...> This is why the collage feels like an apt metaphor for a sense of community that might be possible – one that feels like its members are always working toward being inclusive, safe, equitable, ethical, and just."
Conference Presentation
- K. Moffatt, R. C. Pietropaolo, R. Tandon (2023), Crafting Communities: Innovation through community arts, 15th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), Guimaraes, Portugal (external link, opens in new window) .
Publications
- K.Moffatt and R. Tandon (In Press). Life Imitates Art: Collage as Innovative Pedagogy. In M. Pantich, S Wehbi, and J Machado. Conceptualizing and practicing activism in social Innovation. Toronto: Fernwood Press.
- Kirshner L. et al. Article (in process).
